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.

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.

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.

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—

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

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

“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

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.

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

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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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.