Some of you don't know the history of the neurodivergent movement and it shows. I would recommend 'Empire of Normality' as a start. Being neurodivergent isn't a quirky club for autistic and ADHD people and is directly tied to the mad movement.

always frustrating to see leftists who find out the (genuine) problems with liberalism but then just become illiberal in reaction to this.

solidarity with ninjas at this time

fwiw i've just signed this.

I just signed this letter and encourage disabled folks and disability-related orgs to do the same

Disability justice & Palestinian liberation are intertwined

disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/12/02/why…

Donate to help buy eSims for Gazans disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/12/25/cri…

Feels like a pretty bad sign that the BBC are unquestioningly using the phrasing “gender ideology”, the loaded euphemistic language of the far-right and fascists to hide the fact that what they’re actually talking about is the existence of trans people. #BBCQT

Israeli students at Tel Aviv University demonstrated in support of Palestine.

The Palestinian national anthem was played.

happy 'half past may' to all those who celebrate

Neurodiversity, Liberal Capitalism, and Self-Understanding: A Review of Robert Chapman's Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism dlvr.it/T6ybXg

me: 'who am I to judge?'

also me:

'a renewed case for coherence and collaboration between history of medicine, medicine, and medical humanities'
Read the open letter I wrote with superb colleagues Fred Cooper Rina Knoeff Dr Coreen McGuire Dr Manon S. Parry Karin Tybjerg Ruben Verwaal & Angela Woods
doi.org/10.12688/wellc…

If you've never been at a protest where you didn't like what some other people were chanting, you've never been at a protest.

On today’s episode of “Kas complains about the mental hospital”, for some reason whoever is in charge decided to spend money on… this. Which doesn’t feel dystopian or patronising or like a waste of money at all

new article by hane maung, who shows that 'many evolutionary psychiatry hypotheses are empirically untestable and remain indefinitely underdetermined by data'
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Ex Hallam Undergraduate student Grace Batley - from the Education with Disability, Autism and SEN course - writing here about being a working class student now studying at Cambridge Uni

wolfson.cam.ac.uk/news/mphil-edu…

Adrian Johnston's 'Infinite Greed' is out today.

I was proud to write a blurb for this incredible book. Johnston brings Marxism and psychoanalysis together in a wholly new conceptual engagement.

Columbia Univ Press

cup.columbia.edu/book/infinite-…

In this letter we make “a renewed case for coherence and collaboration between history of medicine, medicine, and medical humanities, emphasising the continuity and links between all three” #histmed #medhums

If ever there were a sentence that summed up the vast mismatch between carceral 'solutions' and the issues they claim to address...

A whopping 350+ University of Bristol staff have signed an open letter in solidarity with the Bristol Student Encampment for a Free Palestine!

The letter supports students' demand for the University to end its complicity in genocide.

uobstandwithpalestine.wordpress.com/2024/05/09/sta…

JK Rowling vs Tuvel! As the internet's foremost 'I'd be fine with people changing races' weirdo I'll stick to my guns even here, but maybe say she had to apologise for naming the one semi prominent black character 'Kingsley Shackelbolt' if she wants to be invited to any cookouts