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:
if you think a sick/disabled person is “fishing” for something in a support community, I would invite you to consider that… yes, they are fishing for support? same as you?
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 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.)
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.)
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.)