#nonacademic

[grelleswife]

New visual for the Kuroshitsuji 2024 collaboration café!

Plus some closeups taken by yours truly (apologies for the deplorable quality; my editing skills are borderline nonexistent 😅):

It will be open from September 14th, 2024 to October 14th, 2024 in Ikebukuro/Dotonbori/Nagoya and from September 25th, 2024 to October 14th, 2024 in Fukuoka/Sendai.

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[yelenadelova]

i am aware Suzanne Collins will likely never write a Finnick Odair novel so I have taken it upon myself to do it myself with fic

*insert thanos "fine, ill do it myself" meme here*

[antisisyphus]

i really love seing stupid discourse where the clear answer is 'both are true. simultaniously'

[sergeantnarwhalwrites]

I wanna draw. *my school work about to manifest into a person just so it can kick my ass*

[dongiovannitriumphant]

honks my little clown shoes all the way back to the uk

[federicafaccin]

🌪️*probably unnecessary statement*, but in case you wonder: I usually tend to draw a lot of female nudes, so I wanted to resume some non-academic male nude drawings. 🖌️ . . . . . . 2021, mixed media, original sizes: 13 x 20,5 cm.

[aswaki]

wait you’re not done with school in may??

our academic year ends next month!! which is torture bc i want everything to end already but i also need more time to finish everything 😔☝🏼

[explainslowly]

Phallic astronomical clock... They put a condom over it for the winter...

Every now and then I mention something about the city of Brno to my american friends and it often causes much confusion/concern, so I wanna try to make a list summary of Everything Wrong With Brno

imma start

there is a place called Hell

there is a public transport stop called Crematorium, it is named after the nearby crematorium

it is oddly easy to take the wrong tram and accidentally end up at the Crematorium

the crematorium looks like this

add more

[queercripintersex]

Crip and Cripple are different words

So this might be opening up a CAN OF WORMS but as a physically disabled person I just wanna throw out a clarification that I personally think is useful to have explicitly articulated. These two words are DIFFERENT:

Crip: a reference to crip theory and its friends. Refers to ALL disabilities (not just mobility/physical). Similar to queer, it's a way of seeing the world: disability is socially constructed, fuck eugenics, fuck capitalism, fuck colonialism, being disabled means you HAVE to be creative to navigate a world not built for you, disabled people are the OG makers/hackers, and so on. "Crip" is used as a verb to apply to this way of seeing the world to analyse different facets of society (e.g. cripping the arts, crip technoscience). Seen in academic terms like cripistemology and eco-crip theory but also nonacademic contexts like krip-hop and crip time.

Cripple: refers to physically disabled people ONLY. Seen in terms like cripplepunk, which is exclusive to physical disabilities. (Punks with other disabilities are encouraged to use other terms like dyspunktional.)

Yes, "crip" was coined as a shortening of "cripple". Yes, they are both reclamations of the same slur. But I think it is productive for us to understand these two words as distinct, and to be mindful of the difference.

Crip at this point has a very well established usage that is pan-disability, while at the same time we physically disabled we need space to talk about cripple-specific stuff.

I hope this clarification is helpful! I know the two words sound similar and share a root but I think it's a nuance that matters. <3

[genderfluid-and-confuzled]

reynie getting a phd.

reynie in grad school...... i think he would have so much fun. reynie getting a phd in some weirdo bullshit....

[trans-axolotl]

Hi! I'm trying to find some good antipsych resources for my younger brother. Ze's been passionate about a lot of related stuff for a while due to zir own experiences with psychiatry and I want to encourage zir but ze's only 16 and has never read the kind of complex or academic stuff that a lot of antipsych writing I've seen is. Can you recommend anything? Especially if it overlaps with youth liberation.

Hi anon! I'm mostly going to link resources that are more about the politics/principles/history of psych abolition/antipsychiatry rather then antipsych resources for coping with madness, but let me know if it would also be helpful to have those kind of resources.

content notes: a lot of these materials talk directly about psychiatric abuse, incarceration, suicide, and self harm.

Articles/Zines:

There is no abolition without anti-psychiatry by the Campaign for Psych Abolition

Myths of Psychiatric Incarceration by @ embracingambiguity (insta)

Belief in Psychotherapy by Kai Cheng Thom

Myth of Mental Health by Kai Cheng Thom

Mental Patients Liberation Front newsletter 1987

Abolition Must Include Psychiatry by Stella Akua Mensah

Psychiatry's Role in the Occupation of Palestine by Campaign for Psych Abolition

Sentenced to Trauma: Inside the volatility and disorder of prison by Carla J Simmons

Camille Moran Papers

Girls do what they have to do to survive by YWEP

Madness and Oppression by the Icarus Project

Asylum Magazine

Madness Network News

Books:

Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health by Micha Frazer-Carroll

here's the link to my full drive of psych abolition resources sorted by topic as well.

if followers have nonacademic antipsych resources to add on, please do!

[piosplayhouse]

Read some genuine and serious published and peer reviewed yaoi research the other day that was interesting but that I had a few criticisms of due to its position that yaoi is desirous to assumedly heterosexual women particularly because it presents an unattainable fantasy of sex that has zero risk or intent to reproduce. However while I understand where this is coming from I'm calling BS because what about the massive amounts of mpreg and omegaverse??

