There is a fundraiser to help support her family here www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-t...
In loving memory of Atinuke Abayomi Paul (Tinu), beloved daughter, gran… Brooke Crume needs your support for Honoring Tinu's Legacy with Compassionate Support
I'm sad to hear that Tinu is gone... I didn't know Tinu well, but we were mutuals for a while on Twitter and later Mastodon... we didn't interact a lot but we'd had some conversations around disability/COVID related issues on twitter. I know she will be missed by many.
"I've never heard of that happening so it must not be true" "That's ILLEGAL! / Against teh ADA! Why didn't you protest!?" - (usually in some work or school context where they refuse to accept that it's not that easy to accomplish anything). Probably other ones along the same lines.
Not super okay, to be honest. The death of a long COVID patient at the hands of a system that has weaponized apathy is already infuriating and unfair. The fact that it happened exactly as Tinu told us it would, the fact that it happened to an advocate like her… Ableism kills. She deserved better.
Most people do not understand that disability is a battle of adaptation. Adapting takes resources and none of the specialty items are cheap (not the fault of the manufacturer). So, you adapt or die. Have money or die.
My heart cannot handle how consistently the disability community loses our most powerful voices to situations that amount to "they simply couldn't come up with the money to keep living." This fucking country is a systemically ableist eugenics factory backed by the Healthcare system and the US govt.
Blessed be the memory of Tinu Abayomi-Paul. Activist. Writer. Parent. Daughter. Killed by long covid, cancer, and systems that just don’t care enough about the most vulnerable of us. Her powerful legacy lives on. @tinu.bsky.social#rip
Many people's identities don't fit into typical gender roles. Can we please just leave them alone to live their lives?
Andrew Joseph White - “Hell Followed with Us” & “The Spirit Bares Its Teeth” - need to read his most recent novel. Zeyn Joukhadar - “The Map of Salt and Stars” & “The Thirty Names of Night” .... I need to read more.
Hey Bluesky! Hit me up with the most recent book, story, song, or other piece of art you loved that was created by a trans person. Let's boost some trans creators today.