Resilience Beast

It really is. I was going into anaphylaxis 1-2x a week before; and last year only had 3 anaphylaxis events requiring epi (GLP1 was the only other medication change). I've tried biologics and other extreme medications and none have worked before this! Now if only we could get insurance to cover.

I am disabled myself and can’t hike long distances anymore. But it’s amazing how many edibles you can find in small wild nooks.

I am not able to forage much where I live now due to concerns about contamination, but every walk is an exercise in “who’s who” because damn if I don’t love plants.

A GLP-1 has been lifesaving for me in terms of my immune disorder and other chronic illness. It’s amazing how much they help inflammation. I am able to eat more on the medication due to fewer reactions to food. And the horrific food noise being quiet is so nice for my mental health.

Moleskin I had forgotten, thanks!

Luckily I’m already an experienced forager who teaches others that skill.

I am finally able to build out an emergency/bug-out bag.

Apart from the typical first aid, trauma kit, medications, etc. what are some less thought of additions I should consider?

"Should." Unfortunately, I've been hearing from farmers/farm policy folks that crop aid isn't coming, the USDA is in shambles, and farmers have been letting crops rot without a buyer.

We need a complete sea change in how agriculture is done in the US. Food security is already a tenuous thing.

Who else feels a daily sense of doom surrounding climate change?

We are disabling our global ecosystems. Much like the policy response to the disabling COVID pandemic... the people in power don't care. And they won't ever care.

Forbes’ Robert Rapier: “globally, about 180 million metric tons of nitrogen fertilizers are consumed each year... Of that, roughly 55 to 60 million metric tons of urea move through international seaborne trade annually. The Middle East accounts for approximately 40% to 50% of that traded volume.”

Moving away from conventional farming toward #Agroecological methods is necessary.

The conventional food system relies on fossil fuel extraction which only feeds warmongering and famine, not actual humans.

I just learned that Yanar Mohammed was assassinated days ago. It's a horrifying and targeted loss of a powerful women's liberation leader.

www.madre.org/media-item/y...

#YanarMohammed #Iraq

Yeah, I support sensible gun violence controls.

Things like universal healthcare, free education, UBI, free basic housing, good food access, regulating polluters, and police/prison abolishment.

The ableds just eat it up when their governments say, "here, have some eugenics as a little treat... it will fix all the problems."

And then shocked Pikachu face when the same government comes for them.

And it's going to take years and years to overcome the damage done to public health. It's so discouraging at a minimum.

Thank you for sharing this! It's an area I need more education on.

Image shows 4 panels (1-4) each showing the different concepts of 1. Inequality (showing the "Giving Tree" only giving fruit to one person while the other goes hungry); 2. Equality (where the tools, ie. a ladder, are evenly distributed but that means the more privilege person is still receiving more); 3. Equity (where there are custom, as-in different height ladders to access the fruit, that identify and address inequality, and; 4. Justice (where the tree is propped up and assistance is offered, fixing the system underlying the inequality while also offering individual equal access tools. The context of this image is as follows: "...a key argument in the domain of inequality is that only justice – rather than equality or equity – will truly address inequality in the long term because it addresses the underlying causes of that inequality rather than just dealing with its manifestations." Source is Tony Ruth's Equity Series (2019).

"Harm reduction" does need to be viewed in context: with the wider lens of systemic oppression.

Nobody needs to do everything at once, but it's infuriating watching people "lesser two evils" in isolation, ultimately supporting the systemic evil and going about their happy lives.

I am no longer motivated by “wanting to fix things from the inside.”

But at the same time I am constantly grappling with the concept of harm reduction.

I don’t think harm reduction can work in isolation. If you are only ever working for the “lesser of two evils” you will never arrive at justice.

I am an attorney. I work in policy. But my individual beliefs and advocacy varies—widely at times—from my career-facing persona.

I did the law license over a decade ago when I was naive to a lot of the foundational systemic issues tying the world’s problems together.

I’ve changed a lot.

I BEG anyone who is questioning whether we can feed and care for people to look for the experts breaking down actual costs of things like healthcare vs warmongering.

The cost of a single bomb is high in human suffering. Not just for the lives it directly destroys, but for lost opportunities too.

KFK Jr. is getting lots of folks in US-Amerikkka on board with eugenics with all his horrific schemes. I see it every day at my workplace trying to talk sense into people.

One reason farmers voted for him is the promise to essentially legalize slavery again (without calling it slavery of course). Explicitly through programs like H-2A and convict labor. The ICE raids are part of this design as well. I hope farmers realize they’ve been hoodwinked in part.

If you haven’t already, it may still be worth a medical malpractice consultation. The factor where your partner may be impacted could be part of the consultation, as in many jurisdictions there are protections against that kind of retaliation!

Fingers crossed for you, because that sucks big time.

Disability activists warned us all in 2020 as COVID burned, that the eugenics that happened with the 1918 pandemic directly contributed to the growth of fascism in Germany and Italy…

It’s not a gift of prophecy. It’s a repeating pattern that y’all ignore until it impacts your false comfort.

Folks will continue to say we are overreacting while passively watching our governments and those in power literally burying us in the graves they have been digging for years.

Me too. Such a complex mix of rage, grief, and love.

The US govt and US States are ramping up efforts to erase trans folks. Even with good evidence that this genocide is a design of the ruling class to distract the working class.

People are telling me I need to leave. Newsflash: no country is going to accept a disabled person willingly.

I recently learned that some countries governments pay artists, musicians, etc. to make their art. Sometimes like a salary, sometimes like UBI, sometimes more limited and experimental…

A good thing! And it highlights the real purpose of government: protecting and helping people.

I don’t care that this man had no criminal record or his immigration status. This is murder.

Ever since authorities decided they couldn’t be bothered to try and protect people from this virus, COVID has been tool of the capitalist class.

As both a kid and an adult I was teased for being clumsy, running into things, accidentally hurting myself. I was blamed and told it was my fault for not being more careful.

But my poor body awareness was always a #Disabilty and the blame ableist at best.

If one is neurodivergent (there is a lot of overlap) this adds to general overwhelm because a lot of what should be subconscious about movement is conscious on some level. All on top of the added chronic pain which is a baseline for #EDS.

One of the main things I’d like able bodied people to understand about #EDS #Disability is the proprioception impacts.

If I don’t concentrate on my every movement, parts fall off.

This morning, got distracted while walking and subluxed my hip when my leg didn’t follow the rest of me.