I do not appreciate the surges in anxiety and restlessness I am getting especially since they make it really hard to regulate my already hard to regulate body temp

#breakups #Anxiety #CommunityCare

Mask Oakland is asking for donations to help with this year's fire season, including sending masks and air purifiers to rural and indigenous communities close to the California/Oregon border, and getting masks distributed here in the Bay for fire season and COVID precautions: https://maskoakland.org/give/ They also noted that today is a Spare the Air day in the Bay Area and that we'll likely be seeing some wildfire smoke impacts in the next few days.

They are also looking for volunteers to help distribute masks, and connections with people and organizations in affected areas.

If you haven't heard of Mask Oakland before, they've been around since 2017, distributing masks for wildfire smoke and COVID to homeless people and others in the Bay Area as well as the Sierras. They are extremely effective--to the point that city and county governments were relying on them at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, because they'd already been doing the work.

#WildfireSmoke #MaskOakland #MaskDistro #CommunityCare

Therapy Won’t Save Us-this much is true. The longer I do this work, the more convinced I am that solutions lie well outside the mental healthcare system as we understand it. Our approach to mental well being - like so many of our methods for dealing with social issues — lacks imagination & humanity. We need #CommunityCare. So much could improve if we made the decision to take care of each other both materially & emotionally, including #mentalHealth health.
#SocialWork

https://time.com/6308096/therapy-mental-health-worse-us/

Hello everyone,

I have a very important #mutualAid request for a dear friend.

This is the first time they've reached out for help: they're really struggling to survive as they wait for their application for disability benefits to be reviewed.

They been trying to sell art work and crystal collection, without much luck at all. They have no other income but this.

Any amount helps, and please do circulate this fundraiser, as the more it gets seen, the more chances of donations.

Here's where to send funds:

Cashapp is $Charlight
PayPal is @charbarley

Thank you so much for your help!

I've attached their #collage work and a picture of their precious #FurBaby.

#Queer #Autistic #Disabled
#MutualAid #Community #Fundraiser #LGBTQ
#CommunityCare #ChronicIllness #Artist #SocialSecurity #USA #COVID #covid19

Hello everyone,

I have a very important #mutualAid request for a friend of mine. This is the first time they've reached out for help-- they're really struggling to survive as they wait for their application for disability benefits to be reviewed.

They been trying to sell art work and crystal collection, without much luck at all. They have no other income but this.

Any amount helps, and please do circulate this fundraiser, as the more it gets seen, the more chances of donations.

Here's where to send funds:

Cashapp is $Charlight
PayPal is @charbarley

Thank you so much for your help!

I've attached images of their beautiful #collage work and their precious #FurBaby.

#Queer #Autistic #Disabled
#MutualAid #Community #Fundraiser #LGBTQ
#CommunityCare #ChronicIllness #Artist

Since my business cards weren’t ready in time, I’m bringing #zines to hand out at the conference instead. This is one of my favourite zines. It includes letters from lots of people, plus a #collective letter that came out if a #community conversation. #narrativetherapy #trans #communitycare (you can read the zine here - https://tiffanysostar.com/letters-of-support-for-the-trans-community-vol-1/)

Can we build better mutual aid networks on the Fediverse?

We need to build better communities of care. @Tinu has been building an amazing network on Twitter for years, but now that's being shredded by the growing abuse and fascist queerphobic racists. But the network still sort of exists there, and it's why some people end up stuck over there, because the network here is scattered and unreliable.

If we want to build a more just, accessible, equal, and equitable future, then we MUST build up a supportive mutual aid community. One of care, where we leave no one behind.

Disabled folks rely on mutual aid and a network of support.

When people mock or demand people not "beg" for money or mutual aid, when you report our posts? That's all harmful and ableist. If people don't want to see our mutual aid posts, then use the tools within the fediverse softwares to create filters to block that content. Otherwise, leave us alone to build up or help us build up.

Disability payments often aren't enough to survive on even if we are able to get on it. (Some get trapped in endless reapplying for years despite having qualifying disabilities because the system is set up to deny, not aid us.)

So we rely on mutual aid to help keep us alive.

So either help us set this up or shut up and get out of our way please.

@disability
DisabilityJustice@Chirp.social

#NEISVoid #Disability #CommunityCare
#DisabilityJustice #MutualAid

Request for Mutual Aid
(Links at end of post)
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My partner and spouse wrote this fundraiser for our family because I haven't the brain power to do this.
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Please read, if you can:
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We are a family of five living in Bath, #Michigan. All five of us are disabled in different ways, but we have found a way to get by and thrive for many years. However, one parent had a sudden severe downturn of health at the beginning of this summer that has left us unable to continue getting the income that we need. The parent has several chronic medical conditions, #HidradenitisSuppurativa , Elhers Danslos Syndrome, and #POTS, as well as #autism

An infection brought home from school in May has led to a cascading series of medical emergencies, which resulted in hospitalization and a surgical procedure for a deep abscess in the thigh which will take months to heal, as well as physical therapy. The parent was bedbound for over a month, causing me to lose my job. I will still be unable to get a job for several more weeks, but I will be able to resume substitute teaching once the school year begins again and the children return to school in September.

We have to get through one month without being able to work, and we are asking for help to support our family through this difficult period, so that the parent can remain on bed rest and fully recover from the medical procedure.

Our family's chronic health conditions require a very specific diet to prevent events like this. Our children also have many severe food #Allergies This makes us unable to utilize food banks. I have already tried going to many different pantries. There was only one thing that we could eat, and we could not choose what we got, so we ended up with a lot of food that we had to throw away. This is the first abscess like this that the parent has had in four years, and it came when we were low on food and had to eat something we normally would not.

We greatly appreciate any who take the time to read this. We are also unable to get basic household needs and are having to get by without many medications and other essentials. We have an Amazon wish list with household items that we need but will not be able to buy for several months, which you can find here:

#Trans #Disability #Disabled #COVID #Autistic #MentalHealth #Crisis #MutualAid #Fundraiser #CommunityCare #ChronicIllness

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2JWR2Z5DYS03F?ref_=wl_share

For direct funds here is our
PayPal link:

https://paypal.me/DFlexer?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US

People are suffering from several massively terrifying things all at once:

1. gaslighting on a mass scale via massive misinformation campaigns, dearth of accurate data makes it VERY difficult to discern truth from fiction.

2. Climate change worsening conditions for life (increasing likelihood of more pandemics atop our current one too)

3. Pandemic is still ongoing, but acknowledging it means dealing with 1 and 2 and the reality of what that means. There is a lot of grief tied up in this as well.

4. Trauma from living in a genocidal fascist state (white supremacist capitalist colonialist patriarchal state is pushing for full on genocide starting with our most vulnerable — disabled folks and/or trans folks and Jewish folks, which is who the Nazis in the 30s targeted first. Which by the way Nazi ideology arose after the Spanish flu swept through populations in a similarly terrifying way that Covid has been for us. Recall that some of the first book burnings was the Institute of Sex Research that cared for the health of trans people, and carried so much literature on trans people and queer folks. History may not repeat itself, but it certainly does rhyme).

5. Temptation to do whatever those in authority proclaim because it means less thought, less dealing with the heavy emotions of 1 through 4, and recognizing that they are vulnerable and could easily die and/or become disabled by the pandemic or some other trauma from the state. And most folks aren't ready to deal with this. They'd rather die by distraction, lies, and perpetuate gaslighting than face reality.

Why do you think so many went along with Nazism in the 1930s? Why do you think people turned a blind eye to the horrors done to the Black community again and again? Why do you think people refused to acknowledge AIDS? Acknowledging reality means acknowledging the ways in which we may have been complicit.

