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Xaya Who?
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Xaya Who?
@XayaWho
she/her ✨️ abolition, disability justice, decrim, antiracism✨️ non-Black people, purge "woke" from your vocabulary ✨️ free N95s in New Orleans @FightCovidNOLA
Today, my friend rented a pool and had a small birthday party! We all took molecular tests before, and alternated N95s and distancing. I'm really grateful to have been invited to something like that 💙
- If I have to email event organizers to ask for accessibility info, it means I have to ask, "am I welcome?" Consider how it feels to have to do that, knowing the majority of the time, the answer is "no." Give access info up front. Don't make disabled people beg for inclusion.
- Alternatives to the "society will fall apart when everyone's disabled, and that's bad!" framework: (Please add if you have more resources on this topic!) TL;DR mass disability is incompatible w capitalism, not with human life. We need disabled wisdom to adapt past capitalism.
- Replying to @Patricia_Ann_EI was told that I was breaking the law by carrying my epi-pen and inhaler on me instead of letting the (part-time) public school nurse (who I never met) keep them. These regulations make 0 sense and I'm so sorry and upset that they took a kid's life.
- The idea that disabled people should each have personal caregivers, rather than being part of larger systems of care, somehow feels related to the logic of nuclear families... 🤔
- Randomly thinking about that one reporter that embarrassed Psaki and Biden so bad that they had to give us all free tests to save face...
- Existing as a medically vulnerable person, without totally giving up on your life, is so indescribably hard right now. I don't get what people, especially left organizers, get out of dunking on people barely surviving.
- Anyway shout-out to the disabled people who have found comrades, raised consciousness, raised money, helped find housing, helped find healthcare, and distributed ppe, e-sims, and other vital tools thru this app and other strategies that the abled establishment dismisses as fake.
- Adding the caveat that most people can't rest the way they need to and still survive. And that makes these kinda tweets extra fucked up because it validates the bosses who make people work while sick.
- Replying to @AnhedoniaOakleyI think I saw a tweet about this where they said that the government reduced food regulations early pandemic and never brought back the original regulations?
- Everyone who cries about there not being enough protest in the US owes money to a bail fund.
- Paxlovid has to be given within a few days of contracting covid. That can't happen if people can't get tested quickly. So without accessible testing, do we really have access to antivirals?When someone says “we have the tools,” they have disconnected from reality. We have an antiviral. We have outdated vaccines. That’s it. That’s all we have. Please wear a respirator whenever in public. Please stay home when you’re sick.
- The CC community has had 4 years now to learn about disability justice and the history of eugenics...
