actual spinster | π carenotes #2: diagnosis special!! π @actual-spinster | Uploaded February 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
extremely ironically & iconically very fucking belated look at some of the representations of / implications of being diagnosed with various illnesses/viruses/diseases etc :) lmk your thoughts about the books / diagnoses / health autonomy / doctors being fucking shite / poetry / being sick and illegible and sexy β‘
melissa lee- houghton poem - youtu.be/x1qbr3pTrgw
the first carenotes ! : youtu.be/QJXnPykfcAw
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communities united against police brutality: cuapb.org/βββ
community action on prison expansion : cape-campaign.org
the uk qtibipoc hardship fund: gf.me/u/x3jqw9βββ
sex worker advocacy and resistance movement hardship fund: swarmcollective.org/donateβββ
black minds matter uk: gf.me/u/x59z4dββ
~ books mentioned β‘ ~
salt fish girl by larissa lai
letter to dr. moosa regarding my inconstant heart - melissa lee-houghton from the collection sunshine i think!
dont call us dead, danez smith
close to the knives - david wojnarowicz
elizabeth bishop poem - insomnia
also ! other things about specifically psychiatric violence [especially thru the lense of race & gender] include woman on the edge of time by marge piercy & when they call you a terrorist: a black lives matter memoir by asha bandele & patrisse cullors - both pretty intense, difficult reads tho ofc! & i think both of which ive talked about on this channel from 2 or so years ago?
#sicklit
extremely ironically & iconically very fucking belated look at some of the representations of / implications of being diagnosed with various illnesses/viruses/diseases etc :) lmk your thoughts about the books / diagnoses / health autonomy / doctors being fucking shite / poetry / being sick and illegible and sexy β‘
melissa lee- houghton poem - youtu.be/x1qbr3pTrgw
the first carenotes ! : youtu.be/QJXnPykfcAw
~*~
communities united against police brutality: cuapb.org/βββ
community action on prison expansion : cape-campaign.org
the uk qtibipoc hardship fund: gf.me/u/x3jqw9βββ
sex worker advocacy and resistance movement hardship fund: swarmcollective.org/donateβββ
black minds matter uk: gf.me/u/x59z4dββ
~ books mentioned β‘ ~
salt fish girl by larissa lai
letter to dr. moosa regarding my inconstant heart - melissa lee-houghton from the collection sunshine i think!
dont call us dead, danez smith
close to the knives - david wojnarowicz
elizabeth bishop poem - insomnia
also ! other things about specifically psychiatric violence [especially thru the lense of race & gender] include woman on the edge of time by marge piercy & when they call you a terrorist: a black lives matter memoir by asha bandele & patrisse cullors - both pretty intense, difficult reads tho ofc! & i think both of which ive talked about on this channel from 2 or so years ago?
#sicklit