Dear one, Hurting other people is an inevitable part of life. People get hurt for all sorts of reasons. A lot of how others react to us, isn’t about us at all. I think about being hurt fairly, vs being hurt unfairly. Long ago I led a workshop on disability justice at the community where… Read More »
Hello, reader. How are you doing? There are new facts I want to tell you. They’re important to me. radical mental health One is that my new Disabled Love column on Dissonant Times is available. It’s about how radical mental health saved my life, what motivates me, and the power of telling the truth. Please… Read More »
Hello, reader. How are you doing? Recently I asked for help with the dance. Today I’m asking for help with my writing. Not the writing itself, but helping it reach more people. Thank you for caring about the expression of my truth. Thank you for bringing my words into yourself and sifting them into your… Read More »
Hello, reader. How are you doing? I’m asking for help with the dance. It’s a lot of energy. I believe in this work 100%, but I can’t do it just me and Ming. I need help holding the transqueer fat disabled dance. People help carry stuff to the car. Eugene Mask Block came yesterday. Good… Read More »
Hello, reader. How are you doing? Can we talk about what violence feels like? Violence is scary; I feel fear when I face violence. I want to run away. But the creepy part is being stuck with violence, when it’s connected to my housing, medications, income, or anything I need. Violence is the opposite of… Read More »
Hey, reader. How’s tricks? Where are you comfortable and feel like yourself? I’ve been thinking about city vs rural vs wild. Backing up, I could ask: Are you ever comfortable and feel like yourself? I’ve said before that I’m only comfortable when I’m alone. But that’s not true. With Ming and a few other people,… Read More »
Hello, reader. How are you doing? I was very slowly walking up some steep stairs this morning, thinking about how disability is a spectrum. That’s an idea floating around already… but I want to mention it because I encounter many people who don’t know disability is a spectrum, and they do some low key crappy… Read More »
Hello, reader. How are you doing? I’m a radical mental health person–being real about emotions and inner life is everything to me. Relatedly, addicts are my people. I think a lot about self-harm, substance use, addiction, and harm reduction. What am I doing that’s fucking up my life, and how can I do less of… Read More »
Hey, reader. How are you doing? Last post I was talking about that internal memo googledoc of what I want done with my stuff when I die. And now I want to write the statement to be released at the time of my death as a final message. Yes! But why wait? I intend to… Read More »
Hey, reader. How are you doing? At an event watching local Indigenous people dance, they were burning copal. I felt so happy, some things came together in my mind. I connected dots, and I felt excited. It made me want to write a blog post and tell you what dancing is for. prayers Dancing is… Read More »