Its really troubling and scary that rape, abuse, accountability, harm, etc are thrown around as gossip and fodder on this app. Is no one else scared by this behavior? It's one reason why I no longer tweet.
People without chronic pain actually dont get it. It’s not just the fact that you’re in pain constantly, it’s the fact that it impacts your sleep, and literally every thought you have. Imagine how radically different you would show up if Everytime you spoke, ate, thought, even
Hey y’all you’re allowed to be sad about another potential go inside period, you’re allowed to be sad about omicron, you’re allowed to mourn your life before covid.
Being non-binary used to be such a huge part of my identity but if I could sum up how I feel now it’s just..I’m just bored with white views on gender and I’ve decided to simply opt-out.
I wish that the right hadn't monopolized conversations surrounding "cancel culture" because while I don't think it exists in the ways that they're using it, I DO think people on the left have difficulty forming and maintaining relationships that align with our values.
I get why people are anti-car, but very very rarely when ableds suggest replacing everything with public transit do they ever even MENTION how inaccessible our public transit is now.
Begging skinny people to move beyond “hey they called that girl fat when she wasnt fat 😡” and instead interrogate why someone being fat would justify their mistreatment to begin with.
If you’re running a mutual aid fund that has 3,000 rules for people to receive money then you’re not doing mutual aid, you’re running a mini nonprofit.
relaxed, you were doing so while in pain. Now imagine that for days, months, years. Now imagine that you couldn’t take medicine for it because it didn’t work, or the side effects were too bad. And you just had to exist, and be expected to function like everyone else. IMAGINE.
I’ve really committed myself to not judging people during the pandemic but I will say it was weird seeing organizers travel to places people specifically asked them not to come to.
Doing some research for work and I don't think I FULLY absorbed the fact that states passed laws placing limits on how much you can defund the police each year.
Because that’s what it feels like every day. It impacts every relationship I have, every job, every future wish I have. It literally is all-consuming. And you’re expected to not talk about it too much for others comfort.
Part of honoring people dead or alive is respecting their names, including stylistic choices. bell chose to have her first and last name in lowercase intentionally. We can and should respect that.
So many of my friends and comrades and I have discussed how we are all virtually afraid of being abandoned by people we care about for saying the "wrong" thing, but if we name this then we are all lumped together with abuse apologists.
I think a lot of disabled people rightfully talk about how accessible spaces help everyone, including ableds but I feel like there's less emphasis on the fact that a lack of accessible spaces are actually disabling in and of itself! Like a lack of access creates new
Okay sorry i deleted but now Im back. You know its not "woke" to tell poor people and/or people of color they shouldnt have babies unless they make a certain salary right? You know thats eugenics.
It’s so absurd to me that people really think anything remotely related to “accountability” or “thinking about what you’ve done” takes place within prisons when for the entire experience people are in fight or flight mode.
Love you but there are many issues with the bail project! You should connect with abolitionist organizers to learn about mutual aid and grassroots funds that need your support!
on a serious note, i know the pain that incarceration brings to a family. and the disproportionate impact that cash bail has on the black community. that’s why i teamed up with
@bailproject
to create the Bail X Fund. let’s bring people home! 🤍
Maintaining the idea that people have the ability to read your mind, to know how you're feeling if you routinely leave it unsaid, and then to experience it as harm when they don't (because they are human) is really such a shameful way of being in the world.
"Abortion is healthcare" messaging to me is interesting because its like yeah it is, but also what is healthcare if not something denied to the poorest and sickest?
As a survivor, the thing that triggers me the most online isn’t actually the discussion of sexual harm, it’s the tweets that collapse survivorship into meaning the same thing for everyone
I'm approaching 30 and it's normal for comrades of years to let me know they dislike me now, or I did something wrong etc etc through icing me out or group unfollowing me on social media. This doesn't happen to normal people? This doesn't make organizing enticing.
Even well-organized events have little turnout, it happens in organizing all the time. All you can do is have a good marketing plan and build relationships with the 1-2 people who do show up, without internalizing it.
And it's just "okay" now. It's like suddenly in service of abolition. I know this is an unpopular opinion but it doesn't feel good to know that people will no longer talk to people they have conflict with, they will instead convince everyone that you're "bad" and everything you
It makes my heart ache sometimes. It's why I rarely let comrades in and form friendships with them beyond the work, because I don't trust them sometimes. Its sad that we risk our lives together to work against the state but can't really ever fully know or love each other.
Pretending to not be upset about all of this is actually not contributing to public safety. You can take all the precautions ever and you are still allowed to be fucking terrified and mad and devastated over this.
touch is bad. And this behavior is what actually lets real abuse slide imo. It's so exhausting because people dont have the power to discern anymore, and discernment is so important as survivors.
Luckily my skin is way thicker, but stuff like this really felt isolating and scary as a baby organizer. And we truly lack safe containers to discuss this stuff.
It hurts just as much now as it did years ago thinking about the people who quit the work when they realize organizing isn’t about large dramatic actions, and is instead fueled by note taking, email responses, political Ed, scheduling, and other dirty work.
Doxxing is really bad, but as someone who has been doxxed its not as bad as creating weapons that literally kill brown people across the globe. Its very hilarious to see people equating the two.
