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hi anon! my fav piece in this general wheelhouse is Merri Lisa Johnson's "Neuroqueer Feminism: Turning With Tenderness Toward Borderline Personality Disorder" (link is to my google drive).

Some others:

Dorfman & Reynolds, The New Hysteria: BPD and Epistemic Injustice - excellent for its discussion of what the authors, following Dotson (2011), call testimonial "smothering" when it comes to patients marked as borderline.

Shaw & Proctor, Women at the Margins

Tichenor, Breedt, and Barlott, What does Borderline do? (critique of the social functions of bpd/npd/c-ptsd and their differential application across nation states, racial and gender groups, etc)

Ussher, Diagnosing difficult women and pathologising femininity: Gender bias in psychiatric nosology.

a mosque in scotland had to be put into lockdown. they are going door-to-door with hit lists and addresses in northern ireland, setting houses alight. they firebombed an imam's house in manchester. people of colour are being targeted and attacked by racist mobs in the street in broad daylight.

Some Gillie and Idrisah doodles, also me trying to use up ink dregs so I can switch the pens to new colors. Inktober 10/25/22.

Resharing an old comic of Eli and Carter from FLY. I would love to write a song for these 2. Help us reach our second stretch goal for FLY! Now live on Kickstarter!

“But Rue, where will these kids stay? Do you want them on the streets?”

of course not. In an ideal world, a kids would have multiple adults other than their parents they could look to for care, but I recognize that that will never be a reality for every single child. So: youth shelters, if they have nowhere else to go. There should be clean, warm shelters where anyone under 18 can stay for as long as they need, no questions asked. (And of course shelters that aren’t just for kids, but we’re talking about youth rights right now)

“But Rue,” I hear you say, “what if some moody teenager runs away after an argument?”

First of all, I’d rather a thousand moody teenagers run away than one abused child be trapped. Second, so what if one does? A kid needs time away from their parents, so they leave. The vast majority of them will get some time to cool down and then go back home, and if they don’t want to go back, period? Then nine times out of ten, they have a good reason. (Because yes, as hard as it is for you to believe, kids are humans who have common sense.)

“Okay, but what about the one time out of ten the kid doesn’t have a good reason?”

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