Writing keeps the panic at bay. I'm working on a new essay, "No True Scotsmen: The Tragedy of Sysmedicalism in Plural Communities," exploring how we pathologize systems that don't fit the trauma model.

Here is a preview:

"One might have to consider if it could be possible for a consciousness to fail to integrate without trauma. TSDP can tell us a lot about the consciousness if there had been trauma. Without it? TSDP doesn’t say no. TSDP merely gives us a justified and unabashed shrug.

'I dunno, man. I’m friends with the crazy ones. Why, what you got?'

TSDP knows everything about the dude building their house on a fault line. It never really cared about the one who built all their micro homes in a valley meadow between two old, sturdy mountain ranges. It didn’t dislike the dude. It just thought the dude building on the fault line was way more interesting.

No one calls 911 when a house doesn’t collapse."

Right now, in the physical world, I am trying to make the best of things. I am waiting on my license so I can work, but until then, I am stuck in a financial valley without supplies.

I received a kind donation of $20 today, but I am still critically short for groceries and basic survival while I wait for the state board to do their job. If you value the work I do and the words I write, please help me stay standing.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/ellis-emergency-fund

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