@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. itās like how some people are ātired of the pandemicā except itās the opposite of that and also saturated with rage.
I keep seeing the phrase āmask offā and humbly offer āveil liftedā None of what is happening is new, you just had the luxury of not looking.
Iāve spent a lot of time this past year thinking about how some people react to injustice from a place of āthat should never have happened to MEā while other people react with āthat should never have happened to ANYONEā 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 canāt even begin to tell you.
[Image description: Photograph of a melting iceberg taken from above. White pieces of ice of varying sizes of all different shapes float over dark blue water. The ice is white, with shades of grey and...
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 weāre being buried alive, and it makes us terrible allies.
being a historian of disability and public health these past few years, the refusal to acknowledge that eugenicist justifications for accepting the ongoing disability and deaths are eugenicist, the refusal of our responsibility to each other, didnt surprise me, but it kind of broke something in me.