How about I describe my experience in the @TED Residency, when its billionaire funder, @ruthannharnisch of the @harnischfound told me I was "a destructive force in a world you hoped to improve" And I should "Disable [my] socials until you get the help you need."
https://twitter.com/ZJAyres/status/1554555815331233794
An hour later, my ex, @MegRhi texted me, asking me to have Ruth Ann stop texting her employer's board members, as though I could stop a billionaire on a rampage
It's ok that none of this means anything. But it nearly killed me. And I will hold onto the terror and pain I felt forever. @CyndiStivers is complicit.
After learning that I'm not the only one who was left at the brink by Ruth Ann's rage, I have quietly spent the past 5 years warning other disabled folks who could cross her path about her. But I'm ready to start talking about it in depth on this platform.
This is how I came to understand that David Walentas was gentrifying philanthropy. I experienced Ruth Ann Harnisch buying me and others up, for a minimal sum, as though we were some sort of investment property to be acquired. eejackson.medium.com/philanthropic-…
Anyway, I've been doing what I did since that day I provoked her ire. And what I have come to realize is that I wasn't a destructive force in a world I had hoped to improve. I was a destructive force in a world SHE hoped I would improve.
And my god, I want to destroy the shit out of that world. #EatTheRich
It has taken years, but one of my proudest accomplishments is being the only person (I'm aware of) to get kicked out of the TED Residency. I now wear it as a badge of honor.
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