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“Sassy, styled, chic…disabled?"2 comments

Bento wrote 5 days ago: The BBC has launched a reality miniseries following eight disabled women competing in a modeling com … more »

Tags: Beauty, INTERNATIONAL, Media Analysis

Art Caplan Needs to Shut Up1 comment

hymes wrote 1 week ago: Here he goes again, opining that people who are not him should have less rights than they do now to … more »

Tags: Accountability, Bullies, Disability Rights, health, Informed Consent, Kidney, United States of America, Art Caplan, Choice

People With Mental Illness Are More Often Victims Than Perpetrators of Crime: An Egregious Example

hymes wrote 1 week ago: Man accused of sexually assaulting mentally ill woman The Reporter Staff • June 24, 2008 Several c … more »

Tags: Disability, health, Abuse, trauma, United States of America, mentally ill, Crime, Preventable Tragedies, Normies Acting Badly

Supreme Court Enshrines Discrimination Against Defendants With Psychiatric Histories Into Law33 comments

hymes wrote 2 weeks ago: The Supreme Court on a 7 to 2 position ruled that a criminal defendant who is competent to stand tri … more »

Tags: mentally ill, Bigotry, Civil Rights, Disability, Disability Rights, Forensic, Just Wrong, Mental Health, Mental Health Law Regression

Family Keeps Mentally Ill "Loved One" Locked Up in Filth for 18 Years 1 comment

hymes wrote 3 weeks ago: Mentally ill Italian woman locked up Jun 14, 2008 8:17 AM A 47-year-old mentally ill Italian woman w … more »

Tags: mentally ill, Abuse, Bullies, Civil Rights, Crime, Disability, Disability Rights, German content, health

Memorial Day Post: Remembering Forgotten Troops: Soldiers with Disabilities1 comment

femmemeister wrote 1 month ago: Memorial Day has been historically used as a time set aside to remember the soldiers who have died w … more »

Tags: Politics

Ableism and Abuse2 comments

femmemeister wrote 1 month ago: First of all, I have to apologize for my lack of blogging recently. I graduated (woot!) and have be … more »

Tags: health, Sexual Violence, Women's Health

some people are just rage-inducing

jayangel wrote 1 month ago: I am not back. I am still resting. But I need someone who doesn’t believe that everything is i … more »

A Psychiatrist's Letter Supporting Patients' Rights in State Hospitals1 comment

hymes wrote 2 months ago: Letter Smoking Bans in State Hospitals: Patients’ Rights and Patients’ Health: Reply … more »

Tags: Psychiatry, state hospitals, Mental Health, Human Rights in the MH System, Civil Rights, HOPE, United States of America, mentally ill, commitment

Blogging Against Disablism Day Post: Psychophobia 1014 comments

hymes wrote 2 months ago: You may not be familiar with the term psychophobia.  You may know it as mentalism or the more gener … more »

Tags: mentally ill, Abuse, Civil Rights, Commission on Mental Health Law Reform, "criminalizing mental illness", Disability Rights, Eugenics, injuries and illnesses in the psychiatric sytem, media