Thread by @tamar_whyte

@kateneuropsych @kawaiilovesarah @viscidula @SaferAcademia @DisabledAcadem @DisInHigherEd The panel is balanced between people of colour and White People. As a Mixed Race woman, I’ve seen mental health devastate my family members and seen the intersectional mix of saneism and racism in diagnosis and treatment. Saneism is a real thing. It needs a name, a word. >

@kateneuropsych @kawaiilovesarah @viscidula @SaferAcademia @DisabledAcadem @DisInHigherEd > The cruelty of saneism is something I’ve experienced first hand, it has devastated my career as a Lived Experience Professional #LXP. For the very few colleagues of colour who experience both saneism and racism, the experience can be even worse. It is so important to the >

@kateneuropsych @kawaiilovesarah @viscidula @SaferAcademia @DisabledAcadem @DisInHigherEd > #MadCommunity including end ESPECIALLY our more vulnerable Black & Brown comrades that saneism is recognised. I pass as White and got a typical White girl diagnosis in my 20s. My brown brother has had police called and handcuff him when he has been in distress. My Uncle has >

@kateneuropsych @kawaiilovesarah @viscidula @SaferAcademia @DisabledAcadem @DisInHigherEd > been sectioned, as many Black men are disproportionately sectioned. We can also face saneism within our own communities. We can be left isolated. That is saneism. It needs a word. Please don’t take our language for this. It is something we are developing and understanding. >

@kateneuropsych @kawaiilovesarah @viscidula @SaferAcademia @DisabledAcadem @DisInHigherEd > Discrimination and civil rights have been championed by the Black Community, people in the LGBTQ community. You are leading lights in the fight for equality and in disability we are far, far behind. In Mental Health, we are even further behind. Our Mad Academic Studies have to>

@kateneuropsych @kawaiilovesarah @viscidula @SaferAcademia @DisabledAcadem @DisInHigherEd > draw on the academic literature and examples available on discrimination and this has been founded & populated by academics in Black & LGBTQ academics. The psychology of discrimination is something that is is universal and the wheel has already been identified and debated >

@kateneuropsych @kawaiilovesarah @viscidula @SaferAcademia @DisabledAcadem @DisInHigherEd > we are still learning, but saneism is a real thing. It needs its own name, because it is specific in its own right, even within disability. This includes and particularly applies to Black & Brown comrades, and it cannot be purely explained by racism. I don’t have enough words >

@kateneuropsych @kawaiilovesarah @viscidula @SaferAcademia @DisabledAcadem @DisInHigherEd > or energy to explain the devastating impact this has had on me and many, many other people I know. People die. It is a serious and heartbreaking issue. This isn’t about appropriating racism, it’s about needing to name a horrific form of discrimination that had no name before.

@kateneuropsych @kawaiilovesarah @viscidula @SaferAcademia @DisabledAcadem @DisInHigherEd @threadreaderapp please unroll