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Survivors of human trafficking, severe health conditions, environmental sensitivities, medical misinformation or abuse, and other intersections of violence often cannot reach the supposed assistance of suicide hotlines because of unaddressed and frequently mischaracterized conditions such as ongoing abuse, compound trauma, TBI, severe neurological injuries, intellectual disabilities, and diverse physical limitations.
Suicide hotlines that are not listening closely, consistently, and effectively to the most severely marginalized individuals are often unaware of the consequences to survivors' lives.
Suicide hotlines tend to make a show of listening to the person who calls in, but they also often make assumptions that prevent effective communication and effective assistance to that person.
When a survivor calls into a hotline, the hotline volunteer will protect their identity *from* the survivor and usually only ever talk to that survivor once.
This is not the same as building a relationship with the survivor that repairs function and ensures they can be actively part of ongoing safe community activities.
Trafficking survivors in our network report frequently that they cannot get help from hotlines and are often endangered if they follow advice from others associated with or related to hotlines.
Overwhelmingly, suicide hotlines do not provide relationship building or safe community access resources.
But relationship building and safe community access resources produce the most resilience and safety for the most severely affected and all survivors.
Inclusive community can prevent human trafficking and many other kinds of suffering.
Survivors of human trafficking, severe health conditions, environmental sensitivities, medical misinformation or abuse, and other intersections of violence often cannot reach the supposed assistance of suicide hotlines because of unaddressed and frequently mischaracterized conditions such as ongoing abuse, compound trauma, TBI, severe neurological injuries, intellectual disabilities, and diverse physical limitations.
Suicide hotlines that are not listening closely, consistently, and effectively to the most severely marginalized individuals are often unaware of the consequences to survivors' lives.
Suicide hotlines tend to make a show of listening to the person who calls in, but they also often make assumptions that prevent effective communication and effective assistance to that person.
When a survivor calls into a hotline, the hotline volunteer will protect their identity *from* the survivor and usually only ever talk to that survivor once.
This is not the same as building a relationship with the survivor that repairs function and ensures they can be actively part of ongoing safe community activities.
Trafficking survivors in our network report frequently that they cannot get help from hotlines and are often endangered if they follow advice from others associated with or related to hotlines.
Overwhelmingly, suicide hotlines do not provide relationship building or safe community access resources.
But relationship building and safe community access resources produce the most resilience and safety for the most severely affected and all survivors.
Inclusive community can prevent human trafficking and many other kinds of suffering.
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People who are already dying call the suicide hotline to ask not to be killed.
The suicide hotline says: You're not being killed.
The suicide hotline says: We're here to help.
But the person who called in is still dying -- and hasn't yet been listened to sufficiently so that a caring volunteer might know better what to do.
The person who called in is shunted towards resources that deprioritize that person's most crucial communications.
What needs to be addressed first are the immediate harms affecting the caller.
But the caller is never safe to more specifically communicate if the hotline assumes it knows better.
The caller never finds a conversation they can trust if the hotline does not recognize the necessity of continuing conversation for the sharing of unfolding details while affected by traumatic experiences.
Many callers will not be safe to more specifically communicate until they are in contact with relationship building and inclusive community access resources.
We have requested conversation on these subjects for years without response.
This is a great part of the reason survivors in our community networks are unable to ensure their safety from human traffickers.
People who are already dying call the suicide hotline to ask not to be killed.
The suicide hotline says: You're not being killed.
The suicide hotline says: We're here to help.
But the person who called in is still dying -- and hasn't yet been listened to sufficiently so that a caring volunteer might know better what to do.
The person who called in is shunted towards resources that deprioritize that person's most crucial communications.
What needs to be addressed first are the immediate harms affecting the caller.
But the caller is never safe to more specifically communicate if the hotline assumes it knows better.
The caller never finds a conversation they can trust if the hotline does not recognize the necessity of continuing conversation for the sharing of unfolding details while affected by traumatic experiences.
Many callers will not be safe to more specifically communicate until they are in contact with relationship building and inclusive community access resources.
We have requested conversation on these subjects for years without response.
This is a great part of the reason survivors in our community networks are unable to ensure their safety from human traffickers.
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Our network of survivors has extensively documented the ways in which human traffickers and sex traffickers are taking active and immediate advantage of these systems vulnerabilities.
Our network of survivors has also compiled materials to assist communities in immediately stopping and preventing human trafficking, especially for those most at risk.
Listening to the voices of our most severely affected survivors and ensuring fully inclusive community resourcing is necessary right away.
This reprioritization helps all our communities to relieve the effects of violence, eliminate health disparities, restore cultural competencies, and recover most swiftly.
Our network of survivors has extensively documented the ways in which human traffickers and sex traffickers are taking active and immediate advantage of these systems vulnerabilities.
Our network of survivors has also compiled materials to assist communities in immediately stopping and preventing human trafficking, especially for those most at risk.
Listening to the voices of our most severely affected survivors and ensuring fully inclusive community resourcing is necessary right away.
This reprioritization helps all our communities to relieve the effects of violence, eliminate health disparities, restore cultural competencies, and recover most swiftly.
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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.”
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.”
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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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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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This is a video where we read a piece of each script. Please take a chance to give it a listen. It’s enticing I would have to say.
And an update as to we’re doing at the moment -
We’re working on ideas for the activity book which is one of the incentives if you donate. The official artist for the film is also working on a logo for my company - runlikehell productions. He is also working on a limited edition poster that we are going to sell to help raise funds.
Christopher Inlow and I looking toward the future (after I recover from yet another major surgery I’m having on September 1st ) about meeting with Doc Gregory and getting some planning accomplished as far as other ideas for fundraising.
I’ve said it many times before but we have a very talented team, we have a wonderful script, and we have the drive. All we need now is to fund the film.
If you’re interested in contributing and you’d like a list of the incentives and the contribution amounts, please contact me.
We also have a teaser trailer if you’d like me to send you the link so you can watch that.
Follow us here on Facebook and you can also join runlikehell_productions on Instagram to see updates about the film. You could also follow Boarshead Bill ( Doc ) on YouTube for updates.
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This is a video where we read a piece of each script. Please take a chance to give it a listen. It’s enticing I would have to say.
And an update as to we’re doing at the moment -
We’re working on ideas for the activity book which is one of the incentives if you donate. The official artist for the film is also working on a logo for my company - runlikehell productions. He is also working on a limited edition poster that we are going to sell to help raise funds.
Christopher Inlow and I looking toward the future (after I recover from yet another major surgery I’m having on September 1st ) about meeting with Doc Gregory and getting some planning accomplished as far as other ideas for fundraising.
I’ve said it many times before but we have a very talented team, we have a wonderful script, and we have the drive. All we need now is to fund the film.
If you’re interested in contributing and you’d like a list of the incentives and the contribution amounts, please contact me.
We also have a teaser trailer if you’d like me to send you the link so you can watch that.
Follow us here on Facebook and you can also join runlikehell_productions on Instagram to see updates about the film. You could also follow Boarshead Bill ( Doc ) on YouTube for updates.
#runlikehell #christopherinlowentertainment
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Cercle De Meurtre: Script reading
On April 28th, some of the members of the film project got together to read some of the script. I edited it a bit, but here is what we did. If you care to donate, click on our GoFundMe link below. If you would like to stay up-to-date with what's happening…
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