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I find it bleakly amusing when commentators remark on how “even doctors” say people are overdiagnosed with mental illness etc. As if the medical profession hasn’t repeatedly been at the forefront of dismissing and gaslighting disabled patients, especially women. Wildly ignorant.

06.04.2025 16:36 — 👍 540    🔁 113    💬 14    📌 5

I’m grateful to all the disabled women who shared their experiences of medical gaslighting and unequal healthcare with me for the book: from Cherylee Houston MBE on “you just want to be disabled” toxicity to Ione Gamble on fatphobia. Spoiler: the problem isn’t overdiagnosis.

06.04.2025 16:58 — 👍 56    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

In Who Wants Normal? I explore studies that show disabled women (espc. black or poor) are routinely dismissed by doctors - debilitated by symptoms but sent away with a scold as “wanting to be ill.” Disabled voices should be centred in these discussions - they actually know about it.

06.04.2025 16:45 — 👍 94    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 1

image of watchmen's doctor manhattan, a superhero who is entirely blue and nude, sitting on a rock, small in frame, on what is depicted to be a very pink version of the surface of the planet mars. he looks pensive.

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

02.04.2025 22:01 — 👍 26532    🔁 8399    💬 414    📌 683

Managed to get a copy of #HealthCommunism by @reallandsend.bsky.social and @avierkant.bsky.social. It's such a compelling and essential read.

30.03.2025 08:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The argument that “success” in higher ed should be measured solely by graduates’ earning power is a deeply cynical & dangerous plot that ignores the myriad functions of college while simultaneously enshrining industries that extract the most capital as supreme arbiters of what counts as scholarship

22.12.2024 14:29 — 👍 14    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin

14.12.2024 13:14 — 👍 36632    🔁 7649    💬 302    📌 301

BREAKING: Autonomous anti-genocide activists bring the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to a grinding halt after blockading the McDonald’s float for a second year in a row.

“Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.

28.11.2024 15:07 — 👍 18706    🔁 4592    💬 204    📌 596

Transphobia isn’t a distraction. It’s an attack on one of the most vulnerable populations and a reinforcement of biological essentialism, a pillar of patriarchal control that trans identity rightfully threatens

21.11.2024 14:31 — 👍 2714    🔁 710    💬 38    📌 26

Rethinking Barriers and Enablers in Qualitative Health Research: Limitations, Alternatives, and Enhancements - Abby Haynes, Victoria Loblay, 2024 Explorations of barriers and enablers (or barriers and facilitators) to a desired health practice, implementation process, or intervention outcome have become s...

Loving this paper 'Rethinking barriers and enablers'. How many thousands of weak research studies have reduced complex change to 'identifying and addressing barriers and enablers'? Here's how to do better!
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20.11.2024 09:14 — 👍 344    🔁 120    💬 30    📌 24

This Transgender Day of Remembrance, we honour the over 350 trans people killed globally this year, and many more who have died by suicide.

These are the violent consequences of anti-trans extremism.

We won’t rest until everyone in our society has dignity, freedom and safety.

20.11.2024 12:03 — 👍 393    🔁 163    💬 3    📌 4