An Annihilation of Man

I've been a little involved with Writing Badly, a soon-to-launch transfeminist journal, if you're TMA & writing transfeminism, and you'd be interested in contributing to a scrappy little journal, please do consider submitting! Already published work welcome! Rough-around-the-edges-work welcome! I think it's going to be really cool to have a physical, tangible space where these conversations and thoughts can go.

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…psychiatry assumes that society does not cause distress in biologically normal people, who are considered biologically normal at least in part because they are economically productive. This assumption permits the conclusion that if a person is distressed to the point of unproductivity, it is because that person—not society—is abnormal. Thus, psychiatry’s commitment to biological essentialism not only masks the role of the constructed sociopolitical environment in creating distress but depoliticizes it by characterizing that allegedly irrational distress as induced by biological abnormality.

Leverage had a lot of well-researched things to say about the real world, but the one I always come back to, from The Double Blind Job: