Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx Twitter profile

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

@thellpsx

2 years

1. I just realized that none of the local stores have elder/immunocompromised hours anymore. it's one of the things in early pandemic that made me feel seen in a way I'd never felt before. the public acknowledgement that there was this thing called the immunocompromised, (cont)

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wildfire tips from someone who's lived through PNW smoke seasons: *feel depressed/like crap/eyes burning? that's the smoke * close your windows/storm windows, run air purifiers/ cori rosenthal boxes *if you have central air set it to recirculate, in a car, do the same. (cont)

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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3 years

Not all of us made it. But, as June Jordan wrote in 2001, "Some of us did not die... Some of you, of us, remain, despite that hatred that violence that murder that suicide... And what shall we do now, we who did not die?How shall we grieve,and cry out loud,and face down despair?"

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

@thellpsx

2 years

The crip refusal to say thank you for crumbs is a really key disabled organizing strategy. I have seen over and over the anger/ confusion of the norms when we refuse to eat shit, and I am hopeful that my similar refusal to eat shit with a smile is carrying on the tradition(cont)

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@thellpsx

2 years

The thing about the mass disabling of the world is, we only become a radical political mass movement with power if people are willing to identify as disabled. And internalized ablism is a hell of a drug and often people’s only survival strategy- or so they think.

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

@thellpsx

6 months

ACT UP posters remade for COVID. This is fire.

Oh, Anna 🌈🍉❤️‍🔥

@_copy_of_a_copy

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AIDS/ACT UP posters that i updated for the ongoing global COVID pandemic❗️🧵⬇️ we must know history & be able to apply it to the current moment. queer liberation, disability justice, racial justice – these struggles cannot be separated. #WearAMask #CovidIsAirborne #LongCovid 😷

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

@thellpsx

2 years

I honestly don't know what year 3 of COVID's going to be like as a disabled person in the midst of the Great Forgettting/Gaslighting.Maybe we'll be alone all winter, maybe a brand new pandemic will come through and shielding disabled people will be the only ones who don't get it

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

@thellpsx

2 years

I've been mostly off here but wanna say: there is a multilingual/cultural, youth-lead revolution happening in Sri Lanka right now, demanding demilitarization, the redistribution of wealth the Rajpaksas stole & an islandwide food/medicine distro system. The PM resigned yesterday,

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

@thellpsx

3 years

I'm not leaving the house except for walks in my neighborhood til Feb. That's my response to omicron, the CDC bullshit, aimed at keeping me alive/not sick. Not everyone has the ability to do that,to put it mildly. Yet so many disabled people are on month 21 of longterm isolation.

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@thellpsx

6 months

@DrSamiSchalk Sheets, up to a point. I'm not talking some kind of thousand dollar sheet, but I bought a set of Company Store sheets when they are on sale and man, better than Target. I'm in bed a lot, what can I say.

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@thellpsx

2 years

3. This could just be sad and it is- the corporate ableist refusal to let access stay. But it's also a remembrance: nothing has to be the way that is. Access is created, it gets taken away/ destroyed, but it can be created again.

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@thellpsx

3 years

White male violence meets anti-Asian racism/sexism meets whorephobia/ hatred of sex workers. Support migrant and Asian sex workers who are always organizing and fighting back.

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@RedCanarySong

3 years

Eight workers in massage parlors have been killed in Atlanta. This is horrific, and is indicative of the violence that massage workers face daily. We are saddened and angered to learn of this, and we are sending our love to the workers in Atlanta.

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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1 year

One thing I’ve noticed lately is that able leftists are more likely to know that disability justice exists and provide basic access than ten years ago, but they still don’t grapple with the intellectual and strategic ideas that disability justice puts out there.

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

@thellpsx

2 years

1. @cripchick invented the term "crip doulaing" to describe the ways disabled people support/mentor newly disabled people in disabled skills (how to live on very low spoons, drive a wheelchair, have sex/redefine sexuality, etc.) there is a huge need for crip doulaing w long COVID

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

@thellpsx

5 months

link to Palestine and disability reading list:

Palestine + Disability Resources

Palestine + Disability Resources Photo Credit: Micah Bazant and Sins Invalid Image Description: An illustrated image of a black person in a manual wheelchair wearing an orange prison uniform holding...

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

@thellpsx

2 years

2. and maybe there could be special early hours for all us careful ones. They've disappeared, like the outdoor dining area outside of the diner in my neighborhood where I would take myself out and eat pancakes feeling fairly safe, because it couldn't get its permits renewed.

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

@thellpsx

3 years

I keep seeing people say "Well, we don't know if they were sex workers," and here's the thing: The massage workers were murdered by a man who wanted to "cleanse temptation." He didn't ask if they were the janitor before he killed them.

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@thellpsx

1 year

* that n95/kn94 you use for covid also helps w smoke. you can wear it inside or in your car. * take a steamy shower, simmer water alone or with herbs and breathe *drink water * looking at orange sunlight or a red sky/sun triggers primal anxiety: hit some anti-anxiety herbs.

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@thellpsx

3 years

at the risk of being a crip cliche, I don;t want to go "back to normal" because not only have I never been normal, normal has been kicking me in the ribs behind the dumpster out back my whole life. and I am not alone.

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

@thellpsx

3 years

All these NPR "Perhaps you should wear a mask inside!" pieces say things like "There could be times where vaccinated people should mask indoors, like if you live with an immune compromised person" but never say anything about what to do if you ARE an immune compromised person.

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

@thellpsx

1 year

I just booked my usual post travel PCR. I knew the PHE was over & I might need to pay for it; what I wasn't expecting is that CVS has stopped offering PCR tests altogether. PCRs are much more accurate than antigen tests esp for newer varients and early stage infection (cont)

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

@thellpsx

2 years

Hi sports fans,The Future Is Disabled comes out in six weeks. Community-based coverage is the best way for me to get the word out. If you want to review the book or interview me about it, please send your contact info in DM. It's also very helpful to preorder the book!(lnk below)

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@thellpsx

2 years

Frog And Toad Are Disabled Queers Practicing Collective Care.

Frog and Toad Bot

@FrogandToadbot

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‘Get into my bed and rest.’ said Toad. Toad made Frog a cup of hot tea.

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2 years

3. No disabled person anywhere has ever made lasting change by being nice and accepting a pittance. Our anger, refusal and snark are some of our best weapons- & they all confuse the hell out of the abled, who expect the sweet thankful angel disabled forever child in their heads.

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@thellpsx

4 months

Right after the CDC said "you only need to stay home for thirty seconds if you have COVID" they announced the end to the free test program through USPS. You have til Friday March 8 to order your last free tests. You can do so here.

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

@thellpsx

2 years

it continues to be a mind fuck to be part of the Great Disability Justice Renaissance / Cultural Explosion during the Giant Eugenic Gaslighting Era. yet we persist bc wtf else are we going to do.

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@thellpsx

2 years

When despair gets big, I remember: there're still more of us than them. And disabled people are (some of) the best goddamn people in the world. Our disabled love & all our brilliant collective care and crip ingenuity, that we've done before and through the endemic, is love work.

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@thellpsx

2 years

after 4 14 hour days editing after a month of solid writes and edits, in the middle of 9 days of being snowed in and 3 weeks so far of self-lockdown, I hit send and The Future Is Disabled is at my editor's. we're just a couple steps away from it being in the can. i pass out now

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

@thellpsx

1 year

*Keep your pets inside as much as you can, their lungs are little.Give them extra water. * If it's been a few days and it's been really bad and you don't have AC, if you have the money, consider getting a motel/hotel room with strong AC. *Mullein/other lung herbs after its over.

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@thellpsx

2 years

4. (edited to add: I meant grocery stores because I was trying to figure out groceries this afternoon, but it's likely most others as well. haven't been inside anywhere but the library for two seconds for a month, so hard to say.)

