#pathologic zine

[meirimerens]

migratory patterns of carrion birds, a peterstakh tiny zine.

bonus real size/flipthrough/unfolded covers :~)

#peterstakh #it's so small... #peter stamatin #stanislav rubin #pathologic #мор утопия #my art #my traditional art #my zines #my itty bitty zines

[maxbanshees]

utopian scrapbook 2

#threefold bullet #pathologic #daniil dankovsky #peter stamatin #andrey stamatin #copyprinter zine made a while back #[wistfully but also kind of morosely] the futility of trying to put any thoughts about threefold bullet and love into words

[redhairedfish]

in 2020, Russian-speaking guys organized a zine on the game, where there were a lot of participants and the zine came out very cool I participated too! my card:

my previews:

my FULLARTS (I can't show the first picture yet)

the material projection of the magazine was INCREDIBLE:

#pathologic #мор утопия #bad grief #foreman oyun #fandom zine

[popculturelib]

Fanzine Friday #7: Pathologize This! A Zine about Mental Health by Sarah Tea-Rex, Rachel, Iris E.

From the introduction:

Hey everyone. Welcome to edition 2 of Pathologize This!: A Mental Health Zine We are very excited about the fact that this zine is a serial! We think it's important to talk about feelings, situations, diagnoses, medication, drugs, harm reduction techniques, ability and disability, intersections with other oppressions. Hopefully, doing this can be an important challenge to the stigma around talking about our mental health. We are committed to delivering honest, sensitive, intelligent, gutsy narratives about experience, emotions, and politics. We are pleased with the extent and variety of submissions we received this time around. Every submission is a significant and important contribution to this project. Thank you! Before settling into this zine, you should know that it talks about topics such as suicide, self-harm and issues of sexual consent/non-consent. These and other topics can sometimes be triggering and difficult. It is important that you assess your comfort level before reading this zine, and perhaps settle in with a cup of tea or whatever helps you to feel safe. --Sarah Tea-Rex, Rachel, Iris E.

The Browne Popular Culture Library (BPCL), founded in 1969, is the most comprehensive archive of its kind in the United States.  Our focus and mission is to acquire and preserve research materials on American Popular Culture (post 1876) for curricular and research use. Visit our website at https://www.bgsu.edu/library/pcl.html.

#bgsu #fanzine friday #zines #disability pride month #mental health #pathologize this!

[interiorlulus]

On one hand I feel really happy to receive such validation from the faculty and all for my art but on the other I'm now more terrified of failure than ever.

#something something pathological low self esteem and fatalism #my illustration will be featured in the cover of my school's zine!!! my poster was selected to advertise the final project awards!!! #i'm happy but also a little bit scared of the stakes and expectations getting higher and higher #me.txt

[enarei]

( this is a response to this zine [link]. the intent of this is not to offer some prescriptivist counter-position for only using "transgender", I don't personally have an issue with people using "transsexual" either way, and use it for myself occasionally, I just think the way in which that message is being conveyed is, like, incredibly misleading and reductive at best, and seems like a fantastical rewriting of history to justify transmisogyny at worst )

Focusing on the fact "transsexualism" was coined by Magnus Hirschfeld to argue against it being shunned by parts of the trans community, at least as an umbrella term (in contrast to "transgender"), does a disservice to the history of how the term "transsexual" was actually used in English for most its existence. We can't attribute the decades old controversy surrounding these terms exclusively to the individuals who coined them (neither of which were trans themselves), and ignore the context in which they were actually introduced and applied to the trans community, what relationship they fostered with the people they were trying to describe, and which segments of the population were discouraged from using them.

"Transsexual" emerged, in the English language, as a strongly pathologized term. The concept of the "transvestite" (cross-dresser), which the zine also references, was used in contrast to it, to highlight the difference between patients deemed "trans" enough to be allowed to access hormones and medically transition, and those whose "transness" was deemed merely a temporary ailment, or one deemed not serious enough to intervene. This wasn't a proactive distinction, emerging internally from the community itself, but rather from doctors who started to gatekeep access to the newly created field of medical transition based on arbitrary characteristics, with very little input from the patients they were supposed to be helping

The concept of the "true transsexual", which was simultaneously defined and reified in various typologies over the years, was fundamentally exclusionary in nature. Irrespective of who coined it, the reason "transgender" largely replaced transsexual in scope is because of this, because the category of people it was intended to describe was impossibly insular and stratified in terms of race, class, and sexuality, "transsexual" as a medical label was afforded on the basis of one being allowed to, rather than having a desire to undergo some form of medical transition. To those with the authority to actually prescribe hormones, it was never remotely as inclusive as it is being suggested here, and it should be immediately clear to anyone who has been denied access to any form of trans healthcare in the past.

It's extremely misleading to pretend the reason it is a less common term nowadays is just because it's perceived as "outdated". The very reason "transsexual" is undergoing a revival today is because the original basis for the exclusionary way in which it was employed has lost some significance due to the mechanisms used to enforce it losing relevance in the part of the world where it originated: informed consent practices have become increasingly common in the United States, despite all the setbacks in conservative states, a growing number of trans* people have only known an environment where medical gatekeeping is not as extreme; to most people a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria is no longer seen as a requirement for someone to describe themselves as trans or be addressed with their preferred identity, because transness is no longer seen as an exclusively medical phenomenon, both by medical institutions, and society at large. Therefore, in the English language, in 2023, "transsexual" can ostensibly be used by anyone, regardless of conforming to a medical diagnosis, and regardless of strict conformance to gender roles.

However, this is a very, very recent phenomenon. It's important to remember easy/informed consent to hormones is far from being the norm in the majority of the world, even the English speaking one (or the US for that matter?), and a majority of trans people still have to grapple with performing "true transsexuality" as a fact of life to access trans healthcare, while dealing with incredibly shit doctors who believe all trans people are straight, hate their genitals—and particularly of transfeminine people—that they must pass to begin with to be allowed to transition. None of the examples cited here would be eligible for a diagnosis of gender dysphoria under existing criteria in the vast majority of practices, be allowed to medically transition, and be considered "transsexual" in the sense OP is implying, and this is more pertinent as to why the term has waned in use relative to "transgender" or just "trans" than what the individual who coined it may have originally intended—Magnus Hirschfeld, despite his contributions to trans people in Germany, did not have much influence in how the concept of "transsexuality" continued to be employed after his death, David Oliver Cauldwell, in reintroducing it to English as a "psychopathy", did; Harry Benjamin, Kenneth Zucker and Ray Blanchard, those who contributed to the WPATH, DSM and other bodies used to categorize transness and which types of bodies should be allowed to access gender affirming healthcare, had far more influence in trans people's actual experience of the term.

What many people seem to miss about the term becoming popular again, is that its very use by people who obviously do not conform to its original meaning in medical institutions & academia is "cool" today because it is somewhat ironic in nature: the trannies who top and exclusively fuck other trans women, would never, ever, be allowed to call themselves "transsexual" by any respected sexologist involved in the dissemination of the term in medical journals and across the world, we would be labelled autogynephiles, transvestites, and faggots instead. It's very telling how easy it is for CAFABs to argue people weren't victimized by its use and they only remember it as something "comforting", given they were generally never subjected to the same stringent criteria to be allowed to transition.

Omitting this, to argue instead that "transsexual" was never employed in a harmful way, that people dislike it simply because it's old, imo does a huge disservice to trans people who actually have had to put up with being told they aren't "transsexual" enough to have agency over their bodies.

#gender #long post

[librarycards]

just came across your post about how the rhetoric of trans 'social contagion' links with other social contagion rhetoric e.g. around anorexia or self-injury. this is something I think about a lot + would love to write more on, as a trans person with a history of self-harm who also wants one of the surgeries which is commonly constructed by transphobes as self-harm. is this something you've written about more extensively elsewhere, or are you aware of anyone else who has?

hi anon, sorry for the delay here! i wanted to wait to answer this until a couple more of my pieces were out in the world. now, that has happened!

a few places where i speak about pathologization, "contagion," and trans///Mad subjectivity:

Embodying Otherwise: Nonhuman Criptopias in 'Salt Fish Girl' (2023) looks at hegemonic memory/knowledge of oppression as contagion, queercrip intimacies as generative vectors - all in the context of speculative fiction

Refuse! (2023) critical ED, Mad, and fat liberationist perspective on solidarity across bodymind difference for disorderly eaters with thin privilege. Considers the weaponization of "contagion" as a way to discourage solidarity among Mad/disorderly eaters. Published in @trans-axolotl's amazing Psych Survivor Zine!

