It’s the season of the year where I think everyone has some end-of-year reflections. The winter solstice is almost here…
a week of good days: long covid and a booster
Long Covid-wise, I’ve had the best week I’ve had certainly in months if not the entire pandemic and I think…
disabled people are the keepers
I’ve had an unusual burst of more-than-my-average energy this last couple days so I committed to a mutual aid ask…
sitting on the stoop: an ode to pleasure activism
I had to get outside. I was starting to feel trapped- by the oversized fleece blanket on my lap, by…
6 tips for a successful mutual aid fundraiser
After we completed our most recent mutual aid barnraiser which raised over $35,000 for a Black woman to stabilize her…
in a covid world, we need more comrades
An anecdote Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha references a couple different times in Care Work is about her disabled, wheelchair-using friend who,…
killing time: a well-rationed life
An old friend of mine and I were catching up recently- she is a neonatologist raising three children of her…
a burst of light: on Audre Lorde and disability justice
“A Burst of Light” is a collection of Audre Lorde’s journal entries from the mid-1980s (so, after she had already…
scarcity & abundance: a brief meditation on guaranteed income
Minneapolis just publicly announced it’s own version of a guaranteed basic income pilot and though this “how many [UBI/guaranteed income]…
on disability justice
Disability justice, I’m learning, is hard to distill down into a tidy definition and, as someone brand-fucking-new to disability justice,…
a few thoughts on the power of cash-based mutual aid
I have been full of thoughts this week and way too depleted to form any of those thoughts here. I’m…
long covid, disability, and fatphobia
I’m not sure how to start this post. This is a post about how, when you’re a fat person, the…