I want to elaborate on the post I made last night.
“I don’t think we talk enough about the tension between the discourse of ‘believe all women’ and the very real fears Black, indigenous and people of color have of white women’s tears.”
Part 1
Part 2
I want to add, that yes, I do recognize that birth conversations are deep in the gender binary and that many men and non binary people do carry and have children. Unfortunately, I do not see this predicted conversation allowing space for that.
Just had a deep existential crisis over a pretty keyboard that doesn’t work with my laptop.
Basically went from: my laptop won’t recognize this cute blue keyboard
To: what is the point of existing if we’re just going to slog through 40+ years of work, 5+
Days a week only hoping for maybe 2 weeks of vacation that we’ll be afraid to take because we don’t want to lose our jobs, Being on the receiving end of micro aggressions after micro aggressions and gaslighting so I can pay off a mountain of debt in the midst of a collapsing
Country and on top of all that I CANT SPEND ANY OF THAT TIME LOOKING AT PRETTY THINGS BECAUSE THE PRETTY THING I BOUGHT TO HELP ME ENDURE EVEN A LITTLE BIT OF THAT IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH MY LAPTOP.
I believe avocado toast led to the worker shortage, a BRIEF thread...
During the 2008 recession, publications admonished millennials for taking simple pleasures like avocado toast to new levels. But, as time has revealed, it wasn’t a trend but the start of millennials turning simple things into EXPERIENCES and valuing time, creativity and
The community they got to interact with at brunch or even in their own homes.
When jobs during and after the recession requires 5 years of experience in starting salaries, people were working overtime to either get or keep their jobs.
A memory of my mom was just revealed through a talk I just did.
When I was in middle school, my mom wanted me to transfer to one of the best middle schools in NYC and would go every day to beg administrators to let me apply (even after the school year had started)
They basically ignored her until 9/11 because they were so distracted that they said yes just so she’d leave them alone.
They let her watch the news with them and then she went to go get us from school.
Fast forward to a week later and it was my first day at that school.
The school admins looked at me up and down SHOCKED.
See, my mom neglected to tell them I use crutches and my mom neglected to tell me that THE SCHOOL WAS COMPLETELY INACCESSIBLE.
The staff were like “she can’t go here.”
And my mom looked them dead in their face and said
Im gonna need more Nondisabled people to pay attention to the ways that the disability community is used to justify horrible shit, because there’s a new class of disabled white supremacists taking public office and if you don’t pay attention to the way disability’s portrayed,
You and others are going to be easily manipulated.
Easily.
You’re in the fight of your lives with healthcare.
You know how you all always point to a disabled person and ask, “well if they can overcome their disability, what excuse do you have?”
Well, the question is about
To become “if these disabled people can be elected to public office without any handouts from the government, then why do you need socialized healthcare?”
That’s the new fight. Representational politics isn’t paint by numbers. And thinking just any disabled people will do will
1. Dems’ constant ceding of ground on keystone policies while simultaneously telling constituents “what we need” strikes voters as disingenuous and performative.
2. “Blue” states are no less authoritarian and for the communities harmed, there is no difference
Which means those constituents won’t see any point in investing in Dems.
3. Dems greatest threat isn’t the GOP but the feeling of the futility of voting.
4. Dems organize midterm to midterm and via reaction. They are not seen as proactive or long planning which forces them
To position themselves as more “moderate” every time. Joe Manchin and Tim Scott are problems of their own making because of this. They wouldn’t have a “big tent” if they were cohesive.