So, my plan for #PrideMonth was to write something every day.
It's my plan every Pride Month but Attention Hyperactivity, brain fog and life gets in the way!
It is so vital that we share our stories, resources, information love and acceptance all year round but...
...especially in a month where big corporations make rainbow dollars with no regard for LGBTQIA+ support. Or a passing performative we'll-bung-some-money-at-the-most-obvious-Queer-charity.
It's a month where some Queer charities are uplifted but come July 1st, are dropped...
...like a stone and left fumbling for help the other 11 months of the year.
Today the flags get taken down - the pink pound has been squeezed enough from us folk who tend to have less money anyways...
We've done our part in the capitalist machine which wants nothing more than for us to not exist.
I am so happy to be out proud, *finally* but I look around at the state of this World and I understand the allure of the closet.
Take down the rainbows they don't belong to you.
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Listening to people who were able bodied experiencing disability for the first time definitely brings up so serious feelings for me, anger, frustration, annoyance 1/8
I just want to sit in the middle of it all and shout and the want to shout "some of us live like this all the time and no one cares!? Now you can finally see what that feels like."
But I don't want to dismiss anyone's very valid feelings about having their mental and 2/8
Physical health stripped away from them.
They are now part of the Disabled community, *my* community. But they bring with them so much shame and unhappiness. Feelings I totally understand and are valid but are very difficult to listen to as a long term Disabled person. 3/8