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I should make my pinned a list of my system members again maybe if we’re hostless now lol. Anyways if you want to keep up with tricks @howmiseries she’s been Around the most

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don’t take this as like you’ll never see lark around ever but like don’t consider me the Main Bitch anymore right now

i am maybe stepping down as host entirely and considering us host less for the foreseeable future ?????

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i am maybe stepping down as host entirely and considering us host less for the foreseeable future ?????

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Hey Red... We're not getting away with this, are we?

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anyone wanna let tricks bother them about her fic

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walked out of the year 2003

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Tricks has posted like 7 selfies today with her new haircut. Okay I guess I don’t resent this

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Witch Namine outfit for a KH roleplay I'm in

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shoutout to everyone with a flat affect. especially those on the schizophrenia or autism spectrums. or both if youre nasty.

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reject the western gaze!

mutual aid means no hierarchy between givers and receivers

a new mutual aid org, Bridge of Solidarity, has been established in the gaza strip by 17 year old poet yazan mohammed in response to the exploitative practices conducted by some charities and encouraged by the existing charity-based model of fundraising for gaza. according to BoS: "the western attention economy and pity economy plays a large role in who lives or dies in gaza." essentially, people need to make themselves marketable in order to receive lifesaving aid; people who are not marketable die. yazan himself wrote about the damage this can do to one's self image, which you can read here.

after trying for a year to respect his own privacy, my friend siraj was also pressured into posting images of his son's emaciated body in order to gain sympathy from westerners.

we cannot keep forcing people to do this anymore.

here's a declaration of their values from bridge of solidarity's most recent post:

Our organization is against the Western gaze. We refuse to humiliate people. We refuse to force people to take photos. We refuse to force people to take photos with our flyer or logo. People will receive aid freely without being forced to pose. We will respect people's privacy completely. Our principles include autonomy, dignity, sovereignty, mutual respect, and mutual aid.

this org will prioritize giving aid to people without phones or social media, who do not speak english, and who do not have outside support or living parents. these are the people who are not palatable to westerners but who deserve to live with as much dignity as everyone else

as of five days ago, BoS are working on a water truck delivery

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I think sometimes about how so many people discourage labels and specificity and pathologizing anything about yourself and frame it as countercultural. Meanwhile, people in the mainstream will tell you the same. I think about this because I have talked with a lot of people about the schizophrenia spectrum who absorbed the idea that diagnosis doesn't matter, labels don't matter, just get help for who you are... and they felt empty and hopeless. The therapy wasn't working, the medicine wasn't working. Their symptoms didn't make them look different than other people on the outside, but on the inside, their experience was specific. The specificity is the only thing that gave them the chance to find any solace at all.

The DSM is flawed, but I question those that seem to want to abolish psychiatry and specificity and claim we're all experiencing one thing. We're all experiencing the trauma of the outside world. There's no reason for these words. Etc etc. There's clearly some scientific flaw in categorization when most people will walk out of a psych eval with a long list of disorders, but I resent those who say that the simple discomfort of seeing a long list is what's wrong there; that specificity, "pathology", is the enemy. When you have a word for a specific experience, you can research it, you can help it. If we name every bacteria, we can understand each one, but naming mental illnesses seems to make even mental health professionals uncomfortable. So many people deny us specificity. They hate it when we come and ask to be treated for X thing we suspect we have. They hate when we form an identity around our mental condition. They fold everything into one big name. Anxiety. Depression. CPTSD. Then we accept that and try to get help, and we feel nothing. We try to form an identity, and we're told that forming an identity around a diagnosis is pathologizing and wrong. Even some leftists want to tell you it's wrong. It's unnatural. There's no point to it.

Meanwhile, I always remember reading how people with schizophrenia spectrum illnesses seemed to benefit greatly from narrative therapy where they related and made community over their collective oppression. They used schizophrenia and ableism to unite and be more than an individual, but also to be something that really tangibly in the world at all. Disability theory brings us together, a refusal to view the self as any different from abled people often only isolates us.

(From Recovery of the Self in Psychosis)

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for system whose system mates love each other! inclusive of all kinds of love.

[this post has no dni other than not to involve it in discourse, mockery, or other harassment]

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crabs should be more present in my daily life

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Rooms for Reading . Frank Halmans

Even more rooms for reading 01 02 04 05 . 2014

Rooms for reading 01 . 2019

Ten Rooms for Reading 00 03 06 07 . 2016

www.frankhalmans.nl

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Merritt ik u guys don’t like Go Out for many reasons but if u know of some fun Local Person things to do in chicago PLEASE let us know bc ofc there’s all the touristy stuff to do but tricks is like no I miss LIVING there

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Tricks discussed some money things with my parents and with roommate and contemplated carefully and is now borrowing from the Important Savings that we don’t touch and is going to chicago next month for a show and a weekend in chicago. Who do we know in chicago who wants to meet up.

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