This is a report from Intuitive Social Living (Intuitive.social/living) and Intuitive Social Travel (Intuitive.social/travel), where survivor-led groups are coordinating to create and reach safe living spaces that resolve emergency situations.

Many of our friends and colleagues surviving multiple marginalization and violent intersections (Intuitive.pub/intersections) cannot share their details publicly, to protect their safety.

In order to coordinate aid for them, our task is still the same: Safe living spaces are needed as destinations for highly sensitized, severely affected individuals who are isolated, mischaracterized, and suffering compounded abuse in their current locations. 

Intuitive community living space and travel support resources prioritize emergent community solutions and interpersonal care. 

Our approaches immediately reestablish lost cultural competency in participating locations. 

When we provide and develop spaces like these, we eliminate health disparities by putting living environments fully in the service of those taking refuge there.

When members of our communities fear for their lives and do not know what details they could share in order to get help without coming to harm, we must create better ways of solving problems together.

These tried-and-true survivor-led methodologies, compiled by our most greatly intersectionalized and severely affected colleagues, give us our best means of effective problem solving.

Right now, today, we need immediate assistance in arranging safe travel for individual refugees from their current locations to the next most possible safe space we can identify and prepare.

Multiple pressing circumstances require that we organize safety companions and travel by boat, in addition to other specific emergency needs.

All those working on this are severely affected.

So far, we have not been able to reach any organization that would help us.

How about yourself?

Please share your insights or offer to assist us by emailing helpline@intuitive.pub, or contact Max at Intuitive.social/hello/max. 

Please make a financial contribution to support this effort and the safety of our community members at Intuitive.community/donations. 

#MakePartnerismMainstream Keynote, Participation Summit: Four Cornerstones of Moving Away from Domination Systems and Toward Partnership Systems — Fireside Chat with Riane Eisler Center for Partnership Studies and Khayree Bey
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We are building inclusive, accessible, intuitive, community-serving medicinal kitchens based on the emergent specifications shared by members of our communities.

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' Check out some excerpts from “Abolition Must Include Psychiatry” — written by two of our team members! 🧠🌱🌻

READ THE PIECE: https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/07/22/abolition-must-include-psychiatry/

Image 1: As we talk about prison abolition, discourse that was largely founded and remains spearheaded by revolutionary Black Women, we must reckon with the history of psychiatry, and better understand how the mental health system perpetuates processes of criminalization, policing, and surveillance.

Image 2: Abolition means that all the cages come down, including those that function under the guise of psychiatric ‘care.’

Image 3: There is a dangerous tale in the US, one based on a myth of the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric asylums. We are told that the asylum died and is a thing of the past. We are told that, now, “patients” have rights, are treated with human dignity, and are not criminalized for their neurodivergence. We’re told that restraints and forcible medication only happen in “extreme” cases. We’re told that the mental health care system is here to help us, support us, and “treat” us. And now, when abolition has entered mainstream discourse, we’re told that this very system should be considered an alternative to incarceration in jails and prisons. But those of us who have survived psychiatric incarceration know that not only did the asylum never die — it is, and always was, another prison. Knowing the truth of these myths, we work towards writing a new story.

Image 4: Every state (and Washington DC) allows for a person to be involuntarily held for “treatment, observation, or stabilization.” Though specifications vary by state, the three main forms of commitment are: emergency hospitalization for evaluation, involuntary inpatient commitment, and “assisted” outpatient treatment. This means that other people may decide (without your consent) that you present a risk to yourself or others, and need to be removed from or surveilled within your community for “treatment.”

Image 5: Prison culture is not solvable by ‘funding the mental health system’ more robustly. The mental ‘health’ system is fundamentally carceral, meaning that it is one of the many kindred systems that function to contain and surveil people, take away their locus of control, isolate them from their communities, and limit their freedom. As it functions in America and in all places touched by colonialism, psychiatry is rooted in torture, white supremacy, and a culture of shame and punishment. Yes, the asylum lives on — and the police love the asylum.

Image 6: The abolition of psychiatry does not mean that no one is allowed to identify with psychiatric diagnoses that they feel serve them, or that no one is allowed to continue taking psychiatric medications they find effective. It does mean, however, that the notion of ‘mental illness’ was invented to pathologize logical responses to the stress and trauma that are omnipresent in a world brutalized by colonialism and capitalism. Psychiatry has been described as a “medicalized colonizing of lands, peoples, bodies, and minds.”

Image 7: A notable example of psychiatry’s colonial intentions was the diagnosis of ‘drapetomania’: the mental ‘disease’ that explained why enslaved Black people in the Antebellum south ran away from their death camps (the ‘treatment’ for which was to treat them more ‘like children’). As China Mills states in Globalizing Mental Health, “distress caused by socio-economic conditions (and often neoliberal economic reforms) comes to be rearticulated as ‘mental illness’, treatable using techniques that draw upon similar rationales to those that led to distress initially.”

Image 8: There is no way for us all to be free without dismantling the reductive systems of control that enforce state-serving notions of normalcy and rightness, the consequences of which are fatal for so many of us. Spiritually, they may be fatal for us all.

Image 9: Disability Justice and Restorative and Transformative Justice ask us to imagine the world we want to live in, collectively, and practice those ideas and values each day. These frameworks give us the tools needed to shape a society that supports our healing. Non-carceral, loving forms of community care and crisis response are already evolving around us, to help us write this post-prison story. The foundation has been laid, but together, we must do the work of building, imagining, and creating the new worlds we want to live in. As Frantz Fanon brilliantly stated, “if it is society that is ‘sick’, then it is ‘society that needs to be replaced.” '

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Check out these 2 new books on suicide both of which include a chapter co-written by Caroline Mazel-Carlton and Sera Davidow of the @WesternMassRLC:

Alternatives to Suicide: https://t.co/gn8oZNQYtr
The Broader View of Suicide: https://t.co/V3vZwJdcSj

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