Martha Crawford
@whatashrinkthinks.com
focused on dreams, mysticism, mortality, community resilience and the psychologies/theologies of liberation
Essays in Slate, Vox, New York Magazine
Crone
Quaker-ish
She/Her
Website: whatashrinkthinks.com
Essays in Slate, Vox, New York Magazine
Crone
Quaker-ish
She/Her
Website: whatashrinkthinks.com
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Martha Crawford
@whatashrinkthinks.com
· Jul 17
What A Shrink Thinks
Martha Crawford offering workshops, consultations, and essays on dreams,
death, contemplation, community resilience and psychologies of liberation
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
A thread to pin to my feed about the different kinds of work that I do around something central that feels whole to me:
Almost everything is offered on a pay-what-you-can basis
Upcoming events and workshops are a good place to start
Almost everything is offered on a pay-what-you-can basis
Upcoming events and workshops are a good place to start
Reposted by Martha Crawford
“Historians call this passageway a masterwork of deliberate concealment, designed to be absolutely invisible to slave catchers or city marshals during the 19th-century”
Safe house linked to Underground Railroad discovered in Manhattan
The Merchant's House is the first landmarked building in Manhattan.
ny1.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:59 AM
“Historians call this passageway a masterwork of deliberate concealment, designed to be absolutely invisible to slave catchers or city marshals during the 19th-century”
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“COVID-19 has caused many Olympians and other athletes to miss important competitions and games in their careers; others have competed while actively infected. During the 2024 summer Olympics, runner Noah Lyles competed two days after being diagnosed with COVID-19 and collapsed at the end of a race”
The risks of SARS-CoV-2 and other airborne pathogens can be severe, but the media continues to stigmatize Olympians taking precautions as "worried" and "extreme". We know #LongCOVID can affect anyone, even elite athletes.
In the @thesicktimes.org today 😷🦠
thesicktimes.org/2026/02/10/w...
In the @thesicktimes.org today 😷🦠
thesicktimes.org/2026/02/10/w...
Winter Olympic athletes are rightfully taking COVID-19 precautions - The Sick Times
Despite a lack of COVID-19 precautions implemented by the 2026 Winter Olympics organizers in Italy, some athletes, teams, and their loved ones are protecting themselves from airborne pathogens by mask...
thesicktimes.org
February 11, 2026 at 3:05 AM
“COVID-19 has caused many Olympians and other athletes to miss important competitions and games in their careers; others have competed while actively infected. During the 2024 summer Olympics, runner Noah Lyles competed two days after being diagnosed with COVID-19 and collapsed at the end of a race”
Reposted by Martha Crawford
The risks of SARS-CoV-2 and other airborne pathogens can be severe, but the media continues to stigmatize Olympians taking precautions as "worried" and "extreme". We know #LongCOVID can affect anyone, even elite athletes.
In the @thesicktimes.org today 😷🦠
thesicktimes.org/2026/02/10/w...
In the @thesicktimes.org today 😷🦠
thesicktimes.org/2026/02/10/w...
Winter Olympic athletes are rightfully taking COVID-19 precautions - The Sick Times
Despite a lack of COVID-19 precautions implemented by the 2026 Winter Olympics organizers in Italy, some athletes, teams, and their loved ones are protecting themselves from airborne pathogens by mask...
thesicktimes.org
February 10, 2026 at 7:13 PM
The risks of SARS-CoV-2 and other airborne pathogens can be severe, but the media continues to stigmatize Olympians taking precautions as "worried" and "extreme". We know #LongCOVID can affect anyone, even elite athletes.
In the @thesicktimes.org today 😷🦠
thesicktimes.org/2026/02/10/w...
In the @thesicktimes.org today 😷🦠
thesicktimes.org/2026/02/10/w...
