Committed to addressing the climate crisis through working on equity and abolition, no borders. Disabled, queer, pushing through anxiety like a seedling grows.
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🗣️ Read, Seed, Water, Feed 2025 Reading Challenge 📚🌱 —hosting 🎉
The struggle for liberation of all peoples is long, and each of us starts in a different place.
The 📚 challenge, hosted on Storygraph, is designed to be intentionally reflective, however that shows up for you.
What we do with anything we read, for ourselves or others, is often more important than how many books we read. 🙏🏻 #bookstadon #books
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/04015bdd-c984-406a-9243-3889f1cec637
And this too..
“The great irony of people blaming disabled folks for requiring too much labor is that those people don’t know half of the labor we actually require or that much of it is a direct result of the obstacles they put in front of us. There is so much crip labor wrapped up in being disabled, and much of it is just navigating different shades of ableism.”
#CripNegativity
I felt this very strongly from my personal experiences.
“Disabled people need more than this world has to offer. We need more than any amount of access can provide. We need more than the future can guarantee. We need more than the horizon can glimpse. We need more than a disavowal of society. We need more than a refusal of the terms we’ve been offered.” #CripNegativity
One of many books I read and appreciated recently is the new book #CripNegativity by @/jlsmilges. Tomorrow (Friday) is a book launch, er, funeral for it. !!!
Read Crip Negativity online here, or links to buy it:
https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/crip-negativity
RSVP for the #CripNegativity funeral party on Friday June 23 1:00 pm PST:
https://linktr.ee/cripnegativity
In the thirty years since the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law, the lives of disabled people have not improved nearly as much as activists and politicians had hoped. In *Crip Negativity*, J. Logan Smilges shows us what’s gone wrong and what we can do to fix it. <br><br> Leveling a strong critique of the category of disability and liberal disability politics, Smilges asks and imagines what horizons might exist for the liberation of those oppressed by ableism—beyond access and inclusion. Inspired by models of negativity in queer studies, Black studies, and crip theory, Smilges proposes that bad crip feelings might help all of us to care gently for one another, even as we demand more from the world than we currently believe to be possible.
Progressives and Leftists must put public libraries at the top of organizing agendas!
For the People--a leftist library project--is having a fundraiser to support their work. You can help by buying one of their new t-shirts! All proceeds will be used to support access costs for their events and other basic needs.
morning y'all, Ayan invited me to her radio show Diaspora Blues on 3CR ....we talked about queer Somali mutual aid support and how f*cking racist Holland is, including their fake ass apology for the atrocities they committed.
#QueerSomali #netherlands #AbolishSinterklaas
let me know your thoughts, u can listen back and download the episode via this link:
https://www.3cr.org.au/diasporablues/episode/fundrasing-somali-queers-axmed-maxamed
Axmed Maxamed is a Khaniis Diasporic Somali activist, organizer, abolitionist, writer, curator and book & music nerd.Axmed joins me to discuss what it was like growing up black in the Netherlands, the spectacle of Zwarte Piet and the mutual aid support work he’s been doing to assist queer Somalis to live a safe and fruitful life.MusicYusupha Ngum - Maam BAMBA JërëjëffBecca Hatch - BlessedKutcha Edwards - Stand Strong
“I have decided to temporarily suspend relations with the state of Israel and with the official institutions of that state -including the twinning agreements with the Tel Aviv City Council – until the Israeli authorities put an end to the system of violations of the Palestinian people and fully comply with the obligations imposed on them by international law and the various United Nations resolutions. We cannot be silent,”
Ada Colau, mayor of Barcelona
RT @/4noura (Noura Erakat)
An excellent read on what antisemitism is and is not. On the critical dimensions of state power and minority status in the work of racism. #Antisemitism #Zionism #Palestinians #Freedom
Learning the Wrong Lessons from the Holocaust, by Alon Confino
https://www.972mag.com/holocaust-antisemitism-israel-palestine/
Abeni
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