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This is such a great #indiebookstore #queer #bipoc #abolition
pickI appreciated the author's emphasis in this book on the lives of people in the marginalized QTBIPOC disabled community. So often, they are overlooked.
As a disabled person, I found the book to be hopeful, helpful, and enlightening. I am often not aware of my own ableism or need for community of others like me. I feel like I learned a lot.
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We need a Care revolution
Adaptive devices
Accessible spaces
Library of things
Virtual events
The pandemic never ended 😷
Crip pleasure - joy is resistance. Existence is resistance
Crip doula
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Disability justice
Care work
People tell you to “Feel better soon”
Grief - I'm dealing with so much of this, for dreams and life I thought I would have
Mutual aid
Do what you can. What you're able ❤️
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I really resonated with this book as a fat femme with multiple chronic illnesses. One of which I'm still trying to get a diagnosis for even though I've been dealing with it my whole life. I'm newer to the disabled community so this book was a great learning tool for myself. One of my goals is to find and build disabled support for myself both online and local.
What did y'all think of the book? Anything that stood out?
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Content warnings: ableism, grief, pandemic, chronic illness, mental illness, racism, death, medical trauma, sexual assault, rape, suicide
“We die because we don‘t matter in the non-disabled world.”
Note: This book is not easy.
If anyone doesn‘t believe this quote after everything we witnessed since the beginning of COVID, their heads are so deep in the sand they‘ve hit bedrock. I really feel this now that Trump‘s man RFK Jr is destroying the few things that were protecting my daughter and the governor of California is actively cutting services to disabled people.
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Back to work this week. The digital book is both audio and ebook, depending on my activity or mood. The physical is to read at work since we are not supposed to be using our phones in the office/classroom due to the nature of our work.
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