None of us can claim we are entirely separate from the systems that harm us, and thus by participating in them – even though most of us have no choice – we must face the fact that our participation upholds that horror. People want to view themselves as only good and so facing this morally complex situation often pushes people to not deal with it.

Yet, when disasters strike, people tend toward mutual aid and helping people. People have a tendency toward working together, but at the same time, there's a caveat to this rule. When the pandemic first started in 2020, people were roaring forward with mutual aid projects, assisting one another, and using pandemic mitigations.

But the pandemic isn't a one-time thing. It's not like a hurricane or a tornado, where we help one another and then rebuild. Those are a visible rebuilding – people can see progress. Thus it is often easier for people to aid what they see as visible progress toward goals.

Pandemics aren't visible like that. It's a long-term, erosion of life. It is hidden and hard to see. It isn't fully visible. There isn't a lot people can do other than pandemic mitigations, which are being increasingly villianized, and people want to be seen as part of an in-group. They don't want to be otherized in a time where being the 'other' will likely mean being harmed or killed. And a lot of people fail to deal with it, so they fall into 5 – temptation to give in and do what authority tells them.

Lack of ego death also plays into all of this. It is our ego that can blind us to the suffering of others and to connecting with others, where we may think of ourselves as special, where the calamity/situation/trauma can't and won't happen to us. Except, this mode of individualistic thinking is false. All of us are vulnerable and susceptible to calamities and bad things. Ultimately, we are all vulnerable people, and on a grand scale there is no meaningful difference between us.

This realization can lead people either toward apathy and despair, where they they may feel as if nothing matters and thus there is no point to trying, which leaves them susceptible to the temptation mentioned in point 5.

Or it can lead them to empathy and the realization that everything matters, and we can still care for each other. We can still thrive in a collective whole, and we don't have to face this alone.

Those of us who refuse to give in to the temptation in point 5? Who value people's lives over our own egos, over being part of any in-group, over whatever horrific justification folks are peddling these days, etc?

We see the truth of the reality we face. We yell and warn, and we refuse to fall in line with authority. We refuse to stop talking about reality, and thus we become the villain. We are forcing people to think and reflect.

So when faced with thinking and facing one's complicity in a horrific system, people lash out in anger. It's the easiest response.

In the Western world and the USA in particular:

Changing one's behaviors and the way things are currently done is incredibly hard and requires a lot of collective work. Acting in a collective way to save as many people as possible is hard. And there's far too many people who don't know how to do that.

The systems that we live in are built in a way to prevent collective work as much as possible. We've been socialized to NOT think collectively, to view it as bad, to view individualism as good — when in reality, humans can't survive for long unless we collectively work together.

But at this point, many people have made this selfish-ego-centric individualism into their identity, and anything that threatens what they view as their identity? They lash out in anger and derision. They defend themselves, even though it's killing them to do so.

Because to admit the truth?

It requires them to upend their entire way of life, their view of themselves, and to hold themselves accountable. And far too many people are not ready to take that step. So they cling to an authority that takes away the choice and makes them feel good even if they know their actions cause harm.

This is what we are up against. Yes, it is awful and it sucks. Yes it is infuriating. Yes I've been the one derided and attacked because I continue to speak up about this too, and it's hard and exhausting to keep speaking up. To keep fighting for justice, accessibility, for that better world.

But one person at a time, we build that better world. It often takes a few people to start a cascade of realization, of discovering the truth, and of laying the foundation for others to join us in the fight.

It's why it's imperative for those within our movements to not fall for the temptation of point 5. Why it's crucial to continue to be accessible with pandemic mitigations, to normalize pandemic mitigations, to refuse the dealth-cult-narrative that mass death and disablement is okay, to refuse the individualistic-ego-centric view, to refuse the ideology that profits matter more than people, and to continue to stand up and speak our truth.

Because in the end, they may try to tear us down, break us up, but truth and justice burns still. We must continue to keep those fires lit within us and within each other. Collectively we are powerful, and we can illuminate for others the path away from the temptation of point 5.

