#noicugenics

[grittysurrealism]

"I use what little energy I have to help others and lift up my community. I am disabled. I am not disposable. I do not agree to die for an economy built on greed and injustice. " -Claire Light⁠ ⁠ @seelight⁠ ⁠ …⁠ ..⁠ .⁠ posted on Instagram - https://instagr.am/p/B_8V8WdnY0O/

[rotten-zucchinis]

Spoon on Seder Plate - Passover Action + Haggadah supplement

Moses had a speech disability and led the Jewish people out of Mitzrayim (Egypt). When Miriam was ill and forced to social distance from the camp in the desert, her community did not move on until she returned. The words that Moses said for Miriam, "Please God, heal her - Ana el na, refa na la...

Some people have proposed adding a spoon to the seder plate to “center the lives of elderly, sick, disabled, and fat people” who are especially at risk due to medical rationing (or more specifically, when this rationing happens in a way that treats elderly, sick, disabled and fat people as disposable). 

The spoon is also a positive recognition that “the skills and wisdom of chronically ill and disabled people have never been needed more widely, as many more people learn about making life accessible for those who live at home” (as well as a symbol of nourishment and care).