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Cassandra Geisel (she/her) @cassandrageisel.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Our TASC Network Seminar tomorrow (Friday 16th, 5pm), looks at mixed heritage identities in a racist and racialised world. Mary-Claire will draw on her own personal experience, as well as research/clinical experience, to open this important topic. (www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/untold-sto...)

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Untold Stories: Working w/ Mixed-Heritage Identities in a Racialised World

Eventbrite - onlinevents.co.uk presents Untold Stories: Working w/ Mixed-Heritage Identities in a Racialised World - Friday, January 16, 2026 - Find event and ticket information.

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Cassandra Geisel (she/her) @cassandrageisel.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

www.gofundme.com/f/support-br... Please consider donating to support my friend Bry through her cancer journey. At only 30 years old, she has dreams and an entire life ahead of her. Any amount will help contribute to her finding her way through this with dignity and grace 🤍

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Donate to Support Bry Through Her Cancer Journey, organized by Katie Fettes

I’m organizing this fundraiser for my best friend, Bry, who was recently diagnosed… Katie Fettes needs your support for Support Bry Through Her Cancer Journey

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Cassandra Geisel (she/her) @cassandrageisel.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

@emmyvandeurzen.bsky.social speaking at Kingsley Hall, location of one of R.D. Laing’s most remembered experiment. Thank you Compassionate Mental Health for organising such a great day reflecting on the impact of therapeutic communities and alternatives for people with lived experience of psychosis.

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Prof. James Davies @drjamesdaviesbskys.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Uncovering the true aim of therapy is a vital part of the therapeutic process. It must emerge collaboratively, not be imposed externally before the work begins (e.g. when services prioritise outcomes like 'return to work'). When this happens, you're being co-opted, not helped.

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Brennan Holt (he/him) and thanks for asking @brennanholt.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

We want to come together to address injustices and inequalities of racism through personal and collective work on the impact of Whiteness. Examining Whiteness Saturday, 7 June This is an in-person event in Brighton for therapists only. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/examining-... #TherapistsConnect

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Examining Whiteness

We want to come together to address injustices and inequalities of racism through personal and collective work on the impact of Whiteness.

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Cassandra Geisel (she/her) @cassandrageisel.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Austerity of the imagination is upon us. Inundated with ways to dissociate, it is really painful to turn towards the horizon of what we’re navigating. We’re watching systems collapsing and are bereft by the task of trying to dream up creative alternatives in the wake of all the devastation.

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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

“Be a shadow and hope that you do not die.” A frightening & thorough account of immigrants avoiding medical care by @jsgatnyt.bsky.social et al @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/h...

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Migrants Are Skipping Medical Care, Fearing ICE, Doctors Say

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Dr Chris Noone @chris-noone.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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The rise of end times fascism

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

You can donate to support the BC Filipino community here: filipinobc.com/donate

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Donate — Filipino BC

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Cassandra Geisel (she/her) @cassandrageisel.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

This should terrify us all. The increased carcerality in mental health care along with the impunity of the current administration is a recipe for disaster. Or is it the case that institutions such as these are now just saying what they’ve always done on the tin? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The United States is witnessing the return of psychiatric imprisonment | Jordyn Jensen

From ‘wellness farms’ to expanded involuntary commitment policies, the US is embracing psychiatric incarceration under the guise of compassion

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Prof. James Davies @drjamesdaviesbskys.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

No society in history has ever professionalised the management of emotional distress as thoroughly & excessively as our own. We have stigmatised self-trust, scoffed at lay wisdom, & stripped local & grassroots knowledge & support of its value & legitimacy. And for what in return?

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Feminist Therapy Network @feministtherapynet.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Our solidarity statement following yesterday's UK supreme court ruling

On April 16th 2025, the UK Supreme Court ruled that “women” and “men” are defined by biological sex under equalities law. As a grassroots feminist community that is committed to trans-inclusion, the Feminist Therapy Network’s position is that this ruling is an act of trans-erasure that undermines the dignities, entitlements and joys of trans people, and will be used to further discrimination and bigotry, particularly towards trans women.

