Share this page!

Brianne Benness Profile picture
Twitter logo
Apr 8 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
if you can comfortably spare some cash today, can you support sick folks directly by helping someone(s) in today’s #VoidGives thread get closer to their goal?

fundraising can be essential for survival & also exhausting, but we can help.

p.s. let us know you helped in the poll!
if you have any non-financial support requests/offerings for other sick folk, please reply to *this* tweet with details.

are you looking for someone to chat with while you fold laundry/watch a movie? do you need help doing online research? are you easily able to help with tasks?
if you’re sick & fundraising for yourself/someone you care about, reply to my first tweet (not this tweet) w maybe a quick snapshot of your fundraising progress & goals this week (like “raised $5 of $500 so far this week!”) followed by your link(s) or a quoted tweet w your links.
I really encourage everyone to give directly to folks in replies, but if that’s inaccessible to you for any reason, you can also send a few $ to my personal P*yPal (not NEIS account) & I will redistribute it all slowly in daily threads as energy allows: paypal.me/bennessb
if you’re not able to vote in polls for any reason, please reply here to let us know you helped & to be counted!

and finally! if you want to learn more about this iteration of Void Gives, here’s a thread with more info:

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Brianne Benness

Brianne Benness Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @bennessb

Brianne Benness Profile picture
Apr 9
if you can comfortably spare some cash today, can you support sick folks directly by helping someone(s) in today’s #VoidGives thread get closer to their goal?

fundraising can be essential for survival & also exhausting, but we can help.

p.s. let us know you helped in the poll!
if you have any non-financial support requests/offerings for other sick folk, please reply to *this* tweet with details.

are you looking for someone to chat with while you fold laundry/watch a movie? do you need help doing online research? are you easily able to help with tasks?
if you’re sick & fundraising for yourself/someone you care about, reply to my first tweet (not this tweet) w maybe a quick snapshot of your fundraising progress & goals this week (like “raised $5 of $500 so far this week!”) followed by your link(s) or a quoted tweet w your links.
Read 5 tweets
Brianne Benness Profile picture
Apr 8
ok I’m starting to read The Invisible Kingdom today so here is a thread of loose quotes, reactions & tangents!

bookshop.org/books/the-invi…
I just want to start this thread with a quick disclaimer that when I am *enjoying* writing by white women writers I tend to go off on tangential White Lady Bias rants in the same way that I do in irl conversations about books with white lady friends.
I’m usually not intending to yell at the author or other white ppl who enjoyed the book. instead of snarking, imagine me enthusiastically info dumping about bias over tea.

(I’m saying this in case you haven’t seen my book threads before & you jumped into a rant or something.)
Read 9 tweets
Brianne Benness Profile picture
Apr 8
if you’re chronically ill & used to think of yourself as “healthy”, what was the experience or moment when you personally began to think “hmm, maybe I am a sick person & not a temporarily embarrassed healthy person?”
it was definitely tied to work for me.

I always knew my body was persnickety, but I thought I just wasn’t doing enough self care or something.

and my self care load kept growing but my capacity to complete tasks kept shrinking. math wasn’t mathing.
(“temporarily embarrassed healthy person” is a reference to “temporarily embarrassed millionaires/capitalists” and not a statement on how embarrassing or not it is to be sick.)

en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stei…
Read 11 tweets
Brianne Benness Profile picture
Apr 8
I find it fascinating as people try to parse covid risks by how “healthy” they believed themselves to be how a lot of people seem to anchor health beliefs on behavior and not on the condition of their mind/body.

like running every day ≠ healthy, tho health makes running easier.
what people are really saying is that they believed their health-seeking behaviors were insurance against bad health, which makes sense because we’re told that relentlessly even when our bodies break down under the sheer weight of constantly seeking health.
(this is a lie tho. like managing poverty with financial literacy. the problem is bigger than any one person’s choices.)
Read 4 tweets
Brianne Benness Profile picture
Apr 7
one consequence of the parallel timeline across practically all television that The Pandemic Is Over Now is that tv is still a mirror world without any chronic illness (as it has basically always been) and the scale of this distortion is so dangerous now in context of long covid.
like it is shocking to me at this point that people are still getting sick with no awareness of the possibility of long covid. how can people still not know, two years in?

but I know the answers. ableism. illness denial & erasure. back-to-work propaganda. just world fallacy.
at first it was hard to watch the Very Special Pandemic Episodes that shows were sneaking in, but I’m finding it increasingly difficult to watch contemporary shows that engage with contemporary current events & politics but just… pretend the pandemic is over. so dissonant.
Read 7 tweets
Brianne Benness Profile picture
Apr 7
if you can comfortably spare some cash today, can you support sick folks directly by helping someone(s) in today’s #VoidGives thread get closer to their goal?

fundraising can be essential for survival & also exhausting, but we can help.

p.s. let us know you helped in the poll!
if you have any non-financial support requests/offerings for other sick folk, please reply to *this* tweet with details.

are you looking for someone to chat with while you fold laundry/watch a movie? do you need help doing online research? are you easily able to help with tasks?
if you’re sick & fundraising for yourself/someone you care about, reply to my first tweet (not this tweet) w maybe a quick snapshot of your fundraising progress & goals this week (like “raised $5 of $500 so far this week!”) followed by your link(s) or a quoted tweet w your links.
Read 5 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

:(