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.]

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CW ab*se. This year marks over a decade since I've been a photographer. Because I don't have my camera gear with me and I rarely upgrade my technology, the only camera I currently have is a very old phone camera, which is what this was taken on (
CW abuse, ableism, victim-blaming. An important reminder as Domestic Violence Awareness Month comes to an end. Diagnosing victims with personality disorders plays a significant role in a world that overwhelmingly belittles abuse and protects abuser
CW brief mention of psychiatric incarceration. I'm so deeply grateful for all of your support so far, and I wanted to share some love in return to anyone who's having a hard time lately. Here are some suggestions for things that we can do to redu
CW CSA, abuse. ❗Urgent request for mutual aid.❗ I'm an abuse, SA and CSA survivor, who's spent my life supporting and advocating for other survivors, and is now at risk of renewed dependency on abusive people for my own survival. I come from a c
I'm tired of the way that therapy is upheld in society as the only pathway to healing, or the best or the "right" way to heal. There are endless other pathways to healing (however we define that) that have nothing at all to do with therapy
CW ab*se, medical trauma. There's so much advice on social media for people with these diagnoses, but somehow we rarely ever come across advice that warns people to protect themselves from the ways that these diagnoses can be used to disempower and
Here's another reminder of what I've been saying for years: "personality disorders" can't be destigmatised, nor are we dealing with just a matter of "stigma", but the diagnostic constructs themselves are also at the root of the p
CW SH, medical abuse. Hi all, next month I'll be exploring ways of supporting folks who SH that don't rely on punishment, control or shame, but that instead empower individuals who SH and honour their right to bodily autonomy. Ending the discrimi
CWs ab*se, ableism. If I were to participate in this nonsense and start making content about "covert narcissists" and "how to spot a narcissist", my popularity would rapidly increase. It would be so easy. Sanism is incredibly pro
CWs ab*se, medical ab*se, sanism. What's the point of commemorating mental health awareness days when you're demonising millions and millions of people around the world on the basis of a psychiatric diagnosis? People with personality disorder dia