According to death penalty lawyers, a new standard to diagnose mental retardation could allow courts to execute convicted criminals with IQ scores below 70 more easily.
There’s meant to be some distinction right? You’re not just handing out charity, you’re teaching lifelong skills. But let’s think about this.
You wander into some guy’s house, hand him a rod and take him to a pond. You show him how to use it and voila! Fish! Now you have saved him forever -…
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The more I read about the DSM and the arbitrary, bullshit diagnosis categories in its various incarnations, the angrier I get. I have a long and complicated history with psychiatry/anti-depressants…(potential tw)
That’s what psychiatrist Allen Frances, chair of the DSM-IV task force, has to say about DSM-5.
(Source: southernish)
The state’s manslaughter laws weren’t supposed to apply to women who lose pregnancies. Prosecutors don’t seem to care.God help us. How do we keep electing such a batch of buffoons to our legislatures?
Please Help a Brother Out: Come Fund Top Surgery for Bryan
By now practically everyone in the Queer Nation has heard of the really unfortunate incidents that occurred in March of this year on the Washington Mall during the Supreme Court arguments on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
But do you know the real people who it happened to? Well meet the guy who was holding the Trans* Flag that day.As Bryan Ellicott explains, what started as a happy and exciting day of LGBT Pride & History turned into his ”Supreme Court Marriage Rally Transphobic Experience From Hell” when a staffer and one of the big Gay Inc. groups (ok so it was HRC again) became upset to see other than approved people and symbols cluttering up their photo-op moments and tried to run the riffraff off. With Bryan his Flag suddenly thrust unwilling into a staring role as “unapproved riffraff”.
A political activist for the progressive and LGBT community Bryan describes himself as an ”open and proud bisexual transman”. A native of Staten Island NY graduating from College of Staten Island with a BA in Poli Sci, he has interned in the offices of Christine Quinn, the Speaker of the New York City Council and Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz. During 2012, he went out and worked in the Ohio OFA (Organizing for Action) office helping re-elect Obama to a second term. In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy Bryan worked with FEMA doing Community Relations work. He’s currently a board member of the Stonewall Democrats of New York City and a campaign aid (LGBT Liaison) to Mel Wymore in his run for the New York City Council.
Says Bryan,“the bulk of my work is in the LGBT community whether it be advocating for Marriage Equality across the country, calling out the need those who talk ill to me or any of my transgender brothers and sisters as well as my continued work for Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA) in New York State or when it comes to people learning about bisexuality and not thinking those horrible myths are anything but that.”When trouble came Bryan and his friends were there standing strong representing the the entire LGBT Community. So while you are cheering the symbolism please also remember the actual person. Says Bryan,
“I wanted to ask you my brothers and sisters to help me in my journey. Top surgery is my next step toward the place I want to be. Anything you can do to help me would be most appreciated and if you could share this with others that would be amazing as well.”So what do you says people? He was there for us. Can you be there for him? Please click the link and Help Fund Top Surgery for Bryan. Thanks
As a straight dude who is generally down with respecting women, and thinks people of every gender and walk of life should be down with it too too, it can get frustrating to see the lack of similar minded people in pop culture. Recent feuds between comedians and women have created a feeling of…
