#social prescription

[anastasiaoftheironwood]

"For more than a decade, the French city of Lille’s Palais des Beaux-Arts — which was inaugurated in 1892 and is home to France’s second largest collection behind only the Louvre — has deployed a kind of “museo-therapy” that uses the museum space and the treasures held within it to help treat patients from local hospitals.

But in September 2023, this initiative became a little more formal when it signed an agreement with the University Hospital Center of Lille (CHU) to offer 140 museum art therapy sessions over a year to patients who have been given a “museum prescription” by doctors, making it one of the most significant programs of its kind in the world.

The idea of a museum prescription, which fits under an umbrella of out-of-hospital, nonclinical treatment known as social prescribing, is that exposure to art and culture or history can complement, accelerate or potentially even displace some forms of medical care in traditional settings — in an effective, enjoyable and low-cost manner.

Further afield, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has worked with the Francophone Doctors of Canada association since 2018 to offer a form of museum prescriptions, albeit without Lille’s art therapy aspect. In Brussels, Belgium, doctors in one of the city’s largest hospitals have been prescribing museum visits to patients suffering from depression, stress and anxiety since 2022 — and this year that expanded to 18 “medical structures” and 13 museums in the city. Singapore has run an Arts for Healing Program connecting patients with offerings at local music schools and community gardens since 2021. The newly formed advocacy group Social Prescribing USA aims to make social prescribing available to every American by 2035, building on projects already running in Massachusetts and New Jersey."

[dailyriolu]

A silly guide on how I draw normal Riolu vs My sona

[thesilveregg]

Prime Sonic is sonic before adderall, frontiers sonic is sonic after adderall, every other game is what happens when he forgets to take it

[mortimer]

if youre wondering what criteria i use to decide to tag/categorize something as either painting or illustration, the answer is that it's almost completely arbitrary

[ohiomedicareplansposts]

[tankgotstuckinthecircusgate]

1934 leo's wife + some lyrics that i associate w her bc i feel like postin it

"my friend" My friend turned out to be stronger than me He quit smoking, and I sometimes Let myself sneak around like a thief I like the smell, I like the meaning And it's fall in the city, or rather November with its metallic sky And it's so heavy it makes me want to cry Especially in the evening with the rain

My friend turned out to be stronger than me He doesn't drink anymore and goes to boxing I make a hundred excuses for myself And I often get upset over nothing And life is like a river that flows and doesn't ask me If I want to swim or if I need to go to the shore But I think less about my mom And more about my plans for next year

My friend has lost his mind and shot himself

"special reason"

Till the hand remembers, the brass knuckle shaking at the temple The slanting board is calling I'm at the peephole Under the heel of the ceiling A convoy that has penetrated the cracks will seal the windows with grass We'll be led to the slaughter *The hero will cross himself and step into the bifurcated ranks Forward for the Motherland into battle And the wicked foes who didn't put on their boots will perish*

Who didn't say goodbye to themselves Who didn't kill themselves All will be led to the slaughter There's the special department, there's the special regime There's a special reason

*this is irony just to be clear

[haggishlyhagging]

English teachers assure us that Standard (white) English is the social sorter that determines who will rise in the social hierarchy and who will not, and they continue to use this claim to justify imposing white English on African-American speakers and other ethnic groups. But we know they lie. We know from our experience that Standard English is an excuse for denying those of us who aren't white, or men, or both access to wealth and social mobility. We know from our experience that white men, regardless of how they speak, can rise above us, however pitiful their intellectual prowess, however meager their linguistic resources. Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter, for example, both former presidents of the u.s., acquired tremendous political power and social prestige, yet both spoke "sub-standard" Southern dialects stereotypically associated with ignorance and bigotry. Shirley Chisholm, in contrast, an articulate presidential candidate known for her political integrity, was never considered a serious threat to male hegemony because of her sex and race. In spite of her command of Standard English, Chisholm didn't have the credentials to be president. She wasn't white, and she wasn't male.

If so many people know that Standard English is a lie, why haven't we risen up, exposed that linguistic hoax, and refused to go along with it? Because those responsible for our linguistic training have made us feel incompetent and powerless, forcing us to learn their false version of English and abandon our own social, ethnic, and regional dialects, using the promise of upward mobility to herd us into linguistic conformity.

The irony of my preceding discussion has probably not been lost to my readers. It is well-known that women excel in the study of prescriptive grammars. We learn those false rules much faster than our male peers, and we learn them well. In Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin (1921), the Danish linguist Otto Jespersen observed: "Woman is linguistically quicker than man: quicker to learn, quicker to hear, and quicker to answer." If we are more articulate than men, men are linguistically slower than women. Granting this, however, Jespersen didn't hesitate to turn men's inferiority into a plus for them!

