Wish we embraced falling in friendship love and the magic of friendship love in general. It really is such a magnificent, kindred soul-shifting experience that can manifest in so many wonderfully different ways. It truly deserves its own genre of art, movies/TV, writing, music.
Wish we had more vocabulary to talk about our friendships. Wish we didn't relegate friendship to the binary of either lover/partner or friend. ugh. it's so limiting and does not do justice to the depth and complexity of friendships and love we feel for and with our friends.
My friends have saved my life. They have been there for me in some of my most darkest and joyful times. They have romanced me and i them.
They are not "layovers" between partners/lovers. They are not "side dishes" to the "main dish."
They occupy such an important part of what love is and can be. They don't diminish other forms of love, they enhance them.
They are a unique kind of home and belonging, esp for me as a queer, disabled, adoptee, woman of color, survivor.
Friendship break-ups can bring you to your knees and lay you out in bone-cold-misery. They are a particular kind of gut-wrenching heartbreak that you go through, often without the kind of support or understanding or commiseration that other break-ups get.
Anyways, i just want more art and books and series and songs about friendships. I want more conversations and spaces for us to be able to talk about our friendships in. I want more language,nuance and exploration.
Bc i love my friends deeply and i would not be here without them.
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"The time has come for us to reimagine everything. We have to reimagine work and go away from labor. We have to reimagine revolution and get beyond protest. We have to think not only about change in our institutions, but changes in ourselves."
" We are at the stage where the people in charge of the government and industry are running around like chickens with their heads cut off. It’s up to us to reimagine the alternatives and not just protest against them and expect them to do better."
"We are at the point of a cultural revolution in ourselves and in our institutions that is as far-reaching as the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture 11,000 years ago, and from agriculture to industry a few hundred years ago."
All Biden's words have done is make clear--abundantly clear--what we already have known: that we are on our own for the pandemic and the little that still remain (for some), will be gone soon (obvi wealthy folks will be able access whatever they want whenever as per usual).
Our work now should be cultural changes, so that we can get (our) folks to get boosted, wear masks and continue other safety precautions. We should be *normalizing* masks. Taking pictures (esp with others) with your masks ON.
Post about when you got your booster or when you made your appointment. shit, make an entire event out of it with tweets and stories and photos and videos. I know it seems small, but unfortunately, a lot of folks won't do it unless enough other people are.
Sending love + strength to folks feeling pressure to loosen covid safety practices bc you feel alone, isolated+ judged. Bc everyone else is acting as if the pandemic is over. Bc there's yet *another* picture of your "close friends" unmasked together/with a large unmasked group.
Bc people are looking at you like it's *you* who has the problem. Bc they *completely "support" you* while they go on to *not* support you at all. Bc their mental health, as if you don't also have mental health struggles for the same fucking reasons.
Bc they don't want to make people feel uncomfortable or have to have a hard conversation (which you have been having all fucking pandemic). Bc you miss your loved ones so so so so much and wish you too could go on a plane and travel to see and hug them.
Do yall have favorite BIPOC cultural instrumental music?
Specifically looking for music that makes you feel good, is chill/soothing, makes you want to move your body or is just so damn great/beautiful/powerful that anyone would love it.
ok amending this to include music w words/vocals too (as long as they are not offensive lol).
posted this on my IG stories and gonna share some recommendations from there too.
one that i loved that someone suggested was Etienne Charles, a Trinidadian jazz trumpeter.
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The ableism of all of this make my blood boil. I hate that our people have to choose between being locked away in institutions riddled with abuse and blanketed in isolation or living in poverty/dying from an abled supremacist world that would rather us hidden or dead.
I think about the disability tax of all of this and how an ableist capitalist world shamelessly profits off of disabled people's survival. How we get painted as burdens, even as the system grossly uses us and the profit it makes off of our very survival to keep itself going.
Any disability justice work should be in alignment and solidarity with abolition. And any abolition work should be in alignment and solidarity with disability justice.
Disability justice is abolition work and abolition work is disability justice work. Period.
This is why disability justice and disability rights are NOT the same. It is important to understand the differences between their histories, approaches and politics.
This is why i understand my transformative justice work to be disability justice work. Abolition and disability justice have so many intersections and IMO every disabled person should be an abolitionist. Or maybe they would be if they knew their history.