Aspiring writer. Criminology Honours student and research assistant. (they/them)
Joined January 2012
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Yssy Burton retweeted
"DEG can see that traditional criminal justice responses to issues of personal and public safety do not contribute to actual or perceived safety, and in fact make things worse". parliament.nsw.gov.au/ladocs…
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Walgett residents are still buying drinking water. River water unsuitable & Council hasn't made RO system work, so tap water still high sodium. No change since we started alert 2018. Time to bring out our big guns - @thedanesimpson and Bow ❤️💛🖤thelatch.com.au/the-amazing-…
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18 Aug 2023
Sam Kerr is one of the worlds best on the pitch but that's not why she's my hero
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6 Aug 2023
Save lives - support the opening of an overdose prevention service in the Melbourne CBD - Sign the Petition! chng.it/8V9SPZny via @ChangeAUS
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12 Jul 2023
Please sign this letter to Media Watch.
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5 Jul 2023
I've been practicing psychiatry for 38 years. I love my job, my peers, and my patients. But I've come to the conclusion that I'm participating in the biggest intellectual scam of this era. We claim to be a science, but have no understanding how thought or behavior is generated./1
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Yssy Burton retweeted
5 Jul 2023
Our findings call for a deeper understanding of the way affluence (rather than social disadvantage), masculinity (rather than femininity) & whiteness and coloniality (rather than racialized ‘others’) shape the application or otherwise of criminal labels
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Yssy Burton retweeted
26 Jun 2023
Therapy-speak has helped normalize conversations about mental health, but some of the terminology has gotten lost in translation. I wrote about how there are gradations of the human experience and the limits of therapy-speak vox.com/even-better/23769973…
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26 May 2023
An excellent podcast and a great summary!
25 May 2023
'CSI on Trial' is such a compelling, well-made podcast about the history and harms of forensic disciplines, and the way they are used in the criminal legal system.
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Yssy Burton retweeted
25 Feb 2023
Big appreciation to @SenatorThorpe for challenging the cop float at Mardi Gras. Some of us remember when this was an actual protest for rights we still don’t have, and against those who do us harm.
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Yssy Burton retweeted
12 Dec 2022
TERF squad is giving this exact vibe
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To mark #internationaldayofpersonswithdisability, our Director @JLSbioethics shares her thoughts about this year's theme, Transformative solutions for inclusive development: the role of innovation in fuelling an accessible and equitable world.
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Yssy Burton retweeted
25 Nov 2022
I’m speaking at this event if anyone’s interested. I’m writing it as we speak and it’s a little in your face, but may be of interest (definitely abolitionist)
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Yssy Burton retweeted
12 Nov 2022
I always meant to share my one secret piece of sure-fire writing advice, which also doubles as great financial advice and prolongs life, before the end. So with twitter's fate uncertain, I might as well just post it now. 1/2
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Yssy Burton retweeted
11 Apr 2022
TW Suicide. There is an underlying “objective measuring” of a persons mental state based on arbitrary behaviour such as hair washing, using such measures to determine the scale of suffering is lethal. A decade ago I was severely depressed, diagnosed so. 1/
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Yssy Burton retweeted
6 Apr 2022
The Age has now asked me to write an op-ed and this is my response:
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11 Mar 2022
RT @MrDTJames: That extends the record to 234 years without a copper being found guilty for killing an Aboriginal person.
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