Ashley Jenkins

My great grandparents survived two great wars. They taught their children to survive. I can do that too.

The world is on fire and we’re all still selling our labor for survival so, fuck it, I’m dying my hair purple.

Dismantling the Department of Education has nothing to do with improving outcomes for our kids, it’s simply about taking away resources from our public schools.

I am an American. I didn’t choose this. My emergence on this specific land mass was decided for me by generations of people who made choices to better their lives. They relocated chasing stability and peace for their family. I can’t help but feel that they did this all in vain.

That’s my brain!

Happy Social Work Month to all my fellow chaos coordinators

Wrists hurt. Apply KTtape. Now wrists itch. 🙃 #eds

This doesn’t exist and will literally save $0

A painting of a bird next to the words"I find it difficult to concentrate while being bombarded with bullshit"

I have finished Onyx Storm. Now comes the hollow grieving that comes after a cliffhanger.

Feels like an appropriate watch.

De-Nazify shit.

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.

Trump directs Guantanamo Bay to be prepared to host up to 30,000 migrants | CNN Politics President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum directing the federal government to prepare the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to house tens of thousands of migrants.

Building a massive migrant detention facility at Guantanamo would be a disastrous mistake.

One of my fourth graders asked a friend if he and his family wanted to live at his house since they are scared of the cold men coming to their house.

The cold men are ICE.

Kids may not understand it all right now, but they are listening.

Dear Trans Kids, You Don't Need the Government's Permission to Exist Activist and journalist Raquel Willis offers crucial advice to trans and nonbinary youth.

Trans kids have a right to exist as who they are, not who the Trump administration wants them to be.

I am an American. My country is being run into the ground by loud, entitled people screaming falsities into the void without evidence to support their claims. They are not right. They are just loud.

Chronic illness is hyping yourself up to do a big test, hoping it gives you some clarity as to why your body can’t function only to get no clear answers and more questions.

This is my obligatory, greater Philly resident #gobirds post.

Mine must be equivalent to tank batteries. #eds

Sometimes parenting is drinking tea to try to un-tense while keeping a straight face while being yelled at because it’s bedtime and therefore you are a terrible parent and you should face the judgment of the eldritch horrors.

Reading the news every night like “oh and I guess we’re all just expected to keep functioning through all this?”

I am on day 21 straight of working or having some energy-using obligation to every day. This is disability in America.

Today I saw a commercial for the PA statewide adoption and permanency network highlighting gay families adopting older kids. My heart swelled. More of this please.

This sums it up for me.

My desire to remain informed is at complete odds with my desire to remain sane.

Most people set up their training schedule around muscle groups. I set up mine around joints. I did hard core ankle day this week. #eds #physicaltherapy #chronicillness #disabled

Can’t even think about Oscars, having anxiety attack about rights.