It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can
PS WE ARE IN THE RED AGAIN AND WE KNOW EVERYTHING IS EVERYTHING BUT WE ARE STILL HERE AND KNOW SOME PEOPLE MAY NOT KNOW THIS, SO IF YOU WANNA DONATE, HIT THE CHUFFED chuffed.org/project/crip... we gotta reimb people particularly in the UK and Canada but any currency works.
Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
llps.substack.com/p/alice-wong.... what is remembered lives. @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social and me wrote our assess off on our Crips for eSims memory song for our beloved @sfdirewolf.bsky.social . #AliceForever
this is the only way for people to connect under conditions of a total internet blackout. please give.
I think we've seen this one before... catalystjournal.org/index.php/ca...
Offline for a health thing. Please share. Yall have helped six families with food and shelter for 18 straight weeks.
That’s pure hope. Don’t stop. & click “weekly.” 1425/2500 by Saturday chuffed.org/project/hope...
thanks, ceros!
this is important! I will revisit and reread. it also reminds me of the exclusions that happen in disability cultural work in/or adjacent to academic spaces
I definitely read bursting forth, and I recall reading something earlier in the summer about capacity and academic exclusion by disabled scholars who are firmly seated in sociality
this summer, yes! I'm subscribed to your substack
i've been very off-of-the-internet and otherwise terrible at attending to messages lately! it is great to be connected, I agree (and thank you!). it is always delightful to see your writing in my email inbox
ceros! fancy seeing you over here!
Call to action Email the prison governor Ralph.Lubkowski@sodexogov.co.uk Call HMP Peterborough at 0173-217500 between 8am-5pm UK time, demanding the following: -That the prison release ALL of T Hoxha's mail - That the electrolyte sachets requested by T are provided, as per the prison's duty of care T and Casey's lives are on the line!!!
It’s been over 24 hours since Casey Goonan started their hunger strike in solidarity w/pal action T Hoxa. They are diabetic and the situation is extremely urgent. Please call and email the contacts below and demand that T Hoxha have her mail released immediately.
Seizure medication, wheelchairs, Social Security cards, dentures, urns of ashes, work uniforms — just some of what's been thrown away during cruel, degrading, utterly counterproductive homeless sweeps.
A good time to revisit this gutting @propublica.org story:
The people who roll up their sleeves and do the dirty work for the insurance mafia by denying claims and sentencing innocent people to a preventable death and/or bankruptcy are literally traitors to the United States
Definition of "health communism" as a noun, described as a framework that separates healthcare from profit, productivity, and judgments of worthiness.
Today, @leftiecowboy.bsky.social explains the necessity of "ending a system in which only those deemed 'productive' or 'deserving' are allowed to live well."
inthesetimes.com/article/heal...
I'm being too generous. kuhn popularized it. but sts!
delighted to find out that "paradigm shift," as a turn of phrase, was popularized by sts.
In 1977, Disabled activists occupied the Federal Building in San Francisco to demand the passage of Section 504— legislation to protect against disability discrimination.When the building was cordoned off, in an effort to starve activists out, The Black Panthers *Broke In* to deliver them hot meals.
Really good essay by Mary Turfah out today in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social: “From this self-centering stems the logical outgrowth that a photo could so galvanize the American public as to stop a colonial war. That’s not how colonial wars work.”
Naim reached out seeking support from anyone who can share his story or who has anything to give. If you can, donate to his PayPal in order to help him feed his family and bring them to safety as soon as possible. His Instagram is naim_.shakshak.97, and his PayPal is naimshakshak97. 2/2
Naim Shakshak is a Palestinian seeking asylum in Northern Ireland. He has been separated from his family in Gaza since 2023. His brother, Ismail, was recently martyred. His family's home was destroyed by an occupation aircraft, leaving them displaced & trying to survive extreme conditions. 1/2
getting in all of the visits with my nearest and dearest before moving someplace so strange and uncertain to me. crying a lot and writing a lot and feeling thrilled and devastated but also ready.
disabled friendship is the glistening lodestar of my life
In our latest, @vickyacab.bsky.social joins us to discuss the kidnapping and detention of protesters, the administration’s proposed autism registry, and what Trump’s first 100 days tell us about his second term’s particular brand of fascism
www.patreon.com/posts/127684...
having more poet friends means that i have more people to discuss my ridiculous ideas and they don’t seem that ridiculous because everyone else’s ideas are similarly ridiculous
Hi Crips for E Sims has an itch bundle of games, RPGs, zines and I don't even know what, where for a mere $16 USD you can get like 187 things! itch.io/b/2965/crips...