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@thellpsx

1 year

Other things I forgot to say: nausea & headache are common. You can do all these things & still feel like shit, but you may feel less like shit. Don't go fucking jogging. If you can avoid going outside, do so. There's a lot of air quality apps, I like PurpleAir, AirVisual, Airnow

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@thellpsx

2 years

Sometimes I really think COVID showed up in a Noah moment to be like, ok, people, you can give a shit about each other or just about yourselves, which will it be? Two years later, it's clear that even in the face of millions dead some people will just keep on not giving a fuck.

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

@thellpsx

3 years

crip mutual aid isn't always a big public thing, it can be 3 people checking on each other. Friends have a Signal thread called Kripsignal, we use it to check on each other during climate events like heat, smoke or snow and figure out how we can help each other get what we need

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@thellpsx

2 years

2. As a young crip, disabled people elder to me modeled saying no, refusing bullshit and being ornery cripples who refused to "just be nice and maybe someone will care". I was awed by their audacity, sometimes it made me scared. Shouldn't we just nod and not make waves?

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@thellpsx

2 years

4. Our rage and refusal to accept our own oppression and deaths are pathologized. And- they're beautiful and powerful. Some of our best weapons.

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

@thellpsx

2 years

Abortion work is care work. The work of caring for pregnant people who want and need to terminate pregnancies is sacred. As a former abortion counselor, I know that caring for people choosing to terminate pregnancies is a sacred act. It is also a part of disability justice.

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@thellpsx

1 year

I've seen talk about how state repression of public health messaging plus fascist backlash is part of why some people aren't masking in the smoke, & that's real but I also have thoughts about how denial is a lot of people's best survival strategy when there's not another one(cont

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@thellpsx

1 year

*Try not to fry things, burn candles or incense or smoke inside while it's smoky * If you have to go outside,wear goggles if you have them to protect your eyes, consider changing out of your clothes when you come back in as particulate will have gotten in. Bag them and wash later

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

@thellpsx

1 year

Today my friend/comrade/workwife @cripchick would've been 36. It's 3 years since she passed on 5/19/20. She lived a revolutionary life, was one of the most incredible organizers I've known. Honor her by engaging with some of the work & thinking she did :

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@thellpsx

1 year

"Disabled people are prepping all the time whether we call it that or not.The wheelchair users I know are always like,“What happens when my care attendant doesn’t show up for her shift? Okay I’ve got this yogurt container by the side of the bed, I can roll over & piss in it."-MOI

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

@thellpsx

2 years

Wrote a thing for @truthout , meant it.

Truthout

@truthout

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Abled-Bodied Leftists Cannot Abandon Disabled Solidarity to “Move On” From COVID

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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2 years

Hey the audiobook of the future is disabled finally came out yesterday. Here’s a link to order it: Yes it is read in my very own sarcastic voice.

The Future Is Disabled Audiobook on Libro.fm

In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled—and what if that's not a bad thing?...

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@thellpsx

1 year

"Even if you don't feel the smoke it's hurting you. AQI includes particular matter below 2.5 microns which is so small your lungs can't filter it- so the pollution enters your bloodstream and can cause all kinds of inflammation"- @MaskOakland

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@thellpsx

2 years

the tour dates for the book are 100% online because I don't feel good asking people to gather inside in mass bc, you know, covid? / eg I would be a fucking hypocrite asking disabled people to gather unsafely and inaccessibly to listen to me talk about a disabled book. (cont)

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@thellpsx

2 years

"I wanted to understand the lies that people have to tell themselves when they either quietly or joyfully watch their neighbors mined, spirited away, killed."- Octavia Butler

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“There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers–at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.”--this Octavia Butler essay, I come back to all the time. But especially this morning

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1 year

this is a guide me & my friend Tina wrote with ideas & hacks for how disabled/high risk people can safely hang out outside when it's cold. it's also about how as disabled people we need/are creating ways to be together safely as the pandemic forevers.

