1) @Keirwales is the ultimate Marmite Man. You love him or hate him. But put that aside. He’s doing a brave thing. Speaking about how he raised a concern about harm to SUs. Instead of investigating the complaint, he was investigated. > #RCOTCassonrcot.co.uk/2023-elizabeth…
2) The story of being punished when raising concerns will be familiar to many of us. The lecture’s theme is ‘Nothing Flourishes in a Toxic Environment’. Keir is a white cis educated man who took a stand to avoid harm to vulnerable people. How do people from already marginalised >
3) groups feel when they are in a similar situation? Staff are either silenced, or forced out. It is a really important discussion to have as it impacts on everyone, whether you are an OT or not. @Keirwales now works with the formidable @HoppyPelican, who also has her own story >
4) on how extremely hostile working environments in the NHS can be towards #LXPs. It was Hollie who made me stand up, because harm doesn’t fly. Neither did the harm that followed to me. Both have been brave to speak about it, more of us need to, despite the real efforts to >
5) impose silence and the status quo. We have to be allowed to identify & work with toxic environments rather than be shut down or pushed out. There is stigma in speaking out, even once you have left a workplace. Major props to @Keirwales & I recommend his lecture. #RCOTCasson
1/ I loved yesterday’s panel talk on #Sanism with @viscidula@liminal67@climateshlock et al. We finished by discussing internalised Sanism & how this impacts each of us as individuals & as activists. Nothing hurts like fellow activists tearing you down or bullying you. Part of >
2/ the discussion included #AntiBlack & #Intersectional#Sanism. Why don’t we see people of colour in mainstream MH activism? Because if you don’t feel welcome & you have enough on your plate, why come back to services where you were treated badly? What about if your >
3/ experience is different to other ppl? If the generic pale skinned ‘articulate’ activists savage each other when their positions & perspectives are different, what the hell happens to the most marginalised groups? You don’t see them for dust. They’re marginalised, not stupid >
@DonahueRogers@BeresfordPeter@de_jever@Fixed_that_4_U What I don’t understand is that people of colour and ACTUAL JEWS were kicked out of the party for anti-semitism. It makes a mockery of actual anti-semitism which is a disgusting thing. It should also be questioned why marginalised minorities were kicked out of the party by >
@DonahueRogers@BeresfordPeter@de_jever@Fixed_that_4_U >mainly White men & why Jewish voices outside of the party weren’t taken into consideration. The booting out of minorities & Jewish ppl whose politics did not align to those of ppl who were against left-side politics was not ok, nor was conflating anti-semitism with anti-Israeli>
@DonahueRogers@BeresfordPeter@de_jever@Fixed_that_4_U > war views because many Jewish ppl do not support this and they should be allowed this view without being called ‘anti-semites’. It is disgusting that one Jewish person had parents who had been in a concentration camp and yet she was thrown out and labelled an ‘anti-semite’ >
@JerrySoucyRN@jade_w08 Agree with @JerrySoucyRN. Think about ‘colourful hair’ = difference. Black hair is a huge political issue. Kids get sent home for traditional afros or Black hairstyles being viewed as inappropriate. Same at work, people being told they are ‘unprofessional’. The professional >
@JerrySoucyRN@jade_w08 > hairstyles are often viewed as relaxed, closer to Caucasian type hair or short enough to hide the hair as much as possible, especially on men. The different colour uniforms denote hierarchy and power level and they are worn by more Black people at lower Bands and less as you >
@JerrySoucyRN@jade_w08 > go up the hierarchy. This is why the WRES survey has been brought out, to capture this and record it as fact. The issue is the culture - the top level nurses @JerrySoucyRN showed we’re all blonde White women. Why not have people who think differently - be that from a cultural >
@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 >
1) I always say I’ve worked as an LXP since 2010. But I forget the work before, my arts practice, focussing on the extremes of emotional pain, mental distress, the way others treated & viewed it. It was activism & narrative from within, naive in a true isolated, outsider sense. >
2) I connected with others in darker corners in darker places from 2005 when I was labelled and our labels connected us and helped us find each other and find comfort in sharing our dark places. Recovery wasn’t our language. When you are chronically in pain, sometimes you need >
3) other ways of relieving that pain when medication doesn’t work. Sometimes the pain is a purging to clear something terrible that is blocked. We didn’t understand our treatment from services was poor and that there were other ways we could have been helped. >