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it’s wonderful that police & prison abolition are becoming serious topics of conversation in places & among people where they maybe hadn’t been until recently, especially given that a lot of emancipatory politics / praxis is imagination work–it’s necessary to have these conversations in line with those who have been doing this work for years & for decades, and to try to bring people in while remaining wary of people who would try to water down these ideas and reroute them into liberal reformism. it’s necessary to understand the connexions between the police, the military, and all forms of forced institutionalisation including immigration / ICE, prisons, and psychiatry. to that end I want to just briefly point to something–though I don’t mean to position myself as an authority on the matter by any means–but some of the ways that people are talking about funding “mental health services” in the wake of defunding the police, talking about how we’ll get people who are “behaving erratically” to “someplace safe” in communities without police, &c.–some of this phrasing is making me a little twitchy, lmao. we need to engage with work that talks about what psychiatry IS before we can posit “replacements” for it, & it makes me nervous that some of these proposals use the rhetoric of psychiatry without seeming to examine it much

psychiatry in its current form as a web of institutions that operates through / for the benefit of race and capital needs to be seriously grappled with if we’re to advance an answer as to what an abolitionist response to psychological / behavioural difference looks like. if we think of “mental illness” as a “real,” “natural,” “neutral” or prediscusive thing such that the only problem (if we even see one) is that too MANY or the WRONG people are getting caught in the net of its institutions (for example I saw someone describe forced institutionalisation as “misuse of mental health resources”)—then we’re not thinking it through adequately. I don’t mean to understate the difficulty of the work of unlearning & reimagining (necessarily occurring in conjunction with work on the ground) that ALL prison abolition does, but I think the naturalisation of mental illness might make this one a particularly hard leap for some people–challenges to the supposedly biological nature of mental illness met with a lot of pushback when some of us started a conversation about it On Here 3-4 years ago, including/especially from mentally ill people.

to that end, some readings connecting psychiatry to race & capital, and connecting prison abolition to deinstitutionalization:

Creating Racism: Psychiatry’s Betrayal

Jonathan M. Metzl, The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease (2010, on libgen) talks about “how race gets written into the definition of mental illness"

An interview with Jonathan Metzl on the book

Liat Ben-Moshe, Genealogies of Resistance to Incarceration: Abolition Politics within Deinstitutionalization and Anti-Prison Activism in the U.S. (2011, dissertation)

– “Deinstitutionalization: A Case Study in Carceral Abolition” (2014)

–, Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada (2014, also on libgen)

– “Why prisons are not ‘The New Asylums’” (2017)

–, Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition (2020)

Emily Thuma, “Against the “Prison/Psychiatric State”: Anti-violence Feminisms and the Politics of Confinement in the 1970s” on how the Coalition to Stop Institutional Violence “forged an understanding of institutional violence that linked the politics of mental health to the repressive punishment of women prisoners’ agency, and the expansion of medicalized incarceration to hierarchies of race, gender, class, and sexuality”

“Kamilah Brock: Woman held in mental health facility because police didn’t believe BMW was hers”

also check out this prison abolition syllabus, notably the “Carceral Intersections” section

see /tagged/psychiatry for more of what is meant in talking about mental illness (both specific categorises / diagnoses thereof, and the concept of “mental illness” in the first place) as something that is constructed by race & capital

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Criterion Channel is offering some of their black-centered films for free right now

Body and Soul (1925) dir. Oscar Micheaux

The Scar of Shame (1929) dir. Frank Perugini

note the director was white but the cast is all-black

Portrait of Jason (1967) dir. Shirley Clarke

note that I’ve seen this and the doc itself is a bit exploitative and hard to watch in the director’s treatment of Jason but imo still worth a watch for Jason alone

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One (1968) dir. William Greaves

Interesting concept but be warned of rampant homophobia esp. use of the f slur

Black Panthers (1970) dir. Agnès Varda

Again white director but she gives the party room to speak for itself

A Well Spent Life (1971) dir. Les Blank

Suzanne, Suzanne (1982) dir. Camille Billops, James Hatch

Cane River (1982) dir. Horace Jenkins

Losing Ground (1982) dir. Kathleen Collins

My Brother’s Wedding (1983) dir. Charles Burnett

Daughters of the Dust (1991) dir. Julie Dash

The Watermelon Woman (1996) dir. Cheryl Dunye

Down in the Delta (1998) dir. Maya Angelou

And When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead (2015) dir. Billy Woodberry

Black Mother (2018) dir. Khalik Allah

EDIT: I am in the US and know that Criterion Channel is only available in certain countries, but someone added it wasn’t region locked for them so its worth a try if you’re not in America/dont have a VPN

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I’ve seen posts going around saying “Bail funds are full, stop donating” THIS IS NOT TRUE. These organizations still need help. While funds could be topped off, money is constantly being used during this time. Here is a complete list of bail fund organizations by state.

