HeyJaredTenderly Borderline
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Analyzing Sane Power, Destabilizing the Psychiatric Frame (opens the original)
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This piece is a sneak preview of an essay I’m currently working on, titled “Compulsory Sanity and Mad Existence.” This is the draft of a section of the article in which I urge Mad studies to expand its focus beyond psychiatry. I plan to submit the larger article to a journal. I’m currently raising funds to cover my medical bills from my recent suicide attempt. I managed to raise the funds for the ICU stay and psychiatric hospital, but I still have about $300 left to raise for my ambulance ride.
Beside Shame (opens the original)
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I hope you will consider donating or joining a membership tier to compensate me for my writing and receive more access to my work, as I am a politically and economically precarious trans woman. Donate or join on Ko-fi.I’m learning to be with myself. To accept that I’m hurting, that I will never be fully free from trauma, that I will never be cured. I can learn to nurse my wounds tenderly and to illuminate the dark shame that covers and strangles my heart. What does it tell me? Every feeling tell
Dis/ability/gender: Figuring gender through disablism and ableism (opens the original)
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Disability and gender/sexuality share a long co-history. At one historical moment, homosexuality and other forms of sexual and gender non-normativity were unequivocally positioned in the realm of disability and madness as forms of bodily and mental defect. From this point, modern conceptions of disability and gender variance arose through a growing scientific rationalization of bodily and psychic difference. This history is by no means limited to gender and disability, because bodily and psychic
Consider Supporting and Compensating Me For My Writing (opens the original)
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Hi friends, I recently moved out of my family’s house, with whom I have a difficult relationship. I am now 100% financially independent, relying on a meager and barely livable paycheck. I am reeling from a completed suicide attempt, during which I overdosed on thousands of milligrams of Lexapro. I was in critical condition, at high risk of death, was in the ICU and was intubated. It was precipitated by an abusive relationship, the second one in a period of two years. It follows my social murder
Maddening Transness: Redefining Madness and Sanity (opens the original)
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I have never met a sane trans person. In another context, a statement like this might be transphobic, meant to further the notion that the intention to transition is insane and irrational, that the feeling of being at odds with one’s dominantly instituted gender identity is a sign one is “sick.” Sickness, insanity, and irrationality become reasons transgender identities are “wrong” and “deviant” and thus characteristics to be corrected rather than affirmed. Inscribing transness with insanity, an
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