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RamenCatholic 🐢🌈Sep 28, 2024

https://reactormag.com/spill-cory-doctorow
makes me feel seen in my fears

> Aniyah wasn’t a provocateur. The reason she was so erratic was that she was bipolar, with long-standing, untreated mental-health complications. She’d been uninsured most of her life and in those rare moments when she’d gotten insurance, her doctors were more interested in drugging her senseless than they were in getting her counseling and helping her learn coping skills.

> Activism wasn’t just a way for Aniyah to live her principles,...

Spill - Reactor

In a new Little Brother novella, there is no security in obscurity. But there can be redemption in mutual aid.

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RamenCatholic 🐢🌈Sep 28, 2024

> ... it was a way to cross that vast canyon that separated her from her family and all the people she’d grown up with, a way to regulate her moods and intrusive thoughts by using other people as sounding boards and brakes on her runaway thoughts. All that weird, belligerent stuff that she said to us? It had been 10 percent of the thoughts that wouldn’t stop circling around and around her mind, and she used us to slow them down and make them quiet enough that she could hear herself think.

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RamenCatholic 🐢🌈Sep 28, 2024

Thoughts on the quote above:

One of the reasons I've been hesitant to engage in direct action is because of my mental health issues - I'm terrified of being mistaken for a Bad Faith actor.

I love Mastodon because I've found a social network where I can be bat-shit crazy & still feel support. Thanks, friends!

And thanks, @pluralistic - I promise I'm not tryna be a creepy stalker or converting you to my cult.

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RamenCatholic 🐢🌈

Ok, no spoilers friends, but the ending is something that #Quakerpunk folk would do.

Also I've started an email account for that whole concept: [email protected] if anyone wants to get involved or whatever. I'm still working on that 'zine & will probably reach out looking for submissions & logistical help.