By building our collective power together and building networks of aid long-term among ourselves, we are showing through our actions another way. A better way, and we need to keep building. To not lose hope.

Mariame Kaba, a Black abolitionist organizer, once said that “Hope is a Discipline.” So let us enact the discipline of hope.

Blog version: : https://blanketfort.blog/thebird/people-are-suffering-from-several-massively-terrifying-things-at-once

#CovidIsNotOver #CommunityCare #PandemicMitigations #Pandemic #PandemicMitigations #ClimateChange

@kdnyhan

COVID shrinks dicks.
If you like fucking,
wear a fucking mask.

#ZeroCovid #novid #CommunityCare #PSA #SexualHealth #Urology

#SocialWork musings:
Sometimes I get overwhelmed by the amount of suffering and loneliness I see in my work. So many ppl have been abandoned by their families & communities, and walk through life alone. Survival is not enough. “Self care” is not enough. We need #CommunityCare

Self care™️ is cute and all but have we considered investing in community care????

Community care asks us:

Do we earnestly check in on folks?

Do we have the language to ask for help?

Is our intuition such that we understand when someone needs care?

Do we know our capacities?

Are we building relationships founded on reciprocity?

Have we created a community wherein holding space for one another is normalized?

If we understand that individualism, as popularly understood, is a capitalist ideal, and by proxy often an ableist one: has our conception of care shifted from the personal to the communal?

- Queer X Chisme (Facebook)

#SelfCare #CommunityCare #anarchism

Crosspost from Cohost:

[Note I wrote this to add to people's discussion of Borges short story the Immortals, specifically how terrifying the City of Immortals was built, so that it felt utterly hostile to human life.] It reminds me of the book I'm currently reading (and nearly finished) by Murray Bookchin.

Now Bookchin is a communalist (though he's adopted by the anarchist crowd, I'm uncertain if he directly called himself that), and he writes a lot about how cities were where people gathered and built their community. The book I'm currently reading of his is called From Urbanization to Cities: The politics of Democratic Municipalism. In it, he painstakingly goes through the history of Europe - focusing on that to limit his scope but also to show how the way we each the history of Europe is wrong - to show how for much of its history, people and their politics were rooted in a city, people's ties and their kinship was city-based and not specifically to any empire or nation. How even in the medieval ages, much of that time period was cities run by the people, and that those cities heavily resisted (often quite violently) any sort of monarchy or absolutism that tried to centralize power.

So how did these cities form into nations then? How did we go from having walkable cities that were the center of communal life, where people would gather in councils to debate ways of running the city and other necessities?

Partly due to capitalism. Capitalism stripped that from us. It alienated us, isolated us, and corralled us into narrow confines. Into labyrinths. Why? Because we can't overthrow capitalism and the centralized bureaucratic authority that caters to capitalism if we can't band together and build community.

He digs into it a heck of a lot deeper than just that, but I wanted to briefly sum up some of his conclusions.

He believed that the best way to overturn capitalism was to take back our cities and create decentralized communities and city confederacies. To tear out the labyrinths, the car-centric natures, the top-heavy authority, and focus on building community with one another. Where the community meets in councils to decide what is best for their community and the city. To build a commune so to speak. Hence communalism.

Near the end of his chapter on "politics to statecraft," he writes:
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"That there is a logic in certain historical premises, one that unfolds more as a tendency than a necessity, is certainly not arguable: nationalism does foster totalitarianism, and the centralized state tends to develop into an all-embracing state. But it is certainly difficult to argue that a super human phenomenon called "history" exists and predetermines a society's development. The Communeros [of Spain] had opened a pathway to a cooperative, unified Spain that could have yielded a very different dispensation from that which came with a centralized nation-state. So, too, had earlier city confederacies, whose achievements meet with so much disdain [from historians]. Politics had to be structured around a community of one kind or another, whether as a polis [Ancient Greek], Gemeinde [Medieval Central Europe], burg, commune, or city. Lacking the flesh and blood of politically involved people and comprehensible self-governing institutions, the human phenomenon we call "society" tends to disintegrate at its base, even as it seems to consolidate at its apex.

