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Fat in the time of COVID-19

Posted on March 18, 2020March 25, 2020 by Fat Rose

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@fatlibink / Fat Rose, @disabilityjusticeculturecl @fatlibink / Fat Rose, @disabilityjusticecultureclub and others will be part of this panel Saturday, hosted by Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network. Join us! Bit.ly/organizing4safety Domestic workers and domestic employers with disabilities are organizing local mutual aid efforts and campaigns for systems change to defend themselves and their communities against threats to their health and safety in California worsened by the wildfires, power shut-offs and now the Coronavirus. Examples abound of disabled employers supporting the attendants who support them, and vice versa. That said, the public campaigns for policy change don’t always involve both workers and employers together, even though they share similar experiences of vulnerability during crises. This conversation is meant to bring the personal and political closer together, expand each community’s knowledge about the others’ struggle and deepen our unity. A panel, with audience participation, will discuss the work being done by the CA Domestic Workers Coalition to bring domestic workers under the protections of Cal-OSHA, and disability justice organizers organizing a campaign to hold PG&E accountable for its Public Safety Power ShutsOffs and lack of action around wildfire prevention and post-clean up. We will talk about what mutual aid efforts are underway now and what solidarity is looking like and could look like in our current reality of growing public health threats and the lack of proper public safety nets. Our members will also share other short announcements about the work being done in CA by domestic worker and domestic employer leaders in the the Domestic Workers Movement. Join us! Panelists include representatives from: The CA Domestic Workers Coalition, the Disability Justice Culture Club, Electricity Equals Life, Filipino Advocates for Justice, Fat Rose and the Graton Day Labor Center. Closed captioning, Spanish and Tagalog Interpretation to be provided. Image shows people - some standing, some in wheelchairs listening to a speaker at a rally #NoBodyIsDisposable
FRIENDS, our efforts to prevent triage discriminat FRIENDS, our efforts to prevent triage discrimination are WORKING. Alabama’s discriminatory triage policy has been revoked! We must remain vigilant — these coming weeks will put immense pressure on US medical infrastructure and medical providers. Stay tuned for more opportunities to help folks in the hospital. In the meantime, please sign our letter (link in bio) and ask a friend or organization to sign it! Together, our voices will be heard 💜 #NoBodyIsDisposable #NoICUgenics Posted @withregram • @arcofcentralal SWIPE LEFT FOR AN UPDATE ➡️➡️➡️ AL’s discriminatory ventilator policy has been REVOKED! Thank you all for supporting the people we serve and the disability community in Alabama. 🧡 ⁣ ⁣ ACT AGAINST TRIAGE DISCRIMINATION NOW:⁣⁣ ⁣ 💌 SIGN the #NoBodyIsDisposable campaign's open letter through the link in our bio.⁣⁣ ⁣ 📣 REACH OUT to your government officials: scripts and contact information in the link in our bio.⁣⁣ ⁣ 🤳 SHARE a #SolidaritySelfie to help spread the word: be sure to include the link tinyurl.com/nobodyisdisposable in the comments.⁣⁣ ⁣ Thank you for supporting the people we serve and the disability community at large through these three actions. ⁣⁣ ⁣ 🧡 ⁣⁣ ⁣ #WeAreAllVentilatorWorthy #ImAPersonNotADifficultDecision #TriageEquality #WeAreEssential #DontRationOurCare
Chag Pesach Sameach, comrades! . . “My thoughts Chag Pesach Sameach, comrades! . . “My thoughts on seeing the full moon tonight. . Only those who have been assured victory leave slavery during a full moon. A multitude needs the light to march in the wilderness. . But for those who ran one by one joining ten others. They might leave at a new moon. Needing the cover of dark. . . Either tactic seems a good strategy depending on the circumstances. . I imagine people running towards freedom. A disabled woman going back again and again into hell to lead others out. I cannot imagine the hell of those plantations. . . Sometimes it takes enduring. Having hope against all hope. Through hundreds of years...surviving. . I think tonight of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. My people fighting tanks. People who despised them. Thought us inhuman. Vermin. The people crawled through the sewers...and fought what they knew was a useless battle. But it was not useless because 75 years later I remember. . . And it gives me the will to resist. . I won’t tell you how to resist. On a moonless night or on a moonlit night. By going back again and again into hell to lead people out or by crawling through sewers. . . I only know that in our very DNA is the trauma of living through hell. But there is deep resolve to fight for freedom too. To be ready to die for it. To endure the unendurable to strive for it. . . I live, a citizen of an empire that is coming to the end. It is fearsome and awful. Let's resist Pharaoh. Within and without. . . As I face the red sea I no longer know if I am in the mass of people wading in up to our necks towards freedom. Or perhaps death. Or part of a crumbling empire that has been destroyed because it would not change its way. I do not know any more if the sea would part for me or close over me. . . I only know that I am fat. I float effortlessly in the water. And I let others grab onto me. Not drown. Until the miracle happens. . . What is fearsome is also awe inspiring. What is terrifying can also be powerful. Hang on. The water is gonna part. In the meantime swim or hang onto me while my fat body does its thing and floats.” . . —Naomi Finkelstein @bearsky1
