Thank you Amy! Just doing my best 💕
06.02.2025 22:57
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Thank you Amy! Just doing my best 💕
Anyway reminder that solidarity is not transactional, and giving into eugenics is, among other things - deeply embarrassing.
With enough time and luck, disability is coming for all of us. Do yourself a favour and start dealing with the hole in your politics now 💕
We will never win if we continue to abandon the people most impacted by the very systems we are claiming to fight.
If when it gets inconvenient we’re just replicating the same attitudes as the fash and the same abandonment as the state, what exactly is the point in what we're doing?
It’s not surprising if we look to history- pandemics and a rise in fascist/eugenicist rhetoric go hand in hand.
But if we look to history we should also know that disabled activists have been vital in antifascist + workers movements since forever. Erasing their contributions is helps no one
There is a very real push of eugenicist ideas occuring and over the coming years it’s likely to only get worse -I am begging you to resist it.
Already I’ve seen leftist organisers complaining that disabled people cannot offer anything to a movement because they dared to ask for masks at a meeting
Loved this piece from @bimbolaureate.bsky.social (Themme Fatale). Action steps toward the end ! I can think of a few areas where strategic noncompliance might be applicable rn open.substack.com/pub/themmefa...
Genuinely, try to name for me a form of oppression that doesn’t result in, or amplify the impacts of disability.
Spoiler: you can’t.
If you care about healthcare, abolition, housing, workers rights, bodily autonomy - if you care about liberation you need to include disability justice.
People who don’t include disability liberation in their understanding of social justice will never make sense to me.
Like what do you MEAN you oppose sexism, racism, and classism, but the minute the lived reality of that oppression starts showing up physically, all your energy just evaporates?
Themme Fatale takes a mirror selfie backstage at the club, wearing all red - a shiny bikini, clown collar, thigh high boots and a giant sparkly boa. They are squatting on a pile of dollar bills. Overlaid text is the article title “On Compliance, and what an experiment from the 60s can tell us about Queer nightlife in 2025”
New work up on Substack!
Trying to share more written work while my body doesn’t feel well enough to get in front of a camera. If you’ve read it, let me know what you think 💕
open.substack.com/pub/themmefa...
It’s a small thing in the scheme of things, but any aus cis followers out there who don’t know what to do about ~all the everything~ I ask you consider donating to the Trans Justice Project here. transjustice.org.au/donate/
The new garden I’ve been making recently is going OFF and the passionfruit vines are already flowering! So many great veggies have popped up from the compost. The yard is being visited regularly by a family of magpies. It’s a tiny pocket of the world but feels so lush and full of life 💕