Beatrice Adler-Bolton

Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 11:02 UTC

In our latest, @msjamshidi.bsky.social returns to walk us through multiple bills and amendments being debated in Congress that go to great lengths to strengthen the security state’s ability to target pro-Palestine speech and action

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 22:54 UTC

if you want to learn about the Wehda Street massacre in Gaza 2021 Mondoweiss has great coverage of the escalation of settler colonial violence during that first spring/summer of the covid vaccine roll out (we also briefly discuss in our ep with Danya) mondoweiss.net/2021/05/isra...

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 22:53 UTC

We finished Health Communism in 2021—summer of vax & relax/back to normal just starting. Palestine was also facing escalating settler violence—zionist entity committed the Wehda Street massacre—1 day after Nakba Day. Current vibes heavily mirror what was on our minds as we wrote

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 22:52 UTC

SPK’s status as psychiatric patients was used against them to demonize their doctor collaborators & undermine legitimacy of their political speech against a continuing project of eugenics—pathologized, criminalized & repressed—deemed incapable of protest by psychiatrists

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 22:51 UTC

2nd e.g. illness/disability held up as antithetical to protest in 1970s Germany. SPK, a radical group of patient organizers, were initially accepted by the institution they were protesting & provided support/funds for their project—but they soon faced criminalization & repression

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 22:50 UTC

Parsons' "sick role" depoliticizes illness, individuating it, to undermine patient self-determination & legitimacy as subject to the authority of "the well" who could lead the sick back to society (if they were deserving) preventing sick/disabled ppl from building power together

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 22:49 UTC

Parsons saw illness/disability as deviance & was interested in cementing the power & authority of doctors over patients. To Parsons, every sick person was an island, surrounded by "the well" & should not form groups together—this was essential, he thought, towards curing people.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 22:47 UTC

In the book we discuss two moments in history where beliefs that illness/disability disqualified someone from political protest/speech were used to deny rights & suppress movements. These 2 e.g. are really helpful to think with. 1st is Talcott Parsons' "sick role" theory

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 22:45 UTC

In Health Communism we spent a decent chunk of the book thinking against the idea that sick and disabled people don’t have the right to rebellion, protest or political speech—I feel like I’m seeing echos of Talcott Parsons & criminalization of SPK in so much rhetoric coming from Dems on mask bans 🧵

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