4 Quotes by Victoria Law and Maya Schenwar

Liberation is a love that is big enough to encompass all society, and active enough to transform it. It is a love that dismantles oppression, recognizing that our oppressions are intertwined.

Habilitation would mean better housing, health care, mental health care, childcare, jobs, educational opportunities -- all resources that are, in many senses, the opposite of house arrest and monitoring.

Arguments for bringing back asylums based on the large number of imprisoned people who are diagnosed with mental illness fail to account for the fact that prison is a traumatizing and sometimes torturous space that causes most people significant psychological anguish. Prison produces mental health problems.

Again and again, psychiatric labels become vehicles for race- and gender-based harm. The use of diagnosis as a tool of structural oppression is not a new phenomenon.