' Getting ready for another zoom workshop, What the Medical Community Needs to Know About Sx Trafficking.

Survivor centered care is a necessity. When the medical community learns from those who are making money to "save" us...the medical community is learning how to work with cops and greedy NGOs...oftentimes learning the same harmful practices those organizations are participating in.

They are NOT learning about what survivors need.

We need to shift the narrative to the reality of what survivors need and want...because the funding is there...but the resources we want are not available to us survivors.

#CenterSurvivors '

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substack.com/@starfirecodes/note/c-72516208 • t.me/Esomancy/136

' “And do what?” said Buck, baffled.
“Do?” said Harrison. “Do? That’s just it, my boy. All of the doors have been closed. There’s nothing to do but to find a womb suitable for an adult, and crawl into it. One without machines would suit me particularly.”
“What have you got against machines?” said Buck.
“They’re slaves.”
“Well, what the heck,” said Buck. “I mean, they aren’t people. They don’t suffer. They don’t mind working.”
“No. But they compete with people.”
“That’s a pretty good thing, isn’t it—considering what a sloppy job most people do of anything?”
“Anybody that competes with slaves becomes a slave,” said Harrison thickly, and he left. '
— Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
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' This course is an experiential, online course for care workers as broadly defined with an emphasis on mental health/psychology but also including medicine, bodywork and other healing modalities, home and nursing health aides, etc.

Guided by four denials (e.g., denial of systemic violence, denial of unsustainability, denial of entanglement and denial of the magnitude of the challenges) we will focus specifically on how care work and care workers are complicit in each, and how psychology and wellness keep systems like modernity, capitalism and colonialism on life support.

We end each session and the course with gesturing toward a decolonial care work that rekindles our connection with the planetary metabolism rather than individual wellness, transforms our relationship to pain and grief, and supports us in becoming better elders and ancestors to our human and other-than-human relations. '

continuingstudies.uvic.ca/teaching-learning-and-development/courses/facing-human-wrongs-unsettling-wellness

In a private group discussion: "My experience of being shocked looking at this infographic and realizing that most of these things are taken away from the severely affected survivors of violence at our intersections. We must act to restore their access to these crucial modalities." • facebook.com/share/pPjM7BBm27ifbhjR • t.me/IntuitiveCare/129

Would you take a look at our recently updated press release — Amp Intuitive Invisibles • Heart Call to Media Allies & Signal Repeaters — and offer your reflections to support our process?

Be encouraged to reach out directly to Megan Elizabeth or comment to dialogue in group chat as feels most right to you.

Thank you for your help!

docs.google.com/document/d/1tJvr9-bez2oQ1hgE9viwJ08_hSiKAkEuGTVfnaQx6UI

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This whole thread is fascinating, beautiful, and revealing.

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' The term "schizophrenia" has become synonymous with dangerousness even though it is a very small minority of persons with this diagnosis who violently hurt others and this may be explained better by the following factors: male gender, young adulthood, misuse of substances, homelessness, having been exposed to violence, sense of powerlessness, helplessness, stigma, etc.

The term is also associated with non-recoverability. Dangerousness and non-recoverability seem to be hard-wired into the diagnosis.

The term encompasses a heterogeneous group of people with different symptoms, etiologies, course and outcomes.

It is a static, traumatizing and stigmatizing term for those persons given it. It often takes away hope and a sense of agency because people are told that they have a genetic brain disease. Hope, ongoing social and peer support, and a sense of agency and self-efficacy are needed to facilitate recovery.

Nine world outcome studies and the World Health Organization studies on “schizophrenia” demonstrate substantial recoveries.

People have a better chance of recovery when given good care that is acceptable to them.

Perhaps, many of the neurobiological findings in “schizophrenia,” which are often non-specific and can not be used for diagnosis, could be better explained to be the result of chronic stress, relational and social traumas, social isolation/exclusion, social defeat, economic adversities, low self-esteem, stigma, prenatal stress, migration (particularly from a non-white to a white environment), urban birth/living, low impact SNPs & CNVs (single nucleotide polymorphisms and copy number variants), epigenetic changes to gene expression, the effects of first and second generation antipsychotics (e.g., the Iowa Longitudinal Study), etc. African Americans are about 3-fold more likely than whites to be diagnosed with "schizophrenia."

Social adversity can become biologically embedded and result in epigenetic changes to gene expression, which may be potentially transmitted across generations.

Japan (integration disorder), Hong Kong and Taiwan (cognitive-perceptual dysregulation/dysfunction) and South Korea (attunement disorder) have dropped the term "schizophrenia" from their psychiatric nosology.

Surveys in Japan have shown that service recipients and professionals alike are pleased with the change.

Prominent psychiatrists such as Robin Murray in the UK and Jim van Os in The Netherlands have presented strong and convincing arguments as to why this term should be dropped.

The editor of the prestigious journal Schizophrenia Bulletin has also recently wondered whether the term should be replaced.

I believe the time is now to drop this stigmatizing, hope-disabling, scientifically controversial term which is saturated with various myths about non-recoverability and dangerousness.

Brian Koehler PhD, MS
bk64@nyu.edu '

change.org/p/american-psychiatric-association-apa-who-drop-and-replace-the-stigmatizing-term-schizophrenia

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' There's an apocryphal sequel to the story of the shepherd boy who cried "wolf!". And it is that when the village buried him, they made sure to inscribe on his gravestone the following words, "We were the wolf all along."

Alright. I'll admit. It is only apocryphal because I just made it up.

However, observe how this addendum transforms a simple Aesopian fable about honesty into a study of how systems of care produce their own "wolves".

The "wolf" wasn't an external threat but the very system of care and control that claimed to protect. The community's attempt to regulate truth/deception through punishment produced its own beasts.

As the institutional care of dominant politics breaks down, as politics becomes a vassal for something else, revealing other desirous vocations that disrupt the idea of the isolated discerning human subject, may we find the openings to do more than we think possible now. Something more compelling than victory (and the moral assemblage that makes finish lines and trophies meaningful) shimmers in the near-distance. Something that urges us to lose our way, together.

Blessings to my siblings around the world... especially in the United States. We will need new forms of care now. May we be found anew.

Bayo Akomolafe '

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MEME DROP #208: Yeah, I’ve Tried Shutting Up. It’s Not For Me.

Read more here: https://www.starfirecodes.com/p/meme-drop-208-yeah-ive-tried-shutting

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