"The time has come for us to reimagine everything. We have to reimagine work and go away from labor. We have to reimagine revolution and get beyond protest. We have to think not only about change in our institutions, but changes in ourselves."

reimaginerpe.org/19-2/boggs " We are at the stage where the people in charge of the government and industry are running around like chickens with their heads cut off. It’s up to us to reimagine the alternatives and not just protest against them and expect them to do better."

reimaginerpe.org/19-2/boggs

All Biden's words have done is make clear--abundantly clear--what we already have known: that we are on our own for the pandemic and the little that still remain (for some), will be gone soon (obvi wealthy folks will be able access whatever they want whenever as per usual). Our work now should be cultural changes, so that we can get (our) folks to get boosted, wear masks and continue other safety precautions. We should be *normalizing* masks. Taking pictures (esp with others) with your masks ON.

Sending love + strength to folks feeling pressure to loosen covid safety practices bc you feel alone, isolated+ judged. Bc everyone else is acting as if the pandemic is over. Bc there's yet *another* picture of your "close friends" unmasked together/with a large unmasked group. Bc people are looking at you like it's *you* who has the problem. Bc they *completely "support" you* while they go on to *not* support you at all. Bc their mental health, as if you don't also have mental health struggles for the same fucking reasons.

Do yall have favorite BIPOC cultural instrumental music?
Specifically looking for music that makes you feel good, is chill/soothing, makes you want to move your body or is just so damn great/beautiful/powerful that anyone would love it. ok amending this to include music w words/vocals too (as long as they are not offensive lol).

Community is amazing! Alice has enough to cover more than a year of home care! But she also needs many other things, such as assistive tech for communication + ridiculously expensive nutritional supplements not covered by insurance. Please keep sharing <3
gofundme.com/f/alice-wong-s… The ableism of all of this make my blood boil. I hate that our people have to choose between being locked away in institutions riddled with abuse and blanketed in isolation or living in poverty/dying from an abled supremacist world that would rather us hidden or dead.

Any disability justice work should be in alignment and solidarity with abolition. And any abolition work should be in alignment and solidarity with disability justice.

Disability justice is abolition work and abolition work is disability justice work. Period. This is why disability justice and disability rights are NOT the same. It is important to understand the differences between their histories, approaches and politics.

The disability population will continue to grow exponentially from this crisis, in addition to the many other on-going crises of pollution, toxins, climate change; state and intimate violence; poverty, capitalism; lack of access to safe medical care, working conditions; etc...

https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1334952053676929027

Ableism must be part of all of our work. No matter what community you are part of or are working with. Disability is everywhere, though ableism teaches abled folks how to not recognize it and pretend it away.

Thank you so much. This means so much to me as disabled person who if often planning events/trainings.

In every group i've been part of, i have always made sure access was a non-negotiable part of our event planning--from the beginning! and not as an after thought or add-on.

https://twitter.com/doctorsqueaks/status/1330537738827919363

It makes such a difference when disabled people are in leadership and can get to shape access.

I remember coworkers/bosses/supervisors giving me a hard time because i would insist that we have 2 people on the event planning team who were solely dedicated to accessibility.

i know folks are tired of hearing that we are entering into a dangerous time and rn it feels far off, but it is real. please make safety plans, figure out who your safety pod will be. there will be backlash. DT/his supporters will retaliate, refuse to cede power, take revenge. there are a bunch of resources out there for this that folks have been putting out over the last months. I’m gonna lift up this from @visionchangewin’s Get in Formation: A Community Safety Toolkit,

but please feel free to post more underneath.

visionchangewin.com/services-and-p…

I know it seems counterintuitive, but conflict is incredibly useful/valuable and generative conflict is one of the quickest and most effective ways to build and deepen trust. Instead of running from conflict, we can work to embrace it and get curious about all that it has to teach us: about ourselves, the other person and our shared relationship. There is a TON of information in there that can help us reflect, learn and grow.

Wish we embraced falling in friendship love and the magic of friendship love in general. It really is such a magnificent, kindred soul-shifting experience that can manifest in so many wonderfully different ways. It truly deserves its own genre of art, movies/TV, writing, music. Wish we had more vocabulary to talk about our friendships. Wish we didn't relegate friendship to the binary of either lover/partner or friend. ugh. it's so limiting and does not do justice to the depth and complexity of friendships and love we feel for and with our friends.

we have our go-bags packed. just put out a change of clothes next to them in case anything happens during the night. we don’t have any evacuation warnings yet, but folks abt 10mins from us do. packing a bag of important/cherished things to also grab (computer, photos, etc). whew. this week/end has been scary and stressful. fires + heatwave + pandemic.

spent all day yesterday checking on our folks: do they have a go-bag? an evacuation plan? etc.

my partner updated our go-bags and we made our evacuation plans.

feeling for *everyone* who is impacted.

i don't know if people realize 15/20 yrs ago, we used to have to beg people to come to TJ trainings. We used to have to really *make the argument* about why TJ was important and how it connected to their work. It was like pulling teeth sometimes... and now look at us. Damn. don't get me wrong, there are still times we have to make the case, for sure. but things are so different now.

A reminder, on this last week of Disability Pride Month, that abled supremacy is a major system of oppression that is connected to *all* other systems of oppression/violence.

[image description in alt text and at the end of this thread w the link to the article of this quote] If you aren’t integrating an analysis of ableism, disability and abled supremacy in to your political analysis, you will miss huge parts of (y)our history and (y)our present conditions.

As a survivor of child sexual abuse, working for abolition via transformative justice, more police and more prisons will not stop sexual violence. If it did, we would not have the devastatingly high epidemic-level rates of sexual violence that continue to persist. Anti-abolitionists trot out survivors who will vouch for the need for police/prisons, when the reality is the state itself is one of the most rampant perpetrators (& sites) of sexual violence (e.g. sexual assault is 2nd most common form of police brutality, rape as weapon of war)

transcript of what Angela Davis says in this clip is below in thread.

https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1270434723064696835

“Change has to come in many forms. It has to be political, it has to be economic. it has to be social. What we are witnessing now are very new demands...

My ask to all organizers: if you create images to share, especially info graphics, please provide image descriptions along w graphic to download/share. It helps to remind people about access and allows them to make your content accessible.

Disability justice is a practice. If you have a website for the campaign you’re sharing about, have the image descriptions right next to the graphic so folks can download/copy it. If not, put them in the caption or let folks know they can DM you for them.

there’s such critical information being shared rn.

I will be giving 2 webinars on Pods. RSVP at bit.ly/Pods101. Space is limited. Please share.

Both will be a basic intro to the concept of pods. We will cover how it came to be, how it can be used (esp now), lessons learned, how to map your pod(s) w time for Q&A. ACCESS: Both webinars are free. We will have ASL interpretation. Visuals will be screen reader friendly. We plan to host the workshops on Zoom, which we are still learning. Please let us know in your RSVP if you have additional access needs you would like to share with us.