Undoing Suicidism – A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to Rethinking (Assisted) Suic…

Undoing SuicidismA Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to Rethinking (Assisted) Suicide\nAuthor(s): Alexandre Baril\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Temple University Press,U.S., United States\nImprint: Temple University Press,U.S.\nISBN-13: 9781439924068, 978-1439924068\nSynopsis\nInUndoing Suicidism,Alexandre Baril argues that suicidal people are oppressed by what he calls structural suicidism, a hidden oppression that, until now, has been unnamed and under-theorized. Each year, suicidism and its preventionist script and strategies reproduce violence and cause additional harm and death among suicidal people through forms of criminalization, incarceration, discrimination, stigmatization, and pathologization. This is particularly true for marginalized groups experiencing multiple oppressions, including queer, trans, disabled, or Mad people.\nUndoing Suicidismquestions the belief that the best way to help suicidal people is through the logic of prevention. Alexandre Baril presents the thought-pr.