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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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We are using this space to try and direct resource We are using this space to try and direct resources to where they are needed, and to honor requests we are hearing from Black & Indigenous organizers to stop offering lip service, and start giving resources. . . Please add payment links (Venmo, CashApp, Paypal or a URL) to Black or Indigenous folks and organizations below. If you have resources and are not Black or Indigenous, give and come back to give again after more folks have added payment links in the comments. . . We’ll transfer payment links from our previous post into the comments on this one. . . [Image: Text reads: “Solidarity means redistribute wealth. Add payment links to Black & Indigenous folks & struggles in the comments.” Background image is a faint fat red fist with white roses on both sides of the wrist, surrounded by a circle and the words “Fatties Against Fascism: Resist.”] . . #BlackLivesMatter #IndigenousSovereignty #FattiesAgainstFascism #NoBodyIsDisposable
Such deep gratitude today to @dashaunlh, @jervae, Such deep gratitude today to @dashaunlh, @jervae, @triciarainwaterart, @chairbreaker and @thefatsextherapist for their discussion about connections between fatness, covid, anti-Blackness and colonization.  If you missed it, look for the video and transcript that will be posted soon. So many shared examples of the ways fat hatred and ableism are smokescreens for (and emerge from) anti-Blackness and colonialism. And, as Da’Shaun shared, lip service from white folks is not welcome. What is welcome is money, care (such as shopping for folks at greater risk), and literally blocking physical harm, even if it means putting one’s self at risk. . . So we want to use this space for a resource exchange. If you are Black or Indigenous, and fat or disabled, we invite you to post in comments your personal payment info (venmo, paypal, etc.), support requests, or any suggestion of where you want resources to go. Folks with resources, keep checking back and let’s get our resources redistributed NOW. #NoBodyIsDisposable means looking out for each other, doing everything we can to stop, destroy, dismantle the systems that are killing people, recognizing and shifting the ways we are complicit, and truly acting from the knowledge that no body is disposable. . . [Image: Text reads: Fat Liberation demands we END white supremacy, colonialism & capitalism, and ENGAGE care of land, beings & relationships. Black & Indigenous fat & disabled folks are invited to post personal & organizational payment pathways or needs in the comments. Those who can, give. #NoBodyIsDisposable]
Repost from @crone_nut • I know if she can, Stac Repost from @crone_nut • I know if she can, Stacey is giggling about this image and design. It expresses so much to me about what #StaceyTaughtUs . [Image Description: Stacey, a 30-year old Korean-American queer femme wearing a grey snapback cap and black tanktop, rises majestically from a circular bouquet of pink roses and other flowers, eyes closed and smiling blissfully as she holds a waffle cone with two pale, creamy scoops of ice cream. Her trach is visible at her neck, and a black ink tiger tattoo wraps around her upper arm. Around the circle in pink letters are the words “Rest in Peace, Rise in Power, Revel in Pleasure, Beloved Stacey.” In the lower right corner it says, “xo max”] Photo  and photo editing by @crone_nut
Our friend Stacey Park Milbern lived a vanguard li Our friend Stacey Park Milbern lived a vanguard life. . While we never heard her espouse Marxist views on revolutionary vanguardism, she lived her life in struggled collaboration with others, leading the way with new ideas. Rather than incremental change, Stacey would dream of radical transformations where people and the planet are cherished. . She would dream up something that seemed futuristic -- say an Oakland home from which disabled BIPOC could live and co-organize. Disability Justice Culture Club is bursting today, offering mutual aid during disaster and pandemic, political education, and the nurtured community building that Stacey centered in her organizing philosophy. . #StaceyTaughtUs that coalition building without community, fighting the man without food for the people, or political work without puppy piles would never attract people. And it was Stacey’s bright magnetism that drew people into her dreams, and brought people back to mend cracked relationships. . Stacey was our first fat ally here at Fat Rose to say yes to a cross-movement organizing campaign, to Close the Camps in July 2019. With her brilliant words, we wove together a theme that #NoBodyIsDisposable -- not people in the camps, not disabled bodies, not fat bodies, not anybody. It’s offered the groundwork for more organizing, with Stacey a key ally for much of it. . When a vanguard leader dies, grief crashes beyond the shores of personal connection. As someone who helped birth Disability Justice, she painted new landscapes of disability activism, birthing a bounty of creative movement dreams for the rest of us. Whether you’ve read her work from afar or imagined ways you would build with her soon, there’s something specifically aching about losing someone who changed your thinking on what you passionately do every day. . Your dreams feel connected with hers, forever. . Stacey, as our ancestor, may you keep dreaming with us. . Stacey Park Milbern died May 19, 2020, on her 33rd birthday. . #FatRoseFatRoots *** . Painting by Isicera Dew, Text by Dawn Haney. Image descriptions in captions.
