Black text on white background. Transcribed text: But rest should not be a luxury; our time belongs to us and is not inherently a commodity. Reclaiming our time is an act of sovereignty over our lives, deserved by everyone. Alice Wong Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

Bam!

From Elliot Kukla’s essay The Most Valuable Thing I Can Teach My Kid Is How to Be Lazy

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Black text on white background. Transcribed text: This view has endured in American culture. Hundreds of years later, working to the point of self-harm to build the boss’s wealth is still lauded as a “good work ethic” in America, and the word lazy is still connected to racism and injustice. It’s poor, unhoused, young, Black, brown, mentally ill, fat, and chronically sick people who are most often accused of sloth. We rarely hear about lazy billionaires, no matter how much of their fortune is inherited. Alice Wong Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

Work will never love you back and we all deserve rest. We all deserve to enjoy our lives. (And no one needs to be a billionaire to do that.)

From Elliot Kukla’s essay The Most Valuable Thing I Can Teach My Kid Is How to Be Lazy

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Black text on white background. Transcribed text: We’re tired by unprocessed grief and untended-to illness and depression. We’re tired of wildfires becoming a fact of life in the West, of floods and hurricanes hitting the South and East. We’re really tired of this unending pandemic. Most of all, we are exhausted by trying to keep going as if everything were fine. Alice Wong Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

So tired.

From The Most Valuable Thing I Can Teach My Kid Is How to Be Lazy by Elliot Kukla.

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Zionism Made Hanukkah About Israel, But It’s Always Been a Holiday of Diaspora Forget Maccabean militarism. In this age of climate crisis, let’s talk about the miracle of burning less oil.

A reconsideration of what #Hanukkah is really about, by #ElliotKukla for @truthout.bsky.social. "The oil is an intentionally quiet miracle. It is about discovering that we can get by with less." i was introduced to it last night at an inspiring #IfNotNow meeting. truthout.org/articles/zio...