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The first test prints are done! I've got some carving cleanup to do, and the inking and alignment will be improved for the next batch. Sign up for my Print Club tier if you'd like the improved ✨original✨ 8x10 block print in the mail this September!

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7 months

Bisan's videos show disabled people pushing their wheelchairs through floods of raw sewage and medical waste in Rafah. No way to remove biohazards from maternity hospitals. Clean water deliveries being bombed. The genocide goes so much deeper than direct bomb and gunshot wounds.

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9 months

I just bought my first electric wheelchair, fully paid by my art income! 🌈 It's coming tomorrow! Thank you SO MUCH for supporting me this year!

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@fiddleheadfinn

6 months

I've seen quite a few people float the idea that the "mutual" in mutual aid refers to a direct reciprocal relationship in which the helpers will later receive aid from the people they helped. I think this is a dangerous misunderstanding: mutualism refers to society as a whole.

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5 months

If a friend is too anxious to complete basic tasks alone, I recommend assisting them with the task—no matter how basic—over telling them to go inpatient. If you want to help restore someone's trust in humanity, give them a reason to trust.

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@fiddleheadfinn

3 months

LMFAO at "harm reduction" orgs putting out Pride guides that remind you to wear sunscreen but say nothing about COVID 🙃

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@fiddleheadfinn

6 months

What is the purpose of this other than killing housebound people???

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6 months

On March 9th, Biden signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act into law. This will end telehealth under Medicare. Private insurance will surely follow. This is a final lifeline for many of us. This is an act of willful harm against vulnerable people.

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@fiddleheadfinn

1 year

At Mass General Hospital fighting to keep mask mandates ✊😷

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@fiddleheadfinn

7 months

Wouldn't it be cool if the debate over queer "safe spaces" was about creating spaces disabled people also had a chance of being safe in?

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@fiddleheadfinn

5 months

@hutchleah "No, we need to remain here and now and be present in the moment!" is a wild thing to say after just having been caught doing the opposite of that, oh my 😂

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@fiddleheadfinn

8 months

I just got a bunch of new followers for this image. Please don't forget that while the comparison is powerful, invoking it responsibly requires us to act in solidarity with HIV+ and high risk communities, too.

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@fiddleheadfinn

1 year

SILENCE = DEATH

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@fiddleheadfinn

1 year

Trans guys losing our cheek chub is a natural effect of testosterone. Saying Elliot Page looks tired/old means nothing except he's still being evaluated and objectified as if he's a woman. 36 year old cis men with smile lines and tired looks just get to be DILFs.

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2 months

I'm really frustrated that the pretty masks are all a downgrade in protection! Why can't they just make more KN95s with headstraps at least? I don't get the earloop obsession.

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@fiddleheadfinn

1 year

I just got an email from "disabled queer" organizers saying that my COVID concerns disrupted their "vibes" and "laidback energy" so, I'd say yes.

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1 year

CDC. but y’all suddenly decided to drop precautions because what????? Vibes??????

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@fiddleheadfinn

6 months

Reducing "mutual aid" to turn-taking transactions shuts out those most in need, including severely disabled and impoverished people. Instead, I see each act of mutual aid as planting a seeds for the society we want. If we cultivate these values, they will grow.

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@fiddleheadfinn

9 months

Who's joining me in the "not spreading COVID or celebrating genocide today" club? ✨

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@fiddleheadfinn

1 year

Representing the gays , heyyyy 🌈

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@fiddleheadfinn

7 months

Fighting isn’t the only skill we need to change the world. Listening, cooking, sewing, holding each other, coordinating care, telling our stories, RESTING, knowing when to apologize, grieving, and enduring circumstances we can’t actively change are essential skills, too.

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@fiddleheadfinn

9 months

Got my first negative feedback on the Silence = Death design from within the queer community. Given the political climate I'm not surprised, but... do people really not realize millions continue to die?

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1 year

SILENCE = DEATH

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@fiddleheadfinn

6 months

@james_f_thomas There is a huge difference between guys expressing attraction politely and... what happens to trans people on Grindr. Both in terms of quality & volume.

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@fiddleheadfinn

5 months

I feel uncomfortable with a "harm reduction" politics that centers the least harmed.

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@fiddleheadfinn

6 months

Similarly, I have heard "what is your relationship to me that you can ask for support?" or "but we are not community!" and I think this is a dangerous interpretation of the idea that social change starts with relationships & communities.

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@fiddleheadfinn

9 months

The COVID Silence = Death patches are out in the world!

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@fiddleheadfinn

1 year

People have asked me to make an N95 version of this poster. I won’t, because it’s part of the harm reduction message. I’m deliberately promoting the most accessible, affordable masks with the idea that the WHOLE COMMUNITY wears them.

