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The reason why there's so much fraud in the chronic illness space is that people are so desperate to be believed that they will shut off their critical thinking and empty their pockets for someone who validates their experience. The validation is the product. The fake tests, the diagnosis, the unproven treatments: those are just the delivery mechanism. Really, what the person is buying is someone with a title saying "you're not crazy, this is real, I believe you." That's it. That's also why the mainstream medical system bears most of the blame here. If they simply said, "I believe you're sick, I don't know what's wrong yet, and I'm going to keep looking and trying things" - that would be enough. Instead, people are told, "your labs are normal, nothing is wrong." Maybe you'll get offered an SSRI, if you're lucky. So people go looking for anyone who will say otherwise, and there's an entire marketplace of cons looking to take advantage.

"The first division of labor is that between man & woman for the propagation of children. The first class opposition coincides with the antagonism between man & woman in monogamous marriage. The first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male." —Engels

I’m so sad to hear about the passing of Jenneh 💔 She was such a light and inspiration. What she did for the endometriosis community while fighting her own battle was incredible. May she rest in peace, and may her loved ones be comforted 🥺💛 instagram.com/p/DXJk9ZvDre0/…

"Unhealed trauma" is the new "hysterical" FYI

How liberals monetized trauma | Catherine Liu on Marx, Trump, and identi... youtu.be/CS1Ng3CcAOs?si… via @YouTube @IAI_TV

“I was only thirteen when a man took me by the arm in a dollar store. And asked me if I’d heard of gastric bypass. And he said they have payment plans. You don’t have to live like this. I walk through the world as an advertisement. A horror story. Nothing I can do will change it. I can’t trust anyone.” Read “Endorsement” by Kitty Robinson in Total Woman Victory: Written by the Body at totalwomanvictory.com!

@RaniaKhalek @HeidiOBrien8 We are, indeed, coming to regret this.

"I’m tired. But not as tired as the patients whose symptoms are very clearly endometriosis… and are still told-even by specialists at major academic centers-to complete a full GI workup before they do anything else." @drmelissamchale Thank you for everything you do. 💛

3 years after infection, women who had COVID have higher risk of pre-cancerous & invasive HPV-related cancers. Invasive cancer risk increased by 67% for cervical, 131% for vaginal, 98% for vulvar, 92% for anal, & 78% for oropharyngeal cancer. link.springer.com/article/10.100… #LongCovid

And can we talk about how fucked up that Hot Girls for Zohran campaign was? Created by a male PR professional but made to look grassroots, exploited women’s labor & sexuality, got women to participate in their own objectification, and ofc the men still treat us like shit!

My feminist analysis of MAiD in Canada is published today in Vol 2 Issue 2 of @TWVnewsletter!! Thx to @FiLiA_charity for recognizing their commitment to radical feminism - I was so fortunate to meet them last fall in Brighton. #cdnpoli open.substack.com/pub/totalwoman…

Earlier tonight I threw on my N95 and went to go see Slavoj Žižek speak. I don't agree with a lot of his ideas, but I've been a fan for a long time because I find them interesting. One of them in particular feels deeply relevant to the current situation with Long COVID: what Žižek calls Cynical Ideology. As he would summarize it, "they know very well what they are doing, but still, they are doing it" The government isn't operating under the old model of ideology - it is not denying Long COVID exists. Even the people directly responsible for this mess, such as Jay Bhattacharya, acknowledge it openly. They express concern, they fund RECOVER, they post awareness infographics, and then....they do absolutely nothing that would actually change outcomes. The Minnesota DoH post that I flagged before is a perfect example. The people who wrote it probably genuinely believe they're helping. They're aware that Long COVID is real and serious. They acknowledge the history of post-viral illness. And yet, the net effect of their acknowledgment is to normalize the present inaction. The awareness IS the ideology. It structures reality in a way that makes the current state of affairs feel like progress rather than abandonment. Žižek argues that modern ideology doesn't work by lying to you. Instead, it works by telling you the truth in a way that ensures nothing changes. The acknowledgment almost paradoxically becomes the control mechanism. How to break through this? Not sure yet.

Total Woman Victory Volume 2 Issue 2: Written by the Body is OUT NOW! 🔗 below! “Written by the Body” is Part 2 of two issues exploring the female body as a historical forefront of feminist analysis. This issue takes up the body as a central battlefield in the sex contradiction: the disorientation and pain of beauty rituals, the cultural torment of sexual initiation, the systemic violence of medical malpractice and infrastructural misogyny, the devastations of eating and reproductive disorders, the coercion of sterilization and forced birth, rape and wife battering, the scrutiny of evolutionary examinations of the female body, and the endless forms of torture and commodification inflicted on women. At the same time, it foregrounds women’s refusal—the resistance, defiance, and collective struggle against the appropriation and manipulation of our bodies.

like it's so over when her and I write a book on medical ethnography inshallah ul azeem

“Even though they were more than intellectually capable of doing their work, they felt ashamed that their bodies fell short. This led them to hide their pain.“ ⁦ ⁦@FastCompany6⁩, now report on widespread issue of lack of access to opioid meds, too! fastcompany.com/91513913/why-e…

'Labour Just Hounded a Blind Amputee Out of Office' We spoke to @novaramedia about Rosa Gomez, a Disabled councillor, being removed from her seat "It speaks to the wider, rising tide of ableism we are seeing, entrenched in austerity at a state level." novaramedia.com/2026/03/30/lab…

IMPORTANT | South Africa, The Menstrual Health Bill is being discussed in Parliament today. Watch live on YouTube at 09:00 AM (SAST): @parliamentofrsa (This is NOT an April Fool’s Day joke) #menstrualhealthbill #menstrualleave

As law professor Priscilla A. Ocen shows, "[B]y treating pregnancy as an essential element for criminal prosecution, the state has constructed a status—pregnant—through which a unique set of criminal penalties applies to pregnant women and to no one else." +

The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations. projects.propublica.org/rx-inspector/?…

I’d really appreciate it if you can take a minute to sign this petition for clean air in SFUSD classrooms using an EPA grant, deadline is April 15th. Thank you 🙏 actionnetwork.org/letters/fund-c…