Loving trans into possible: t4t as transpollinatory praxis (2023) traces the history of t4t via the villification of craigslist + trans(/)sexual connection, argues for a framing of trans becoming that embraces contagion as an erotics of "pollination"

All of these are linked to my academia.edu account, where you can find them for free! If you come across a paywalled source in any of my bibliographies that is of interest and need me to liberate it, feel free to send me a message (this goes for every paper, always).

I'm also working with a colleague on a longer academic article about disorderly eating, indigestion, and "contagion," but that's still a WIP. you'll all be the first to know if & when it's picked up!!

#ask #anonymous #readings #mad studies #madness

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

Do you have any suggestions on anti-psych books to read? I've read a little about it before, but mostly on the science/medicine side of things (like how some pharmaceutical companies pay psychiatrists to produce studies promoting their medicine, how diagnostic criteria can create problems in other cultures, stuff like that).

It sorta depends on what you mean by books? Literature, for sure, absolutely. But like. Mostly journals, zines, self-published narratives from those detained in various psychiatric institutions over the years, or even the odd clinical paper.

Personally, a lot of what I read that brought me to anti-psych had nothing (or very little) to do with psychiatric medicine in the first place. It was more about the role of autonomy and embodied trauma in self-concept and communal identity over time, the relationships between incarceration and institutionalization, prison abolition literature at large (which is often much more explicitly anti-psych than people realize when they choose not to read actual prison abolition literature and theory, especially Angela Davis' work), and anthropological research on personal and communal identity, as well as resource collection and distribution across different cultures and associated markers of quality of life. I realize that looking at all those different systems and smashing them together in your brain like rocks in a polishing tumbler isn't the most sexy method of radical learning available, but it has wprked pretty well for me in generating complex understandings of the systems at work in anti-psych conversations nonetheless.

Anyway, if you want some of the go-tos I often refer people towards, I'll send you to authors rather than specific works.

Angela Davis has phenomenal insight into the experiences of intersecting incarceration amd pathologization, allowing for some truly nuanced discussion of how mental health care is wielded as a weapon instead of a resource.

The Jane Addams Collective is a group of anarchist social workers and mental health practitioners who work to share their knowledge of praxis, trauma, recovery, and mutual aid to establish community care models that can be utilized even without professional supervision.

Michel Foucault's writing on identity, community, and surveillance are honestly essential to anyone who wants to internalize a comprehensive understanding of how these things impact each other through various systems and dynamics

Judith Butler is a bit of a classic and frankly I hate how she writes stylistically, but she does great work on embodiment and identity, both personal and societal/communal.

I also really like Julia Oparah's (formerly Sudbury) work on abolitionism and experiences of incarceration

The Mad Liberation Front is pretty well known within antipsych circles I think for putting out literature on various topics within the framework

You can also search the anarchist library for their dissertations, books, and other texts on anti-psych here:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/search?bare=1&bare=1&page=1&query=anti+psych

Anyway, I realize it's maybe not the kind of reading list you were expecting when you reached out but I hope it helps anyway!

[invizigothx]

zine topic: my dog, how much I love her, how much I love all dogs. yes I've been dog obsessed since a young age which some may say shows that my love for the dog is pathological rather than pure (what love is not pathological if wellness is even-tempers and reason!) but also the evolutionary history. One cannot exist without the other. We seek that which is seeking us. Literally my dog has revealed to me a face of God.

#dogs #zine ideas

[meirimerens]

Sauroctone, a tiny zine on the dissolution of the House of the Oneirotects

#pathologic #мор утопия #andrey stamatin #peter stamatin #farkhad pathologic #farkhad #my art #my traditional art #my zines #tooth trauma /

[ci-ah]

A new pfp and some newly found resolution to get some long forgotten projects done. Hope it lasts.

