Here’s a link to the Stress First Aid instructors manual (2018) from the U.S. Forest Service Department of Agriculture, directed at Wildland Firefighters. It explains the original diagnostic tool cited under the adapted graphic above (Watson et al. (2013)), which was based off a model developed by the Navy / USMC for identifying and mitigating combat stress / potential PTSD. The link below provides an overview of the stress continuum model (ie: basis for the adapted graphic above) but also basic tenets of the stress first aid model and how to employ them:
I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this. There’s so much going on here. I genuinely love the conception of gender as mystic autodeism. Gender as divine microcosm. Gender as Great Work. It’s gnostic, it’s alchemical, it’s got notes of bacchanalian worship of the body and the inherent magic of self-discovery. This but unironically.
Shoutout to transphobes for thinking gender is this fucking badass
