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Ceros (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️☀️

@antisanitygirl.bsky.social

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Mad studies; anti-sanity theory; antisocial criticism; Foucault; Audre Lorde. borderline and proud. writing and advocating for the liberation of people with personality disorders and Mad and disabled people everywhere. new here! very tender so be kind

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Ceros (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️☀️ @antisanitygirl.bsky.social · Sep 6

i have two new essays on my blog.
the first is a manifesto of borderline liberation: open.substack.com/pub/tenderly...
the second is a foucauldian anti-realist intervention in antisocial theory, the introduction to my paper “Deployment of Sociality”: open.substack.com/pub/tenderly...

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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · Sep 4

“But can’t we use the master’s tools just this once, as a treat??”

Here’s my talk about Lorde’s master’s tools, which got such a heartening reception in New York. Thanks to everyone who turned out—professors, students, poets, activists 🌱

Using and Abusing ‘The Master’s Tools’ Caleb Ward's Audre Lorde Lecture

Audre Lorde’s statement that “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” stands for uncompromising vision in the fight…

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Ceros (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️☀️ @antisanitygirl.bsky.social · 23h

ICYMI: i posted on my blog the introduction to my paper “Deployment of Sociality.” this paper is a Foucauldian antirealist intervention in antisocial theory. the quote below depicts the stakes of the lives of antisocial individuals. open.substack.com/pub/tenderly...

Ceros (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️☀️ @antisanitygirl.bsky.social · 23h

emotional regulation is produced by the government of sanity (it is literally in the name—it is regulated by the governing practices of sanity). regulation of emotion is unthinkable without a type of power to which bodies are held in subjection and subjugation.

Ceros (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️☀️ @antisanitygirl.bsky.social · 23h

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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 23h

Good morning. Keep your empty land acknowledgements. Give back the land and waters that have been stolen. #IndigenousPeoplesDay

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Ceros (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️☀️ @antisanitygirl.bsky.social · 23h

it is a radical and almost a utopia type of pessimism to reject all that exists, has ever existed, and will probably exist. you say none of it is enough. not enough for people’s lives. not enough for what people need and not enough for the interests of the oppressed.

Ceros (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️☀️ @antisanitygirl.bsky.social · 23h

trauma is only real insofar as it is confessed and listened to. its effects only materialize in and through the reiteration of telling it. 5/

Ceros (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️☀️ @antisanitygirl.bsky.social · 23h

therefore, trauma doesn’t constitute the subject as the founding damage but as the matrix of intelligibility through which the subject is presented. and as butler tells us, there is no difference between content and style, between substance and presentation, identity and performance. 4/

Ceros (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️☀️ @antisanitygirl.bsky.social · 23h

rather, trauma is the discursive framework through which biographies are confessed, giving the appearance of a self-identical, coherent, unified person. the content of the person is intelligible through the discourse of trauma. 3/

Ceros (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️☀️ @antisanitygirl.bsky.social · 23h

i agree with this but not for the reasons you might think. i don’t agree that trauma and subjectivity are two primary concepts, both of which are real terms of constitution. 2/

Ceros (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️☀️ @antisanitygirl.bsky.social · 23h

trauma is thought to constitute the subject. this is a psychoanalytic notion, but increasingly returning in psychology as trauma constituting Mad subjectivities—even sane people relate their “trauma” as constitutive of their personality and life story. 1/

Ceros (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️☀️ @antisanitygirl.bsky.social · 2d

writing this essay, i was experiencing grief for abandonments due to OCD/borderline. i reflected on how my relationships ended because others failed to have the courage to question the way in which their subjectivities were bound to sanity while i failed to have the courage to care through suffering

Ceros (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️☀️ @antisanitygirl.bsky.social · 9d

i wrote a short thing on courage, heavily inspired by Audre Lorde. open.substack.com/pub/tenderly...

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Ceros (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️☀️ @antisanitygirl.bsky.social · 2d

i use the word “moral” in the same way Foucault used it—(mis)appropriating it toward subversion. i am a moralist: in the sense my refusal and attack on the present order is an absolutist type of moralism.

Ceros (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️☀️ @antisanitygirl.bsky.social · 2d

we have a moral obligation to seek out the words of those excluded from the academy & publishing industry. this means we must seek out the words of those individuals with personality disorders to whom any resemblance of meaningful linguistic existence is denied—denied through social death.

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 7d

We definitely don’t talk enough about how much bias and discrimination operates via who gets the benefit of the doubt.

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Ceros (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️☀️ @antisanitygirl.bsky.social · 9d

i wrote a short thing on courage, heavily inspired by Audre Lorde. open.substack.com/pub/tenderly...

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 9d

Humans: generally woke

Vulcans: invented woke

Klingons: anti-woke but funny about it

Romulans: anti-woke and always seething-mad about it

Ferengi: pretend to be woke (think Pepsi cop ad)

Andorians: SJWs

Borg: literally don't understand the concept of woke

Q continuum: extremely woke

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Ceros (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️☀️ @antisanitygirl.bsky.social · 9d

madness must be excluded, pushed out of the social subject to sustain the coherence of political subjectivity. coherence is another word for sanity. this analysis leads to anti-sanity. the core metaphysical notion from which the previous two spring is the normative compulsion of sanity. 3/3

Ceros (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️☀️ @antisanitygirl.bsky.social · 9d

the counterpart notion, mutually reliant on the former, is madness/Mad people are dangerous and eliminable risks. the threat of madness depends on the assumption that it is potentially damaging to the subject. the presence of madness threatens the integrity of the subject if it is experienced. 2/3

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Ceros (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️☀️ @antisanitygirl.bsky.social · 9d

i challenge many of the metaphysical assumptions that define the oppression of Mad people. one is the notion that madness is damage, defect, injury, maiming, impairment, or deviation from health. increasing attempts to find traumatic explanations for all types of madness advance this notion. 1/3

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Ceros (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️☀️ @antisanitygirl.bsky.social · 10d

the various forms of behaviorism are the rationalization of disciplinary power. they are ways of reflecting on the art of disciplining bodies.

Ceros (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️☀️ @antisanitygirl.bsky.social · 11d

i often have a feeling that people secretly hate me or are out to get me. i think it’s borderline paranoia. like i think everyone is poised against me.

Ceros (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️☀️ @antisanitygirl.bsky.social · 12d

i’m excited. i will definitely purchase it once it’s published and WILL read it :)))

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13d

Mahmoud Darwish trans. by Mohammed Shaheen

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"As you prepare your breakfast, think of others
(do not forget the pigeon’s food).
As you conduct your wars, think of others
(do not forget those who seek peace).
As you pay your water bill, think of others
(those who are nursed by clouds).
As you return home, to your home, think of others
(do not forget the people of the camps).
As you sleep and count the stars, think of others
(those who have nowhere to sleep).
As you liberate yourself in metaphor, think of others
(those who have lost the right to speak).
As you think of others far away, think of yourself
(say: “If only I were a candle in the dark”)."

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 13d

For those of you professors who are team “you erase the boards when you come in, not before you leave,” I would like to let you know that I lectured about the history of vaginal and rectal fistulas today and i am sure the prof coming in after me appreciates that i erased the board before i left.

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