#and im just so so proud of her and value her wisdom and insight and friendship so much

[trans-axolotl]

my life has been so much richer and full of meaning since I was introduced to mad liberation +the psych survivor movement and i am so so so grateful for the people who shared their time and energy and stories with me. can't imagine where i would be today without the people who helped me start dreaming of different ways of living + loving + caring for each other.

#personal #crazy to me that it was almost three years ago now that i like. first heard about psych incarceration and went Huh. huh. things make sense #antipsychiatry #mad liberation #mad pride #i love my psych survivor friends and loved ones so much #watching one of my best friends who's also a psych survivor get up in front of a room full of professionals and defend her thesis on #carceral structures of psychiatry settler colonialism and her proposal for Indigenous community care for suicidality #and im just so so proud of her and value her wisdom and insight and friendship so much #and knowing where she's come from and where she has lived to now #it has been such a comfort to be able to talk about instituionlization with someone else who has survived it #and only live like two minutes away from her #i