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I am really surprised & honored to announce that I’ve been named LBGTQ Advocate of the Year by @OutReachLGBT, Madison’s LBGTQ Community Center.
I’ve only been in Madison for 2 years, but I’ve orked hard w/ my political collective to move our city toward a cop-free Pride & to educate white queer folks about racism via my #DearQueerWhitePeople column in @OurLivesMadison magazine.
It means a lot to be recognized for this work & to know that perhaps it’s actually creating some change at the local level. I know not everyone here is a fan of me or the changes I want to see, but I believe in the work & the #MadisonWI queer community. Thanks yall.
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The idea that we won’t need mental healthcare when we “fix society” is anti-revolutionary & ableist. You think disabled folks won’t exist in your post-liberation world? You think people will not still experience grief, loss, or heartbreak & need support to get through it? 🙄
Again mental healthcare includes things like support groups, pharmaceuticals, community support, as well as more traditional counseling & therapy.
Our inability to image mental healthcare outside of oppression & the capitalist medical industrial complex is part of the problem. We need healers & healthcare workers who can envision radically different futures and help us build toward it.
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Say it with me friends: Everyone should be in therapy. Everyone. Including you. Yes, you. You should be in therapy.*

*In an ideal world we all have access to quality, culturally-attuned, affordable mental health services.
Therapy can mean one-on-one psychotherapy or counseling, it can mean support groups, it can mean pharmaceutical assistance... What I’m saying is we all need mental health care. Therapy isn’t just lying on a couch sharing your dreams with a white guy with a notepad.
Again, I’m not saying everyone should get into therapy now even if you don’t have access to quality care. What I’m saying is we all, ALL OF US, need this kind of care & I want to live in a world where anti-racist, anti-sexist, queer & trans friendly, anti-ableist therapy exists.
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White disabled people really need to stop with hot takes on representations of disabled people of color that don’t even MENTION race (see below). #disabledbutnotreally #disabilitytoowhite

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Instead check out @VilissaThompson ‘s read of the episode:
Or @TAPPhD’s:
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