Because of this I am curious if any of you would be interested in a completely nonacademic informal survey on if/why mpreg/reproductive yaoi (technicality in that the guy doesn't actually have to get pregnant just have the capability to ig) interests you on a self-reflective level. Beyond because it's hot to get guys pregnant we know that already but if you have anything to extrapolate on the psychology of it I would be fascinated to know. Anyway I would probably make an anonymous Google form with a few free response questions for you all to type your deep thoughts on reproductive-centered yaoi if you would be interested-- there would probably be no crunchy data and I won't share anyone's answers unless they specifically want them to be shared. I'm just genuinely curious and would like to hear a variety of perspectives from a variety of backgrounds : )

[academicfever]

5/100 Days of Productivity! Really terrible start of the day... woke up with a headache and nightmare... But let's turn it around ... Productivity is progress, not perfection.

📝 9th Dec '24 - Log:

🎧 Happiness is a Butterfly – Lana Del Rey

#meds+hydrate+eat mindfully

#journal+mental health check

#declutter both digital and physical

#long walk+fresh air

#call home – with love and understanding

#read 30 pages of nonacademic book

#race wrap-up

#Skim through 177 papers +note taking

[magnetictapedatastorage]

i love nonacademic feminism. "men are trash and we should kill all of em" [wild applause]

[chronicbitchsyndrome]

i feel like before you complain about how "former gifted kids are always acting like they're oppressed because everyone doesn't treat them like they're special anymore," i think you should probably try to understand the common timeline that a kid getting funneled into the gifted program follows.

usually, a child starts getting funneled into gifted tracks around preschool-to-kindergarten. typically, what will happen is a kid will show socially unusual interest in and affinity for a basic life skill that also happens to be taught in school--usually either verbality, reading/writing, understanding and manipulating shapes, or basic numerical concepts, or some combination of the above. they might start talking fairly early, for example, or start reading complete sentences earlier than their peers, or show a lot of unusual interest in basic arithmetic. they might get IQ tested, they might not; this is pretty irrelevant because IQ both has almost no correlation with any measure of "intelligence" other than the IQ test itself, and is an extremely poor predictor of academic success.

based on this, the parents are encouraged to push this child into academic settings earlier and at a faster pace than their peers. once in grade school, they'll be funneled into the gifted track. often, they'll have to "test in" to the gifted track, but they tend to weight what the kid is showing an affinity for the most when "testing in." what the gifted track looks like is different for every school, but generally the common factors are more work, assigned at a faster pace, and dealing with concepts that their "typical" peers are not taught until a year or more later.

this is where the most common timeline becomes important, and diverges from what i think a lot of people's perceptions of gifted kids are. the kid fails. the kid does not have some kind of magical universal affinity for every aspect of academia. in fact, the kid has, in the context of their neurotypical peers setting the standard by which they have to live up to, significant deficits in areas other than the one they showed interest in at a young age. for example, maybe they started reading incredibly early, but once they get to grade school, they start failing every math test. they write numbers backwards and copy them from the board in the wrong order. they get basic arithmetic wrong.

here's the thing: the gifted kid program accidentally self-selects for developmentally disabled children with academic splinter skills. splinter skills are incredibly common in people with developmental disabilities; frequently, they don't get perceived as such because they're very often completely nonacademic (and may not be perceived as a "skill" at all, particularly in the context of more profound developmental disabilities--someone learning to use AAC very quickly, for example, is still perceived as a deficit no matter how quickly they do it, instead of a skill in developing communication methods with significantly less support and interaction than those who learn to communicate verbally). developmentally disabled people with academic splinter skills are significantly more common than abled people with an uncommon affinity for all areas of academia, or abled people with splinter skills.

once a kid starts failing, generally the timeline splits off into two possibilities, mostly dependent on how supportive their parents are, how well-funded their school is, and what psychiatric resources are available in their area of the country. option one is that they just keep failing, and get punished more and more violently over time for their perceived "stubbornness." they are perceived as obviously capable of doing the work the gifted program is assigning them, since they were tracked into the gifted program to begin with, and their grades in this other specific subject are stellar, so obviously they're just lazy and need to be whipped into shape via punishment.

the other option is that the kid's developmental disability is clocked by a teacher or counselor, or even their parents, and enough strings are pulled to get them evaluated by a school psychologist. then, they'll get dual-tracked into the gifted program and the special ed program, with classes divided along where their splinter skills and deficits lie. the special ed program is not actually a good place for disabled children and is incredibly traumatizing to be in.

either way, they come out of school with a significant amount of trauma. legitimate trauma. from being a disabled person in the public education system, which fucking sucks and is an awful experience i wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.

[birdbrainstudies]

re-introduction

hi everyone! it's been a couple of years since i've been active in the studyblr community (like. i was a first year in undergrad) and i wanted to rejoin the community!

about me: my name is shef (she/her), i am a second-year phd student in engineering! also im desi

academic interests: my research area is broadly applied probability, more specifically stochastic processes

nonacademic interests: a lot of stuff! i like birding, embroidery, improv, and tactics/deckbuilding videogames. media wise i have been having a teeny little percy jackson renaissance b/c of the release of the tv show ^^

what you can expect: will post some original ~aesthetic~ study/journaling content, reblog lots of research-oriented tips/masterposts

looking for: if you are a phd student studyblr or honestly just an active studyblr please let me know! i am looking to follow a ton more people now that I'm back. would be forever indebted to you if you would reblog this