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Spoonie SJ activist, was marching in streets now tweets in cupboard Disabled queer AuDHD nonbinary zebra shouting into the void InsideCupboard@kolektiva.social
Oct 17, 2022 16 tweets 6 min read
I don’t like talking about how hard things are, because I have also been conditioned by the system to think myself a burden.
However, it’s important to me to add my voice to the many people speaking out about the reality of disability & poverty in this country #BTPM And my reality is that the lack of systemic support for those of us with degenerative conditions/chronic illnesses/invisible disabilities meant that I stayed in an abusive relationship with my ex carer for 2 yrs after he first put his hands on my throat, bc I didn’t know
Mar 8, 2022 22 tweets 9 min read
This #iwd I’d like to shout out my mum, who lives on the GC, has spent three days delivering hot food and supplies to the northern rivers, & who plans on going back tomorrow. With permission these are some of her observations from being down in #Lismore, Murwillumbah & Coraki a🧵 2/ “We delivered this and more food yesterday. The green portable Bain marie is on loan and keeps food warm for 8 hours. 3 people cried yesterday and so many said they only realised yesterday they do need help and the gesture of feeding them a hot cooked meal meant so much.