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Socially neurodivergent, fiscally communist philosopher. They/them.

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · Jul 24

I've uploaded a free preprint for a forthcoming article, Mad Pride in Revolutionary England: The Ranters as Mad Actvism. It will be published in History Workshop Journal next year. I'm proud of this and see it as the start of a new, much bigger project.
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(PDF) Mad Pride in Revolutionary England: The Ranters as Mad Activism

PDF | Collective mental health patient organising in England is usually dated to the nineteenth century and seen as arising in response to the mass... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 3d

Labour is trying to prove mental health is over-diagnosed so it can cut DWP benefits further www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Labour is trying to prove mental health is over-diagnosed so it can cut DWP benefits further

Wes Streeting's new review into mental health and neurodivergency will be vice chaired by “the most hated doctor in Britain”, Simon Wessely

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 4d

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 5d

Take a look at these events in Sheffield next month co-organsied by a friend.
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Feeling with theory / Neuroqueer music events

David Shannon and I are organising two events in Sheffield, both called Feeling with Theory: Exploring the Meaning of Music around Neuroqueer identities. More info on the respective links below, bu…

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 5d

Experiences of transphobia over the past year have made me sometimes regret coming out as nonbinary for the first time. I've long received hatemail and death threats for being a public-ish trans person, but that wasn't so bad and it never made me regret being out. Things are getting so much worse.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 7d

ICE is now targeting Black and Latino children in Chicago, arresting and zip-tying them. Their goal is simply to terrorize these kids and families of color with no regard for legality, let alone basic humanity. It's Nazi-level shit. ICE must be abolished.

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 6d

The thing to know about Trump's autism and paracetamol claims is that the cruelty is the point. They want women in pain and disabled people stigmatised. And they enjoy showing they can lie outrageously without accountability. I worry that debating the science is to play their game, by their rules.

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 9d

"Sperm racing isn’t just about racing sperm. It’s about turning health into a competition. It’s about making male fertility something people actually want to talk about, track and improve"
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Sperm racing is all the rage among the tech bros. Why am I not surprised? | Arwa Mahdawi

It started as a gag, but Eric Zhu’s sperm races are doing good work in putting male fertility under the microscope – literally, writes Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi

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Graham Mead @twillierod.bsky.social · 12d

On the relationship between trans politics and disability

D.K. Renton

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On the relationship between trans politics and disability

In the aftermath of the decision in For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers USCK 16, many disabled people sought to give practical

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 13d

Bertrand Russell once received letters from Sir Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fascists, inviting him to a debate. Russell not only declined but replied quite generally that “nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 13d

Wild that a few years ago loads of liberal and conservative op-eds and books blamed "post-truth" on left-leaning 1970s french intellectuals. Meanwhile, on Truth Social, you do not need evidence to give medical advice: you just post your truth and then other people "ReTruth" it if they agree.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

Highly normal. Nothing to see here, folks.

Pregnant Women, DON’T USE TYLENOL UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, DON’T GIVE TYLENOL TO YOUR YOUNG CHILD FOR VIRTUALLY ANY REASON, BREAK UP THE MMR SHOT INTO THREE TOTALLY SEPARATE SHOTS (NOT MIXED!), TAKE CHICKEN P SHOT SEPARATELY, TAKE HEPATITAS B SHOT AT 12 YEARS OLD, OR OLDER, AND, IMPORTANTLY, TAKE VACCINE IN 5 SEPARATE MEDICAL VISITS! President DJT

Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 14d

Someone I admired hugely. Read her autobiography if you haven't.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14d

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."

She was 78.

Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died

Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 14d

"If you want to see if a man or woman has fascist potentialities, give him a flag. If he starts waving it, worshiping it, making a fetish of it, he's good fascist timber." - undercover journalist Avedis Derounian, reporting on an America First meeting in 1941.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 14d

If you want to oppose “political violence,” then demand the abolition of ICE, the end of an ongoing genocide, and insist Congress stop killing people by forcing for-profit healthcare exclusion on us. If you’re not doing that, spare me the sanctimonious speeches.
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What Is Political Violence? - Boston Review

Pundits and politicians conceal the truth: it’s all around us, perpetrated by our political system itself.

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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 14d

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You can read an excerpt from Slavery and Capitalism on @literaryhub.bsky.social .

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 18d

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Trump officials reportedly set to tie Tylenol to autism risk

Washington Post says announcement imminent despite guidelines showing drug – known as paracetamol elsewhere - is safe for pregnant women to take

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 19d

Great thank you!

Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 20d

Will take a look - thanks!

Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 20d

Thank you!

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 20d

What are some movies or series from the past few decades that explore themes of health or fitness in relation to fascistic tenandancies?

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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 20d

Our full list of dishonours….

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The RITAs Awards #RITASawards

The full list of The RITAs Awards for Excellence in Awfulness 2025! Patronising Interventions Award sponsored by having a cup of tea in a warm bath CIC (we’re Disability Confident™): The Decider li…

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 21d

I'd rather not have to chose, but if I have to, I'd follow Sultana. She has both steadfast politics and the necessary energy and drive. Corbyn has too much baggage and the independent MPs have no ideological coherence as a group and thus were never going to form a good basis for a party.

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 21d

I think the kind of fascism we are seeing now is distinctive partly as it is mediated by capitalist realism. Even fascism's proponents can't see beyond the horizon of capitalism as the only possibility; so the fascism of today works within that despite being a reaction to ongoing capitalist crises.

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 22d

Horkheimer once described "bourgeois class solidarity" as "the outrage that even rich people are no longer safe". I think this gets to the heart of something relatively powerful and widespread but underrecognised.

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Arbeitology @arbeitology.bsky.social · 24d

He condemned the criminality, not the politics - only the means, not the ends

David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 24d

He condemned the criminality in last year's racist riots and then spent the next year pandering to the politics of the rioters. Hence the horrible scenes at the weekend. I hope his centre left critics are smart enough not to be fobbed off by this little performance.

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 24d

NEW - A punchy Keir Starmer at cabinet condemns the violence at Saturday's march "led by a convicted criminal" saying they had "sent a chill through the spines of people around the country, and particularly many ethnic minority Britons."

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 24d

While he's in the news for defecting to a far right party, note that this is the hard right nationalist mp who works closely and co-authors with leading British critical psychiatrists and ptmf authors on mental health politics.

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MP Danny Kruger says Tory party ‘is over’ as he defects to Reform

East Wiltshire MP says he hopes others follow his path and accuses former party of clinging to ‘defunct institutions’

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