Asylum Center is an herbal access project.
A vessel for community (health)care.
Created by Bitch Ranch.
Values and focuses
Autonomous health
Autonomous health
Autonomous health
Centering the subject as their own best doctor/healer of their symptoms and body.
De-professionalization of the healthcare field, a shift in power dynamics between the practitioner and the patient. Both personal and political modes of viewing and practicing healthcare. Additionally can be understood as the dissemination and accessibility
Centering the subject as their own best doctor/healer of their symptoms and body.
De-professionalization of the healthcare field, a shift in power dynamics between the practitioner and the patient. Both personal and political modes of viewing and practicing healthcare. Additionally can be understood as the dissemination and accessibility of medical knowledge.
Sub-categories: Queer & trans health autonomy, mental health autonomy
Photo source: Alondra Nelson, Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination
Photo caption: Marie Branch (above) was a UCLA nursing professor who helped run the Alprentice
Bunchy Carter PFMC outside the clinic. Dr. Terry Kupers (below), a UCLA resident
and MCHR member, worked at the Alprentice Bunchy Carter PFMC. From Los
Angeles Free Press, January 1970. Courtesy of Dr. Terry Kupers.
Harm Reduction
Autonomous health
Autonomous health
A methodology and practice of centering the user (of often drugs, but any kind of addiction or harmful behavior) at the center of their care and/or healthcare around their usage.
“What we describe below is not so much the techniques of self-governance, but how harm reduction operates to reconfigure those who use drugs as health conscious
A methodology and practice of centering the user (of often drugs, but any kind of addiction or harmful behavior) at the center of their care and/or healthcare around their usage.
“What we describe below is not so much the techniques of self-governance, but how harm reduction operates to reconfigure those who use drugs as health conscious citizens, capable of rational actions and self-regulation.” (Margaret Pereira & John Scott)
Mad Pride
Autonomous health
Mad Pride
A mass movement, led by those deemed mentally unfit for society — i.e. insane, mad, crazy — to unashamedly be their authentic selves. This often does can, but does not necessitate an overlap with anti-psychiatry.
"Mad Studies can be defined in general terms as a project of inquiry, knowledge production, and political action devoted to th
A mass movement, led by those deemed mentally unfit for society — i.e. insane, mad, crazy — to unashamedly be their authentic selves. This often does can, but does not necessitate an overlap with anti-psychiatry.
"Mad Studies can be defined in general terms as a project of inquiry, knowledge production, and political action devoted to the critique and transcendence of psy-centred ways of thinking, behaving, relating, and being” (LeFrançois, Menzies and Reaume, Mad matters)
Photo source: Icarus Project, Mapping Our Madness (zine)