nero orestes alcmaeon, mother-killer

Oh you liked Wicked's messaging about the rise of fascism? Yeah I can absolutely share some similar films! Have you heard of Pier Paolo Pasolini? Well he's got this little film called Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom

speaking of canada, i think everyone should go watch the documentary Kanehsatake: 270 years of resistance which is on Tubi (ie freee) which is about Mohawk and other native groups in canada blocking the construction of a golf course on native land. It goes right into it and it really makes you think how resistance back in the 80s and 90s was actually directly fighting the state and now its this passive bullshit protests now. Canada unleashed the military on them and they fought them

Therapists, [Emmeline] Clein writes, insist that the eating disorder is “a second self … capable of mind control.” [...] Doctors would say, “‘this is the eating disorder talking,’ when you try to describe desires or moods,” one patient recalls. “She was praised when she was able to parse an ‘ED thought’ from a supposedly genuine thought,” Clein writes, “and applauded when she narrated her illness in external terms, casting it as a bad friend or an abusive lover.” Anorexia’s treatment thus reinscribes the disease’s own logic: the anorexic self is separate from the “true” self, who must be recovered; threats to the true self must be identified, quarantined and locked away—exorcised, even—rather than, as Clein puts it, “endured” and integrated. Clein, then, calls for a mode of treatment that teaches the patient to recognize the ways in which her agency has been scaffolded by and complicit in her disease. But she avoids any real confrontation with the problems that beset such a suggestion. The autonomy-deficit model has its attractions. In particular, it seeds an easy justification for why we must sometimes treat anorexics against their will. If anorexics are autonomous, shouldn’t they be left to get on with their diets? [...] I don’t know whether Alyssa should have been prescribed the MAID [Medical Assistance in Dying] drugs. But I am sure that she wasn’t lacking in autonomy. There was no demon lodged in Alyssa, wagging her tongue. Her voice is quite her own. The unhappy truth is that sometimes people with no agential defects will choose things that harm them. We can try to escape the hard choice between complicity on the one hand and paternalistic interference on the other by “finding” agential flaws where there are none. To read the anorexic as autonomous, then, need not mean that we stop trying to get her to eat. The anorexic governs and authors herself more fully than her peers. That doesn’t show that we should admire her discipline. It shows that we should be warier of self-governance as an ideal.

in the whole greenland conversation i feel like there's not nearly enough acknowledgement of the fact that greenland is already suffering under imperial rule. seeing wayyyyy too much tacit validation of denmark's possession of greenland on socials today. look into reproductive abuse against greenland inuit women by the danish state. US acquisition of greenland would be bad but the status quo is not good. this is not a matter of sovereignty, i only wish it were a matter of sovereignty, it's just a bunch of imperial powers playing RISK with indigenous people's lives again