A Valentine thought for my fellow humans:
"...What one heart can do for another heart, is there any beauty in the world that can match this? Brotherhood, sisterhood, humanity becomes the joy and the emancipation."
~ Hafiz, 14thc Persian poet
In ordinary times, I think yes. These are not ordinary times.
After all, Nazi Germany's term for disabled people was "useless eaters." Useful eaters, step up!
I'm one of the 68M -- about 1 in 5 -- Americans on Medicare; one of the 9M on SSDI (which caps my discretionary income at just over $100/mo). Is tmw the day I don't receive my benefit check, can't pay my LTC facility, and slow roll to my death by [neologism?] kakistocra-cide?
Sending you the melodic blessing that is Saffie's Soltice Carol, with a grateful heart for friends & strangers who enliven hope in these times.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=01S6...
Dedicated to Time Magazine editors
Picture of a woman and a baby neither of whom cannot even
Definitely, at 10% into its pages
Johanna Hedva's brutally lifegiving How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom
The ifegiv
"Remember that I lovingly don’t care about what you think, but I do care very deeply about our collective capacity to dig deeper, to relate wider, to engage in productive disillusionment, and to fall apart and together generatively, as we face the end of the world as we know it."
Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira is a destabilizing read in the most generative way: [eg] ...
Cold wind blowing:
Dr. Oz in charge of Medicare and Medicaid.
Should we have hoped for Dr. Phil? :-p
They want to say shit that upsets you and then watch you get upset. Starve them of that shit. Block them all. There's nothing constructive about the conflict fetish that drove the algorithm in the bad place. Arguing online only hardens most people's positions anyway. We don't have to live that way.
How did I miss Sara Luterman's 2023 profile of the incomparable Anita Cameron?
You're welcome.
#DisabilityFierce
19thnews.org/2023/05/anit...
Clarifying: my undertanding of Beloved Community includes *everyone*, incl those for whom Christo-centric imagery may not resonate.
[fn1: Well, not necessarily violent extremists who think they have the right to exclude people from Beloved Community.
Paradox of Tolerance and all that.]
Microdose Rx For These Times, by David Whyte:
"This is not the age of information.
This is NOT the age of information.
Forget the news
and the radio
and the blurred screen.
This is the time
of loaves
and fishes.
People are hungry
and one good word
is bread for a thousand."
How do you face fascism? I like Orwell's version: ground yourself in direct and immediate experience, trust your senses, find some joy, turn back to face the fascists and tell truths to combat the lies.
#Disability #Disabled folks & friends: Bluesky feed and follower recs for disability fierceness, policy, culture, rights, liberation?
That's one thing I value on The Other Site, and want to support on this platform.
Note to self: Caveat scriptor.
Just learned that so far bsky has no "edit post" function.
I think so, for "Feeds".
Also, so far bsky doesn't have a way to edit posts.
Caveat scriptor...
Yes to facing the shadow! May despair, though I may feel huge waves crash in and around me each day, never become my default