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@fiddleheadfinn

1 year

At Mass General Hospital fighting to keep mask mandates ✊😷

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@fiddleheadfinn

8 months

All the people who rant about leg washing are taking steps to avoid the 3rd leading cause of death this holiday season, right?

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@fiddleheadfinn

6 months

The people asking for change, access, and help are *already* part of our communities—though often systemically excluded—and by asking for help, they offer an opportunity to build relationships. Denying shared community is refusing the opportunity to create change.

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@fiddleheadfinn

1 month

A beautiful sight! 🥲 ❤️ I’ll retweet any crowdfunds so as many people as possible can get one!

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@fiddleheadfinn

7 months

I finally got access to my medical records. The (maskless, coughing) cardiologist was sugarcoating things: I did in fact flatline for 17 seconds, which he denied. He also said it wasn't life threatening. Um. What. At least I will be safe with a pacemaker in.

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@fiddleheadfinn

5 months

I want to step out of the discourse wheels and just illustrate some "COVID precautions for newbies on a budget" guides, tbh. The information and access gaps worry me, especially as basic tools like rapid tests become more and more expensive.

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5 months

I feel uncomfortable with a "harm reduction" politics that centers the least harmed.

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@fiddleheadfinn

1 year

"Masks recommended! Because we love our immunocompromised friends! (Look at me caring! In a mask!) But also feel free to just kill people, it's cool, you do you. Saying anything else would make me a cop ☺️ and that would be coercive. Now I am out of spoons! Boundaries!!"

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@fiddleheadfinn

10 months

I noticed the maskless benefit show and anticipated this. What a waste and a poor plan - to purposely host a superspreader event as a benefit for a “COVID safe” event a week later. Now the event’s safety is compromised and I won’t be able to attend.

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@bAbookfair

10 months

IMPORTANT COVID UPDATE: There was a benefit show for our bookfair last Saturday, and three people who attended have informed us that they tested positive for COVID. While there is not definitive way to know whether they were infected or infectious at the show, we feel it is (1/7)

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@fiddleheadfinn

6 months

@katimcf My inner voice speeds up to match, like an audiobook on 2x speed (or more).

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@fiddleheadfinn

10 months

Did you know that sidewalk chalk exists? You can just like, draw on sidewalks. So cool to contemplate at this particular moment in history.

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@fiddleheadfinn

6 months

The "disability justice" in that book was watered down to "let activists take a break sometimes"—an approach that seems more catered to the working disabled than to people who need to rest in bed >90% of the time. This oversight enables an insidious form of lateral ableism.

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@fiddleheadfinn

2 months

@colleen__may But OP didn't call non-maskers "murderers" in that tweet, just correctly stated that it's life and death. I agree that non-shaming messaging is helpful, but if people can't handle basic facts due to internalized shame they're bringing to the table, they aren't allies.

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@fiddleheadfinn

6 months

Part of the problem is that even "radical" authors like Dean Spade have failed to provide a truly inclusive vision of mutual aid and community organizing. I remember crying my way through his book Mutual Aid because....

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6 months

.... despite it focusing on the central example of prescription delivery for housebound people (hi!), his vision for how such an organization—and the community around it—would be structured didn't leave any room for people as severely disabled as I was.

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@fiddleheadfinn

6 months

I believe that caring for each other without strings is both possible and necessary. Now, if someone thinks we aren't community despite moving (seen or unseen) in the same spheres, I'm just sad for them. Community is ecosystem, not clique. It's beautiful when you can see it.

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@fiddleheadfinn

6 months

It makes it easier to deny that any ableism is occurring because "the organizers are disabled, too!" and "what is your (excluded person's) relationship to us to criticize our work?" Bc activists often form social networks around their activism, the exclusion goes beyond meetings.

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6 months

Only certain kinds of disabled people can survive typical organizing culture. I've observed organizers suffer severe pain and fatigue as a result of overwork, and then become defensive about the idea that their baseline might be higher than someone who cannot work at all.

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@fiddleheadfinn

6 months

Even the book Care Work threw me for a loop with a story about walking miles to attend organizing meetings at "the worst point" of an energy limiting illness. By most standards, this is still mild! But that perspective gets lost, because people sicker than that can't show up.

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@fiddleheadfinn

6 months

Where are we buying bulk COVID tests these days? I'm in the US.

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1 year

Nothing About Us Without Us ♿

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6 months

Meanwhile, when people need help, those who already have a foot in the door benefit greatly from their social networks. An organizer for a mutual aid group will, in general, have a more robust post-surgery care team than an isolated person. This is a form of inequity.

