Bonus page for my original comic on #suicidism

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Musings on #suicidism

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Undoing Suicidism: A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to Rethinking (Assisted) Suicide By Alexandre Baril, 2023 In Undoing Suicidism, Alexandre Baril argues that suicidal people are oppressed by what he calls structural suicidism, a hidden oppression that, until now, has been unnamed and under-theorized. Each year, suicidism and its preventionist script and strategies reproduce violence and cause additional harm and death among suicidal people through forms of criminalization, incarceration, discrimination, stigmatization, and pathologization. This is particularly true for marginalized groups experiencing multiple oppressions, including queer, trans, disabled, or Mad people. Undoing Suicidism questions the belief that the best way to help suicidal people is through the logic of prevention. Alexandre Baril presents the thought-provoking argument that supporting assisted suicide for suicidal people could better prevent unnecessary deaths. Offering a new queercrip model of (assisted) suicide, he invites us to imagine what could happen if we started thinking about (assisted) suicide from an anti-suicidist and intersectional framework. Baril provides a radical reconceptualization of (assisted) suicide and invaluable reflections for academics, activists, practitioners, and policymakers. ### Related Readings: * "Prisons Make Us Safer": And 20 Other Myths about… * Risk and Protective Factors for Self-Harm in a… * Non-binary and binary transgender youth: Comparison…

His book Undoing Suicidism: a trans queer crip approach to rethinking (assisted) suicide can be found here transreads.org/undoing-suicidism-a-tran...

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Baril's work was a primary influence on this zine and adds so much naunce to an overwhelmingly binary discussion. i cannot recommend it enough.

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The term "suicidism" was coined by scholar Alexandre Baril to describe the oppression faced by suicidal people. For expressing how we feel, our voices are silenced, our autonomy violated, our agency denied.

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An inked line of balloon on a lonely white page. The tie of the balloon making an "S" shape. below is written in a handwritten font "anti-suicidism"

A yellow ribbon crossed on the bottom in remembrance. Text below in a block, with the word "Suicide" in yellow and the "Their marginalization" blue.

A grid of tea lights exuding a warm flame. Words of comfort, emitting a similarly warm glow, appear in front.

A road to nowhere. A forest burns tho we can only see the trees. A hazy orange mist encases everything. Text in a typewriter font reads "we cannot be suicide survivors if the west is currently murder-suiciding the world"

i made the zine, Anti-Suicidism, to validate me when no one else would.
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In discussions about suicide, the voice that is never heard is of the suicidal person. this has been my experience, been my voice.

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