Editor, Asylum the radical mental health magazine. Prof at University of Lancashire. Ambivalent mental health politics. Mad Studies. Madzines. They/them. ❤️🐶 🌈https://bsky.app/profile/hspandler.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/hspandler.bsky.social/post/3m7ad3s4ev22tExcellent programme - but media coverage, so far, is erasing the fact that this cruel 'treatment' was used to convert people's gender expression as well as their sexuality. Trans erasure 🙄 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002n3l605 Dec 2025 10:54 +0000at://did:plc:yntjsaelb65sidlcqrdgi42o/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7ad3s4ev22thttps://bsky.app/profile/hspandler.bsky.social/post/3m7aaofy4dk2tLGB+T folk were subjected to cruel & harmful aversion therapy. Survivors demanding justice https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g6348qegxo05 Dec 2025 10:10 +0000at://did:plc:yntjsaelb65sidlcqrdgi42o/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7aaofy4dk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/hspandler.bsky.social/post/3lzdjs3igkc25We couldn't be in better company! @asylummagazine.bsky.social 😊 [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Sep 2025 09:00 +0000at://did:plc:yntjsaelb65sidlcqrdgi42o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzdjs3igkc25https://bsky.app/profile/hspandler.bsky.social/post/3lz66wvse4s2kPleased to have a chapter about mental health activism in this exciting new book about Ambivalent Activism. Out now! https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/ambivalent-activism @brisunipress.bsky.social19 Sep 2025 06:03 +0000at://did:plc:yntjsaelb65sidlcqrdgi42o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz66wvse4s2khttps://bsky.app/profile/hspandler.bsky.social/post/3lmh5eeo6is2tImportant thread "For as long as critical psychiatry fails to engage with critics, it can & never will be different" So many survivors are saying this. Its time to be taken seriously. [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Apr 2025 09:01 +0000at://did:plc:yntjsaelb65sidlcqrdgi42o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmh5eeo6is2thttps://bsky.app/profile/hspandler.bsky.social/post/3lkxav3oq4c22Wherever we sit on the psychiatric culture wars, I think psy professionals & academics need to admit we've collectively failed to create a compelling, compassionate & unifying narrative about mental suffering (regardless of what damn words you use to describe it). Shame on us! 😟22 Mar 2025 07:56 +0000at://did:plc:yntjsaelb65sidlcqrdgi42o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkxav3oq4c22https://bsky.app/profile/hspandler.bsky.social/post/3lkvims7dpk2dRichly well deserved 👏 If you haven't listened to this, I'd thoroughly recommened it [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Mar 2025 15:09 +0000at://did:plc:yntjsaelb65sidlcqrdgi42o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkvims7dpk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/hspandler.bsky.social/post/3lksvdlttc22bGood to see a more nuanced approach to simplistic & dangerous "overdiagnosis" debates https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/19/culture-warriors-overdiagnosis-mental-health-cuts?CMP=share_btn_url20 Mar 2025 14:19 +0000at://did:plc:yntjsaelb65sidlcqrdgi42o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lksvdlttc22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/hspandler.bsky.social/post/3lkeifbezgc2zUS study on sustainable menstruation products cancelled cos it *mentioned* that trans folk menstruate too. https://www.advocate.com/news/usda-scraps-study-transgender-mention14 Mar 2025 20:50 +0000at://did:plc:yntjsaelb65sidlcqrdgi42o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkeifbezgc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/hspandler.bsky.social/post/3lkegqnrdws2zCo-authored a chapter on ambivalent mental health activism for this new book which will be out soon. Looks great. Looking forward to reading all the other chapters. https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/ambivalent-activism14 Mar 2025 20:20 +0000at://did:plc:yntjsaelb65sidlcqrdgi42o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkegqnrdws2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/hspandler.bsky.social/post/3ljoxyd6dwc2jThis is a truly terrifying take on #MAGA, but despairingly plausible ... [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Mar 2025 07:30 +0000at://did:plc:yntjsaelb65sidlcqrdgi42o/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljoxyd6dwc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/hspandler.bsky.social/post/3ljdkljt6tk2u"We mustn't let the narcissism of small differences prevent us from uniting to do what is required of us at this crucial historical juncture...Whether we will, as a society, choose solidarity or abandonment & whether we will meet suffering with care or with cruelty" https://newrepublic.com/article/191887/kennedy-maha-trump-psychiatric-medicine01 Mar 2025 18:31 +0000at://did:plc:yntjsaelb65sidlcqrdgi42o/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljdkljt6tk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/hspandler.bsky.social/post/3ljaiahg3kk2xAsylum has landed with subscribers! @asylummagazine.bsky.social @stopoxevision.bsky.social28 Feb 2025 13:11 +0000at://did:plc:yntjsaelb65sidlcqrdgi42o/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljaiahg3kk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/hspandler.bsky.social/post/3lj5in5jzrk2lI sense this issue will be as popular as our special BPD issue we published over 20 years ago & still coveted @stopoxevision.bsky.social @nsunnews.bsky.social @asylummagazine.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Feb 2025 08:40 +0000at://did:plc:yntjsaelb65sidlcqrdgi42o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj5in5jzrk2l