Simone D.
Simone D. wins!
God, I’m so happy. (And God’s happy too! She just dropped by the Spirit Smoking Lounge to do a round of tequila shots and She’s totally stoked about Simone D.).
From MindFreedom:
Simone D. is a psychiatric inmate in the Creedmoor psychiatric institution in New York State.
New York State’s Office of Mental Health (OMH) aggressively [...]
Forced electroshock: what’s good for the goose is totally unacceptable for the gander
Remember the Simone D. story? There’s been a disturbing twist.
Another patient in New York, this one a man by the name of John Kelly, has also waged a battle this summer to be spared forced electroshock treatment. Neither John Kelly nor Simone D. has been helped by ECT; both feel [...]
Simone D. story makes the Carnival of Feminists
The 41st Carnival of Feminists is up over at Cruella-blog and the Simone D. post is included. Thank you, Cruella, for helping to spread the word about this situation.
Please, everybody, take a moment if you haven’t already to email or call the New York State officials listed in the post. [...]
“Why isn’t the feminist blogosphere all over this?”
That’s the question that faced me earlier this week when I went over to Writhe Safely to see what FlawedPlan was up to. She’d blogged about the case of Simone D., a Hispanic woman who has lost her appeal for mercy — yes, mercy — from the New York Court of Appeals. Simone [...]
