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[Sucheta @iSucheta]

@amitvarma @priyamathews This was absolutely one of my favourite episodes you have ever done.

(Tbf I have a 15 month old child and work in perinatal psychiatry so it felt tailor made for me. Also hi @priyamathews I just want to be your mom friend now).

[Sucheta @iSucheta]

Bhogal also speaks of Truth capital T as some sort of absolute, but I wonder if there can be such a thing when the subject (human civilisation, especially now) consists of multiple moral universes.

Anyway, I hope there is a longer episode in the future @amitvarma !

[Sucheta @iSucheta]

Not been on this hell site for a while, but listening to @G_S_Bhogal on @amitvarma #TSATU quickly followed by this post by @humansofny made me want to put them all together in the same place.

[Brandon Stanton @humansofny]

“It started with a joke about pansexuals. Something about defending your kitchen from pansexuals. Then one of my classmates accused me of belittling them. Which turned into a bigger conversation about homophobia and racism. People began sharing their own experiences with discrimination, and honestly, a lot of it seemed overblown. It’s like: C’mon. You live on the wealthy side of town. What you’re describing sounds like an everyday disagreement between two humans, but you’re bumping it up to discrimination. That’s when people started accusing me of discrimination. I pointed out that I was Jewish. But they said my trauma was generational and not first-hand, so it didn’t count. All of it just seemed like some sort of competition. A twisted game where the more discrimination you could claim, the more social points you won. It ended up with everyone ganging up on me and calling me racist. And that started me on a journey of watching alt-right videos. It just felt good to hear people say: ‘It’s not you, it’s them. Those blue haired people, with their thirteen pronouns-- they act like they’re morally superior. But it’s all about power. They want to shame you into silence.’ The videos always used the word ‘they.’ ‘They’ are ruining this country. ‘They’ want to take away your rights. No matter how many types of people were being described, it was always ‘they.’ It made it easy for me to dismiss discrimination whenever it was claimed, by anyone. I’d think: ‘There they go again.’ I’m out of that phase now. If anything I’m politically active on the other side. I’m thankful it happened to me when I was fourteen, and still growing. Because if I’d been older, working some dead-end job, not meeting people— it would have been harder. Because one thing that really helped me was one-on-one conversations. My more moderate classmates started talking to me again. A few of them even apologized for how it all went down. They didn’t speak as a member of a group. It was just: ‘This is who I am. This is how I experienced discrimination.’ It wasn’t hostile. I didn’t feel ganged up on. And I was able to hear them. I’ve learned that for a lot of people, it’s not a game. It’s their lives.”

[Sucheta @iSucheta]

The two hour session had enough in it to get me thinking, and I do think Bhogal’s rejection of the political binary is brilliant. However, I am still not sold on the out of hand dismissal of #DEI . Representation matters, but how to separate it from identity politics?

[Sucheta @iSucheta]

@drcbjee @natashabadhwar Yes I don’t have the benefit of hindsight but on most difficult days I tell myself that I signed up for exactly this and there is a lesson in here that I just can’t see yet 😅

[Sucheta @iSucheta]

“(New motherhood) would make me cry in despair, but not in remorse.”

How does @natashabadhwar manage to say exactly what I need to hear when I need to hear it?

[Sucheta @iSucheta]

@natashabadhwar Me coming at you:

[Sucheta @iSucheta]

It is taking me about two weeks to finish listening to one @amitvarma #TSAU podcast episode with the infant, and I absolutely cannot wait for the next fortnight of delicious conversation with my favourite @natashabadhwar #MyDaughtersMum

[☆ ‧dreamboy··‧̩̥˟͙冬˟͙‧̩̥l @LilNasX]

i will avenge u mr van gogh

[Sucheta @iSucheta]

151 years later, my daughter went for her first proper family hike in Epping Forest. So grateful for the people who fought to keep this beautiful, sacred place public.

[Sucheta @iSucheta]

@DrKhan_do @subodhdave1 @parthaskar @deonandan @Agarwal2Nita @sri_2050 @AliRacaniere @tcgannon @LiluWheeler @MeeraDas @deliriumkrish @reachdrdeepa @KrishVedavanam @l_krishnan @apksachar @raj_psyc @drpselby @annie_tallis @autp2 Thank you Nagina! Happy Diwali 🪔 💜

[Sucheta @iSucheta]

Happy Diwali 🪔

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Opinion | Yes, Brexit has destroyed my nation's economy. But at least there's now a chance that in ten years the people checking me out at Pret a Manger will be white.

[Ila ✨ @ilareddy]

One of my all time favourite poems ❤️

[Leif Bersweden @LeifBersweden]

I pocket acorns as I walk. I recently emptied the contents of my coat and the autumnal diversity is just 😮‍💨🤌

[Sucheta @iSucheta]

My goodness this talk 💔 thank you @womeninmindUK for inviting Dr Grinko.

[Women in Mind UK @womeninmindUK]

Dr Natalia Grinko joins us now in the middle of the war in Ukraine #war #violence bravely presenting to us ‘sexual violence as a weapon of war’ #WMHSIGconference2022

[Sucheta @iSucheta]

Absolutely THRILLED that at least three panelists at #WMHSIGconference2022 trained in ye olde #LHMCDelhi @Maitra_R @globalpmh and Dr Astha Tomar. I feel like I’m standing on the shoulders of giants ♥️

[Sucheta @iSucheta]

Dr Prabha Chandra @globalpmh talking about systemic misogyny in Indian institutions when tackling the mental health fallout of gender based violence got me in the gut. What a brilliant piece of work on training staff in mental health at one stop centres #WMHSIGconference2022

[Sucheta @iSucheta]

@Rebel_no_cause_ @womeninmindUK Thank you! :) :)

[Sucheta @iSucheta]

The essay is now up on the @rcpsych website. The @womeninmindUK annual essay competition and conference on “Violence against Women and Girls: what is the role of psychiatry?”

https://t.co/bICRED3H1p

[Sucheta @iSucheta]

This just made my day! @womeninmindUK ♥️

I feel so strongly about violence against women and girls I wrote this essay as a new mum of a six week old. So happy that it was considered more than just readable. Also good to know that I am coherent on three hours of sleep.