I Deliberately Cropped The Screenshot Because I Didn't Feel Like Making Anyone Read Transmisogynistic

if you're looking for further antipsych readings, i heavily recommend bruce cohen's psychiatric hegemony: a marxist theory of mental illness.

it would be one of the published academic books on the topic of psychiatry i would have the least amount of caveats for - together with anne harrington's mind fixers: psychiatry's troubled search for the biology of mental illness.

if you are already convinced that psychiatry, together with other sciences, evolved alongside capitalist development to serve bourgeois interests, ensure social control and legitimize the hegemonic world order - and that no amount of intradisciplinary reform can change this, short of total abolition - then you will likely not be learning much from this book. it does however lay the arguments very clearly, together with concise, clearly explained marxist theory about labor. it then goes on to tie psychiatry with other hegemonic structures - the family, most notably.

interestingly enough, it manages to completely avoid two of the most common pitfalls of this kind of text: it never places the issue with the use of drugs themselves, but with forced medication and lack of available information - and it never blames capitalism itself for the coercive and punishing character of psychiatry, inventing a precapitalistic mythical past where crazy people were fine.

a solid recommendation if you are trying to give an introduction to antipsychiatry concepts to someone!

'The chain of a kiss'

the other day my girlfriend told me "I like being flesh" and I just stared at them like this

Nobody likes you because youre a Closed minded hater and not an Open minded hater like the rest of us

kind of unrelated but I hate how the op implies that languages are lost because of changing cultural trends and not like, colonial violence

got the job + my supervisor is a trans girl !!!

fingers crossed I get this job, it's an hour long train ride commute...imagine how much reading I can get done

very funny that Twitter is currently having discourse about this

crazy how kim kitsuragi has such powerful gay swag that it makes the fan base collectively forget that one of his main character traits is being a massive centrist lol

Merry 2000 Trained Rats, everybody