it’s that time: if you are not an active part of the resistance, you are a collaborator. i know if this catches on there will be a million replies from people making excuses as to why they can’t resist, but that is what collaborators have always done, and that is what this government expects you to do, and that is what they are relying on you doing.
What does active involvement in the resistance look like when we’re disabled? (I ask that earnestly, knowing you have multiple disabilities, Roxy.)
My mental health has been deteriorating since 11/8. I can’t march (panic attacks, little to no physical stamina); I can’t make phone calls (sensory processing disorder); I dragged my fat, crazy ass to a Jewish Resistance meeting full of well-meaning activists denouncing ableism, but left with the knowledge that they had absolutely no use for me.
I know there’s more “we” should be doing, but I don’t know what more “I” can be doing, given that most of my energy these days seems to be spent trying (and failing) to keep my proverbial shit together, an endeavor made all the harder by the gnawing conviction that my inability to resist makes me complicit by default.
i’m glad you asked, because a very intelligent person wrote a great article about navigating disability during calls to action !
That is a really good article, thank you for sharing it.
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