- next Carlos PoV comic already has a layout, I'm planning two more parts and a bonus picture

- FF6 poster will. finally. be. colored. or so help me

- I'm mid drawing one more ff6 art and also spontaneously did a layout for a short comic today so that might be on the table

- one Pathologic picture I've been putting off for god knows how long

- one Pathologic poster I had in my mind for idk 5 or 6 years now

- pfp is an OC I created for a long comic so if I somehow actually start working on it...

- also applied to two zines, fingers crossed

#personal #pray for my executive function actually functioning 🙏

[trans-axolotl]

I want echo what last anon said and thank you for all your work on antipsychiatry and psych abolition~ you were probably one of the first few people i encountered for the first time ever, who talked about psych abolition. your blog has always made me feel so seen and understood^^ not to mention the absolutely wonderful zine, and the folks I've discovered through your blog! all of this gives me hope and an immense sense of solidarity in our work towards abolition 💜

in that vein, psychiatrists refusing to give ADHD medication is something that's also happened to me that has genuinely made me so furious. i actually couldn't even stomp out of that appointment and had to force myself to be calm because i knew if she saw me get the slightest bit angry, she'd add that to the list of reasons as to why she thought a bpd diagnosis would fit me better. which honestly sums up the experience I've had with every mh professional except maybe one ;-;

answered this SO late but thank you so much <3 i really appreciate this ask, it means a lot to me.

and goddddd i'm so sorry you had to deal with that bullshit, i hate how psychiatrists just decide to fuck with our lives but we can't even be angry without that anger getting pathologized!!! you deserve so much better and i'm so mad you had to deal with that.

sending all the solidarity your way!!

#asks #antipsych #psych abolition #ableism

[lexnadalex]

Justin Torres new novel is full of erasures.

"So the book is reacting to this medical study called Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns from the 1930s. It was this early sexology study, and it was very pathologizing. They took all these queer people and studied them. They measured them. They measured their genitals. They asked them everything about their sexual histories, and they recorded it, took it all down, and then talked about them in dehumanizing ways, as if homosexuality is a disease, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But the study was started by this woman, Jan Gay, who was herself a lesbian and a lesbian activist. She was a fascinating figure. Her hopes for the study were totally the opposite of what it turned out to be, and she was devastated. Some of the photographs are from the study itself—hand drawn images of vulvas, naked men and women with their faces blurred—but I wanted to include other historical photographs in Blackouts as well, both to mirror this sexology study, and to provide a visual counternarrative. And I wanted to be doing something different, which is why there’s all these blackout poems. These erasures. I took the original text of this study that was very pathological, and I tried to get it to say and do something else. So, that’s part of it."

#erasure #found text #books #new books

[ded-lime]

For the art ask, 8!

8. What's an old project idea that you've lost interest in

oh i have a few... had some ideas for tiny games when i tried learning unity (well guess that's abandoned for real now lmao), might still do those if i decide to try to learn some other engine? wanted to make zines for various things (i still get an urge to make a zine for things every now and then but im not counting that), but didn't go far with that; heres sketches for pathologic idea one i made before losing interest.

another idea for a zine was dead by daylight with blighted skins, had a few sketches but in the end finished only one of them. had an idea for a comic of like remaking sonic forces ig? the most i did for that is a bit conceptualizing and one sketch of a page lol

trouble is with some things lost of interest might be temporary and might be renewed on a later visit. not for these ones though haha

[ladyofthenoodle]

2 and 16 for the end-of-year fic asks!

2. Will you participate in any fandom exchanges or fic challenges, etc? 

well. i’d like to say no because i got so overwhelmed with fandom events (mostly zines) last year, but i’m pathologically incapable of signing up for something that seems really cool. also i planned a mini event with friends that i should probably… participate in…. so yes i suppose i will.

16. Do you have that one fanfic that you wrote a ton for, ages ago, but never posted? Will this be the year, come hell or high water, that it WILL get finished and posted?

well it probably depends on what your definition of a ton or ages ago is. i have a solstice fic i started back in december 2020 that i wrote all the exposition for but then got blocked, but idk if that counts as a “ton” and for whether this will be the year — probably not, honestly. i’ve got so many other things i’m more excited to write.

for fanfic asks for the new year

#ask game

[ro-the-artistic-mushroom]

I've been working with the patho server on making a zine

So expect to see some pathologic art

Here's a sneak peek

#digital art #my art #art #pathologic