Yssy Burton (@kmeowski) 's Twitter Profile
Yssy Burton

@kmeowski

Aspiring writer. Criminology Honours student and research assistant. (they/them)

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calendar_today12-01-2012 03:05:51

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Tonia maggs ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ (@toniacmaggs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

TW Suicide. There is an underlying โ€œobjective measuringโ€ of a persons mental state based on arbitrary behaviour such as hair washing, using such measures to determine the scale of suffering is lethal. A decade ago I was severely depressed, diagnosed so. 1/

Jeff VanderMeer (@jeffvandermeer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I always meant to share my one secret piece of sure-fire writing advice, which also doubles as great financial advice and prolongs life, before the end. So with twitter's fate uncertain, I might as well just post it now. 1/2

Disposable Human (@haveachattabs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Iโ€™m speaking at this event if anyoneโ€™s interested. Iโ€™m writing it as we speak and itโ€™s a little in your face, but may be of interest (definitely abolitionist) eventbrite.com.au/e/tabitha-leanโ€ฆ

UNSW Disability Innovation Institute (@disabilityunsw) 's Twitter Profile Photo

To mark #internationaldayofpersonswithdisability, our Director @JLSbioethics shares her thoughts about this year's theme, Transformative solutions for inclusive development: the role of innovation in fuelling an accessible and equitable world. disabilityinnovation.unsw.edu.au/international-โ€ฆ

Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (@sandyosullivan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Big appreciation to Senator Lidia Thorpe for challenging the cop float at Mardi Gras. Some of us remember when this was an actual protest for rights we still donโ€™t have, and against those who do us harm.

Allie Volpe (@allieevolpe) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Therapy-speak has helped normalize conversations about mental health, but some of the terminology has gotten lost in translation. I wrote about how there are gradations of the human experience and the limits of therapy-speak vox.com/even-better/23โ€ฆ

Kev Dertadian (he/him) (@kevdertadian) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our findings call for a deeper understanding of the way affluence (rather than social disadvantage), masculinity (rather than femininity) & whiteness and coloniality (rather than racialized โ€˜othersโ€™) shape the application or otherwise of criminal labels

Paul Minot, MD (@paulminotmd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I've been practicing psychiatry for 38 years. I love my job, my peers, and my patients. But I've come to the conclusion that I'm participating in the biggest intellectual scam of this era. We claim to be a science, but have no understanding how thought or behavior is generated./1

Dharriwaa Elders Grp @dharriwaaeldersgrp.bsky.soci (@dharriwaaegroup) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Walgett residents are still buying drinking water. River water unsuitable & Council hasn't made RO system work, so tap water still high sodium. No change since we started alert 2018. Time to bring out our big guns - Dane Simpson and Bow โค๏ธ๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ–คthelatch.com.au/the-amazing-raโ€ฆ

Dharriwaa Elders Grp @dharriwaaeldersgrp.bsky.soci (@dharriwaaegroup) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"DEG can see that traditional criminal justice responses to issues of personal and public safety do not contribute to actual or perceived safety, and in fact make things worse". parliament.nsw.gov.au/ladocs/submissโ€ฆ