Today I was reminded that even our friends hold / promote #Islamophobia + Islamophobic tropes (a “liberal,” gay, Jewish, well educated + traveled doctor). cnn.com/2021/09/11/us/…
As @DMogahed says, “‘Fear kills freedom, so Islamophobia is bad for democracy, not just Muslims.’”
#Islamophobia, subtle or overt, latent or virulent, is not a friend.
+ basic #ableism centering identity on work and productivity. Normalize telling your friends and family when you’re not ok. Normalize telling your caregivers. Normalize taking a break. Normalize asking for help, normalize receiving it. #RIPBlakeHounsell
61 million adults in #USA live with a #disability = 1 in 4. You are +/or know someone living with a disability. Do we talk about it? Or is it a shameful, secret thing? Internalized #ableism, #stigma kill.
“NYC’s private sector hospitals are run more like private equity firms than the nonprofits they’re meant to be. They lavish their executives with six- and seven-figure salaries and bonuses…”
“Mount Sinai Health System alone now has more than 700 nursing vacancies. With this level of understaffing, it is nearly impossible to deliver the quality and compassionate care our patients deserve.”
My 30’s and 40’s I lost 100+ people to suicide, overdose, etc. I remember a #LGBTQ+ fellow organizer grieving with me about @brandonlacycamp — that was 10 years ago. It was her first such loss. Not mine by far (tho he was a bestie so it was brutal).
Our #LGBTQ communities (plural) are diverse. We don’t live identical lives or have the same struggles. We each have our own journeys, facing hate + bigotry. Trauma. Homelessness. Murder. Sexual violence. Chaotic drug and alcohol use.
We each have difference resources and access to community or legacies of trauma and capacity differentials. Some of us are more resilient. Some of us are more courageous. It’s not a competition, of course. #LGBTQ
I don’t remember learning that the pelekys also was the symbol of the fascist Metaxas, as it is an ancient Hellenic (actually — Minoan) symbol. metaxas-project.com/doube-axe-labr…
The Hellenes also gave the world Sappho, who gave us some of the earliest recorded or preserved love and erotic poetry about women by a woman.
Clearly we don’t all agree on who the ‘us’ is in #USA, who belongs, who matters, who should vote, what I means to be, ‘an American.’ pewresearch.org/religion/2021/…
Despite this, about 20% say the federal government should stop enforcing the separation of church and state a that the Constitution was inspired by God. #DefendDemocracy
It is the right thing to do — the #USA is in a revolutionary, transformational moment, change is happening so quickly — and would be an example of accountability for past harms done, of #repentance and #repair, an #amends. #drugs#law#policy@POTUS@JoeBiden