Mimi Newman♿️🏳️‍🌈

Brown, British, Crip and queer AF. I try to write scripts while longing for Disability Justice. Black Lives Matter. fuck white supremacy. she/her

[Mimi Newman♿️🏳️‍🌈 @MimiAFNewman]

The past 12 months have torn me up. COVID has been devastating to my communities.

It has been a really traumatic time to be Disabled and Indian. I will never completely recover. This is the first time I’ve had energy go post & I am begging everyone to #WearAMask

[Mimi Newman♿️🏳️‍🌈 @MimiAFNewman]

#MutualAidRequest we can’t make rent this month with Megan still being out of work and me being constantly unwell. Please share and any little is appreciated. https://t.co/VWJ9dgcdMo #DisabilityTwitter

[Prof Gina Neff @ginasue]

Right now, and I mean this instant, delete every digital trace of any menstrual tracking. Please.

[Mimi Newman♿️🏳️‍🌈 @MimiAFNewman]

They know exactly who will die.

Destabilising public health even further is wildly dangerous and calculatingly cruel. And it’s a choice, taken from us and given to them. #RoeVsWade

[Mimi Newman♿️🏳️‍🌈 @MimiAFNewman]

These people want to cull the populous. Of Black, brown, queer, disabled, sick, mad, and, fat people. We’re in the midst of a pandemic & heading into a second. Both these things are disproportionately impacting the above mentioned communities.

[Mimi Newman♿️🏳️‍🌈 @MimiAFNewman]

And the Communities affected most devastatingly are the ones already in crisis, already targeted, and for whom the covid-19 pandemic is already eugenic.

This choice was made gleefully. A cleverly masterminded public health crisis because they know exactly who will be affected.

[Mimi Newman♿️🏳️‍🌈 @MimiAFNewman]

This includes over the front office worker who is masked and looks incredibly uncomfortable. She’s smaller than them as are we. I’m severely immunocompromised. Two of the men shake hands across the desk. Both still unmasked. And I don’t feel safe nor safe to say anything.

[Mimi Newman♿️🏳️‍🌈 @MimiAFNewman]

In radiology centre lobby waiting on an x-ray to confirm likely walking pneumonia (which I contracted who knows where but that’s another story). Signs to mask all over. I’m watching 3 white men (including one technician) have a loud conversation across the front desk maskless.

[Mimi Newman♿️🏳️‍🌈 @MimiAFNewman]

@chloekbenjamin This is so incredibly kind and fantastic info. Knitting is my happy place! I’m ordering this brace right now! Seriously, thanks!!!

[Mimi Newman♿️🏳️‍🌈 @MimiAFNewman]

@chloekbenjamin hi, this is admittedly random but I just read your 2018 article about hand/wrist hypermobility & knitting. I have EDS & love to knit…anyway you mentioned a brace that helped with floppy joints. Wondering if you could pass along the name? Weird flex, literally.

[Mimi Newman♿️🏳️‍🌈 @MimiAFNewman]

@chloekbenjamin Definitely going to look into getting one of these. I’ve had so many braces myself but none are ever quite right.

[Alice Wong 王美華 @SFdirewolf]

"...here we are today with eugenics and systemic ableism displayed nakedly upon the altar of capitalism... I resent the implication that we have to prove our value and reveal our traumas in order to be seen as human and worthy of ‘care’"

https://t.co/TS8gqA1BmW

#HighRiskCovid19

[Mimi Newman♿️🏳️‍🌈 @MimiAFNewman]

I just tested positive for covid. I haven’t seen anyone but my wife in the last 6 weeks. While my wife’s school is having students work from home, teachers were required to teach from their classrooms. I’m on immunosuppressants. This is our worst fear actualised and I’m so angry.

[Mimi Newman♿️🏳️‍🌈 @MimiAFNewman]

We will keep fighting. Keep screaming for our right to live cus: #MyDisabledLifeIsWorthy !!

But, we know that if that ableds & our government believed that, well there wouldn’t be almost a million people dead of COVID in this country.

Eugenics is a choice. So is genocide.

[Mimi Newman♿️🏳️‍🌈 @MimiAFNewman]

My therapist asked me if there was a way to hold space for the dehumanising effect that COVID has had on the Disabled community while still helping me stop feeling panicked all the time and not sleeping. I told her, why fix the dehydration while I’m still bleeding out.

[Mimi Newman♿️🏳️‍🌈 @MimiAFNewman]

The response to COVID has made us feel the true force of our disposability. We live with knowing the majority of people don’t care any of this because they’d rather sacrifice us than take any of the responsibility. We are their plexiglass and we did not consent.