Another older rabbit print, I made this linocut as part of my Chinese zodiac series. I wanted the rabbit to appear bathed in moonlight to allude to the myth of the moon rabbit, companion of Chang’e the moon goddess, continually pounding the elixir of life with mortar and pestle.

#linocut #printmaking #rabbit #ChineseZodiac #ChineseCharacter #moonRabbit #mythology

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Update after April 2.

I was able to determine that, at least, my social security is still intact! But still no deposit as of yet, but the good news is thanks to the #Fediverse I was able to cover April's rent and deposit will resume in May! I am 99% sure I was the casualty of some rapid database breaking somewhere. I probably won't update this post again, but if you do have social security, the best thing I can tell you is to prepare for what happened to me, to happen to you as well.

This means downloading all previous records and statements while you still can. No telling if it will help you, as a *LOT* of people in my country really really want social security to be privatize and this means purging just because they need to be so called efficient. People in my country *want* social security to run like a business rather than a public good, so make it easier to sue them if they deny you in the future, and this means keeping any documentation you can.

See earlier post below.

On April 1 I Woke up to no social security deposit and I use that to pay rent.

Thanks to the Fedi, April rent has been paid for! My social security is still intact, and I was told deposit would resume in May.

There was no notification, no email, no letter from Social Security, and this was a scary thing to wake up to!

Even though April is covered, I still need mutual aid as a preemptive measure.

If you are in the US, Zelle is [email protected] and other options at https://sightlessscribbles.com/support/ #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #Disability @anarchomutual @[email protected] @mutualaid @mutualaidmedia

Once again, it is the students of VIU who truly show how to be the best people, the best citizens, and now the best teammates.

The coach of the Columbia Bible College should be suspended. And PACWEST needs to show some courage and stand up for the safety of all players. No one should be prevented from playing due to the actions of others and no team should be penalized for protecting their teammate!

I’ll reserve my comments for the Administration of VIU…. the student-athletes are doing an excellent job and I stand behind them 100% as I would any student who stands in the face of injustice.

#sports #transgender #PACWEST #Basketball
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/basketball/transgender-college-basketball-player-vancouver-island-mistreatment-allegations-1.7425667

With the polio vaccine in the news, I want to tell some of my mom's story:

My mom got polio when she was a kid living in southern California, pre-vaccine. She survived it, but it put her in a wheelchair for a while, then leg braces. She was actually a literal poster child for the Polio vaccine: they used her picture on some March of Dimes posters.

But this was not a thing that just affected her for a while, and then she was better. As a result of having Polio, her right leg is slightly shorter than her left. For her entire life, she's had to have special lifts put into her right shoe. When she drives, she uses her left foot for the brake pedal because she's concerned that her right leg might not be strong enough to stomp on the brake hard if needed. She has always been limited in how long and far she can walk: I remember many times on family vacations where the rest of us would go off to do something and she'd have to sit it out because she knew she just couldn't do that much walking.

Now that she's elderly, a lifetime of this is catching up: her bones, joints, ligaments, tendons are all messed up from having a weak leg and an unbalanced gait. Her mobility is declining much faster than it should be, even for someone of her age. She had to have her ankle fused because of the constant pain it was causing.

Polio didn't ruin her life, but it has stolen it in slices. Times she couldn't keep up with her kids, times she was just too tired to be able to stay on her feet, chronic pain, losing the ability to climb stairs in her own house as she ages.

Vaccination is the greatest public health success humanity has ever produced, and we forget this only at our own peril.