Ahana (she/her) 🏳️⚧️☀️🐰
Mad studies; anti-sanity theory; antisocial criticism; Foucault; Audre Lorde. Muscular Dystrophy/Autistic/ADHD/CPTSD/OCD/Borderline. writing/advocating for the liberation of people with personality disorders. proudly Mad & developmentally disabled
- in my essay, “Incongruence, Vulnerability, Courage: Imagining Personality Disorders Otherwise”, one might say i made concessions to naturalization. in my opinion, i make naturalization work against itself. i naturalize in such a way that it turns naturality against its own strategic aim.
- Reposted by Ahana (she/her) 🏳️⚧️☀️🐰centuries pass and still it sings. what a gift it is, how time flattens under the weight of a practiced voice. how irreplaceable
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- Reposted by Ahana (she/her) 🏳️⚧️☀️🐰Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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- Reposted by Ahana (she/her) 🏳️⚧️☀️🐰Gardner Symons (American, 1863-1930). Late Afternoon, Shelburne Falls (oil on canvas).
- Reposted by Ahana (she/her) 🏳️⚧️☀️🐰We don’t talk enough about Alfre Woodard’s performance in Star Trek: First Contact. Stunning. And among other things, brought out some of Patrick Stewart’s moments. He rarely had a partner who could meet his energy, but she did. 🖖🏽
- Reposted by Ahana (she/her) 🏳️⚧️☀️🐰Ray of evening light over Christmas Cove, Maine. Plein air watercolor from summer. #pleinairwatercolor #maine #watercolor #christmascove
- fun fact: my essay “Incongruence, Vulnerability, Courage: Imagining Personality Disorders Otherwise” is based on some of the basic philosophical insights of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
- Reposted by Ahana (she/her) 🏳️⚧️☀️🐰Forget-me-nots will soon be flowering in our garden making these two resident stone rabbits happy!
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- Reposted by Ahana (she/her) 🏳️⚧️☀️🐰A disabled man named Wael Tarabishi died last week after ICE abducted his father and full time caregiver. Wael begged for his dad’s release. He told ICE that losing his caregiver would kill him. His father didn’t even get to say goodbye and has been denied the right to attend the funeral.
- it really confuses me why all the theory that has been developed for disabled people suddenly stops when we get to people diagnosed with personality disorders. why is it when we talk about them our critical thought goes out the window and we are so content in disavowing them?
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- Reposted by Ahana (she/her) 🏳️⚧️☀️🐰Happy Tuesday! Today's sunrise was a study in texture and layers from the top sky all the way down to the reflecting sun on the frozen snow over the dunes, with a wave splash for good measure. Tap for full size, particularly because it's a vertical. I hope you have a great day!
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- Reposted by Ahana (she/her) 🏳️⚧️☀️🐰The best light shapes are seen from my rear view mirror. Especially on two lane highways or strip mall parking lots.
- i finished (again) my paper “Incongruence, Vulnerability, Courage: Imagining Personality Disorders Otherwise.” earlier i thought i was done but i just finished revising it again—i added 2000 more words. my next academic paper will be on the narrative functions of “personality disorder.”
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- i feel myself withdrawing from posting and messaging friends due to feelings of toxic shame and negative self-judgements so i’m doing opposite action and writing this post.
- Reposted by Ahana (she/her) 🏳️⚧️☀️🐰Pastel of Newnham Mill pond, Cambridge, with punts and the Granta pub. Note the ducks swimming through the water lilies in the foreground. #pastel #cambridge #newnham #punting
- Reposted by Ahana (she/her) 🏳️⚧️☀️🐰Another still life, this time featuring pelargoniums, a wooden lizard and a wooden bird with a long beak, poppy seedheads and autumn colours in the leaves outside the studio window. That old earthenware pot with twisty handles is a favourite. Oil on gessoed board, 2019. #oilpainting #stilllife
- Reposted by Ahana (she/her) 🏳️⚧️☀️🐰Full moonrise over Hew Harbor, Maine. Plein air watercolor from summer. #pleinairwatercolor #maine #moonrise #watercolor
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- Reposted by Ahana (she/her) 🏳️⚧️☀️🐰I think important to state for the record that Liam Ramos is a kiddo who is both a person and representative of every other kiddo who is at risk/detained no matter how old they are or how cute or small or "innocent" bc like some kids get into trouble. I got into trouble. we stand up for them all
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- Reposted by Ahana (she/her) 🏳️⚧️☀️🐰“Minnesota's nickname is the North Star State due to its motto "L'Etoile du Nord," which was adopted in 1861. Minnesota is the North Star State. ✨ Consider this fact whenever you're feeling despair at what's happening in our country right now. Follow our North Star.” - Mari Talkin
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[This post could not be retrieved] - the instrumental use of personality disorders to make sense of power is cowardly and projects what Audre Lorde calls ‘false security.’ an excerpt from my essay “Incongruence, Vulnerability, Courage: Imagining Personality Disorders Otherwise.”
- one of the people who socially murdered me distorted my work as only serving the objective of absolving myself of blame for my emotional behaviors. 1/2
- today has been a day of writing at the edge, out of survival, out of knowledge of the terror i face, out of knowledge of my own death. i have to be that woman—to do, to say, to inquire in the ways required of me to survive.
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- i 😍 sociopaths.
- i’m going to include a paragraph about narrative prosthesis in my paper on personality disorders.
