shel

The Transsexual Chofetz Chaim

Mutant, librarian, poet, union rabble rouser, dog, Ashkenazi Jewish. Neuroweird, bodyweird, mostly sleepy.


I write about transformative justice, community, love, Judaism, Neurodivergence, mental health, Disability, geography, rivers, labor, and libraries; through poetry, opinionated essays, and short fiction.


I review Schoolhouse Rock! songs at @PropagandaRock


Website (RSS + Newsletter)
shelraphen.com/

I wanted to write up my thoughts on CINA chapter by chapter but I lost my chapter 2 draft because I still can't get drafts on here to load due to the feature being unfinished (my fault really) and my brain won't let me write them out of order but I'm at like chapter 6 or 7 now I'm getting near the end. I understand why all the reviews I saw gave it 3.5 stars it's like the most solidly 3.5 stars nonfiction book. So much good stuff in there but also a lot of stuff that's like... 😬 No that's definitely Wrong like Factually. I think she needed a science consultant to review and edit the book tbqh she does not understand how Statistics work and tries to make points based on it that are very wrong. And she also doesn't understand Clinical Psychology and reads the DSM not understanding how the DSM uses words and reaches erroneous conclusions based on misunderstandings of what the DSM means when it says "dissociation" and the such


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