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This brings me joy

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if i look back, i am lost
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Well, that’s enough internet for me today.
2012 was a different time
A simpler time
This brings me joy
full of gratitude for support of play friends and distant friends but also swimming in waves of anxiety and fear of the unknown. grounding myself with the knowledge that this too shall pass. the sun will come out tomorrow, the trees and I will still exist and I will probably still smoke cigarettes.
Coming soon: MyTransHealth, an app connecting trans people to knowledgeable, reliable and affordable healthcare providers.
19% of trans people have been refused healthcare because of their gender identity. 50% of trans people have had to teach their doctors about trans-related medical care. 28% of trans people have been harassed in medical settings. This app is desperately needed. Follow them at mytranshealth.
I AM CRYING HOLY SHIT. This is so important. You know I’m serious because I am actually using these things called capitalization and punctuation. You guys. Please. Please boost the hell out of this. It means so much.
*SLAMS THE SHIT OUT OF THE REBLOG BUTTON*
omg pls make this international / not just US-centric!
We won’t rest until every trans person on the planet has access to safe, affordable, and reliable health care.
@dove-island
Repost from neuroqueer blog: Telling Our Stories: Why I Launched the Disability Visibility Project
Reposted from neuroqueer.blogspot.com: Telling Our Stories: Why I Launched the Disability Visibility Project, by Alice Wong
This year, we commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and recognize the achievements and progress of people with disabilities. While I appreciate the labor and sacrifices of generations of people in the disability rights movement, I can’t help but have a slightly jaded view of the ADA festivities in light of the current status of people with disabilities.
Despite the passage of the law, disparities in healthcare, education, and economic security continue to undermine the ability of people with disabilities to live in the community and to fully participate in every aspect of society. I wonder how it is that in 2015, the labor force participation rate for people with disabilities (31%) is less than half that of non-disabled people (81%); that people with disabilities who use Medicaid-funded personal assistance services are unable to move from state to state without risking a reduction in their services; that people with disabilities who receive Supplemental Security Insurance (SSI) cannot save for the future because they are hindered by outdated asset limitations, which needlessly trap people in poverty; and that people with disabilities can face marriage penalties due to Medicaid and SSI policies regarding income and assets.
If the mission of the ADA is to prevail, these counterproductive policies must be reformed. Because how else can some segments of the disability population fully participate in society?
Challenging these insidious public policies requires listening to the stories and experiences of people with disabilities—and dismantling the idea that living with a disability is either something to be pitied or an inspirational act. To that end, I often share my own story as a disabled Asian American woman and a person who uses consumer-directed Medicaid personal assistance services, arguing that these services are a basic human right. It was with that goal in mind that I also launched the Disability Visibility Project (DVP), a community partnership with StoryCorps. The project encourages people with disabilities to record their oral histories and to foster conversation on the lived experience of disability.
The following are just a few of the many stories we have collected through the project:
Ingrid Tischer on disability and work
… if you don’t have a disability, you know, basically you are encouraged to always present yourself in terms of what you can do. That’s your identity, hopefully, if you have a healthy sense of self. The things that you can’t do are simply the things you haven’t learned how to do yet, or that you didn’t really care about in the first place. It feels like the message that a person with a disability gets is your identity is based on what you’re unable to do. (For extended audio clip with text click here.) Mia Mingus on disabled women of color and able-bodied conceptions of work So what does it mean then to be a disabled woman of color and to really be like, putting forth questions around work? And what does work mean? What does it mean to be a woman of color who can’t work? Or who is not able to work as much, right? And like, in some ways I feel like it’s totally oppression that like makes us work harder…I think about that a lot around like, yeah, disability and aging.
(For extended audio clip with text click here.)
Yomi Wong on economic justice and people with disabilities …I think the next frontier, and I know that there are people working on this and talking about it, so it’s not like some nuanced idea is really economic justice for people with disabilities. I mean, we are among the poorest of the poor in this country, the most unemployed or underemployed demographic and you know, I think economic justice is really the next fight, and it, it’s the fight now, right? And it’s the fight in the future.
(For extended audio clip with text click here.)
Economic security is indeed the big elephant in the room when it comes to disability policy. Everyone knows it’s there, it stinks, and few have the political will to do anything about it. All the while, people with disabilities are being left behind. Storytelling is one way to change this dynamic. By gathering individual narratives into a larger collective voice, we can provide a sense of urgency, and push for a transformative shift in the relationship between the state and people with disabilities.
All researchers, policymakers, and activists have a role to play in creating social change and expanding opportunity for people with disabilities. But the lived experiences of people with disabilities must be at the center of that process. I encourage people with disabilities to record and share the stories of their lives, and for people who work on disability policy to learn from our stories as we work to further inclusion and justice over the next 25 years. Alice Wong is a Staff Research Associate at the Community Living Policy Center at the University of California, San Francisco. Currently, she is the Founder and Project Coordinator for the Disability Visibility Project. Alice is also an Advisory Board member of Asian Pacific Islanders with Disabilities of California (APIDC) and a Presidential appointee to the National Council on Disability.
For more information about the Disability Visibility Project: Website: http://disabilityvisibilityproject.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/356870067786565/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DisVisibility
This Poet’s Message To Anti-Abortion Politicians Deserves A Hell. Yes.
It’s the first electrifying line from poet Theresa Davis, who, in just three minutes, takes on every politician who has ever tried to block the reproductive rights of women in America.
Nursing school theory so far, power dynamics and healing work
Repost from my facebook, originally written on October 23rd, 2015
I was speaking to a friend today about how I find nursing theory frustrating in it's reductivism and lack of looking at bigger ecological factors or even institutional factors in healthcare like understaffing or lack of resources to do the day-to-day work that needs to be done. I find too the concept of critical thinking limiting when it does not challenge our own authority as "professionals" and the place we come from in terms of our education and how we enforce power over others in the healthcare system. I think today too of both my passion and love for learning and the limitations of working within a formal setting to enact change.
