Candice Alaska
Writer, photographer, and radical mental health and Disability Justice advocate in the Global South, focused particularly on the intersections of sanism and survivor injustice.
“Efforts to destigmatise this diagnosis are unlikely to make a difference until we learn to complicate victimhood and to move beyond these neat boundaries we’ve drawn to delineate what a victim (and what an abuser) can be, and to address a ‘justice’ system that relies on the misogynistic, sanist, racist construct of ‘credibility’.”
Read with me:
Books that I’ve read or I’m reading on trauma healing, intergenerational trauma, mental health, healing and disability justice that I love and recommend.
Watch with me:
Survivor Injustice: State-Sanctioned Abuse, Domestic Violence and the Fight for Bodily Autonomy
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“We will not trade disabled deaths for abled life. We will not allow disabled people to be disposable or the necessary collateral damage for the status quo. We will not look away from the mass illness and death that surrounds us or from a state machine that is more committed to churning out profit and privileged comfort with eugenic abandonment.”