#PSYCH PUNK

[moonpool-system]

btw in light of that post we just reblogged; we use the term psychpunk because we don't feel like explaining it constantly to people that don't know the word, but we're definitely antipsych. As in anti- the psychiatric industry and the westernized, heterogeneous, pathologized structure that leads to othering anything seen as "incorrect" as something to be "fixed" to match what is considered culturally normal. Antipsych isn't about dismissing psychology, it's about tearing down the biased and bigoted structure that the modern psychiatric industry is built on. Even when mental troubles are disabling, the goal should be to help someone feel stable & healthy, not make sure they're conforming to homogenous society at large. Thanks for reading

[mfhunter]

Frankie & The Witch Fingers - New Album

[thoughtswordsaction]

Wax Head Released New Single "Rusty Cutter"

Photo by Alberto Santinon Wax Head, the chaotic, drummer-fronted punk quartet from Manchester, have unleashed their latest single, “Rusty Cutter”, on Sour Grapes Records. Their first EP Salt Fat Acid Heat, mastered by JJ Golden (Ty Segall, Osees) saw the band earn critical acclaim and the support BBC Radio 6’s Huw Stephens. What follows is “Rusty Cutter”. This explosive track is yet another…

[thejoyofviolentmovement]

New Video: The Gluts Return with Bruising "Fight"

New Video: The Gluts Return with Bruising "Fight" @TheGluts @fuzzclub @NoExitPR

Milan-based punks The Gluts will be releasing their highly-anticipated fifth album Bang! through Fuzz Club on May 31, 2024. The album reportedly sees the band balancing between punchy, breakneck punk and noisy experimentalism while accurately capturing a distilled sense of the fierce energy and power of their notoriously wild live shows, which they’ve taken internationally across the global…

[panspanther]

Lost in Aggression "I could vomit at any minute" Psychedelic blues rock...

[linksvorne]

119. HEAVENPHETAMINE. 2023-10-19 @ Vekks (w/ Small Souki and the Big Trouble Band)

[transsexualfiend]

Cripplepunk, madpunk, and neuropunk aren't just "I'm disabled and also left-leaning". It's a specific realm of activism rooted in dismantling the systems that put disabled, mad, sick, etc folks at a disadvantage in society. This mean not only being against the very systems that harm us but also understanding their colonial origins and continued racist legacies. (Anti-ableism, anti-sanism, anti-psych, etc). This means not only just identifying and finding pride in your disability but also building and constantly evolving your understanding of disability and diversity and learning how you can change your worldview to accurately highlight the struggles of disabled people. (EVEN if it sometimes means you will be uncomfortable or unsure of unlearning some kinds of hate.)

[trans-axolotl]

this disability pride month, remember our loved ones who are locked up, institutionalized, and incarcerated. Remember our loved ones who are in carceral group homes that wouldn't pass the burrito test. Remember our loved ones who are cut off from disability community and forcibly isolated through the violent ableism of these institutions. Disability solidarity means that we must create these community connections that transgress these barriers and lets our loved ones know that they are valued, important, and that we are fighting for their freedom.

This disability pride month, send a care package to your local psych ward or residential treatment facility.

Find a program to write letters to people incarcerated in your local prisons and jails.

Support patient organizing, prison protests, and advocacy for independent living.

This disability pride month, commit to fighting for abolition of all forms of incarceration, from psych wards to residential treatment to prisons.

[the-alarm-system]

[yellowyarn]

wish people we're normal about self-harm.

can we please let people exist as self harmers without telling them they are wrong/bad for self harming or not wanting to "recover" (at all or in the expected way)? can we let people talk about it without telling them their too triggering all the time? can we let people and art exist with scars without requiring them to warn everyone that their body is too disturbing for people? can we stop trying to categorise reasons/types of self harm as (more) acceptable and unacceptable? can we stop shaming people for not taking meds or doing therapy?

