heart full of stars

you, my love are allowed to receive praise.

start hrt today! what're you waiting for?

i bring to the table:

you, my love are allowed to receive praise.

Chandler, A. (2016). Self-injury, medicine and society: Authentic bodies. Springer.

Chaney, S. (2011). Self-control, selfishness and mutilation: How ‘medical’ is self-injury anyway?. Medical History, 55(3), 375-382.

Chaney, S. (2017). Psyche on the skin: A history of self-harm. Reaktion Books.

Gilman, S. L. (2013). From psychiatric symptom to diagnostic category: Self-harm from the Victorians to DSM-5. History of Psychiatry, 24(2), 148-165.

Millard, C. (2013). Making the cut: The production of ‘self-harm’ in post-1945 Anglo-Saxon psychiatry. History of the Human Sciences, 26(2), 126-150.

Millard, C. (2015). A history of self-harm in Britain: A genealogy of cutting and overdosing. Palgrave Macmillan.

Also see this essay [link] [1] for a more antipsych perspective of self-harm.

Couple of tumblr posts to start things off. Caden's blog is a great place to find resources about a variety of antipsych topics

This is a great starting point for learning about antipsych perspectives/frameworks/etc

"Cutting The Risk." Practical guide for self harm risk reduction. Some of the language and approach is more prescriptivist than I prefer ("don't do it this way because it increases your risk of [whatever]" instead of "if you do it this way your risk of [whatever] increases" which i really do feel is important) but theres a lot of good technical information, and it is generally nonjudgmental:

Nonjudgmental zine by and for people who have self harmed or currently self harm:

Some useful technical first aid advice, but some of it feels iffy- "one pill over the prescribed amount" does not generally, maybe almost ever, constitute an overdose & I don't think that's a useful thing to tell people. For non-substance-related first aid advice though, this seems a generally good overview:

And having said that, for some actual good substance related harm reduction advice and technical information, National Harm Reduction Coalition's "Getting Off Right" guide is an amazing resource, written by and for people who inject drugs:

And NEXT distro's resource library is invaluable:

Harm reduction advice for eating disorders:

This article looks potentially relevant/interesting but it's paywalled & all I could read was the abstract. If you have access through a school or something, though, it might be worth a read

people should not be shaming you

it's okay that you don't have a better answer right now

Amity told girls that they're not broken and paid the price