Psych Ward Reviews is Kit Mead’s “Yelp for Psych Wards,” a crowdsourced database of experiences and outcomes in psychiatric wards around North America. Crowdsources, but not crowdfunded. Mead has been doing this work on their own, and it’s time for that to change. Join me in supporting Psych Ward Reviews on Patreon. Here’s the origin…
Kit Mead wrote a new post late last week on ableism on the Left. The Left isn’t especially prone to ableism; rather, ableism is a society-wide phenomenon still in its early days of being discussed, understood, and countered through speech, action, and policy. We’re still having to prove ableism exists, that (in the words of…
Erik Loomis over at Lawyers, Guns, and Money recently emailed me this pdf of a 1975 article in which Garry Wills, the famous author, argued that George Wallace should be disqualified from running for president due to his “infirmity.” [Update: The great Rick Perlstein gave me the link to the Google News archive of the column,…
Late last week, The Guardian published a piece by the mother of an autistic boy with a clickbait headline that she’s afraid her 14-year-old son will kill her. You can Google the piece if you like. She describes a child who is prone to violence, mourns the lack of respite care, and claims to fear…