@undercafeinated.bsky.social Yay, you made it! Welcome!

a cool thing about being high risk in the pandemic is that people will tell you reassuringly that they mask in public all the time and then tell you casually about going out to eat in restaurants and then act shocked when you ask them to mask around you as if restaurants were not public spaces

yes, I would say I have Pandemic Denial Fatigue, thanks for asking. it’s like how some people are “tired of the pandemic” except it’s the opposite of that and also saturated with rage.

I keep seeing the phrase ‘mask off’ and humbly offer ‘veil lifted’ None of what is happening is new, you just had the luxury of not looking.

I’ve spent a lot of time this past year thinking about how some people react to injustice from a place of “that should never have happened to ME” while other people react with “that should never have happened to ANYONE” and how much the future depends on moving as many people as possible from 1 to 2

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I have found solace so many times this year in this essay from Mia Mingus, I can’t even begin to tell you.

You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence

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Same.

power is contextual. our struggles are connected. learning to engage in generative conflict is worth it.

this is basically what most critiques of white feminism & white disability activism have in common; many of us have been conditioned by white supremacy to react to all feedback as if we’re being buried alive, and it makes us terrible allies.

BBbennessb.bsky.socialOct 22, 2023 1:58pm

I’ve been confronting a lot of ableism in my life this year, and it’s become pretty clear to me that oppression & white supremacy self-replicate interpersonally via abusive conflict regardless of which axis of oppression is at play. in August I briefly had the brain juice to explain it in an email: