Ensuring accessible and cleaner air for the Chicago arts and organizing scene. We provide air purifiers for artists and community organizers, free of charge.
We have tons of Covid-safer resources in the link in our bio, including:
-discount codes
-guides
-Artist Connect
-link to request purifiers
-map of clean air orgs around the world
Is now a good time to mention that last month over 25 Los Angeles schools rejected our offers of completely free air purifiers for every single classroom on their campuses?
There's a widespread hostility to anyone offering solutions at the intersection of climate change, pandemics, and resource depletion. It was wild to get replies along the lines of "don't contact us ever again" when we were literally offering tens of thousands in free gear
When you try to solve a problem that most people are in denial about, you're going to encounter hostility and gaslighting instead of enthusiasm and solidarity
I am once again thinking about children and how they cannot meaningfully consent to repeated infections that will disable them for the rest of their lives.
Children are an oppressed class.
Solidarity with kids means wearing a mask and not subjecting them to debilitating infections that they have no say in.
Eugenics ⬇️
If it's our "patriotic duty" to be as healthy as we can... then disabled people are traitors. They're sowing the seeds for eliminating disabled people, not just disability, and calling it freedom.
Oz: 70% of the money we spend is on chronic illness and we are not getting our money's worth. For folks listening right now, it's your patriotic duty to be as healthy as can you…
Feds are starting to go after orgs and individuals who provide supplies and/or "support" (in the broadest possible terms) to protestors, usually on conspiracy charges.
The criminalization of masks and other PPE is a direct route to this.
We presented data on test scores, reduced absenteeism (student and faculty), racial equity, disability access, and more. They told us to not contact them again
In many cases the facilities director felt threatened by an outside org stepping into "their territory" (IAQ) and suggesting that what they had implemented was insufficient to protect students. Handling their ego or finding an authority figure who cares about IAQ was key.
I take covid precautions because I am wildly in love with life, because I've had to claw my way out of really dark places to inhabit this love, and because I will not let it get ripped from me by people who will never understand the preciousness of what I will have lost