A man is slower: he hesitates, he chews the cud to make sure of the taste of words, and thereby comes to discover similarities with and differences from other words, both in sound and sense, thus preparing himself for the appropriate use of the fittest noun or adjective. (249)

There's no way we can win the patriarchal grammar game. Women may be fast learners, for example, but men, because they are slow, remain linguistically dominant. The social construction of sex differences supports male dominance, and our well-attested linguistic superiority becomes yet another bit of evidence of our "inferiority."

Men have used our alleged linguistic conservatism against us—in other words, our ability to use the rules of languages they've developed—at least since Cicero, who, describing his mother-in-law's speech, said, "It is more natural for women to keep the old language uncorrupted" (Jespersen 242). Jespersen, less certain that women are more resistant to linguistic change than men, nevertheless claimed that

[w]omen move preferably in the central field of language, avoiding everything that is out of the way or bizarre, while men will often either coin new words or expressions or take up old-fashioned ones, if by that means they are enabled, or think they are enabled, to find a more adequate or precise expression for their thoughts. Woman as a rule follows the main road of language, where man is often inclined to turn aside into a narrow footpath or even to strike out a new path for himself. (248)

By this clever turn, the linguistic abilities of women are made a fault and we are stripped of our linguistic creativity by the conceptual dipsy-doodles of male logic. If women speak Standard English, we're unimaginative and stupid. If we don't, we're sluts as well. Male ineptitude becomes, as usual, a virtue.

Women are so good at prescriptive grammar that we enter college, major in English Education, and go out into the public schools to perpetuate "good English" as male grammarians have formulated it. For learning men's rules better than they, female English teachers have been caricatured by male linguists as the stereotype of linguistic evil, "Miss Fidditch." Miss Fidditch, according to male linguists, is responsible for stifling the linguistic "creativity" of generations of little boys. It's mean Miss Fidditch who coerces and browbeats them into learning the rules of prescriptive grammar, fails them for misspelling words, chastises them for saying "ain't," and makes their lives miserable because she polices their use of English. Not only are we not rich or powerful because of our control of Standard English, but men ridicule and make us culpable for our complicity in perpetuating and enforcing the rules that keep us "in our place"! In what Mary Daly calls a "patriarchal reversal," men make women responsible for the "rules" of prescriptive grammar, as though we made up the rules, viciously ridicule us for practicing and teaching the rules, and whine about how hard we make their lives!

Trying to follow the twists and turns of male thought is confusing. One fact, however, stands out from their contradictions: the reality of male power. That, and their determination to exercise it at any cost, including extermination of the species.

-Julia Penelope, Speaking Freely: Unlearning the Lies of the Fathers’ Tongues

[dogwhizzer]

falsettos characters ranked by what they call weed and how much they partake

[tanadrin]

dysphoria is a kind of neurosis so what are you even talking about?

dysphoria and neurosis are, as far as i can tell, entirely unrelated concepts. neurosis is repressed anxiety. in the casual/metaphorical/pejorative usage i was employing, it's often used to describe anything people are weirdly anxious or obsessive about, especially if they refuse to acknowledge that they're behaving weirdly.

dysphoria is simply the opposite of euphoria; it's an extremely generic concept, which is why as a symptom things described as "dysphoria" show up in the description of everything from dissociative disorders to depression to stress to feeling sad when you lactate. "gender dysphoria" (which i assume is what you meant specifically?) is just a fancy medical way of saying you feel bad about your gender, because in order to access certain kinds of medical interventions in our society we have to medicalize internal states in a way that makes them legible to preexisting bureaucracies. that could include repressed anxiety, but most people who have gender dysphoria are pretty intensely aware of their gender dysphoria. so neurosis is a pretty terrible model for describing what it's like if you want to understand it.

[autisticlilith]

on the subject of "being yourself" as something you have to actively choose to do. i think this is genuinely where conservative views on identity fall into a horrible trap. if you believe that "identity" is some innate, essential quality that you're born with, then the idea that people can just start using a different label/name/pronouns seems ridiculous if not outright scary. but if you see people as constantly changing and growing, then an identity is just the sum of a person's individual experiences and choices. and if what you're doing doesn't work for you then you can just choose to do something else, and it really is that easy.

[cliveguy]

trans person who lives somewhere where you can get a hrt prescription in under a month through a walk-in clinic: the biggest issue facing trans people today is this take i saw from a 20 y/o on twitter

[rjavenuru]

party selfies.

[valiantlycleverinfluencer]

I hate Doug ford so much.

[phasianoidea]

finally planning on going on t soon 💖 just have to set up a doctor appointment….

[heliianth]

the dark evil wizards have afflicted me with a hyperspecific interpretation of killuas "moral conflict" which leaves a lot of fan content that tries to engage with it unsatisfying. a wicked and foul hex indeed

[muckyschmuck]

i REALLY LOVE the way T makes me feel but i might have to hop off for a bit as a social experiment