Hello, reader. How are you doing? My friend Nina wrote a disability Justice sermon and got an award. I’m so happy for her, and I want to share the link in case you want to hear the sermon. Toward the beginning it mentions me.
This is my second or third time listening to it. Wow, I love it. So grateful that Nina asks all of us to face ableism. It’s about church, but it’s about our whole lives. Yes, I want to build a world with you where all bodies matter.
I love how Nina is doing justice and love where she speaks. How tough! How helpful! Yes, may it be so.
Here are questions for my own discussion.
living the questions
- Where does authority come from?
- What are the most effective ways to share new ideas?
- What’s a sermon for?
- How many times does a person need to hear a new idea before it seems possible?
- Do values about disability and justice change quickly or shift slowly?
- What can we learn from the civil rights movement about disability justice?
- What can we learn from the disability justice movement?
- How much are abled people willing to consider the needs of disabled people?
- How does race affect that? If someone is POC, are they more likely to consider the needs of disabled people?
- Is there a good way to help people decrease the gap between what we say with our mouths, vs what we say with our behavior?
- Should I be trying to change people’s minds at all?
- Should I give up and stop writing, dancing, making art, speaking truth? What would I do instead?
I have faith in my project, and complete faith that my ancestors put me here to say things others are not saying. But sometimes my little mouse-squeak feels so insignificant, against the ocean of money-values that capitalism makes. It hurts to keep trying.
- Who cares about anyone besides themself and the people they’re having sex with?
- How can I help increase people’s capacity to care?
sad
I try to model another way of being. But can I even be seen? I’m crying this morning because my zines, blogs, radical mental health, disability justice work, transqueer fat disabled dance, close relationships, and love activism are such a tiny drop.
Well, we gotta try. Thank you to Nina and other wranglers of big ideas– I appreciate the Disability Justice sermon. Thank you to Ming and all my dear ones who help me keep going. I love you.