[girlcalledwhatsername]

This shouldn't even be need to be said but don't fucking report people who express being suicidal. I don't care how much you think you're doing it for someone's own good, it does NOT help us it only harms further

READ that AGAIN

You are ACTIVELY harming those people when you try to be a goody two-shoes and tell on them when they get suicidal

Don't fucking report them to social media app features that have the report for self harm option. Don't fucking call a suicide hotline on them. Don't fucking report them to therapists, paychiatrists, cops, controlling parents or partners

It does not matter how uncomfortable it makes you - this isn't ABOUT you - it doesn't matter how much it goes against your cute little saviour complex thinking you're being oh such a wonderful kind heroic person by "saving" someone from themself.

When you report a person to any of those places it heavily risks hospitalisation and incarceration. Where I live it's technically still a crime to attempt suicide, they never overturned the law. And if you think being in a ward might help them - do everyone a favour and go check out the actual conditions in the wards and talk to psych survivors about how they actually are. Otherwise shut up about things you have no experience with.

Everyone should have a right to autonomy, especially bodily autonomy, and you don't have to like what they do with their own body for you to know not to take that away from someone. It's not your place to judge, it's not okay to be moralistic about bodily autonomy suddenly because you can't handle the reality of mentally ill people.

And it's not fucking okay to lock us in and remove us from society just because our disorders are too fucking ugly for you to look at.

If you absolutely have to help just talk to a suicidal person if they're up to it, just ask them what will help, and if you can't do that then leave us the fuck alone you snitches

And don't come at me with the law, if you had to be an ally to mentally ill people, to queer people, to women, to any kind of marginalised people, historically a lot of it has always included standing against the law and with us.

STOP REPORTING US

[thoughtswordsaction]

Psych-Punks The Gluts Released New Single "Soybeans" Via Fuzz Club

Photo courtesy of the band. Mila psych-punks The Gluts are today releasing their new single ‘Soybeans’, the third and final single to be lifted from the band’s new album ‘Bang!’ out May 31st on Fuzz Club. In support of the new record The Gluts are currently in the middle of European Summer dates, with an album release show at London’s Shacklewell Arms coming up on the 31st.Blending the searing…

[cistematicchaos]

The psych ward was hell for so many different reasons (most of the staff hated Mad people, the food was mostly inedible, it was a glorified prison, ect) but one of the worst parts for me was how inaccessible it was as a physically disabled person.

I wasn't allowed to have my cane or my earplugs (both of which I need), I was "required" to shower daily or get marked as "noncompliant" even though I have severe pain issues that make that near impossible, walking was a constant requirement because not only were there "meetings" and "classes" that you attended or got marked "noncompliant" but if you needed water or I dunno help you had to walk to the front desk and ask. You also had to walk to the nurse's desk and stand in line to get medicine or get marked as "noncompliant" because she sure as hell wasn't going to bring it to you.

I was constantly getting both my glasses and my sunglasses taken from me by people who did not believe I needed them and the chairs were all hard plastic that did not work well with a broken body.

They also did not keep food allergies in mind and lactose intolerance also did not count as an allergy so that was hell too.

I have chronic migraines but "wasn't allowed" to take any medicine for it unless I wanted one ibuprofen. There were also windows everywhere and no curtains which went beautifully with super bright lights, so I never ever felt like I wasn't dying from a migraine and general light sensitivity. There were no quiet rooms, no dark rooms, nothing but light and loud. I was also taken off all my pain meds for over a day because they "weren't sure" if I "actually needed them" and I was taken off my heart medicine repeatedly because they really just thought I was too young for that.

I was given a walker instead of my cane, which does not work the same, and doctors constantly kept trying to take it away because "you don't really need that, do you?". There was often not enough space in certain areas for my walker which made me extra vulnerable because when I was being harassed by people, I couldn't just walk away and staff was pretty much useless.

Not to mention, we were "encouraged" to wake up at five in the morning every day and if we didn't, it would get written down, which is wild because my pain meds require I get a certain amount of sleep or they fuck me up.

It would've been hell even if I wasn't physically disabled but I am and all I could think the whole time was about people who had worse physical disabilities than me and needed more support and accessibility and how they would get or did get treated in places like this. There was almost no consideration all the time and staff was actively hostile over it.

A bunch of psych wards refused me as a patient because my files show I'm physically disabled. What are we supposed to do? Where the fuck do they think we can go?

[postpunkindustrial]

Chrome - Alien Soundtracks LP