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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

Y...yes Mistress...!

This is plain transmisogyny. I expect better from the rest of you than to accept that.

Do we have a right to know? Does harm need to be not simply public, but actively publicised for years, even after it has been adressed? Is this then a campaign that we should support? Is this information an account without moral weight, or is part of an ongoing pattern? Do we, really, have a right to know? To be spreading this, years after it has been adressed?

Do we have a reason to act? Has the crime been too horrid, has sarah been too dangerous, too unrepentant, that she must be removed from all communities, lest she be a danger to those around her? Is this how you see her, then? A danger? Is this judgment fair, unbiased, or is it a hate mob?

Should she be removed from her job? Is this something we have the right to do, remove a girl from her only source of income, her only way to live? Is she dangerous enough that she must not work anymore? Is sarah so much a "danger", for her "unrepentant" "crimes" that she must die?

Are the hate messages in my inbox, calling me a rape apologist, a disgusting man, or a pedophile, sent by people rightfully upset? Are they simply trying to apply anti-carceral justice, and upset that i would not accept to remove myself from her, to make her yet more isolated? Are they right, or is this a hate mob?

What terrible crime is worth the punishment that seems reserved only for transgender women? Why indeed is it only trans women that are punished? Do we see cis people, broken down, torn up, like this? Trans men, to anywhere near the same fequency?

Are trans women just that more dangerous than non trans women? Is this just "actually not a hate mob this time it's real", for the thousandth time?