Criminalized Mentally Ill Project

Criminalized and Mentally Ill Project

In January 2021, I began to share the content and topics of a course I had developed on anti-carceral and critical disability stances on the “criminalization of mental illness.”

Through this social media page and my blog, I hope to share information on mental health that is accessible, critical, and engaging.

During Mental Health Awareness Month 2023, it's crucial to distinguish between "mental health" and "mental illness." It's frustrating to see governments and organizations prioritize the appearance of caring about mental health whi

first books of 2023.

[ID: books on a wooden table: The Faces by Tove Dittevsen next to The Stone House by Yara Hawari and Death Interrupted by Blair Bigham. End of description.]

#Repost Let's talk "less restrictive" confinements...⠀
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I've been reading and reflecting on how we conceptualize and manage human experiences like grief in Canada. As always, I'm concerned about health authorities' propensity to label people to individualize and pathologize the experiences of the "Ot

Psychiatric research uses the terms "serious mental illness" and "severe mental illness" (SMI) inconsistently, according to a recent study.

The researchers found that 85% of the 788 articles (published between 2015 and 2019) tha

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Considering the brutal conditions institutionalized people faced, they began to revolt and protest for their rights and liberties. In North America much of this activism took place in the 1960s along side many of the other social justice mo

I’m really thankful to have had the opportunity to contribute to @briarpatchmag Disability Justice Issue! My piece looks at how professional and popular psychology talk about self-esteem, therapy, and getting better. However, they do not talk a

y’all I’m so frustrated by the sanism and lack of care in Canada…

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Very much looking forward to reading Disability Injustice: Confronting Criminalization in Canada!

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Therapeutic Jurisprudence proposes that Judges aren't just there to judge and decide, but to make a difference.

To put it another way, therapeutic jurisprudence is a way to think about and do legal work that aims not only to use law to solve proble

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