10 Ways Your Social Justice Work Might Be Inaccessible and Elitist (And Why That’s a Problem) October 19, 2020 by Hari Ziyad, Guest Writer Leave a Comment The article was originally published on EverydayFeminism.com and is republished with permission. I’m an artist first. But I decided long ago that my art would be in the service of fighting oppression. Since then, I’ve waded more deeply into social justice spaces, and I find myself surrounded more and more by people professing these same aspirations. Being in these spaces has … [Read more...]
Why I’m Done Being a “Good” Mentally Ill Person October 10, 2019 by Sam Dylan Finch Leave a Comment This article first appeared on The Establishment and is reprinted by permission. Content note: This article contains discussion of psychiatric hospitalization and briefly mentions suicidal ideation. I’m being buckled into a stretcher. Restraints are being placed around my ankles when a nurse walks by. “You don’t really have to use all the restraints,” she says to the … [Read more...]
