"You interrogate your privilege, but never your abled privilege. You educate yourself about oppression, but never ableism."

@miamingus.bsky.social

what @miamingus.bsky.social said!

I can't repost this enough times.

I was reminded of this gorgeous article by @miamingus.bsky.social today. Its a short read but it describes everything I'm always reaching for, and often missing, in life as a disabled person

leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/a...

A must read or reread:
You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence by Mia Mingus leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/y...
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🙌🏽 Indeed! "'Disability Justice' is Simply Another Term for Love" - Mia Mingus @miamingus.bsky.social

leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2018/11/03/d...

"... We are all aging, we are all living in polluted and toxic conditions and the level of violence currently in the world should be enough for all of us to care more about [D]isability and ableism." - Mia Mingus @miamingus.bsky.social
leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2017/04/12/a...

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Just read @miamingus.bsky.social's blog post on access intimacy. It explains why so many of us living with #lupus were devastated by @lupus.org's decision to scrub the LGBTQ community, and the Black and Brown community from their website.

leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/a...

will never get tired of seeing the #AccessIsLove gear out in the world

We paired it with @miamingus.bsky.social pod mapping guide. My caregiver is trans and I am severely disabled so we have talked a lot about our various needs and various risks while we are in this caregiving dynamic.

More info on pods: www.soiltjp.org/our-work/res...

The next Pod Greenhouse is Saturday, Sept 20th, 12:30-3pm ET

It's a virtual space, registration is free and you can register as an individual or as a group. There's more access info at the link below

Excited to see all who have already registered!

Register: www.soiltjp.org/our-work/gre...

"Imagine being so harmed by an infection that everyone around you refers to as harmless that you can’t walk more than 500 steps a day. Imagine you have to plan your week around taking a shower (sitting down)."

Long covid is now the most common chronic health problem in children, even surpassing asthma.

Absolutely wild how extremely far right rhetoric on Covid/disabled people, that liberals and leftists rightly attacked MAGA for in 2020, has now been mainstreamed to the point that leftists/liberals are further right on public health than most MAGA people were in 2020. Julia outlines it well here

Watching this play out in real time has been mindboggling. At some point, liberals and progressives are going to have to reckon with this if we have any hope of making progress.

We should have listened to disabled and immunocompromised ppl.

We should have cared.

I came across an older text "Access Intimacy: The Missing Link" by @miamingus.bsky.social a few days ago.
It's not often that something resonates with me so much, suddenly piecing together long-standing, vague feelings like a puzzle.

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Love this: "Where might we be if we interrogated the conditions that allow harm to take root + flourish? What more could be possible if we actively embodied connection + community? What could we win if we sought out concrete practices to close the gap between our professed values + our actions?"

Sad but true. RFK Jr's wish is coming true—everybody's getting measles. Cases are rising & there's no end in sight www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jrs-wish...

the construction of Cop City hinged on a compliant media that repeated false police claims and framing, private funders who see expanded policing as a safeguard for their capital, and state actors willing to serve those interests without question. none of that is unique to Atlanta!

Cop City is officially "opening" today. The movement against it carries so many lessons for people everywhere, because the issues are everywhere today: the un-democratic militarization and expansion of policing and state violence, backed by dark money private funding.

Periodic reminder this is FDA-approved for men as well as women up to age 45!

It covers 9 strains of HPV so even if you’ve been exposed to some, it can protect you from others.

It works on strains that cause cervical, vaginal, vulvar, anal, throat and back of mouth cancer. Low-key medical miracle.

Things that have extended the average lifespan of working people:
Unions
Healthcare (through unions, Medicare and Medicaid)
Universal public education
Labor laws
Environmental regulations
Social Security

If you seek to undermine all of these,what is your underlying objective?

This is an *active* current example of democrats helping to pass a law that will actively hurt people fighting civil rights and civil liberties in our current crisis moment. Either help the movement, get out of the way, or admit what side you’re on.