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How to support protestors in the Twin Cities!

(5/29/20) After receiving an incredible outpouring of donations, Minnesota Freedom Fund has announced that “there is an urgent need for supplies and support out in the field. Please connect to the groups doing the work - Black Visions Collective, Reclaim the Block, Twin Cities Coalition for Justice 4 Jamar, and others.“ So boost the following groups, get involved, and give if you can!

Twin Cities orgs needing support:

Black Visions Collective MN - BLVC is a Black-led, Queer & Trans centering organization whose mission is to organize powerful, connected Black communities & dismantle systems of violence. DONATE. Instagram, Twitter, FB. Text @blacklives to 23559 for alerts. Hold local electeds accountable by signing #DEFUNDMPD.

Reclaim The Block - Calling on Minneapolis to invest in violence prevention, housing, resources for youth, emergency mental health response teams, & solutions to the opioid crisis - not more police. DONATE. FB, resources/graphics.

North Star Health Collective - Health providers and street medics working in alliance with mainstream and anti-authoritarian organizations to create a safe and healthy events. DONATE, paypal at [email protected]. Send supplies/checks to North Star Health at 3319 E 50th St, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55417. FB.

MIGIZI - Native youth organization whose offices just burnt down, despite protestors’ efforts to protect them. DONATE HERE. Twitter, FB.

Twin Cities Coalition for Justice 4 Jamar - TCCFJ fights against police terror with a multi-national working class approach. Organizing for an all-elected, all-civilian council with power over the Police Department to hire, fire, and prosecute cops. DONATE HERE. FB.

Communities United Against Police Brutality (CUAPB)- Legal services fighting police brutality. 24hr Hotline: 612 874 STOP / 612 874 7867. DONATE HERE. Twitter, FB

Twin Cities Mutual Aid Resources:

Minnesota Freedom Fund - Legal Rights Center: 612-337-0030, National Lawyers Guild: 612-444-2654. Request bail funds here. Read their COVID-19 statement & make some calls to #FreeThemAll.

Mutual Aid Mourning & Healing Support Signup (for death midwives/doulas, social workers, therapists, and healers)

SouthsideHarmReduction.org (text/call 612.615-9725 to get naloxone, clean syringes, works)

Unicorn Riot Article on Twin Cities Mutual Aid Supplies!

Other Resources & Orgs:

Florida Bail Fund

Existing Campaigns & Mutual Aid Groups in NA by Location

MutualAidHub.org

Where to Support Protestors in Different Cities

Mental health resources for QTPOC

How To Help The Cause When You Need Help Yourself

Also if you donate to ANY of the above groups, send me your receipts and I’ll draw you plant creatures like these!

The Louisville Community Bail Fund also needs help if you are able! To find groups like these in your own area, check out the National Community Bail Fund Network Directory or search around for your city/state + bail fund and get involved!

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pride month starts tomorrow, but don’t let that distract from continuing to protest and donate in support of black lives matter. here are some black lgbt funds to donate to if you are able:

center for black equity

homeless black trans woman fund

miss major’s monthly fundraising circle

pay black trans women

marsha p johnson institute

google doc full of organizations and funds

also, i know many pride events have been cancelled due to covid-19, but if you are going in public to protest or to another event, please be careful and wear a mask. covid is still going on through all this

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do u realise the privilege u (a white person) have to stay silent during this and to be able to turn a blind eye? do u have no compassion or empathy? some of u are so ignorant it makes me sick. wake the fuck up. stand up and show support for ur brothers and sisters. u are no better than the racists and the police if u show no support. silence is choosing the side of the oppressor. reblogging info is literally the bare minimum and some of u are too stuck up to even do that. 

as @silkdiary put it:  “ yes, you should feel uncomfortable. yes, it must shock you and strike to your core every time this happens. do not let the repetitive cycle of racial violence numb you to the present, daily suffering of our black brothers and sisters. stop writing and glorifying empathy and tenderness if you are not willing to extend that into practice for your oppressed neighbours of colour.”

https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/

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here’s the link to donate to george floyd’s official memorial fund if you are able to contribute. if you can’t donate, please share. being black shouldn’t be a death sentence.

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here i’ll just leave these here for you

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Brockhampton are back with a slew of new Technical Difficulties tracks, stream I.F.L, Downside featuring Ryan Beaty & Baby Bull now! The group apparently has a new album done and will continue to share these non-album every Friday via their Twitch Livestream. Stay tuned for more!

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good things will happen 🧿

things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿

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YOOOOOOOOOO

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here i’ll just leave these here for you

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TBT

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Frank Ocean for PRADA SS20

Vandalized by 7000GB.

(2020)