Centralization becomes most acute when deterioration occurs at the base of society. Divested of its culture as a political realm, society becomes an ensemble of bureaucratic agencies that bind monadic individuals and family units into a strictly administrative structure or a form of "possessive," more properly acquisitive, individualism that leads to the privatization of the self and its disintegration into mere egoism. The city, in turn, is no longer united by any sort of ethical bond. It becomes a marketplace, a destructures and formless economic unit, a realm in which the Hobbesian war of "all against all" becomes a virtual reality, ironically designated as a "return to nature."

Such a condition and the mentality it produces constitute a dissolution of nature and society's evolutionary thrust toward diversity, complexity, and community, a problem that appropriately belongs to the newly developing field and philosophy of social ecology rather than urban sociology. It is a social problem because we are talking about one of the most elemental forms of human consociation - the city - where people advance beyond the kinship bond to share, create, and develop means of life, culturally as well as economically as human beings. Here, humanitas as distinguished from the "folk," comes into its own. And it is an ecological problem in the sense that diversity, variety, and participation constitute not only the basis for the stability of human consociation but also for the creativity that is imparted to us by diversity, indeed, ultimately the freedom that alternate forms of development allow for the evolution of new, richer, and well-rounded social forms.

Urbanization, which I see as the dissolution of the city's wealth of variety and as a force that makes for municipal homogeneity and formlessness, is a threat to the stability, fecundity, and freedom that the city added to the social landscape."

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Here he is discussing his conclusion after a very thorough examination of how Europe could have instead developed confederacies of city-states, which is what the Swiss Confederacy was for most of its existence. These cities built confederacies to limit the power of the papacy and another absolutism governments (like monarchies) and were in existence for hundreds of years off and on. They showed up in the region of Italy (much of Italy's history is actually city confederacies and it's only recently with the onset of Capitalism that Italy became a full nation-state), Greece (especially Ancient Greece such as Athens and so forth), Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and even Scandinavia.

Our history is riddles with cities that were built by people and for the people, but Capitalism and the centralized authority of nationalism stole that from us.

This is why American cities, especially in the Midwest and outside of the Eastern Coastal states, are built the way they are. Capitalism and a centralized authority demands it. The dissolution of the public sphere in cities is necessary to keep the population from revolting against the exploitation Capitalism demands in its endless hunger for more profits, and a centralized authority cannot retain its power over people if the city's public sphere was to become robust again. The Eastern Coastal states were originally built during a time where the city sphere still had its heart of people running it (before America became a nation-state), and that can be seen in the walkable cores of those cities, but look at their sprawling suburbs now? Those were added to steal the life from the core of the city. To bleed it dry of its creativity, its people, and kill its heart.

Look at the time under the Trumpocalyse? When Trump did some horrific things against immigrants, cities fought back and created Safe Cities for Immigrants, this was such a threat to his centralized authority, that these cities then got hammered with economic sanctions by federal government and other penalties to try to stop them. We are seeing this again, as cities are fighting back against the lack of inaction on Climate Change, and so city governments and the people who live in that city are starting to participate again and create their own form of governance to try to curtail Climate Change with their own initiatives. How does Capitalism and the Centralized authority handle such instances? They try to suffocate them or violently disband such initiatives.

Look at the recent uprisings in cities like Minneapolis, Ferguson, Seattle, and other cities. Look at how people banded together and created forms of mutual aid to help one another. In fact, in several of them there was an autonomous zone of people working together in solidarity due to the state abandoning them (until that zone was violently taken back the the state. See Seattle's autonomous zone in 2020). Look at how the centralized authority tore apart those bonds of community every way they could.