Related is that I see acutely how nursing and medicine historically and contemporarily result in exclusion and reinforcing disparities based on identity difference specifically thinking of gender-fluid folks and people with less education. I am told to tell a patient I am just trying to do my job to get care complete but find myself thinking of how wars, Guantanamo, jails and other atrocities happen with the same rationale. I feel in my heart though that where it is hardest for me is where the work must be done most. Being surrounded by a supportive, warm environment where people help each other out and we truly support each other without competition is inspiring. I am endlessly joyous too for my few experiences in street medicing have helped me have more hope that the world we want to see exists in our practice in time and space today and in the past. I think of how those like the Jane Collective and ACT UP provided space for the work I want to do.
I am also inspired by folk medicine and healers. I have seen healing work from people I love dearly in my family and that inspires me as well. I truly am still interested in one day creating some sort of dream project anarchist social center and primary care clinic. It would be like my dream workplace but I find myself cautious due to not knowing anything about finances or some of the practicals of running a business and a desire to not create some professionalized nonprofit. I have thought of creating a blog to write some critical thoughts I have had while in school so far. I have already had a lot of thoughts and think this would also help me in my own efforts to keep myself grounded in good and thoughtful analysis to combat some of the deep alienation I feel at times being in this discipline but this post is all for right now.
How can one with privilege be of use in a natural disaster or other situation commonly responded to by NGOs like the Red Cross?
Regarding the following Huffington Post article: Red Cross Built Exactly 6 Homes for Haiti with Nearly Half a Billion Dollars in Donations
Good to know to never donate to them. This is why I find the notion of humanitarianism, NGOs who do work around aid relief and even human rights instead of liberation problematic. I felt my own saviory complex I did not know I still had deeply rattled in Ferguson when I showed up expecting to be plugged into something and realized I had to hit the ground running to be truly useful in the streets. There are definitely dynamics that are hard for me to negotiate and figure out how to navigate in terms of being of use for someone esp in cases of disaster and crisis and having massive class and other privilege. I find the ethics and my growing knowledge of how to practice street medicine giving me hope in terms of how to build a response to situations like this and had wanted to start an anarchist doctors without borders before. As a person, I feel a drive to drop and run to where things seem intense to be of use because we have to do something now but what is that something? Right now I have no real solutions to how to be of real use in a natural disaster/crisis but feeling this quote by Lila Watson I posted yesterday: "If you have come here to help me, then you are wasting your time…But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together."
1: Mother’s Day March in Chicago with members of Chicago Action Medical! Was a beautiful march.
2: A comrade took a picture of my bag at May Day Chicago! May Day is one of my fave holidays.
Close to the end of the #m1chi march. 200 some people marched from Union Park down Loomis and Cermak to the Cook County Courthouse on 26th and California. A beautiful day to be out in the streets with my radical fam in a festive anti capitalist, anti police brutality vibe. Love as always to the street medics, NLG, antiwar and pro labor comrades! #chicago #haymarket #mayday
Health and Safety Training
Chicago Action Medical is putting on a short FREE protest health & safety training! May 2nd from 1-3:30 at Bartlett Hall, 5640 S University. Learn how to stay safe and well in the streets! Excited to be part of the organizing/teaching!
Some pictures from my friend’s organization’s protest!
"Pacific Atrocities Education, a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing awareness to Pacific-based atrocities from WWII, has coordinated a protest to support congress in their demands for a formal apology from Abe. The protest joins continued international efforts by historians, activists, and even presidential runner Hilary Clinton, to establish the historical truth of the ‘Comfort Women’ system."
http://www.pacificatrocities.org/take-action.html
After deleting my linkedin, I decided to also gradually clean up my facebook, tumblr and twitter. I just have too much on here that could come back to bite me in the ass and too much output and not enough focus/intention. My roomie asked me what I would do in an ideal world if I did not have to worry about money and I thought about it more and in my ideal world, I would be any of a radical feminist blogger, feminist performance artist, pop science/tech blogger, snappy dressing gender women studies' prof and philosopher type person.
Life is going pretty good this year so far. Trying to eat better-- more veggies, less eating food out and less caffeine. So far I have not had any cigarettes for almost two weeks but I won't believe it until it is a year. Kinda moving towards getting into nursing school but having worked in a medicalized institution already, I am kinda over it. I have been trying to tell myself that I do not need to get a graduate degree/more study to be good at something I can spend my own time doing. Trying to work on reframing negative thoughts and being more positive and having healthier relationship boundaries and being a better person to myself.
I restrung the D string of my guitar today and went and got ice cream with my roomie and my close friend. I am glad that I finally started learning how to do healthier relationships after some codependent and one abusive one and that is great/useful. Being single is really not as bad as I thought.
a list poem for working-class girls trying to grow up and into themselves
1. It is okay to leave anyone and anything and anyplace that makes you feel like shit. It’s hard, but it’s okay. And fuck explaining anything to anyone, unless you want to. Let them fucking wonder.
2. Know who the fuck...
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#WCGtoUN members showing love for #MarissaAlexander as they head to Geneva (11/8/14, Chicago)
November 13: Pictures from Geneva
Also, the We Charge Genocide team walked out on the US Government representatives. Read more about the Chicago based organization and their trip to Geneva here.
fucking proud of my WCG comrades. goddamn.
Dear Dan Savage:
We appreciate all of the hard work that you and your sisterhood of the travelling imperialism (aka white gay men who speak over everyone else) have done for ‘the movement,’ but now we need you to keep moving far, far away
back into the closet along with your tacky outfit.