How About We Put Learning at the Center? | Inside Higher Ed
The ongoing freak-out about ChatGPT sent me back to considering the fundamentals.
Open Society
The protest psychosis: How schizophrenia became a black disease. - PsycNET
Revolution was in the air in the 1960s. Civil rights protests demanded attention on the airwaves and in the streets. Anger gave way to revolt, and revolt provided the elusive promise of actual change. But a very different civil rights history evolved at the Ionia State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Ionia, Michigan. Here, far from the national glare of sit-ins, boycotts, and riots, African American men suddenly appeared in the asylum's previously white, locked wards. Some of these men came to the attention of the state after participating in civil rights demonstrations, while others were sent by the military, the penal system, or the police. Though many of the men hailed from Detroit, ambulances and patrol wagons brought men from other urban centers as well. Once at Ionia, psychiatrists classified these men under a single diagnosis: schizophrenia. In emThe Protest Psychosis/em, psychiatrist and cultural critic Jonathan Metzl tells the shocking story of how schizophrenia became the diagnostic term overwhelmingly applied to African American men at the Ionia State Hospital, and how events at Ionia mirrored national conversations that increasingly linked blackness, madness, and civil rights. Expertly sifting through a vast array of cultural documents—from scientific literature, to music lyrics, to riveting, tragic hospital charts—Metzl shows how associations between schizophrenia and blackness emerged during the 1960s and 1970s in ways that directly reflected national political events. As he demonstrates, far from resulting from the racist intentions of individual doctors or the symptoms of specific patients, racialized schizophrenia grew from a much wider set of cultural shifts that defined the thoughts, actions, and even the politics of black men as being inherently insane. Ultimately, emThe Protest Psychosis/em provides a cautionary tale of how anxieties about race continue to impact doctor-patient interactions, even during our current, seemingly post-race era of genetics, pharmacokinetics, and brain scans. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Towards Bodily Autonomy Anthology - Justice Rivera
Why Temple Grandin is Not My Hero
Image description: Temple Grandin sits next to a quote in her book, Thinking in Pictures p. 122 that states, “In an ideal world the scientist should find a method to prevent the most severe f…
Crip Religion
Where do you turn when even God's people don't want you?
Journalists (And Others) Should Leave Twitter. Here’s How They Can Get Started
Summary: Elon Musk has demonstrated contempt for free speech in general, and journalism in particular, with his behavior at Twitter. He is also demonstrating why it is foolhardy for anyone to rely …
Joan Mastodon (@jonielena@pirate-wire.com)
It doesn't get talked about much, but certain people hold a deep, deep hatred for autistic women. Read the anti-Greta commenters on Twitter and you'll see what I mean. We don't line up with people's ideas about what autism is 'supposed' to look like or how a woman is 'supposed' to be.
Nearly 90% of autistic women have been sexually assaulted. We're more likely to experience domestic violence, and up to 13x more likely to die from suicide (Hirvikoski 2018).
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35558435/
Jeff Horwitz: "This all sounds so damn obviou…" - social.coop
This all sounds so damn obvious in hindsight. As Ravi Iyer, an engineering manager worked on civic content at FB/Meta for years notes: “It turns out that maybe the way we recommend political content shouldn’t be the same way we recommend entertainment.” Brief digression on Iyer: A couple months ago he left Meta for a job at USC that involves thinking and talking about platform design, which is exciting because he did a lot of the interesting work that Frances Haugen documented.
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Working Definition of Ableism - January 2022 Update
Non/responses to the pandemic have painfully and chillingly illustrated how people, systems, society, etc., use purported "fitness/health/wellness," as well as age, location, and other factors to...
What is Interoception and Why is it Important?
What is the word for the sense of signals that come from inside your body, such as feeling your heart beating and your breathing, or knowing when you are hungry? This is called interoception. Interoception is one of our senses, like vision, hearing, taste, smell, and touch. In this article, we talk about what interoception is and how information about these feelings is sent from the body to the brain. We will also talk a little about how interoception is measured and the different types of interoception. Finally, we will discuss why interoception might be important for things like recognising emotions in ourselves and in other people, our physical and mental health, and why understanding how interoception changes throughout our lives might help us to understand where differences in interoception across different people come from.
