Just your reminder that Covid damages the cells in your pancreas that produce insulin and makes you more prone to developing type 2 diabetes for years after infection. Still haven’t seen a study on how multiple infections impact the likelihood of developing type 2. Mask up.

With just over a month before Imbolc, I’m breaking out my Dark Goddess inspired pendants. This one is Persephone.

Timeline cleanse with a mini quilt in progress.

The only day of the week I feel up to cooking an entire evening meal is Sunday. Every other day looks like: 1 cooked item 1 leftover item 1 frozen item, prepared 1 raw/uncooked item Or take out. Chronic illness, y’all. This is necessary conservation of energy to survive.

It was reprehensible when people mocked condom usage at the height of the AIDS pandemic. It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today. Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.

This message hits hard.

Chronic stress can damage the pancreas and cause insulin production to become insufficient leading to type 2 diabetes. People from marginalized communities aren’t unhealthy because of their habits - societal & interpersonal oppression destroy our bodies.

Share your couples art ❤️ ❤️

You can do a lot locally with a dedicated group of 15 to 40 people. Regular people should be thinking at that scale rather than at the scale of thousands.

Boxing Day movie marathons should include the “almost” Christmas movies that have pivotal scenes set at but little to do with Christmas. “Desk Set”, “Umbrellas of Cherbourg”, “A Lion in Winter”, “Little Women”, “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang”, etc. These movies get missed in the lead up to the big day.

Happy Christmas to all those who celebrate the legacy of a refugee baby born in a barn to a teen mother who couldn’t get an abortion, whose family immediately had to flee from a mad king murdering babies that he was scared would replace him. Feed the hungry. Protect the vulnerable. Love dragons.

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

I’m autistic but I mask well for a couple hours a day. When well rested I pass for NT a lot if I don’t speak. Knowing who I’m safe around & who I’m not is key in undoing internalized ableism. If it’s not a hard “never” from you when it comes to this word’s usage, then I’m not safe around you.

My family chose this administration over me - which I’ve become increasingly *fine* with as I therapize myself - but it will take more than an apology to make things right if they ever chose to, & that’s true of every local, state, & federal official ever supportive of this administration.

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

Bridget Everett is the turning point of “Wake Up, Dead Man” and the moment the film went from interesting to amazing for me. She never shares the screen with the main cast and you barely see her but her voice provides everything that’s precious about the human experience.

Federally mandated AI eugenics-optimized “healthcare” for those unable to afford premiums soon.

Good days and bad days are all available ammunition against anyone who doesn’t hide illness and disability. We can’t even get equal treatment let alone get ahead.

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.

I had to sit at a desk all day and help people randomly, but when I wasn’t doing that I drew an Enby Santa!

Any account with an AI profile pic is suspect. I thought this went without saying but apparently this platform has… devolved. I assume all of them are bots specifically designed to prompt angry responses. See if the pic relates to an account’s status as an artist and their style before engaging.

“Disabled people, and disabled women in particular, often live under extreme forms of coercive control.” We are conditioned from the beginning to accept that our needs and wants will never be fully realized. Abuse is hard to comprehend as anything but standard in those circumstances.

I am not the witch who treasures and reveres the past and folksy styles for their heritage and structure embedded in our culture. I love shiny, sparkly, sci-fi, future solarpunk Yule that is accessible and colorful and cozy and looking toward the systemic change. Fuck Ralph Lauren Christmas.

Deck the halls with bold resistance.

Hi I am an artist but I don’t have it in me to sell things in a world where I’m competing with AI. I think competition is fundamentally anti-artist. I’m exhausted. Here’s a video of one of my pieces called “Joyful Diversity”.

Our Holiday Sale is here early this year! ALL Haymarket Books are 40% Off through Friday, January 2nd!

Disability tax: I can’t change a flat tire. My hands can’t do it. My lungs can’t do it. My heart can’t do it. By which I mean *maybe* I could do it, but then I couldn’t work tomorrow and Tuesday and would in fact lose money for trying. I have to pay to have a car towed.

They line up perfectly.

My birth family.

It’s just … sad. I am sad. And it *is* too big to put into words because the sadness is in everything… but so is the joy and the pride and the beauty. That’s grief.

USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins plans to make all SNAP recipients reapply and prove "that they literally are vulnerable and they can’t survive without it.” The 'genuinely disabled' The 'literally vulnerable' They keep moving the goalposts. They were never going to fund SNAP. It's eugenics:

Why is it so hard for people to accept that we don’t all need to be the same but we all deserve the same access? There are infinite paths to the same end point and we should be free to choose our own.

Remember the Gisele Pelicot trial? There was one man who wouldn’t accept being found guilty of rape. He insisted the label was too much of a burden to bear. He raped an unconscious woman, multiple times, on video. He appealed, and the court extended his sentence. Trump reminds me of that guy.

Millions of Americans went without a paycheque. Millions more went without SNAP & endured the trauma of not knowing where their next meal would come from. They suffered because healthcare is worth fighting for. They rewarded the Dems with a blue wave and Schumer just ensured it was for nothing

When I think about how I gave birth without medication, twice, before understanding that I am autistic & have chronic conditions… I get really mad. Nine yrs later I am in PT trying to correct what happened to my body. I love my kids & am happy to have them but there has to be a better way. 1/

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

When I say that I’ve “cut ties with my birth family” what I mean is that “they are part of a cult. I’m not equipped to free them from it & I can no longer bear to struggle with my failure to convince them to reject it.”

Me: This is unsustainable. Friend: … Me: All of it is ready to fall apart. Friend: … Me: My body. Friend: I figured.

Remember: it’s not the building, it’s the symbol. If a symbol built by slaves was replaced with something beautifully conceived, sustainable, and innovative that served the American people and was approved by Congress, that would be something to support. Wanton destruction? Hideously selfish.

A reminder that losing SNAP will be particularly devastating to those whose disabilities require them to have special diets. The disability tax is real. Everything costs more when you’re sick, and special diets are no exception. Boost & donate to mutual aid. People need help.

Starving can cause chronic illness and disabilities. Malnutrition is not to be trifled with. Cutting off SNAP funding will cause people to suffer. Some will get ill. Some may die. There’s no excuse for this. 40 million people rely on that program. It’s a cull.

My rib slips out of place reaching for a glass of water. There’s no better student of anatomy than someone with chronic pain in PT. Please tell me how the fibers of my body *should* be holding it together without me thinking about it & then how to think about it to actually hold things together.

When you say only the “genuinely disabled” should receive support, you’re aiding fascism. When you say people are scamming the system, you’re aiding fascism. Many disabilities are invisible and it’s hard to get support. People aren’t scamming. That’s “useless eater” rhetoric designed to divide.

I geared up for today’s #NoKings because I have a compromised immune system. I was pointed out once as “over the top” because they thought I was worried about tear gas. Nope, just about 1k ppl around me not wearing masks, Long Covid, the flu, and trying to normalize #disability.

Is the little spike of dopamine from a notification worth all the pain social media causes? … I come from a family of addicts and my brain doesn’t make dopamine the average way so I really can’t be trusted with the judgement on that.

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

When your hips are misaligned by two inches and your ribs are tapered like a mermaid style wedding dress. I love being the one around for PT students because Hello! I’m the ND person with chronic pain who has stretchy ligaments and carried babies in my body which messed it up. Good luck!

And this is why I have cut ties with my birth family, who believe they are the best type of Christians and could only ever be furious with me for challenging their beliefs.