Why do that? Because when we band together and organize ourselves and govern ourselves we become a threat to the centralized power structure that upholds capitalism and white supremacy above all else. (Because let's be real, America was founded on white supremacy and capitalism and not on actual freedom for all people. America was never For Freedom FOR All , but also about Freedom TO do harm to others that don't fit what the centralized power structure/white supremacists/capitalists decide is the "right human.")

We, the people, hold tremendous power, especially when we come together in larger communities. That is a threat to the elites who require our subjugation to continue their machines of war and profits.

Thus, cities have their hearts torn out of them because if city's were allowed to retain their hearts? The centralized power structures and capitalism itself would be threatened and likely soon dismantled. Thus we are all living in what Borges' short story Immortals called City of the Immortals. Our cities have been made to be hostile to us because it's one way the centralized authority and capitalism keeps its hold on us. To be truly free, we have to remake the city and place people back in its heart.

P.S. I highly recommend N.K. Jemisin's The City We Became series that is about how once cities reach a critical mass of people active and participating within it and building communities within it... the cities become a live, and each city has a human avatar to represent it. However, there's an otherworldly horror that threatens to kill cities and infect humans that the city's avatars need to work together to defeat.

What I love about Jemisin's series is that it really digs into how cities are about community and building that community. A city cannot be alive without its people, who participate and build and create within it.

#City #CityDesign #CommunityCare #Community #Diversity #Variety #Communalism #Anarchism #Decentralization #AntiCapitalism

#selfcare #communitycare #yourfeelingsmatter #twitterpost

#Anarchist|s during the pandemic.

At the start of the pandemic things went pretty great. We saw many #MutualAid projects cropping up, people were shopping for each other, making and distributing masks etc. It would be presumptuous to claim that all these people were anarchists. Nevertheless such projects gave people hope. Could the pandemic, despite the humyn tragedy it represents, also be one of these moments in time when Mutual Aid and #CommunityCare could reach and maybe even convince the masses, that bottom up initiatives are fantastic and to implement them in opposition to the state makes a lot of sense.

But then the state seized its opportunity and started to use its enormous resources to implement some relatively decent policies, financial aid, eviction freezes, distribution of masks, tests, later vaccines and such. It seems to me, this had a deep impact on many anarchists. The state doing decent things for once, while, it has to be pointed out also expanding their overreach and control mechanisms, was feeding the wrong narrative and created confusion.

Many anarchists at this point turned their focus onto state overreach, understandably, or they started to fight the COVID-deniers, anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers, even more understandably so. While, sadly, some "anarchists" joined the wrong side and could then be seen protesting along side neonazis and new ager conspiracy nuts against masks or what have you. This made the confusion even worse.

When the state started their process of normalizing this debilitating disease, and when what the Death Panel podcast has so aptly dubbed the sociological production of the end of the pandemic started, by running a vaccine only strategy, anarchists missed their chance to switch their focus yet again. This time back to communal care, to solidarity with the people most endangered by this awful disease (please believe me, i have #LongCOVID), by opposing the state, who started to herd everyone back into wage labor and consumption of goods. Instead anarchists just went along with the #ableist and ultimately #eugenic bullshit and were even some of the first to drop mask mandates at their events.

For comrades like myself, who had been debilitated by this insidious disease, who may still suffer from it, and who now just had to watch, sidelined, how they were now being excluded from participation, this was an almost even more devastating blow, than suffering from the disease itself.

To be clear, this will not be the last pandemic. The causes for zoonotic diseases (deforestation, intensive animal and industrial farming) have not been addressed. #COVID could have, no should have been! an opportunity to reach consensus on how we respond to a pandemic, starting within our community to then reach out to the masses.

We absolutely failed at this. Even in the analysis of the pandemic response very few interesting contributions came from our circles (many of the better ones came from socialists and marxists). Meanwhile many of the big anarchist writers remained stumm on the topic.

