Yssy Burton

"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/submiss…

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 - @thedanesimpson and Bow ❤️💛🖤thelatch.com.au/the-amazing-ra…

@mwedesweiler Another great article! So great to feel a sense of community in both sport and queerness ❤️

Sam Kerr is one of the worlds best on the pitch but that's not why she's my hero sbs.com.au/news/article/s…

@jeffvandermeer I love it! This is me recommending it as part of the UNSW Law & Justice +Justice festival: instagram.com/reel/Cu5oD-pvh…

Baby raccoon is also an author. I wrote a novel about the current moment, Hummingbird Salamander, released into the heart of the pandemic. Like a fair number of my books, HS polarized readers on pub. Now, readers seem more used to it.

Save lives - support the opening of an overdose prevention service in the Melbourne CBD - Sign the Petition! chng.it/8V9SPZny via @ChangeAUS

Please sign this letter to Media Watch. actionnetwork.org/forms/open-let…

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

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 ‘others’) shape the application or otherwise of criminal labels

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/23…

An excellent podcast and a great summary!

Big appreciation to @SenatorThorpe for challenging the cop float at Mardi Gras. Some of us remember when this was an actual protest for rights we still don’t have, and against those who do us harm.

TERF squad is giving this exact vibe

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-…

I’m speaking at this event if anyone’s interested. I’m writing it as we speak and it’s a little in your face, but may be of interest (definitely abolitionist) eventbrite.com.au/e/tabitha-lean…

@phillipwadds @KevDertadian @UNSW Congrats, @KevDertadian! Well deserved.

A great way to end the week - watching dear colleague @KevDertadian receive a @UNSW exemplary teaching award for his excellent work using student data as a conversation starter in class. Kev is an incredibly thoughtful and engaging teacher and deserves all the accolades he gets!

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

@marquisele Me please :)

TW Suicide. There is an underlying “objective measuring” 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/