Getting ready to ride for Stacey. 🖤💔😭💕 Getting ready to ride for Stacey. 🖤💔😭💕💜 . . #StaceyTaughtUs
We are so sad about the loss of our beloved close We are so sad about the loss of our beloved close comrade, Stacey Milbern. We will post more about Stacey soon, but here is info to share about her celebration tomorrow. Repost from @disabilityjusticecultureclub • THIS Saturday, May 23rd, 2020 4p - 6p Celebration of the Life & Legacy of Stacey Park Milbern Locations: Lake Merritt, #StaceyTaughtUs, Zoom Family! Beloved Community! Here in Ohlone territory (in Oakland) and anywhere and everywhere you are! Let's come together on Saturday to show our love, to connect as movement, and to be a manifestation of the dreams of our dear, fierce, incomparable, deeply beloved ancestor, Stacey Park Milbern. Event Link in Bio Image Description: Graphic with a pink background with white text that reads: CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF STACEY PARK MILBERN 5/19/87-5/19/20, 5/23/20, TINYURL.COM/CELEBRATESTACEY. In the center is a photo of Stacey, a mixed race Korean and white queer person wearing a short-sleeve shirt with pink and white stripes. She has pink streaks in her black hair. Her trach and wheelchair can be seen.
Don’t miss this panel on coronavirus, anti-Black Don’t miss this panel on coronavirus, anti-Blackness, settler colonialism, and fatness! Register: TinyURL.com/FatCovidZoom Posted @withregram • @chairbreaker NEXT FRIGAY 5/29: The Coronavirus & Fatness in the U.S., 2pm PST/5pm EST Monday evening, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi used an opportunity being interviewed on Anderson Cooper 360 to diagnose Donald Trump as ‘morbidly obese,’ suggesting it was a risk factor in his decision to take hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 preventative treatment. Pelosi’s comments mirror patterns of anti-fatness from liberals and leftists in the U.S.—partially through, as Pelosi attempts to do here, using fatness as an insult, or a stand-in indicator of a person’s character. It also echoes histories of the medicalization of fat embodiment as an innately ‘unhealthy’ status, which has seen a revitalization during the pandemic. For example, following trends of displacing blame for the impacts of the Coronavirus on vulnerable communities, the New York Times published a story headlined “Obesity Linked to Severe Coronavirus Disease, Especially for Younger Patients” on April 17th. This story comes on the heels of additional data that reveals deaths from the virus to also lie disproportionately in Black communities, and that the Navajo nation has the highest per capita infection rate. Cutting across all these communities, disabled activists have warned of eugenicist metrics being engaged to determine who receives care when hospitals are pushed to triage model by a lack of appropriate response from the U.S. government. In this panel, fat activists, artists and intellectuals will surface the interconnected legacies of fat stigma, anti-Blackness and settler colonialism, as they appear in the contemporary pandemic. Panelists: JerVae Da’Shaun Harrison Tricia Rainwater-Tutwiler Caleb Luna moderated by Sonalee Rashatwar We are currently still confirming ASL interpreters. Please DM @chairbreaker for other access questions or needs. This event is free, but donations are requested ($5-25) to compensate artists, interpreters and panelists. Donations can be made to: paypal.me/sonaleer venmo: sonaleer cashapp: sonaleer flyer by @huntythelion
Imagine the power of solidarity, of having each ot Imagine the power of solidarity, of having each others’ backs, of joining together for our survival and for collective liberation. Imagine the freedom we could create together. ✊ ❤️ 🌿 [Image description: Text over a black geometric web background in orange, yellow and white: incarcerated, indigenous, Muslim, queer, undocumented, disabled, fat, female, Black, Palestinian, trans, poor, old, brown, Jewish, Asian, young, #NoBodyIsDisposable ] 🔥 🖤 🌹 #FreeThemAll #IndigenousSovereignty #DisabilityJustice #BlackLivesMatter #FatLiberation #NotDeadYet #FreePalestine #AbolishICE #NoOneIsIllegal #AbolishPrisons #NeverAgainIsNow #FuckThePatriarchy #EndCapitalism #TransJustice #CollectiveLiberation #NoBodyIsDisposable #NobodyIsFreeUntilEverybodyIsFree
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