"Remote learning is bad for a child's mental health."
Fuck, you know what's bad for a child's mental health?
* Yet another fucking global catastrophe that the adults /could/ do something to mitigate but refuse
* Said global catastrophe existing alongside other global catastrophes
* Living in a supposedly first-world country where access to mental health services is severely limited by a lack of universal healthcare AND a shortage of providers due to the scarcity model
* Their parents having ZERO guaranteed paid leave of any kind: no paid vacation, no paid sick leave, no paid maternity or paternity leave, nada
* The effects of Long Covid which causes autoimmune, vascular, and neurological effects that could have been avoided if society wasn't
ready to sacrifice both children and workers on the altar of Capitalism
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So, I have thoughts as an #Indigenous person about the first two chapters of #TheBookOfBobaFett and I can't keep them in. I don't want to spoil people, so this is your warning to click away now. Another note: I am just one Anishinaabe woman and represent only myself. 1/
I have long loved Tuskens, ever since KotOR. People who know me well know that I've long threatened to write Tusken fanfic. So when I say that I loved the humanization of the Tuskens in BoBF (and The Mando), know that it's from a long-standing Tusken fandom 2/
So first, the good:
* Tuskens are finally shown to have an actual culture and society and aren't reduced to the stereotype of the Ignoble Savage from old Westerns.
* The writers clearly took inspiration from real-life Indigenous cultures when breathing life into the Tuskens 3/
I haven't talked about it much on here, but last year my partner of several years died after struggling with Long Covid for a year. They had an early case of Alpha in 2020 and their lungs never fully recovered. They were on oxygen for the rest of their life and died at 40. 1/
They also died a week before my mother died, in a hospital less than a mile from the one in which my mom lay dying on a high pressure O2 machine. Her death came not from Covid, but from severe side effects of chemoradiation for her lung cancer 2/
But I am terrified of Long Covid because I've already seen what it can do firsthand. It robbed Ken of years of his life and left a hole in my heart. I worry because my family is already at risk and already struggle with autoimmune issues, including my daughters. I don't want 3/