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Socially neurodivergent, fiscally communist philosopher. They/them.

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · Jul 24

I've uploaded a free preprint for a forthcoming article, Mad Pride in Revolutionary England: The Ranters as Mad Actvism. It will be published in History Workshop Journal next year. I'm proud of this and see it as the start of a new, much bigger project.
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(PDF) Mad Pride in Revolutionary England: The Ranters as Mad Activism

PDF | Collective mental health patient organising in England is usually dated to the nineteenth century and seen as arising in response to the mass... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...

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Shelley Lynn Tremain she/her/they @shelleytremain.bsky.social · 2h

The latest Dialogues on Disability interview with Karin Boxer who talks about OCD, moral responsibility theory, ableism, and more!

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Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Karin Boxer

Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and twenty-seventh installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled …

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 15h

Labour's digital ID policy is most concerning not just in itself but insofar as it signals that they are listening more to the Tony Blair Institute than to voters. And that would be bad even at the best of times.

Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 20h

Avoiding gendering our baby by referring to them as "comrade".

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 1d

What's your favourite novel that isn't already super well known and/or written by a famous author?

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 4d

Of course, thank you

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 4d

I realise this is Portland Maine but across the Isle of Portland UK there has been a Keep Portland Weird campaign going back decades.

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 8d

Labour is trying to prove mental health is over-diagnosed so it can cut DWP benefits further www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Labour is trying to prove mental health is over-diagnosed so it can cut DWP benefits further

Wes Streeting's new review into mental health and neurodivergency will be vice chaired by “the most hated doctor in Britain”, Simon Wessely

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 9d

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 10d

Take a look at these events in Sheffield next month co-organsied by a friend.
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Feeling with theory / Neuroqueer music events

David Shannon and I are organising two events in Sheffield, both called Feeling with Theory: Exploring the Meaning of Music around Neuroqueer identities. More info on the respective links below, bu…

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 10d

Experiences of transphobia over the past year have made me sometimes regret coming out as nonbinary for the first time. I've long received hatemail and death threats for being a public-ish trans person, but that wasn't so bad and it never made me regret being out. Things are getting so much worse.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 12d

ICE is now targeting Black and Latino children in Chicago, arresting and zip-tying them. Their goal is simply to terrorize these kids and families of color with no regard for legality, let alone basic humanity. It's Nazi-level shit. ICE must be abolished.

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 11d

The thing to know about Trump's autism and paracetamol claims is that the cruelty is the point. They want women in pain and disabled people stigmatised. And they enjoy showing they can lie outrageously without accountability. I worry that debating the science is to play their game, by their rules.

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 14d

"Sperm racing isn’t just about racing sperm. It’s about turning health into a competition. It’s about making male fertility something people actually want to talk about, track and improve"
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Sperm racing is all the rage among the tech bros. Why am I not surprised? | Arwa Mahdawi

It started as a gag, but Eric Zhu’s sperm races are doing good work in putting male fertility under the microscope – literally, writes Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi

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Graham Mead @twillierod.bsky.social · 17d

On the relationship between trans politics and disability

D.K. Renton

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On the relationship between trans politics and disability

In the aftermath of the decision in For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers USCK 16, many disabled people sought to give practical

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 18d

Bertrand Russell once received letters from Sir Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fascists, inviting him to a debate. Russell not only declined but replied quite generally that “nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 18d

Wild that a few years ago loads of liberal and conservative op-eds and books blamed "post-truth" on left-leaning 1970s french intellectuals. Meanwhile, on Truth Social, you do not need evidence to give medical advice: you just post your truth and then other people "ReTruth" it if they agree.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18d

Highly normal. Nothing to see here, folks.

Pregnant Women, DON’T USE TYLENOL UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, DON’T GIVE TYLENOL TO YOUR YOUNG CHILD FOR VIRTUALLY ANY REASON, BREAK UP THE MMR SHOT INTO THREE TOTALLY SEPARATE SHOTS (NOT MIXED!), TAKE CHICKEN P SHOT SEPARATELY, TAKE HEPATITAS B SHOT AT 12 YEARS OLD, OR OLDER, AND, IMPORTANTLY, TAKE VACCINE IN 5 SEPARATE MEDICAL VISITS! President DJT

Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 18d

Someone I admired hugely. Read her autobiography if you haven't.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18d

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."

She was 78.

Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died

Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 19d

"If you want to see if a man or woman has fascist potentialities, give him a flag. If he starts waving it, worshiping it, making a fetish of it, he's good fascist timber." - undercover journalist Avedis Derounian, reporting on an America First meeting in 1941.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 19d

If you want to oppose “political violence,” then demand the abolition of ICE, the end of an ongoing genocide, and insist Congress stop killing people by forcing for-profit healthcare exclusion on us. If you’re not doing that, spare me the sanctimonious speeches.
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