“Then I grew up” usually means “I stopped asking how the system works and learned how to endure it.” Confusing psychological surrender with maturity is the clearest sign a system has successfully infantilized its subjects.

A cartoon about my father from the 1960s. At the time he was assassinated, a poll reflected that he was one of the most hated men in the United States. Today, his message has been distorted by many who would have hated him then, but evoke him now to deter justice and truth.

You shouldn’t need a personal connection to injustice to care about it

— Gustave Flaubert, from a letter to Louise Colet

The concept of world leaders texting eachother like this gets me every time

The same tired script, every generation, from insecure, unwanted men demonstrating why women are better off without them. Men who fantasize about miserable women will never be loving men. Or loved men.

a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini

Privacy is an underrated necessity for those who have been exposed to people who objectified their wellbeing.

Can you imagine telling someone about a plane crash that injured and killed numerous people, and their only response is that every plane they’ve flown has landed safely.

This is a photo from an ICE detainment stop this week. Posting without comment as the photo is horrific and disturbing enough to speak for itself.

Unpopular opinion: habitually having a pastry with your coffee is as much an eating disorder as being so obese that they have to remove a wall from your house in order to airlift you out. It’s about the reliance on sweet treats rather than the amount consumed.

This is what it feels like to be a university professor

If you want to understand the life of a trauma survivor, ask them which hurt worst: The original trauma or not being believed? Then, just listen.

They killing WHITE people in the street. Broad daylight.

Screwtape (C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters):

If this was happening in France, they would have burned everything by now.

You know, in the EU we don’t get grabbed by masked officers and shot to death. We’re also allowed into the country with politician memes on our phone. Idk, guys, I think it’s your free speech that’s suffering

An elderly Egyptian man entered a pharmacy asking for medicine. When told it was unavailable, he didn’t complain or get upset. Instead, he did a somersault in the pharmacy and calmly walked out. The pharmacist called it the strangest reaction ever.

i bet foucault never had to apply for third-party funding

Psychiatrists held more negative stereotypes about schizophrenia & depression than the public. MH professionals accepted restrictions far less often & better recognized cases, but 1/4 psychiatrists and psychologists mislabeled healthy people as ill.