Candice Alaska
Writer, photographer, peer support worker and practitioner consultant from the Global South, focused on radical mental health, particularly on the intersections of sanism and survivor injustice.
[ID: a self-portrait in which I’m looking directly at the camera, standing in front of a black gate, with my left hand above my head, holding onto the gate. I’m wearing a black top with embroidered flowers and my hair, which is also black is tied back. There are trees around me in the background.]
“Efforts to destigmatise this diagnosis are unlikely to make a difference until we learn to complicate victimhood and to move beyond these neat boundaries we’ve drawn to delineate what a victim (and what an abuser) can be, and to address a ‘justice’ system that relies on the misogynistic, sanist, racist construct of ‘credibility’.”