Reposted by Martha Crawford
A federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump dismissed the DOJ’s efforts to obtain Michigan’s unredacted voter rolls, a bruising setback for the department’s sweeping national effort to force states to disclose sensitive voter data.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump-appointed judge rejects DOJ attempt to access Michigan voter rolls
Michigan is just one of two dozen states wrestling with the unusual demand from the DOJ.
www.democracydocket.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:23 PM
A federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump dismissed the DOJ’s efforts to obtain Michigan’s unredacted voter rolls, a bruising setback for the department’s sweeping national effort to force states to disclose sensitive voter data.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Reposted by Martha Crawford
Wait until he hears about Trump!
Khanna: "Here we have a sitting cabinet member, Lutnick, who's all over the files as having a business relationship allegedly and personal relationship alleged after Epstein was convicted. He's allegedly lied about his relationship. And there's no consequence. We need to get real in this country."
February 11, 2026 at 4:12 AM
Wait until he hears about Trump!
I almost wonder if its weird inverted PR.
February 11, 2026 at 4:10 AM
I almost wonder if its weird inverted PR.
Don’t let their messaging make you more manageable.
February 11, 2026 at 4:09 AM
Don’t let their messaging make you more manageable.
Reposted by Martha Crawford
Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.
February 11, 2026 at 3:54 AM
Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.
I am pretty sure that ICE is doing what every single criminal child kidnapper has done since MacDonald’s was founded.
Shut the kid up.
Go to MacDonald’s
Shut the kid up.
Go to MacDonald’s
February 11, 2026 at 4:07 AM
I am pretty sure that ICE is doing what every single criminal child kidnapper has done since MacDonald’s was founded.
Shut the kid up.
Go to MacDonald’s
Shut the kid up.
Go to MacDonald’s
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“what we’re witnessing is…on the scale of the larger concentration camp systems in history—the Soviet Gulag, the Nazi concentration camps, & Chinese labor camps…The admin is actively aspiring to a system of that magnitude to reshape society to its racial, political & cultural prefs for generations”
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:40 AM
“what we’re witnessing is…on the scale of the larger concentration camp systems in history—the Soviet Gulag, the Nazi concentration camps, & Chinese labor camps…The admin is actively aspiring to a system of that magnitude to reshape society to its racial, political & cultural prefs for generations”
“People would do anything to be free”
And others built out the drawers
And others built out the drawers
February 11, 2026 at 3:58 AM
“People would do anything to be free”
And others built out the drawers
And others built out the drawers
Yes. Crone-style. 🌸
February 11, 2026 at 3:55 AM
Yes. Crone-style. 🌸
This makes me cry.
Especially right now.
We have role models for facing these moments.
Especially right now.
We have role models for facing these moments.
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
February 11, 2026 at 3:54 AM
This makes me cry.
Especially right now.
We have role models for facing these moments.
Especially right now.
We have role models for facing these moments.
I know that my job is not a warriors job at all.
But who knows what when any one may be targeted or not.
But who knows what when any one may be targeted or not.
February 11, 2026 at 3:49 AM
I know that my job is not a warriors job at all.
But who knows what when any one may be targeted or not.
But who knows what when any one may be targeted or not.
I wonder if the work I’ve been doing in service of preparing myself and others for this crossroads
will need to change
now that we are in the middle of the intersection and the world is spinning
it might not need to change
But it absolutely might change b/c fates are shifting dramatically
will need to change
now that we are in the middle of the intersection and the world is spinning
it might not need to change
But it absolutely might change b/c fates are shifting dramatically
February 11, 2026 at 3:46 AM
I wonder if the work I’ve been doing in service of preparing myself and others for this crossroads
will need to change
now that we are in the middle of the intersection and the world is spinning
it might not need to change
But it absolutely might change b/c fates are shifting dramatically
will need to change
now that we are in the middle of the intersection and the world is spinning
it might not need to change
But it absolutely might change b/c fates are shifting dramatically
That’s the only thing to do
February 11, 2026 at 3:37 AM
That’s the only thing to do
Time has been running out.
Extraction is now feasting on corpses like vultures.
An old world is dying-
what role can you serve in building a new one?
What seeds do you hope to plant in a new world, or hope someone else will plant for you?
Do that.
Do that with your whole heart.
Extraction is now feasting on corpses like vultures.
An old world is dying-
what role can you serve in building a new one?