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

@thellpsx

2 years

1. I think I'm having a delayed reaction to the eugenics of @CDCDirector 's statement that it doesn't matter if disabled or elder people die of COVID. My friend's 72 year old mom had a direct exposure and I was talking to them about where to get a pulse ox and I burst into tears

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@thellpsx

1 year

It’s like they’ve gotten to a point where they’re like OK disability is a thing, access is a thing, but they’re still unable to really see us as political equals and innovators who are creating all of this immensely interesting shit, Just the people who taught them about captions

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@thellpsx

2 years

What are you doing for disabled love and rage month? That’s what I want to rename it

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

@thellpsx

2 years

It would be kind of amazing if some disability lawyer sued and argued that dropping mask mandates during an ongoing (so says the WHO) pandemic violated the ADA and our right as disabled people to be on public transit.

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

@thellpsx

3 years

oh also: I signed a deal with @Arsenalpulp to publish the sequel to Care Work, The Future Is Disabled, for October 2022. Below is a screencap of the Publishers' Marketplace Deal Report. ID in comments!

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1 year

Finally, realize that even after smoke clears you might get an inflammation spike, migraines, diarrhea etc as your body tries to clear stuff out- I do some liver support herbs like dandelion and milk thistle, epson salt soaks, etc.

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@thellpsx

3 months

People keep doing those 'four years ago lockdown had just started" posts; something I think of is how eager some groups were to learn about disability justice & how that has really shifted four years later. We built a broader base but man we were also the flavor of the month.

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2 years

I am 50.41% done with final editing The Future Is Disabled, due 1/31 to my publisher, and I will take any cheer squad things you got. I'm a nerd so I keep motivating by calculating my percentage done. Of course I'll go back over the whole thing many more times before hitting send

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@thellpsx

1 year

3. This is one more way we're being whitewashed out of having accurate data; if people don't have proof they have COVID, their treatment doesn't have to be covered and they won't be counted in the stats, so it'll look like no one has COVID.

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2 years

5. We all deserve to be safe, especially w/the extreme contagiousness of omicron. But & yet, immunocompromised hours were this small disabled hack space of "all of us who are extra at risk are taking the same precautions, and it might be safer when we are the ones in the store."

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@thellpsx

2 years

Disability justice holds bodily autonomy and the rights of disabled people to be sexual, create families, make medical decisions- including the right to terminate pregnancy to save our lives *or for any reason* and control our bodies and parenting decisions, as sacred.

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@thellpsx

2 years

6. Like, there's a poem waiting to be written about the weird particularness of 7 AM crip shopping hours in a pandemic.

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@thellpsx

2 years

This Wednesday, me and @DrSamiSchalk are going to be talking about disabled prescience/future telling, writing and anger/desire in celebration of @SFdirewolf 's Year of the Tiger. ASL & CART provided/book giveaway for 20.reg here:

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

@thellpsx

5 months

the thing about this future/ present is disabled moment is that it's dire. people are dying in their 50s of strokes and heart attacks caused *probably* by postcovid cardiovasc changes. there's more coming. there's always possibility and,we're also not in a great moment of uplift.

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2 years

hey friends:my forthcoming book, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs, is available for pre-order: I worked really hard on this collection of essays, recipies & stories towards a thriving disabled future. I hope you like it.<3

The Future Is Disabled

In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled - and what if that's not a bad thing?...

arsenalpulp.com

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

@thellpsx

1 year

writing from my cozy crip space capsule on a Saturday night, something I said to a friend this summer bears repeating: in my opinion, marriage/partnership is vastly overrated and femme solitude and total autonomy is vastly underrated, as goals and strategies for a wonderful life.

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Black Disability Justice Syllabus by @sinsinvalid :

Black Disability Justice Syllabus — Sins Invalid

Sins Invalid offers our Black Disabled Futures Month Syllabus as an opportunity to honor the legacies of Black disabled artists, thinkers, activists, and leaders and a tool for future work.

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@thellpsx

2 years

Finally, @briarpatchmag an amazing Canadian labor mag, did a disability justice issue and I did an interview with them. Whole issue looks great and is free online- check it out.

