Essays
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SCP 818: How Psychologists Fail Children
On Today’s Agenda, we look at SCP 818 through a disability lens. Discussing the history of intellectual disabilities, autism and how everything we have discussed before culminates into an intersectional nightmare. So join me for the final examination of An Abandoned Project.
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SCP-818: The Ongoing Project of Racialisation
On today’s agenda we are exploring racialisation. Specifically, we are covering how medical institutions have historically treated black bodies as well as how they continue to adopt racial medicine. All of this examined through the lens of SCP-818, a story that is inextricably tied to the past and the present. And that may show how…
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SCP-818: Digging Up A Dead Subject
On Today’s Agenda, we are once again tackling the SCP Foundation. However, this time, we are looking at a story I love. From commentary on racism, to the horrors of ableism, to the cruelty of the Foundation itself. Let’s examine what TroyL has to say in SCP-818.
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A Return to Archetypal Nightmares
On Today’s Agenda, we explore Campbell and Psychoanalysis. From daddy issues to dreaming of mummies to a son’s rise into archetypal imagery, let’s explore the issues with the most infamous form of psychology. And how it still plagues us to this day.
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An Initiation Into Heroic Imperialism
On Today’s Agenda we discuss how Joseph Campbell views other cultures. Whether he’s fetishising them, degrading them or simply completely misunderstanding them, there is much to unpack about the basis of his most infamous work. And how the context behind the stories he uses, reveal the context of the man himself.