Undoing Suicidism: A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to Rethinking (Assisted) Suicide by Alexandre Baril
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https://doi.org/10.7202/1118911arKeywords:
suicide, assisted suicide, suicidism, trans/queer studies, interdisciplinary studies, legal reformLanguage(s):
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Suicide prevention initiatives and strategies commonly focus on a curative and rehabilitative approach, which often causes harm to the suicidal subject and negates their lived experience and feelings. In Undoing Suicidism: A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to Rethinking (Assisted) Suicide, Alexandre Baril challenges dominant attitudes towards suicide, discusses suicidism as a form of oppression that silences the suicidal subject and delegitimizes their suffering, and proposes an affirmative interpersonal and legal approach through the lens of trans, queer, and disability studies.
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