What seeds do you hope to plant in a new world, or hope someone else will plant for you?
Do that.
Do that with your whole heart.
February 11, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Time has been running out.
Extraction is now feasting on corpses like vultures.
An old world is dying-
what role can you serve in building a new one?
What seeds do you hope to plant in a new world, or hope someone else will plant for you?
Do that.
Do that with your whole heart.
Extraction is now feasting on corpses like vultures.
An old world is dying-
what role can you serve in building a new one?
What seeds do you hope to plant in a new world, or hope someone else will plant for you?
Do that.
Do that with your whole heart.
I’ve been saying this over and over since 2016 (responding to personal and collective threats)
Now is the time to be who you mean to be.
Now is the time.
Think about that deeply.
What does it mean to choose your role in this moment.
What is your inner mandate?
Now is the time to be who you mean to be.
Now is the time.
Think about that deeply.
What does it mean to choose your role in this moment.
What is your inner mandate?
February 11, 2026 at 3:32 AM
I’ve been saying this over and over since 2016 (responding to personal and collective threats)
Now is the time to be who you mean to be.
Now is the time.
Think about that deeply.
What does it mean to choose your role in this moment.
What is your inner mandate?
Now is the time to be who you mean to be.
Now is the time.
Think about that deeply.
What does it mean to choose your role in this moment.
What is your inner mandate?
Wholly vile.
I keep rereading this paragraph expecting the words to change
February 11, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Wholly vile.
I have a dog who is a total tissue addict.
February 11, 2026 at 2:27 AM
I have a dog who is a total tissue addict.
During an earlier phase in the pandemic, I facilitated a discussion on strategies and frames for negotiating the existential trauma of moral injury
which you can access through this link if it is useful for you
which you can access through this link if it is useful for you
Recorded Discussions A La Carte | Access Individual Community Discussions — Martha Crawford - What a Shrink Thinks
Discover insightful recorded discussions on key psychological and communal themes. Access rich content from workshops and meet-ups on What a Shrink Thinks.
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:20 AM
During an earlier phase in the pandemic, I facilitated a discussion on strategies and frames for negotiating the existential trauma of moral injury
which you can access through this link if it is useful for you
which you can access through this link if it is useful for you
Recorded Discussions A La Carte | Access Individual Community Discussions — Martha Crawford - What a Shrink Thinks
Discover insightful recorded discussions on key psychological and communal themes. Access rich content from workshops and meet-ups on What a Shrink Thinks.
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:19 AM
During an earlier phase in the pandemic, I facilitated a discussion on strategies and frames for negotiating the existential trauma of moral injury
which you can access through this link if it is useful for you
which you can access through this link if it is useful for you
Reposted by Martha Crawford
So much of what’s happening - not only in the U.S., but around the world - right now, comes down to men desperate to stay in power in order to stay out of prison.
It’s the increasing desperation that’s becoming more and more dangerous.
It’s the increasing desperation that’s becoming more and more dangerous.
Rep. Walkinshaw leaving today’s ICE hearing: “All of this comes from Stephen Miller’s sick, twisted, deranged Great Replacement Theory.” He says when Dems have the majority they will subpoena Miller to testify: “If he doesn’t he will end up in prison for contempt.” @pabloreports.bsky.social
February 11, 2026 at 2:05 AM
So much of what’s happening - not only in the U.S., but around the world - right now, comes down to men desperate to stay in power in order to stay out of prison.
It’s the increasing desperation that’s becoming more and more dangerous.
It’s the increasing desperation that’s becoming more and more dangerous.
Reposted by Martha Crawford
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:29 PM
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Reposted by Martha Crawford
Because after living through an entire pandemic, this is fucking ridiculous: www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/h...
FDA refuses to review Moderna’s application for mRNA flu vaccine, company says | CNN
The US Food and Drug Administration has refused to accept an application from Moderna to review its first mRNA seasonal flu vaccine, the company said Tuesday, in another setback for the technology tha...
www.cnn.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:05 AM
Because after living through an entire pandemic, this is fucking ridiculous: www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/h...