And for some of us, with a heavy heart, we are now in the process of moving away from #anarchy out of sheer disillusionment and disappointment.

It is time to grieve. It is time to scream. I am so done.

#Anarchy2023 #Ableism

Powers out at our house after that storm (because of course it is). I already wasn't doing well, anxiety wise, and this happens.

But our neighbors are out checking on each other, offering places to stay till the power comes back. I'm choosing to hold onto that right now.

#communitycare

This is a damn good article that EVERYONE should read. https://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/let-them-eat-plague/

Here's an excerpt of the start of the article (the article digs into the details of how we got to where we are today and the harm class collusion is doing to keep a broken, oppressive system functional at the cost of human lives):

"We have been betrayed. For three years, we have been abandoned, misled, shepherded to our dooms. Millions have died. Hundreds of millions have been disabled. All the while, respectable faces with plastered-on grins breathlessly offer hopeful platitudes, assuring us we’ll all be ok. Just trust the system.

You could be forgiven for not realizing we’re still in the middle of a pandemic, considering the total absence of media coverage. If it was important, you’d surely be hearing about it, right? The last variant you heard about was likely omicron. The last you heard about vaccines was likely “we strongly encourage everyone to get boosted.” The last you heard about masks was that they work, but they’re not required. And why would you bother wearing masks anyway if, as the United States president himself proclaimed, “The pandemic is over”?

Here’s the truth: the pandemic is not over. It’s much worse than you have been led to believe. And unless you’ve spent the past several years reading scientific studies on the subject, it can be hard to convey just how wrong the public perception of COVID really is. Everything from how it’s spread, to how it’s prevented, to what it does once it’s in your body, is being tragically misunderstood.

None of this is an accident. It’s not your “fault” if you aren’t a virologist, immunologist, epidemiologist, or evolutionary biologist. It’s the job of experts and trusted voices to convey the truth and give you guidance. Not only have they failed at this, they have engaged in an active disinformation campaign dedicated to making the pandemic “disappear”. This has not been the result of a classic caricature of conspiracy — some tiny council of elites, gathered in the shadows to craft policy out of whole cloth. What we’re actually witnessing is the quiet collusion of class interest. This form of conspiracy is a feature of cultural hegemony, and it has aligned itself in direct opposition to public health and scientific reality. A “conspiracy” of this sort takes place in full view of the public. Every actor within it has openly telegraphed motivations that we are all taught to see as acceptable: keeping the current economic system intact at all costs."

READ IT. SHARE IT.

And take action with folks like me.

1. #MaskUp with N95/KN94 or better.
2. Get or make air purifiers (like #CRBoxes) and use indoors at all events and even at home.
3. Get vaccinated but do not assume the vaccine will give you immunity or prevent transmission (it won't. It's a short-term protection to avoid more serious symptoms and dead, it's why it needs to be updated every few months).
4. Engage in #CommunityCare and protection. We keep each other safe.
5. Be #accessible at all times. Accessibility is EMPOWERMENT. It empowers us to participate with our full selves. So learn about and make accessibility the core of all planning and organizing. The above four actions I already mentioned are part of accessibility too.

#CovidIsNotOver
#Class
#FightingEugenics #LeaveNoOneBehind #FightingFascism

This work focuses on the #RightToHousing and the bi-directional relationship between criminalization and housing insecurity with abolitionist and feminist lenses. It also picks up threads from my Ph.D. on #SpatialJustice, #RadicalPlanning, #FeministGeography, #communitycare

#selfcare #communitycare #mentalhealth #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth #MentalHealthMatters #ymhc http://www.ymhc.ngo Resources at http://edu.ymhc.ngo Support at http://ymhc.ngo/ccs

Die, die zusammenfinden sollen haben sich via Massenmedien längst auseinandergelebt.

#Altenrepublik #Boomer #GenZ #CommunityCare #FirewallOfChina