#FattiesAgainstFascism continue to fight to releas #FattiesAgainstFascism continue to fight to release prisoners — particularly under the threat of a plague-infested death camps. What campaigns are you working on, where #NoBodyIsDisposable? Posted @withregram • @tender_punk Standing in solidarity with @soulinchicago @ocad_chi @blmchi and so many more by calling for the mass release of all prisoners now in the name of public health. Over 200 prisoners have tested positive for COVID-19 and 1 person has already died. That number will skyrocket if there is no action soon. How many more have to die before @lightfootforchi @chicagosmayor @govpritzker take this seriously? Conditions in cook county prisons already are questionable at best, and with no soap in the bathrooms or ability to quarantine and social distance, cook county jail turns into a death trap. Think of how many people’s kids are incarcerated on petty charges or because they can’t afford to get out. This is a death sentence. There is no way Illinois and Chicago can say we are following the CDC’s guidelines. This is a public health and a human rights emergency. We must release all prisoners NOW. . . . #acab #1312 #freethemall #freethemall4publichealth #nobodyisdisposable #fattiesagainstfascism
Wisdom from Sherronda J. Brown via @wearyourvoice Wisdom from Sherronda J. Brown via @wearyourvoice “cw: pandemic, death the reasons that certain marginalized groups are experiencing higher mortality rates are institutional/medical racism, fatphobia, and ableism. the medical industry denies proper care to these people and then uses their disproportionate death rates to confirm their bias against them. these groups are not inherently more unhealthy or already closer to death because of their bodies. they are chronically under-cared for because of widely-held bigoted-beliefs. period. now, more than ever, it’s necessary to challenges myths about ‘health’, morality, and personhood, because these beliefs are what people are leaning on when they decide who ‘deserves’ to live or die.” #NoBodyIsDisposable #NoICUgenics
Posted @withregram • @morefatsmorefemmes No Disc Posted @withregram • @morefatsmorefemmes No Discriminatory Triage Practices That Target Disabled, Fat, Sick, Elderly, HIV+, BIPOC, or Poor People. #nobodyisdisposable #noicugenics
Please spread the word to California BIPOC, fattie Please spread the word to California BIPOC, fatties, crips, elders, queers, trans folks so folks can be as prepared as possible to get through this time. . COVID19 Emergency Legal Document Planning (CA only). Legal clinic to write your advance care directive, power of attorney and wills. Donation based, free for BIPOC. Hosted by @disabilityjusticecultureclub Sat. April 11, 2-4p. TinyURL.com/coronacaretix #NoBodyIsDisposable
Grateful to comrade Rabbi Elliot Rose for this. . Grateful to comrade Rabbi Elliot Rose for this. . . This Passover, center the lives of elder, sick, disabled, and fat people by placing a spoon on your Seder plate. bit.ly/SpoonOnYourSederPlate MEANING: The term “spoon theory” was coined by Christine Miserandino in 2003. Spoons represent the limited units of energy chronically sick people have to meet our daily needs. When you place a spoon tenderly on your seder plate this year, it will hold multiple meanings: A spoon represents valuing elder, sick, disabled and fat people’s lives, and it also represents the need for everyone to tend to their energy in this time of quarantine. A spoon on your seder plate is also a symbol of the nourishment and care all our bodies need and deserve in this time. HAGGADAH SUPPLEMENT: Please find background about this action, a blessing you can say during the Seder, a call to action, and further reading, here: bit.ly/SpoonOnYourSederPlate TAKE ACTION: Express appreciation to care providers for their frontline work, and to say that we believe no body is disposable. Sign on to this open letter: http://bit.ly/2WQrvRM (link in profile) PLEASE RE-POST: #NoBodyIsDisposable #PutASpoonOnYourSederPlate #noICUgenics [Image description: Orange background with black text at the top: "This year, center the lives of elder, sick, disabled, and fat people by placing a spoon on your Seder plate." Then in the middle of the meme, there is a hand drawing of a white seder plate with horseradish, charoses (fruit paste), an egg, a bone, parsley, a piece of lettuce, an orange, olives, and a spoon. Under the drawing, the following text: "This Passover many marginalized people are at risk due to medical rationing. Spoons have come to represent the limited energy that chronically ill people have for our daily needs. A spoon is also a symbol of nourishment and care that we all need in this time. #NoBodyIsDisaposable #PutASpoonOnYourSederPlate"] Thank you so much to Lilia Faith for the beautiful illustration.
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