All that trial was, was just a performance. Absorbing that fact changes how you see things. Any time a cop goes on trial, a white supremacist goes on trial, a lone white guy goes on trial, it is an elaborate performance regardless of the outcome.
I shouldnt be fearful to say "thank you for telling me, I want to learn more." But that's the culture that has been cultivated. It's 7+ years of this thing and it's not getting any easier to navigate, and I get why people burnout and quit.
We have to take an abolitionist approach when it comes to addressing mental health, and suicide. And not just as in "we shouldn't criminalize people going through a mental health episode."
It honestly doesnt matter where the library is, if it was a library or a store, what books they have, how it was funded etc. Noname is a Black woman with dark skin and I'm sorry but people would have found a reason to critique, and not to generate new ideas but to
If you start grad school in the fall do NOTTTT prepare just chill all summer so when you’re in the library late at night wondering why you went to grad school you’ll have good memories to reflect on
Like we can't have conflict anymore. And older organizers, I would love to learn if this was always true. But yeah, we cant have conflict. Our friends have to now hate each other. We have to plan our travel around the conflict. We can't consume certain media. The conflict becomes
Sometimes a friendship can just be someone you follow on the internet and see every 3-4 years when you have a work trip in their city. And it can still be beautiful and meaningful!
Because of COVID I lost several friendships, had to move, lost a ton of mobility, and was unable to attend the funeral of my beloved grandmother. I’m sorry that I feel a little fucking sad??
So many ableist things happening all around us, and y'all want me to apply a dj analysis to *check notes* a random person on twitter that fundraised for their mortgage while working at the murder factory for a decade and a half. It's actually humiliating.
Happy lesbian visibility day!! I love being a they/them lesbian. Realizing I don’t have to date, be perceived by, or cater to men was one of the scariest yet most freeing moments of my life. I love being a dyke!
(Various pictures of Toyin throughout the years).
Any amount of time in prison can be, and often is, disabling. Anytime a previously disabled person is incarcerated their disabilities are exacerbated in visible and invisible ways.
Today is
#8toAbolition
's Birthday! A year ago today, my comrades and I created an intervention for the reformist
#8CantWait
campaign. Since then, our work has been spread all across the world, translated into different languages, and been used as the launching pad for great work.
As an immunocompromised person (who has COVID for the second time), I think the responses to this are really interesting, and mostly unhelpful or generative.
This is why AGAIN having a marginalized identity does not lend itself to a radical politic. We have literal war apologists logging on and thinking its okay because they're disabled. WAR IS DISABLING.
Sorry I'm done, but I'll just never forget the first time someone I thought I was cool or friendly with started liking mean tweets about me when they literally had my number. It hadn't even crossed my mind that this is something that happens all the time because it's really wild.
I really need people who aren’t chronically ill to sit and think about how who you are and what you cared about and how you felt about your future would probably drastically change if one day a doctor told you that you were sick and you would never get better.
I really need yall to read ONE (1) SINGULAR book by Black feminists since like before slavery was abolished and realized that intersectionality was already parsed through and discussed before Crenshaw, she just gave name to it, specifically from a legal POV
Lol the United States is boycotting the Olympics in Beijing for “human rights abuses” meanwhile it’s very normal for us to turn on our tv and learn about another mass shooting like multiple times a week.
Taylor Swift is one of the most famous artists of our time, so why are fans of hers always acting like they're like ostracized by society, downtrodden, etc.
I'm sorry but loving remote work is some sick shit. if you hate the commute, job, and your co-workers just say that. start a union. move elsewhere. but collapsing the workplace into the rest of your life is neoliberalism, sweetie.
its transportation and how "walkable" it is. YALL. We literally cannot walk up flights and flights and flights of stairs without the option for an elevator which 9/10 is out of service or smells awful.
Mark Ruffalo could never act ever again and still accumulated mass amounts of wealth to live comfortably. The fact that he will not give up any lost opportunities says as much about his wealth hoarding as it does his ignorance. It’s like he can’t fathom possibly not making
The vote or die crowd cant even explain their plan. Like they're like you just have to vote, but like? what elections? where? when?? and how does that change this? like have yall interrogated this idea any further??
Remember when my freshman year roommates were assholes to me and I heard them talking about a fancy dinner they were making for their friends so I moved all my cooking stuff that I brought into my room and they came home with all their food/ingredients
If it hurts to stand while you shower or cook, you should get a chair. And if its hard to walk without a cane/mobility aid, you should use one. And if you need a cart to go shopping/do laundry you should use it.
It actually reminds me of this quote from Parable of the Sower or Talents. I'll find it later but basically Olamina is saying that she abandoned all of her friends after this like explosion. Shes talking about how she trusts them to risk her life with them, but she doesn't trust
Like I simply have to have a car, and had to leave NY because ableds really don't notice or care that we cannot access the vast majority of train stations within the city. I had to listen to two ableds talk about how NY is more accessible than Atlanta because of
Sometimes I’m like I shouldn’t have kids because of climate change but then I’m like wow all these annoying people get to have kids and I don’t?? And then I get mad and confused again.
Due to the rising number of Covid cases, the City is canceling the Peach Drop at Underground. While we are saddened to miss this year's party and musical acts, we are very excited to bring the Peach Drop back next year and better than ever. Stay healthy everyone!