I wrote this back in February when the ACA repeal was first being debated. @wp4rj shared it again last night in light of that bs the GOP had the nerve to put disabled and chronically ill POC through, and yeah, I'm singling out POC here. Read the full essay here: https://philadelphia-printworks.myshopify.com/blogs/news/threshold-of-revelation-a-disabled-queer-killjoy-on-national-themes #saveaca #skinnyrepeal #savemedicaid #adaptandresist #disabled #disability #chronicillness #disabilitytoowhite #disabledpoc #poc #fdt #Repost @wp4rj (@get_repost) ・・・ A win tonight but barely. Keep fighting. Inspiration from @baniamor. "...It takes from ten minutes to several hours for a human’s eyes to adjust to the dark but for some, it’s been centuries. This couldn’t be more evident in Angels in America, whose only non-white and most femme character, Belize, seems to hold all the answers to the problems of the fledgling white gay men orbiting him... . "In the play, the TV adaptation and in the United States at large, the face of HIV/AIDS is a white middle-class gay man. Watching it, I - a low-income disabled queer gender-nonconforming person of color - have so many questions, like how Prior can afford his endless stream of meds, how he can afford not to work and live alone in the West Village; how he avoids being discriminated against within the medical complex. While we collectively watch the dismembering of the Affordable Care Act, a piece of legislation that was insufficient in a healthcare system that’s world-renowned for its lack of humanity, in 2017, the face of disability is white. The face of “the LGBT community” is white. But how can the face of HIV/AIDS possibly remain white, over three decades after its outbreak in the US, despite all evidence to the contrary? . "...I wonder if the white disabled and “LGBT” communities see Black southerners, women and queer people in particular, as the face, or even a part, of their movements; of their work to save ACA. "It did not take a Trump presidency for me to realize that my enemy sees me more than my purported ally ever will." (at Montreal, Quebec)