“Strikes by healthcare workers can open up the space to question an economy which creates sickness, deprives people of the care they need to heal, and punishes those it deems ‘unhealthy’.”… more
Distress and dissent within and beyond healthcare
Category: Mental health & social justice
Repositioning work, rest, and resistance in the context of the Spring of Discontent
The active solidarity that is ongoing in the UK now represents the crucial coalitional and organising work of prefiguring alternative futures – right here, in the present. … more
Self-Harm and the Internet: A user-led critique of the proposed Online Safety Bill
An empty reassurance that the Bill would not intend to criminalise those who self-harm would be of no use to us – the experiences of people who self-harm provides ample evidence that if further criminalisation is made possible then it will occur, regardless of the Bill’s intent…. more
Participatory research in mental health and migration
Migration and mental health research can be an unequal process… Participatory research can challenge the power inequalities associated with mental health research…. more
Transitioning out of Psychiatry
I want to see better solidarity between trans and Mad movements. I want the critique of psychiatry to support trans people’s needs, and I want trans people to learn from what they share with other psychiatric survivors and service-users…. more
State violence and distress: the false separation between migrant justice and mental health
The immigration system is violent by design and attacks the minds, bodies, spirits of migrants, particularly those forcibly displaced and seeking safety…. more
Back to Ends: Racialised Men & Safeguarding
The statistics for racialised communities and the damage that’s enacted due to improper safeguarding and care are quite telling… NHS figures from 2020 revealed that Black communities in England were four times more likely to be sectioned under the Mental Health Act… more
Barriers to Mental Health Support for People of Colour and Migrants
The common refrain “mental health does not discriminate” might be intended to remind us that anyone can experience mental distress, but it doesn’t do justice to the fact that mental distress is political…. more
Lived experience work: anti-racism & mental health (podcast)
Kadra Abdinasir and António Ferreira talk to Amy Wells from NSUN about lived experience work at the intersections of anti-racism… more
Abolition Medicine: Dismantling Carceral Logics in Healthcare
As a child, I was gravely ill with pyloric stenosis, a congenital stomach malformation. Most cases are diagnosed very early… more
Eating Disorder Treatment is Broken, and Only Abolition Can Fix It
In 1973, two IRA volunteers, sisters Marian and Dolours Price, began a hunger strike to protest their treatment by the… more
Abolition of State Power, Regardless of the Uniform
Patriarchy, capitalism, and white supremacy have long defined the conditions and visuals of guilt. These power structures project guilt onto… more