I told my parents that sometimes I take a mental health day and don't go to work and you would have thought I told them I do hard drugs in back alleys at night
@KizzyPhD You would think after lockdowns and remote working for months, employers would have adjusted to the idea that it is better to have a few sick employees out of the office rather than the majority of them too sick to work.
I wish one of the takeaway messages from the pandemic was IF YOU HAVE A COLD STAY AWAY FROM OTHER PEOPLE.
People will sneeze or cough and then yell across the room “It’s not COVID, I took a test.”
Okay bro, I don’t want to catch your flu or RSV either.
Spend enough time with crip folk and you notice how often a person sits or leans, how someone holds or adjusts their body, how pain can sound almost like an accent, how energy or attention ebbs, how moods flow, how communication varies, etc. You develop better bodymind literacy.
Normative time is a technology of ableism. The cult of punctuality is ableism dipped in respectability politics. Disciplining disabled people for taking the time we need and moving at our own speed is ableism. And yes I will die on this hill. Crip time. BE LATE. #MakeAbleismWait
A year ago, someone walked into the coffee shop where I work and ordered a pumpkin latte. I wrote my number on the receipt. Celebrating a year today. Things between us are crisis level bad. Each day together feels worse than the last. But being alone is my greatest fear
A BPD helicopter is continuously circling the neighborhood close to the Fraternal Order of Police in #Hampden, where protesters have gathered after marching down Morling Avenue. 1/
Four ways you can get involved in the #StrikeForBlackLives on this coming Monday, July 20th:
🙏 Sign the 8:46 Pledge
📅 Attend an event
🎉 Host an event
🚫 Strike
Join us: https://t.co/BBghghWCIr
https://t.co/wgCkNwRsOh
The federal government, without explanation, seized 2000 cloth masks intended to protect protesters from COVID, apparently because they objected to the phrase "stop killing black people."