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Toyen (Marie Čermínová) (Czech, 1902-1980), Mythe de la lumière [Myth of Light], 1946. Oil on canvas_160 x 75 cm. Moderna Museet, Stockholm

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Yule cat on the prowl 😌

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The Fourth of December 2024 (After Goya), Kristofferson San Pablo

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"No Face, No Case"

Graphic by El Rughi

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fresh cut

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…psychiatry assumes that society does not cause distress in biologically normal people, who are considered biologically normal at least in part because they are economically productive. This assumption permits the conclusion that if a person is distressed to the point of unproductivity, it is because that person—not society—is abnormal. Thus, psychiatry’s commitment to biological essentialism not only masks the role of the constructed sociopolitical environment in creating distress but depoliticizes it by characterizing that allegedly irrational distress as induced by biological abnormality.

– Kiera Lyons, “The Neurodiversity Paradigm and Abolition of Psychiatric Incarceration” (2023)

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IN THE DARK TIMES, WILL THERE ALSO BE SINGING?

from Lady Chatterley's Lover, D.H. Lawrence (via)

“Grief will come to you. Grip and cling all you want, It makes no difference. Catastrophe? It’s just waiting to happen. Loss? You can be certain of it. Flow and swirl of the world. Carried along as if by a dark current. All you can do is keep swimming; All you can do is keep singing.”

from How Beautiful the Beloved, Gregory Orr (via)

Lev St. Valentine (via)

letter to Gustave Flaubert, 27 June 1870, George Sand

from Collected Poems; Horses at Midnight Without a Moon, Jack Gilbert (via)

from On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong (via)

Snow and Dirty Rain, Richard Siken (via)

YES, THERE WILL ALSO BE SINGING. ABOUT THE DARK TIMES.

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she wanders the woods with moss in her pockets and secrets in her smile.

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Dianne Dengel (American,1939-2012)

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St. Dymphna (patron saint of mental illness) by me

More art at www.leewaycat.com

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Barrier

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"Mill Town" tapestry by Tabitha Arnold about the 1934 textile strike in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Photographed by Tori Vintzel at Peerless Woolen Mill in Rossville, GA.

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Antti Laitinen, 2D Tree (3), 2017.

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Utterly Relaxed Leopard

Photographer: Irene Nathanson

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