"You know, those single-use masks everyone is wearing in the pandemic are made of plastic too,” my friend Imani Barbarin said to me. Imani is a talented disability advocate who often speaks about the intersection of disability and environmentalism. She pointed out that the acceptable use of plastic is always set according to what a healthy person needs to be healthy (think masks, gloves, plastic prescription bottles, kinesiology tape… even home delivery supplements that individually package your daily vitamins), but when it comes to someone with a disability using plastic, everyone wants to shame them for killing the planet. “You need what you need,” she said to me in a gentle but firm voice. She was right."
K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning
https://www.strugglecare.com/resources
https://youtu.be/M1O_MjMRkPg?si=jQHsLLG65sngYZUI
The images are screenshot of two graphics. The first has a beige background with black text, certain words highlighted in blue, reading: "1. Care Tasks Are Morally Neutral
2. Rest is a Right, Not a Reward.
3. You Deserve Kindness Regardless Of Your Level Of Functioning
4. You Can't Save The Rainforest If You're Depressed
5. Shame Is The Enemy of Functioning
6. Good Enough Is Perfect"
The second image is plain white background with gray text reading:
"Care tasks are morally neutral. The way you do them, how often you do them, whether you can keep up with them or not. It's not a reflection of whether or not you're a good or bad person, whether you're worthy of love, whether you're a success or a failure. They truly are not moral obligations. They're just functional tasks. They serve a function and that function is to care for you. And the only reason to do them is because you're a person that deserves to function and you don't have to do anything to be deserving of function. And regardless of your level of functioning, you do deserve kindness."