Models of Disability: Types and Definitions
Lists the scholarly defined different models of disability and also provides explanations on each of the various current models in society today.
Ableism Enables All Forms of Inequity and Hampers All Liberation Efforts
Ableism has been used for generations to degrade, oppress, control and disappear disabled and nondisabled people alike.
Talila A. Lewis argues that ableism has deep implications for every other marginalized identity. In short, ableism, according to Lewis, is at the root of other powerful hegemonic sites — from race and class to colonialism and nationality. In this way, they uncover the ways in which ableism insidiously operates across space and time.
In America, people have come to understand most everything through a lens of whiteness, wealth, colonial, imperial and other power systems which makes it easy to dismiss and difficult to even see oppressed people’s humanity. Humanity is particularly relevant here because so much of what disability actually is, is just humanity; and so much of what ableism is, is a humanity heist.
Césaire’s characterization is apt. I expand on his equation: assigning superhuman and inhuman to a person or group of people = negation of their humanity.
Ableism nullifies, objectifies and problematizes (i.e., thingifies) oppressed people to distract from the actual problems (i.e., capitalism, imperialism, authoritarianism, oppression, impoverishment, etc.). Ableism fashions the “distraction” Toni Morrison warned us about that keeps its objects perpetually clamoring toward an everlasting “one more thing” to prove that they are not nothing and not everything — that they are but human.
Disability and ableism have been remarkably misunderstood, downplayed, erased, ignored, or manipulated in discussions of past and present social inequity and oppression. Specifically, disability is often misunderstood as an objectively defined static identity, and ableism misunderstood as an oppression that can only be experienced by disabled people. But these conveniently and strategically limited conceptions of disability and ableism create, enable and exacerbate all forms of inequity, and hamper all liberation efforts.
In truth, disability is one of the most fluid and complex marginalized identities; and ableism the oldest, most radical, and one of the least understood systemic oppressions. Since we live under racial capitalism, settler colonialism and white supremacy, ableism in the United States has never solely been about disability. Ableism here has always been about at least race, gender, labor/productivity/capital, and dis/ability. In fact, ableism has been used for generations to degrade, oppress, control, and disappear disabled and non-disabled people alike — especially those who are Black/Indigenous (e.g., scientific racism). Relatedly, all oppression is rooted in and dependent on ableism — especially anti-Black/Indigenous racism. Not only is all oppression rooted in and dependent on ableism, but as your question suggests: ableism plays a leading role in how we frame, understand, construct and respond to race, class, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, nationality, criminal status, disability, and countless other identities. Meaning, not only is ableism central to the construction of what people think disability is, but ableism frames every other marginalized identity as well.
It seems to me that ableism is this expansive normative framework that creates all sorts of comparisons that are deeply binary, divisive. Ableism fragments the world in such a way that one is either within the normatively structured “inside” or the normatively structured “outside.”
In its simplest terms, ableism is the categorization and valuation or ranking, of a bodymind, behavior, characteristic or community as inferior or superior, unworthy or worthy, useless or useful, normative or deviant, etc. In the United States context, these valuations and rankings are in/formed through the application of white supremacist settler-colonial cisheteropatriarchal capitalist ideas about race, ethnicity, dis/ability, gender, re/productivity, criminality, civility, intelligence, fitness, beauty, birth/living place, etc. In other words, in the United States, our identities and our purported values are both a function and byproduct of ableism. Ableism is the untamed and too often unnamed force behind eugenics and white supremacy.
Tinu - Empress of Twerk, Thirst of My Line. 🟣 on Twitter
“It’s not just white supremacy all the way down.
It’s “me not we” culture all the way down.
The reason why Dr @BerniceKing’s #BelovedCommunity
& communities like it will be the last standing
is that there’s no other way we live.
Any of us.”
IJTDC Journal - IJTDC 10(1&2) 2022
Ijtdc 1012 2022
(35) Kaya's Kosmos on Tumblr
This is the autism symbol as a dragon. I did this to represent the influence my autism has on my art. This is a public domain drawing and anyone can use it for any reason. I really like the infinity…
The Myth of Mastery Learning in Education | Human Restoration Project | Sunil Singh
In education, the idea that one can master many ideas in a short period of time, and be subsequently tested to confirm this delusion, is one of the first bricks in the education’s wall that must be removed. Published by Human Restoration Project, a 501(c)3 organization restoring humanity to education.