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6 months

The response: "We didn't see you as part of our community." The reason: I was too disabled to attend their gatherings—hiking, beach trips, and (in pre-COVID times) dancing, etc, so they didn't see me as relevant. Some of them found my situation triggering, so looked away.

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@fiddleheadfinn

6 months

I just got out of surgery. For the first time in my life, my community (friends, acquaintances, lovers, metamours) is stepping up to provide things I won't be able to return. I have faith that I can pay this forward, in some way, but my worth does not depend on it.

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6 months

I haven't interacted with any of them since. Instead, I've made a point of cultivating an open attitude toward community. I recognize strangers as my community. I believe we owe each other care.

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@fiddleheadfinn

9 months

People who hear "preventing the spread of disease is important" as "people with contagious conditions are gross and/or slutty" are just ableists telling on themselves.

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@fiddleheadfinn

6 months

And, of course, this dynamic plays off large-scale inequities, including whatever biases (racism, transphobia, ableism) are present in individual organizing communities and social groups. One way to counter this is to expand our ideas about who we are in community with.

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@fiddleheadfinn

1 month

I've just been invited to @actupny 's meeting tonight, in which they will vote on a proposed apology statement. I was told the meeting was open to the public. I will not be attending for my mental health, but I have asked that the invitation be extended widely.

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@fiddleheadfinn

2 months

Remember when Trump said the COVID numbers would go down if we stopped testing, and we all laughed at him?

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@fiddleheadfinn

6 months

I support bodily autonomy, which is exactly why I don't want the state or medical institutions deciding who they'll "assist" in staying alive versus dying. I just don't see "right to die" as compatible with state control.

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@fiddleheadfinn

1 month

I know it takes time for organizations to craft statements, but in the meantime, the first thing people see on @actupny 's account is me being spotlighted and accused of lying about them. I feel like I narrowly escaped a dogpile, and it's exacerbated a chronic illness flare.

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5 months

*With consent, obviously. Ask people what they need, don't assume and impose.

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@fiddleheadfinn

6 months

I still remember the last exchange I had with a former friend. Shortly before I admitted myself to hospital over a mental health crisis spurred by the long-term isolation of being housebound, I confronted some "friends" about why they had been absent, while helping each other.

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@fiddleheadfinn

1 year

COVID grinding 🍑😷

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@fiddleheadfinn

1 year

Hey COVID cautious twitter: can anyone recommend an N95 grade mask that does NOT have rubber straps or staples? I have a nickel allergy and get hives from friction (not a latex allergy).

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@fiddleheadfinn

1 year

One of the barriers to communicating the COVID situation with other activists is it's *impossible to directly link* to an official interactive graph of the COVID wastewater numbers. Meanwhile, summer COVID transmission levels are 4x higher than in 2021!

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9 months

When people talk as if promoting barrier methods (masks, condoms) is "shaming" but never say that about vaccines or PrEP, they imply that resisting stigma requires removing all reminders of illness from view. ` That's stigma, too.

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9 months

People who hear "preventing the spread of disease is important" as "people with contagious conditions are gross and/or slutty" are just ableists telling on themselves.

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2 months

Because we love a masked man

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@fiddleheadfinn

2 months

Goodbye to this original painting, and thank you! I donated the money to @actupny . I want to thank them for bringing COVID activism back into the spotlight of their work.

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9 months

The original painting is still available!

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1 month

I emailed @actupny and asked them to make a preliminary statement acknowledging that harm was done and they're working on a response. I've also asked them to give credit to the COVID activists who have helped them bring this issue back into their work.

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@fiddleheadfinn

10 months

@AbeehaTariqArt WOW. I *am* proud to be Irish in this moment, but Israel is really overestimating the treatment of refugees.

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1 month

Remember to wear a mask when you pick up your PrEP! 😷

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@fiddleheadfinn

3 months

Good for you if you use dental dams, but I will never stop laughing at orgs that hand them out for free while ignoring COVID because "no one will mask anyway!"

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@fiddleheadfinn

7 months

I just got a call from my doctor. Apparently my heart got weird and stopped briefly the night I fainted. 😬 They're sending me to the ER now, and I might be admitted. Send me good wishes 💕

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3 months

"It's so easy to just do outdoor activities, like hiking!" said no person with ME/CFS ever. Yet many CC accounts don't see the irony in posting lists of "acceptable" social activities that are incompatible with ME. It makes me feel disposed of by everyone.

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3 months

Sometimes the way people talk about their fear of becoming more disabled by COVID makes it feel like they don't see a distinction between being housebound and being dead. They talk as if life is over either way, and I don't love that!

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6 months

@MalakaGharib This is a very disappointing take. I have a fairly severe ME/CFS, dysautonomia, and recently got a pacemaker at 36. My partner & I are on the same page about COVID - in fact, he worries more than I do!

