She shouts for a reckoning with entire mouth and unspoilt heart. My friend Poodle (“Ursula”) from Christchurch NZ declares her joy, in love with these times. (rule for radicals: that’s why she’s a teacher and you’re not) so thats me in the corner-thats me over there–was a hard arse interview 2 do-my dyslexia gets in [...]
Archive for the ‘Kick it over’ Category
Ballad of a teenage queen
Posted in Art heals, Betrayal, BPD et al., Child abuse, Family, Feminist therapy, Force, Kick it over, Mental illness, Narrative competence, Pharmageddon, Proper genius, Psychophobia, Semiological guerrilla warfare, Sexist bastards, We Love Women, tagged poodlehappy, was tops in all they said never once went to her head on October 11, 2008 | 9 Comments »
I will be a good girl
Posted in Biobabble, Feminist therapy, Kick it over, Media, Mental illness, Pharmageddon, Psychophobia, Semiological guerrilla warfare, Sexist bastards on May 23, 2008 | 18 Comments »
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness — and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different [...]
The snakepit is doing its job
Posted in Force, Kick it over, Law, Mad in America, Media, Mental illness, Murder is a Crime, That's entertainment, Torture, tagged Add new tag on May 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Our officials do nothing while a flood of ink spills about the known atrocities taking place in Texas MHMR residential facilities. From my initial link three weeks ago on 800 disciplinary actions taken against Texas state schools, to the latest coverage of “choke holds, headlocks, torture, rape and death” in psych hospitals, perhaps our governor [...]
Faith healers
Posted in Biobabble, DSM, Etiological ignorance, Humanistic psychology, Junk therapy, Kick it over, Mad in America, Mental illness, NAMI and I are One, Pharmageddon, Theory on April 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Over the last 4 years I’ve heard the term Evidence-Based Medicine™ invoked 20 times a day at the Capitol and named it gobbledygook from day one. Evidence-Based Medicine™ refers to interventions based on established criteria in the medical literature, involving steaming piles of horseshit from the academic domain that just happen to call for the [...]
Help make Austin a safe zone for artists
Posted in A band you should know, Art heals, Humanistic psychology, Junk therapy, Kick it over, Law, Mad in America, Proper genius, Semiological guerrilla warfare, tagged City of groovers, I saw Nick Drake, John Breeding, Michelle Shocked, Robyn Hitchcock, Roky Erickson, Stop Electroshock on January 13, 2008 | 9 Comments »
An action alert from Dr. John Breeding about the fifth annual Roky Erickson Psychedelic Ice Cream Social Celebrating Electroshock Survivors. As someone who has been out of the closet in love with Robyn Hitchcock for half my life, it blew my mind to see his stand-up appearance midway through the video; now all his songs [...]
Our overlord Foucault is at it again
Posted in Biobabble, Child abuse, Dirty Fucking Hippies, Enemies...must...have...enemies, Force, Kick it over, Mad in America, Mental illness, Pharmageddon, Psychophobia, Theory, tagged Civil Rights, court-ordered outpatient commitment, discourse framing, SAMHSA Transformation, trauma-informed care, Vermont on January 7, 2008 | 45 Comments »
A witfree friend of the mentally ill left a comment at ama’s blog, claiming that the SPMI have all but been abandoned by the “consumertocracy literati.” Doesn’t that just roll off the tongue. The myth that we are hippie pomo philosophy majors with no real world knowledge of what we denounce is standard low-hanging fruit, [...]
NAMI agenda still my ruling nightmare
Posted in Betrayal, Child abuse, Family, Force, Fourth Street, Kick it over, Mad in America, Mental illness, Murder is a Crime, NAMI and I are One, Narrative competence, Pharmageddon, Psychodynamics, Psychophobia, Torture, Wingnuttia on November 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
And you know what, I’m gonna leave off this for awhile, I can’t handle it, there’s a lot of positive stuff going on in the movement and I’m gonna spend the next couple days drinking it in. But first let me show you my pain, from an email I sent to TMA yesterday, and we’ll [...]
Two UK studies show compulsory community treatment doesn’t work
Posted in A band you should know, Class, Force, Kick it over, Mental illness, NAMI and I are One, Pharmageddon, tagged Advancing chronicity, Treatment Advocacy Center on November 17, 2007 | 6 Comments »
An editorial in the November 2007 issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry highlights 2 recent studies from Australia – as well as a systematic review of existing research – which have found that compulsory community treatment for people with mental disorders is unlikely to reduce revolving door care. This finding illustrates how health policy [...]
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