Ren Cerebral

crip queer musing about relationship praxis, hierarchy, community, transformative justice, accessibility, gender, sexuality, betraying whiteness, lineage & more

[Ren Cerebral @Ren_Cerebral]

in all sincerity, is it really better to invoke "monstrosity" to describe people when that word has been loaded for disabled people as well?

[Ren Cerebral @Ren_Cerebral]

just posted a short blurb to offer insight into my approach to relationships

https://t.co/uBJx5cq2M8

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

Oh and stop saying the main reason to have access to abortion is to not have disabled children.

Disabled people will, of course be disproportionately harmed and you can only see including disability in the conversation using eugenics?

Fuck you mean, I will dog walk you.

[Ren Cerebral @Ren_Cerebral]

We must find any reason to limit autonomy over our reproductive choices as unacceptable if we ever hope to be free.

[Ren Cerebral @Ren_Cerebral]

As a genetically disabled person, I recognize the importance of nuanced conversations around the significance of selective abortions on the basis of disability. As a person who experiences economic precarity surrounded by other ppl in similar situations, this is hardly relevant.

[Ren Cerebral @Ren_Cerebral]

We don't need to (and we actually cannot) force ableist people to parent disabled children. As long as there are qualifications for who can get abortions and for what reasons, these regulations will be weaponized against those already experiencing the most oppression.

[Mithradates @MithradatesVI]

My dear friend Jaci died in childbirth last year. Her last tweets were a statement about the importance of abortion to her.

I’ve retweeted this 🧵before, and I probably will again, because I think they are words of profound wisdom and grace.

[Ren Cerebral @Ren_Cerebral]

new piece just published about navigating conversations about the continuously unfolding COVID-19 pandemic! this was intended to be posted about a month ago but was delayed due to a family loss. please share with anyone you think would find it of value <3

https://t.co/vLm17EAzG0

[Ren Cerebral @Ren_Cerebral]

I unironically love writing and thinking about a topic for so long and then seeing someone writing about the same thing and having it expand the ways I think about the topic even more 🤩

[Ren Cerebral @Ren_Cerebral]

new essay just posted!

https://t.co/jEdLW2yhbT

[Ren Cerebral @Ren_Cerebral]

it feels like there are so many words to be said about bell hooks and I am impressed by anyone who has been able to come up with anything meaningful to share upon the news of her passing. the world feels different now. echoing the chorus: rest in peace and power <3

[Ren Cerebral @Ren_Cerebral]

bell hooks made me want to be a writer. reading "all about love" after graduating with my bachelors degree made me feel so inspired and affirmed. there was a value to much of the more dense feminist theory but it did not have to be like that. important ideas could be said clearly

[Ren Cerebral @Ren_Cerebral]

well, to be more precise, hooks affirmed my desire to be a writer. college made me feel inadequate. and with this affirmation also came a sense of comfort against the distress of alienation I felt from home, an alienation that was very much informed by class norms.

[Ren Cerebral @Ren_Cerebral]

attempting to be more of a person here. hi!

[Ren Cerebral @Ren_Cerebral]

@butchanarchy every single part of what you wrote was so well-articulated and so important! thank you for taking the risk of sharing that with the world even though many people have a difficult time hearing it <3

[Ren Cerebral @Ren_Cerebral]

thinking about aromanticism as an intentional political choice has been a critical paradigm shift for me and my thoughts about relationship praxis. check out this zine "an aromantic manifesto" which is one of my key sources of inspiration:
https://t.co/rOOSrabHYC

[Ren Cerebral @Ren_Cerebral]

sustain them. If we accept this to be true, what are the implications of bolstering up aesthetic notions of desirability? What if instead of trying to be "hot" or expanding that label to include more people, we tried to abolish the standard altogether?

[Ren Cerebral @Ren_Cerebral]

Desirability politics is an arbitrary standard that disproportionately benefits people who are white, thin, able-bodied, cisgender, and class-privileged. Even though our ability to adhere to these standards is largely out of our control, being deemed desirable often contributes🧵

[Ren Cerebral @Ren_Cerebral]

to people having access to establishing life-sustaining connections with other humans. This means that people of color (especially darker-skinned POC), fat folks, disabled people, trans people, and poor people (amongst others) are less likely to have access to connections that-->