Status Updates From Disquieting: Essays on Silence

She doesn’t seem to reference what women have said wrt refusal/silence as a type of power which I think is kind of weird. Trinh T Min-ha is an obvious connection that wasn’t made.

Excellent work - Essays on Silence, hugely powerful in the psychotherapy context. Silence as a response to attacks on class, gender, sexuality. The ultimate negation, the ultimate NO!

Really love her essay that opens with how the mentally ill are trained to talk of our feelings and experiences in a psychiatrically approved way to appease mental health professionals. It's spot on. If you appear to lack "insight" you run the risk of being labeled a problem patient, being hospitalized, or being talked or forced into undergoing adventurous med changes.