“There are disabled people in the future”

An interview with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha about “crip doulaing,” the future of the disability justice movement, and understanding access and care as joyful.

briarpatchmagazine.com

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@thellpsx

2 years

@thrasherxy My friend last night was like,"Right now I feel like using Instacart is like using a human shield-no disrespect to anyone who has to use food delivery bc you're immunocompromised, but it's still that feeling of "I'm hiring someone to be exposed to virus to get me my food safely"

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@thellpsx

3 years

you know who had a really bad day yesterday? the Asian women sex workers who were murdered.

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@thellpsx

1 year

2. I got a PCR test at Walgreens, for $120 out of pocket I can apply to get reimbursement for. I can afford that; a lot of people can't, so they won't get tested. The tests were there last week and have been carried out for years. It's not like they don't have the infrastructure.

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PS, ending SESTA and FOSTA are transformative justice issues because they are laws that criminalize the ways sex workers protect themselves from violence without using the state- from bad date lists to hiring security.

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@pipagaopoetry @SFdirewolf @DisVisibility and me co-created this crips for esims for Gaza project. Are you disabled or give a shit and want to find a way of pooling our collective resources to make a difference for Gaza? Buying eSims is one way.

Crips for eSims for Gaza

Donate here: 中文 Simplified and Traditional Chinese version En Español 한국어 As disabled people around the world and as disabled diasporic Asian queers, we have been grieving heavily and findin…

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@thellpsx

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Myself and many of my disabled friends have been extremely isolated since March 2020 , at times not leaving our homes for months, because we're vulnerable to both COVID-19 *and* ableist medical rationing and denial of care. We need vaccine access! #NoBodyIsDisposable #HighRiskWA

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I'm "lucky" because I relocated to a less dense, rural place, I'm not reliant on public transit and have a small group of disabled friends who mask, test regularly and hang out outside. I'm anticipating a boring but survivable winter, but a lot of people don't have these options.

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@thellpsx

3 years

WILD DISABLED JOY.

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1 year

Denial and disassociation are both survival tools and can get toxic. It's like the character Squeeze says in Sorry to Bother You- "If you get shown a problem but have no idea how to control it, then you just decide to get used to the problem."

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1 year

Nice resource for how to build Cori-Rosenthal boxes, aka box fan filters or DIY air filters, at home:

DIY box fan filters – Corsi-Rosenthal box - Clean Air Crew

Also known as a Corsi-Rosenthal box, this DIY method of building your own air filter with MERV13 furnace filters and a box fan are an easy and cost-effective way to help clear indoor air from...

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2 years

@sinsinvalid is rebroadcasting our 2016 show,"Birthing, Dying, Becoming Crip Wisdom" Nov 18-20 with versions in ASL, English and Spanish.Get tickets here: This show is one of my favs and the focus on becoming, living and dying disabled is right on time

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2 months

last night visiting a student encampment w/friends, we realized students doing the organizing have been in uni since COVID began (seniors began uni 2020) have been fucked by administration so many times they have abs NOTHING TO LOSE BY FIGHTING/been trained to org by these times.

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In Seattle in the '17 wildfires, I remember people getting really mad at friends wearing masks on light rail, yelling "IT'S NOT THAT BAD" @ them. there's a rage unleashed at those of us who are able to be present w the reality of climate change etc- like yes,it really is that bad

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@cripchick 2 There is already (& going to be many more) long COVID people dealing w/new disability &fighting the medical industrial complex. Many things they're facing-extreme fatigue, complex body system changes, being gaslit by MIC-have been faced/fought by people w/ CFIDS, Lyme,for years

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Air purifiers and supplies often sell out quick in smoke affected areas- something we did on the west coast was, when it was bad in the Bay Seattle folks would raise money to buy and mail people air purifiers, furnace filters and masks, and vice versa.

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Worked real hard on this piece for @DisVisibility , glad it's up now.

Palestine is Disabled

Palestine is Disabled Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha I am not the first or last person to say this, but: Everyone in Palestine is disabled right now. Whether it’s disabled as in br…

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Woke up to the mask mandate being struck down news. I just moved to the Northeast but have lived on the West Coast for a third of my life and have a ton of people I love there. As a disabled person, If I want to see them, I now have to fly via Canada or drive for five days (cont)

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@thellpsx

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I thought about it more and the thing about some disabled mutual aid that differentiate us from abled mutual aid is that they a) don't look like a big deal or fall into "dramatic rescue of the cripples" tropes all the time b) are preventative. (continued.)