Procedural fluency is all I could muster. Did I truly understand mathematical induction or the cross product? Uh, no.
IJTDC 10(12) 2022 DAWSON 217-230.pdf
lessons from a transformative breakup: how to find new ways be in each other’s lives and not split the communities we love or the movements we support* – adrienne maree brown
A Day in the Life at Three Schools | Human Restoration Project | Chris McNutt
When we work together, what classrooms will we create? Published by Human Restoration Project, a 501(c)3 organization restoring humanity to education.
Autistic Video Games. We Need More Please.
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The Beauty and Care of Disabled Friendships
The Beauty and Care of Disabled Friendships A. H. Reaume “I can’t do language right now,” I told Cathleen as we edged along in stop and go traffic. Getting these words out was difficult. T…
But disabled friends still feel safer to be around. I think they always will. There’s something about knowing what it’s like to have an unpredictable body that often allows you to feel deeper levels of empathy for others with unpredictable or disabled bodies. I know my disabled friends won’t tell me not to let my disability define me just because I’m talking a lot about it. I don’t need to censor myself. I don’t need to hide anything. I don’t need to pretend. I can be me – a creative, funny disabled person who is struggling with health issues while dealing with grief over the things I’ve lost since my injury and fighting ableism in a world that expects me to be something I can no longer be. They like that person. In all her abilities, limitations, and complexity.
What my disabled friends essentially show me is the beauty of being disabled – which for me is most evident in the deep and fierce connections disability fosters.
How to Survive Grad School (and Other Toxic Jobs)
the audio starts off rough but if you stick it out you'll see i give lots of unsolicited advice
References: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jHVO0gEERmfogglQ2lDzQ92SYdfw_dGgjDPjKiLVhFc/edit?usp=sharing
Music: "Bsslama Hbibti", by Fadoul
Chapters
00:00 - Cold Open
02:17 - Introduction
04:31 - Framework: Interdependence
10:06 - Relationship 1: A Mental Health Professional
14:16 - Relationship 2: Non Work Friends
17:25 - Relationship 3: Work Friends
19:03 - Relationship 4: Collaborators
21:03 - Relationship 5: Mentors
26:17 - Relationship 6: Unions
35:10 - Final Thoughts
37:16 - Credits + Relationship 7
Review: Flow - The Psychology of Optimal Experience | Human Restoration Project | Nick Covington
Csikszentmihalyi’s blind spot is a critical one: that poverty is a cause of inattention and a lack of cognitive resources, not an effect. Published by Human Restoration Project, a 501(c)3 organization restoring humanity to education.
that attention as a scarce psychic resource is impacted by material conditions and not necessarily the other way around; that poverty and hardship is a cause of inattention and a lack of cognitive resources, not an effect.
Dr Russ Harris: Rumination, urge surfing, and dropping anchor (#328) - The OCD Stories
In episode 328 I chat with Dr Russ Harris. Russ is a medical practitioner, author of the international best-selling self-help…
7 ways to practice emotional first aid
Psychologist Guy Winch lays out seven useful ways to reboot emotional health … starting now.
Emotional First Aid
Do you have a first aid kit? If so, what’s inside? Probably some bandages, antibacterial ointment, gauze pads, and alcohol wipes—items that will patch up your body and get you back to what you were doing. But what do you do to heal an emotional wound? Check out Behavioral Health Partners’ September blog post for some tools to add to your Emotional First Aid kit. Behavioral Health Partners is brought to you by Well-U, offering eligible individuals mental health services for stress, anxiety and depression.
Unrelenting Depression and Suicidality in Women with Autistic Traits - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Understanding the cognitive and emotional mechanisms that link autistic traits and risk for suicide is a vital next step for research and clinical practice. This study included a broad sample of adult women (n = 74) who report finding social situations confusing and/or exhausting, and who score high on measures of autistic traits. Regardless of autism diagnostic status, these women reported high rates of suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Depression symptoms were more associated with suicidality than were autistic trait measures of social communication. Measures of neurotypical “imagination” and of repetitive behavior likewise were associated with suicidality risk. Simultaneously feeling sad and feeling stuck or unable to imagine alternate strategies, may uniquely increase suicide risk in autism.