We also consider this ruling to be a gateway to further discriminations against women who do not adhere to normative standards of femininity that are rooted in white, colonial Eurocentric constructs. No trans people were heard from in the process of this ruling which was made by a majority of cis male judges. It demonstrates how our governing systems remain rooted in mechanisms of patriarchal dominance that continue to ignore the very real and urgent issues of misogyny and gendered violence.

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National Survivor User Network @nsunnews.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Today, and on all days, NSUN stands in solidarity with trans women and all other trans people. Our hearts are aching. We will continue to show up in the fight for trans rights, which shouldn't be a fight in the first place (1/2).

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

A huge honor to get to write something with my hero @naomiaklein.bsky.social. We wish it was a happier topic, but it's an urgent one. We dove deep into the apocalyptic fervor of the far right to issue a warning about the rise of End Times Fascism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Starmer's attacks on protest drag UK into dark ages www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmEa...

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Yanis Varoufakis: Starmer's attacks on protest drag UK into dark ages

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Cassandra Geisel (she/her) @cassandrageisel.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

“And when one day our human kind becomes full-grown, it will not define itself as the sum total of the whole world’s inhabitants, but as the infinite unity of their mutual needs.” - Sartre

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Cassandra Geisel (she/her) @cassandrageisel.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

With more than 3000 deaths at the hands of police over the past 50 years, there have only been 4 successful prosecutions that led to police officers being convicted and sent to prison. The disproportionate number of Black people killed represents the depth of racism ingrained in UK police forces.

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Cassandra Geisel (she/her) @cassandrageisel.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Attended The People’s Tribunal on police killings this weekend. This was led by families of those killed by police who shared their story with an international panel to examine the evidence. In 6/7 of the cases I heard, it was a mental health call that ended up killing the person needing support.

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Cassandra Geisel (she/her) @cassandrageisel.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

It is time to reimagine our schools as spaces that prioritise mental health, emotional and interpersonal growth, and inclusivity. We are engaging the psych bodies in the UK alongside young people and other professionals to start imagining a new way forward. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/emotionall...

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Emotionally Healthy Schools: Engaging the Therapy Professions

Emotionally Healthy Schools: Engaging the Therapy Professions, A TaSC Seminar

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Mick Cooper @mickcooper77.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Help make schools a place of emotional health, wellbeing, and nurturing. Join us for our cross-professions event: Friday 25th April, 5-7pm. Free, but please register via the link below.

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Emotionally Healthy Schools: Engaging the Therapy Professions

Emotionally Healthy Schools: Engaging the Therapy Professions, A TaSC Seminar

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Cassandra Geisel (she/her) @cassandrageisel.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

“We cannot understand what disease is as long as the primary needs of men are not met.” - Basaglia

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I’m devastated, but I’m also angry. I’m angry because this is an attack on press freedom. If opportunities can be stripped from journalists simply because enough people repeat the same bad-faith narrative, how can anyone withstand the career impact of doing work that matters?

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"CTV Cancelled a Fact-Checking Segment in Response to Political Pressure." It was mine.

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Prof. James Davies @drjamesdaviesbskys.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

The share of the NHS budget spent on mental health is set to fall next year, despite acknowledgement there is a mental health crisis and that services are in dire state. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

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Government accused of ‘failing’ mental health patients as share of NHS budget to fall

The drop comes despite warnings of a deepening mental health crisis

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

As Rachel Reeves follows the deathly neoliberal script to the letter, here is our latest video, explaining the dire state of this government and demanding better. Please do watch.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

The government’s Land Use consultation is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to intervene in this critical issue. Here’s my response to it. Please feel free to borrow / copy & paste as much as you want. It’s crucial that we engage. www.monbiot.com/2025/03/23/f... 1/3 🧵

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First Sight of Land

For the first time, the government is consulting on a Land Use Framework for England. It’s an important step, but there’s a long way to go.

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Cassandra Geisel (she/her) @cassandrageisel.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Power, Resistance and Liberation in Therapy with Survivors of Trauma (To Have Our Hearts Broken) by Taiwo Afuape. “We need a psychology that breaks our heart”

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact that things end, that things pass, that things have no lasting substance, that everything is changing all the time—that is the basic message.~Pema Chödrön, 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘍𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘈𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵

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