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.

[ID: a self-portrait in which I’m looking directly at the camera, standing in front of a black gate, with my left hand above my head, holding onto the gate. I’m wearing a black top with embroidered flowers and my hair, which is also black is tied back. There are trees around me in the background.]

“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’.”

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CWs d€ath, SH, medical neglect and trauma. The vast majority of the literature on caring for people diagnosed with BPD is not written by the people who actually bear the diagnosis and continues to promote really harmful, moralising and individ
CW r*pe, CSA, apologism. "It takes a village to protect a r*pist." In my old neighbourhood, I remember the entire community had rallied to support a neighbour of ours who had SA'd one of the other neighbours' children. She was about thir
CW ab*se. So many people appalled by Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis' reactions actually respond the same way to known ab*sers in their lives. People love to say they support survivors until the perpetrator is one of their own friends. ~~~ Image te
Content warnings self-h*rm, medical tr*uma. I'm tired of mental health practitioners constantly shaming, punishing and moralising self-h*rm and of how many people diagnosed with BPD have learned to internalise these responses to their SH as normal a
CWs ab*se, SA, medical ab*se and neglect, tr*uma mentions. One of the things that critics of this diagnosis note is how harmful it is to decontextualise people's reactions to their suffering from their actual root causes. With it comes to rage in
CWs sanism, ab*se mentions. The first of an ongoing series unpacking the link between "personality disorders" and criminality. People with PD diagnoses are strongly correlated with causing harm, violence and even crime, especially cluste
Content warnings for violence, death, murder. This is SO fucking horrific and grotesque. They've installed devices with very sharp blades at the Texan border. They are OPENLY murdering people and, because people have been taught to uphold and belie
If it's a threat to the dominant status quo, it becomes a mental disorder. [ID: screenshot of a WSJ article with the headline, "climate change obsession is a real mental disorder." End ID]
CW ab*se and victim-blaming mention. As the cost of food continues to increase exponentially in Trinidad-- what happens to the disabled people who struggle to cook to save costs? Who are trapped in the deliberate poverty constructed by the Adult Di
I told myself I was finally going to take my first self-portrait of the year for my birthday week, but then I spent the whole week driving and these were all the photos that I got to take. :') Last slide is just from an Ocean Vuong poem that has bee