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3 months

I feel like I'm in clown world. Grown adults with fully functioning immune systems are more afraid of cold sores no one will see than a disabling disease that *actually* wrecks immune systems and social lives.

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@fiddleheadfinn

1 month

The events of this weekend have me reflecting on how much I've made myself small & agreeable to reduce conflict with COVID minimizers. It was necessary when things were at their worst, but I don't want to leave my bedbound comrades behind.

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@fiddleheadfinn

9 months

That said, I know a lot of HIV activists have given up on COVID. Last I checked, ACT-UP NY seemed to have adopted a vax-only strategy, which is exactly what opened up the doors to mass death. I have no problems naming that as a failure and calling for better through art.

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@fiddleheadfinn

2 years

⛈ I want my anger to nourish the soil ⛈

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@fiddleheadfinn

1 year

@Walroose64 This whole situation reminds me too much of a time I was trying to escape my abusive family while they were busy smearing me as “just” having a manic episode. It wasn’t nearly as high stakes for me, yet the communication style and everything fits.

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@fiddleheadfinn

1 year

Stickers are selling out fast!

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@fiddleheadfinn

10 months

Inspired by no discourse whatsoever, how does one carry home a pizza as a wheelchair user?

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@fiddleheadfinn

5 months

@elle_carnitine An inpatient program would a) not admit someone for this alone and b) if they did admit, would likely punish the patient for any trouble completing ADLs. And intensive outpatient is worse in so many ways. If you can't get ready in the morning, you can't do an IOP.

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@fiddleheadfinn

1 year

When you are poor, there is a huge difference between a 30cent mask (ear loop KN95) and a $2+ mask (N95). From a public health perspective, it’s easier to get less expensive PPE funded and distributed. The goal is to reduce transmission, not scoff at people.

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@fiddleheadfinn

5 months

Even as someone who's been consistent with my precautions, I get overwhelmed with info about $100 nose sprays, isolation practices that would send me into a mental health crisis, mountains of science jargon, and panic about counterfeit Amazon N95s.

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6 months

One of my followers was victim blaming NPR writer’s husband over his alleged “imperfect” masking practices. This is why I was afraid to post here for support about my recent inpatient hospital experience. Mask policing has consequences for high risk people!

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@fiddleheadfinn

1 month

At this point I'm overwhelmed at the numerous DMs and emails I have received from ACT UP members (speaking as individuals) while the organization and those members remain publicly silent, and in some cases beg for my silence. It's weird that this needs to be secretive.

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1 month

@actupny Ok, I want to follow up on this. From a social media viewer perspective, it appears that you made zero instagram posts about COVID in 2023 until this announcement in December saying you were bringing back masking temporarily:

ACT UP NY (@actupny) • Instagram photo

www.instagram.com

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@drdevonprice Yes, of course. At the same time, I think people who go unmasked to bars (by choice and because they have the physical ability) shouldn't be talking over housebound people with LC and ME/CFS on this issue. This was a big part of why ACT UP chose to apologize to us.

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1 month

Please extend a public invitation to the public meeting. I've already said I don't have the energy to continue playing nice, and I feel that I'm being taken advantage of because of it. If ACT UP is hiding from the anger of sick people then what is the point?

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@fiddleheadfinn

1 year

Barriers work when they’re CHEAP, accessible, and easy to give out at public events. If you’re demanding specific styles and perfect fit testing then your activism will NEVER succeed the way condom distribution did for HIV.

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9 months

I did a lot of research on the original poster & the intentions of the creators before deciding it was a relevant use. Too tired to find it again right now, but I found a quote from one of them supporting remixing the imagery for other political causes.

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1 year

@bfishbfish @bustle Rebecca, I don’t think you adequately took into account the possibility of abuse, particularly in the example in which a son “ghosted” their parents. It’s not just common, but *classic* for abusers of all types to act confused about why they’re being dumped/ghosted.

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2 years

Not gonna wade into the original discourse, but I hate that my TL is full of “adult trans men who present in ways I read as young must be creeps” 😩

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@fiddleheadfinn

1 year

We are ALL safer in a room full of people wearing ear loop KN95s than a room where a minority (the careful ones) are wearing much more expensive masks.

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@fiddleheadfinn

1 month

@elle_carnitine @actupny Thank you for saying this! I think it's important for ACT UP to also realize that for a time, they were silent on COVID and did not require masks at events, so there was some immuncompromised wisdom (such as this!) missing from their organizing.

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1 month

@actupny I don't think this was a responsible way to engage with my post. I came to you from a place of solidarity, and there is evidence that was I was saying is true. I wish you had engaged with curiosity about the reasons for our collective feelings of alienation instead.

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