Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid
“At the end of the day, aren’t we all just one big, disorganized tribe of freaks biologically compelled to obstruct the status quo? In fact, it wasn’t all that long ago that Queer people were considered crazy by the same therapeutic state that has labeled my existence to be an illness. Members of the Gay Liberation Movement worked very hard to have every letter of LGBT removed from the DSM but what we should have done was burn that normie bible and declare all forms of neurodivergence to be expressions of Queer individuality. Instead, we left our comrades at the asylum behind in the name of assimilation and opened up a Pandora’s Box that afforded an old white lesbian the ability to call me trash with a rainbow flag on her lapel.” (03/23/25)
https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2025/03/confronting-bigotry-of-mental-illness.html