Remember when nudity was allowed on here and people were doing dick rates for free? Imagine the chaos if we had polls. The first bracket posts might have been innocent, but dick tournaments would eventually dominate the league. Imagine having to remake because you could never live down the immediate defeat in the first round of a cock contest.
i made an illustration for a sheik themed charity zine called Harp in Shadows! preorders are open now, and all the proceeds go to GATE: Global Action for Trans Equality. here’s a preview of the tears of the kingdom illustration i did :)
i feel passionately about the need to enfold people experiencing (or diagnosed) with “just” depression or anxiety into the mad pride project. the more people who view themselves as mad, the better. much as the rhetorical move from “neurotypical” to “neuroconforming” emphasizes the artifice & social construction of “neurotypicality,” so too will expanding identification as “mad” expose the sane/mad dichotomy as a false one.
it’s true that (some) people with “just” depression and/or anxiety have an easier time navigating the psych system than people who have more stigmatized diagnoses. but this is not to say that they necessarily have an easy time — the carceral psych system is hostile to everyone subsumed by it, even the most “privileged” patients. we should of course critique & examine how our experiences are shaped by various intersections of privilege, but we cannot forget or ignore how someone with “just” a depression/anxiety diagnosis can still experience the full force of the carceral psych system brought down upon them (including but not limited to involuntary institutionalization, police intervention, & forced medication or other forced treatment).
we must encourage, if not insist, that those with the least-stigmatized diagnoses view their difficult experiences navigating the psych system as bound up with the liberation of people who have more stigmatized diagnoses &, often, a more violent experience of the psych system. we need more people to drop the “i have anxiety/depression but i’m not crazy” line and say loudly, “i have anxiety/depression & i am crazy. my access to just treatment is linked to the conditions of all other crazy people, who are my allies, peers, & friends. we are united in our cause & we all deserve a more liberating system of care.”
daaaaaamn forcing a shitty live streaming platform and constantly pissing off your userbase with transphobic moderation practices and condescending statements from staff members didn’t make this site profitable, who knew. weird how nobody wants to buy merchandise from you when you’re ignoring user feedback either? daaaaaamn should’ve done more a/b testing I guess
“600 person years of work went into trying to salvage this site” and how many of those went into making the desktop UI changes that everyone vocally hated. how many of those went into making the mobile experience worse with the stupid lightbox view for images and the video player that’s a pain in the ass to fucking pause.