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@thellpsx

3 years

The women's murders came from racist misogynist hatred of sex work- whatever job they had on site.

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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3 years

Disability justice is reproductive justice. Also, this and worse things also happened all the time to BIPOC disabled and mad people with nary this kind of publicity.

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5. The massive disabled grief is huge and I don't feel like anyone is noticing except for other disabled people. People who have the privilege to afford to be in denial, and can survive that way, will.

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

@thellpsx

3 years

Disabled grief - among other things, the particular ways we, as disabled people grieve when our kin are murdered or die is, like many disabled things, something there's not a ton of easily accessible writing about. I'm gonna write some stuff to try and change that.

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@thellpsx

2 years

are you/ do you know of disabled folks or projects working on the issue of the harms mandated reporting cause? dm me/ list them here.

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13 months since I started work on The Future Is Disabled, I hit send on the final edited manuscript today, on the New Year of the Tiger, new moon in Aquarius. I pulled the cards Ace of Feathers (someone pulling a peacock feather from their throat w much effort) and Liberation.

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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@thrasherxy And as a disabled queer with not much immune system who has leaned heavily on Instacart for the past two years during high community spread times, I agree with her. I don't know what the solution is, but a corporation paying broke people pennies to breathe in Omicron is not it.

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3. Their disabled histories of activism and survival skills are crucially needed- and many outside disabled/ chronically ill community don't know they exist.

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@thellpsx

5 months

the ability to write poetry/anything is in part supported by the right not to work all the time, and the ability to have work where one is able to take time off to be crazy or altered. i was discussing this with a friend the other day; its a very hard to advocate for access need

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3 years

You can sign Butterfly Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Support Network's Declaration of Support here:

Declaration of Support: Justice for Migrant Sex Workers (Please sign)

We, undersigned, join the Butterfly (Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Support Network) in building a community of allies who support the rights of migrant sex workers. In signing this declaration, we...

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I wasn’t on here till last year because it gave me a panic attack. then @SFdirewolf told me that if I wanted to get certain writing opportunities I should check out disability Twitter. I don’t necc think it’s over but its something to watch the last minutes of the Roman empire.

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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I'm performing new work, creating a disabled grief transformation portal altar and generally reveling in being home with people I love here on 6/21 solstice, in NYC and online in the disabled free space.

I wanna be with you everywhere | Performance Space New York

Image description A gray tabby cat lounges in a glass bowl, the image is mirrored down the middle, so there are two lounging tabbies looking at us. The

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4.There's a massive triple pandemic superstorm of mass disabled/elder/fat/BIPOC deaths, both directly from COVID & multiple layers of care denial/medical abuse. There will be no memorial statue in DC for us (except if we make one) & there will be no justice (except what we make.)

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2. A lot of disabled people have already spoken about how the eugenic strikedowns of policies that collectively protected everyone are telling us that as disabled people we deserve to die. I agree. it’s also a big fuck you telling us we can never go out in public life again.

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

@thellpsx

3 years

My tests are back and I don't have COVID but I do have a shitty virus and either way I'm not really leaving the house til February. #DisabledReality . Our disabled lives are not disposable but lack of collective action to ensure that sure makes them so.

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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2 years

Also, I wish my friends were alive to witness this book coming out, and that's the real brutal deal of writing as a disabled/ immunecompromised person during pandemic times.

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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so fb and IG are both down and everyone I know is hitting refresh on Gaza news. moving posts to here but ya, definitely a headsup about the end of social media as connectivity as we know it and needing to explore other forms of contact.

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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5 months

the fact that we did this still blows my mind. keep em coming. but also think what is your version you can do.

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BTW: Crips for eSims for Gaza raised over $200k to purchase eSIMs for Palestinians 3 people, @thellpsx @pipagaopoetry , and me, unaffiliated w/ any org & w/o any institutional support made this happen thanks to the community #CripTheVote

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