- instead of assuming you know anything about people diagnosed with personality disorders, and using us as a narrative prosthesis as synonyms and metonyms for power and evil, instead of assuming you have any power to utter our wounds, educate yourself, diminish your representational power over us.
- Mad pride that combats the world has never been more essential. Mad pride that antagonizes the antagonism has never been more essential. Mad pride that insists on the unqualified dignity of madness has never been more essential when everywhere we are being killed & incarcerated, abused & destroyed.
- Reposted by Ahana (she/her) 🏳️⚧️☀️🐰Twin Cities rapid responders have set up a "filter blockade" at 34th and Cedar and are calling for volunteers and donations. This is a new tactic developing over the last week: community is allowed to pass, but ICE agents are stopped/slowed before they can terrorize our neighbors.
- the absence of mass political resistance, anathema to the normative american citizen since the beginning of neoliberalism, provided the lead up to this moment. the pacification of large-scale mobilization along with the intensification of local resistance to subjection led to this moment.
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- i realize acceptance of people diagnosed with personality disorders can’t be unconditional—no acceptance is unconditional (thus why acceptance into the dominant regime isn’t my political goal). while acceptance isn’t unconditional, it shouldn’t be contingent on a social demand. both are conflated.
- i haven’t been fawning as much as i used to. yesterday i dipped back into my fawning routine (at least i was able to notice & name it—i used to be totally unaware of it). i need to continue to develop a stronger sense of self & recognize my differentiation from others & not cognitively fuse to them.
- what are your favorite poetry accounts?
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- Reposted by Ahana (she/her) 🏳️⚧️☀️🐰In 2023, CBP killed a young Black girl that they imprisoned by incarcerating her and failing to provide the needed medical care for her sickle cell anemia You cannot reform this apparatus which kills people no matter which party is in charge Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez, who was 8 years old
- Reposted by Ahana (she/her) 🏳️⚧️☀️🐰Ashé Ashé Ashé. And so many others… Charlotta Bass survielled and harassed by the FBI for her reporting, A Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen arrested for writing an editorial that Black men should resist the draft. It is why I write that Black journalists are canaries in the coal mine in my book
- Reposted by Ahana (she/her) 🏳️⚧️☀️🐰I have recently been informed that the motto of the USS Athena, the campus of Starfleet Academy, is "wisdom begins in wonder" and I am having a moment.
- Reposted by Ahana (she/her) 🏳️⚧️☀️🐰It makes you sound crazy to say this out loud, but it's becoming increasingly clear that the United States government has been effectively toppled by a group of overt pedophiles
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- Reposted by Ahana (she/her) 🏳️⚧️☀️🐰Correct. Homan saying “in theater” says it all — they view themselves as at war with other Americans
- Four questions on personality disorders Is it ethical to draw a line beyond which suffering becomes unintelligible to our notions of care? 1/4
- Reposted by Ahana (she/her) 🏳️⚧️☀️🐰Here's an opportunity to support the other journalist arrested today; Georgia Fort, who will have far fewer resources available to her than Don Lemon.
- Georgia Fort's is chilling, and it's being overshadowed by the equally chilling arrest of Don Lemon. A GoFundMe is being set up for Fort. In the meantime, you can support her work directly – without paying massive fundraising platform fees – through her website: www.georgiafort.com/support
- Reposted by Ahana (she/her) 🏳️⚧️☀️🐰Children raped and killed. American citizens shot in the street. Immigrants illegally shackled, tortured, killed. Journalists arrested. While a $300 million ballroom is constructed and a trash documentary released.
- Reposted by Ahana (she/her) 🏳️⚧️☀️🐰On a night of life-threatening cold, a homeless person entered a Lansing bus station seeking refuge from the freezing temperatures. Video shows police slamming them to the ground and pinning them with knees on their neck as they plead, "I'm here because it's cold outside, and I have nowhere to go."
- Reposted by Ahana (she/her) 🏳️⚧️☀️🐰My 7yo daughter’s best friends’ family fled the country a few weeks ago. Today she came home with a drawing of her and another friend blowing whistles at ICE agents. “We’re blowing the whistles and so ICE will go away and our friends can come back,” she said. I started sobbing uncontrollably.
- it’s been hard to get to a point of nuance and complexity in my thinking on personality disorders—it still has room to deepen, complexify, and refine. i started off absolutist, produced by the reality of only having in possession a radical ethical commitment with no critical substance yet.
- Reposted by Ahana (she/her) 🏳️⚧️☀️🐰I think it's rather sad that people are describing the ICE murders as "people are being killed by their own government", as though that were somehow unusual. The majority of murders are committed by people known to the victims (relatives, neighbors, etc), but of the people killed by strangers...
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- i was a history & anthropology major—now i’m writing about PD liberation. i still use the skills i learned in my classes. my methodology is historiographical, heavily trained in the historiographical method in college. i did two research fellowships & wrote two full 30pg+ historiographical papers.
- Five classes i took in school: Theories of Culture Race and Racism in American Science and Medicine Seminar on Historiography History of Medieval India Work and Family in Modern Europe
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- Reposted by Ahana (she/her) 🏳️⚧️☀️🐰We live in a world where a convicted child rapist and sex trafficker is treated better in prison than the children who’ve been detained by ICE. Ghislaine Maxwell gets to be in a cushy minimum security facility … 5 year old Liam Ramos is locked up in a camp where kids are screaming “let us out”.
