“It is painful beyond imagination that so many—even close loved ones—are perfectly happy to cosplay normal even if that normal involves vulnerable groups’ long-term exclusion from public spaces.”
I wrote about @npr.org ‘s decision to frame disabled people's ongoing exclusion from all public spaces as an annoyance to be navigated by individuals, rather than a massive civil rights violation to be challenged by the collective. www.thegauntlet.news/p/disabled-p...
NPR tacitly endorses the removal of Long COVID sufferers from public life
Apparently today is the official 4 year anniversary of Covid, so as you are recalling the pain and trauma of “official” lockdowns today, please remember that disabled ppl are still in isolation, with no end date. You may feel it’s over, but your burden actually just shifted to us, on top of our own.
This paper is out for real now. Mask mandates saved thousands of lives and hundreds of millions of dollars in Ontario in 2020 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Abstract. Mask use for prevention of respiratory infectious disease transmission is not new but has proven controversial during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. In Onta
A state Senator in Oklahoma responded to a question about the death of Nex Benedict with hate speech targeting the queer community. "We are going to fight it to keep that filth out of the state of Oklahoma," State Senator Tom Woods said. This is how Republicans respond when a child dies?
A state senator said during a public forum in Tahlequah that LGBTQ+ people are "filth," and that he and his constituents don't want them in "our state."
Today marks two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It has meant two years of violence and destruction for the Ukrainian people, which we have documented through open sources 🧵
Spent a wonderful evening celebrating the 90th birthday of a dear and fabulous friend. Much love and laughter.
It would be wrong to see this as just a prudish or Victorian or even sincerely religious attitude about sex. It’s about control. It’s about the authority of the state intruding into more and more parts of life, and about making more and more people complicit in the abuse of power. /1
Yes. And we need to understand why. Griswold established an expansive right to privacy. It created a prophylactic between the state and ourselves. The fascist project is to obliterate privacy so that the state can permeate and interfere in all aspects of our lives.
