Martha Crawford
death, dreams, community resilience & psychologies of liberation
Essays in Slate, Vox, New York Magazine
Crone
Quaker-ish
She/Her
Website: whatashrinkthinks.com
- As a mom I think a lot of college students were wildly traumatized and had to experience all kinds of moral injury and they learned a lot more about collective surviving and splitting apart and impassable divides in their communities- than many others have through schooling shootings pandemics
- Watching current care practices collapse is excruciating, watching the dominant narrative try to disable our impulses, ability and (currently inadequate) systems to care for each other We have to pick up every kind of care practice we can. There are so many gorgeous if imperfect models
- Capitalism, hyper-individualism, have encouraged the atrophy of so many important skills and practices. And there are so many pockets and communities that have kept the flames alive. look for them.
- Collective psychosis machines:
- If you think you are immune to becoming confounded and lost in an illusion, sucked into a cult, or driven mad by a machine that fills you with false beliefs you don’t know much about your own psyche.
- Here is me: Something inhuman that tries to talk like its human is creepy AF and that is my core aversion that I plan to never overcome.
- I’ve had a wee-bit of bourbon and I feel the need to share with you a true vicarious encounter with Mandy Patinkin: We were living in Brooklyn Heights and I had two older elementary aged kids and the window to the street on the second floor of the building was open.
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View full threadWow. Reminds me of the energy in this one
- YES. The whole yelly vibe
- Amen:
