Carolyn Collado | Recovery for the Revolution

It’s valid af to be barely holding on right now. So many of us are feeling so depleted and hopeless.

Hold yourself with gentleness about what supports you through these times.

Reach out to someone. Simply showing each other we’re not alone in the pain and struggle can give life. #recovery

Sending love to all the people who menstruate and are having more intense #periodcramps, chills, grief, GI issues, or rage this month

I find that when there’s intense stress from the collective, our cycles tend to reflect that. This month was wild.

Be gentle 💙
#menstruation#collectivecare#period

We must do what is within each of our power to resist escalating fascism. Escalated fascism does not have to be an inevitability, but we must all resist its manifestations, even when we might want to feel like it hasn’t impacted us yet. It only happens if we allow it to. #collectiveliberation

Thinking about all the disabled folks, who with all the chaos and threats this past month, are struggling with pain and fatigue. Please be gentle with yourself and each other and take some time for rest where you can and in whatever way is accessible #disability#disabilityjustice#selfcare#recovery

Alcohol craving check-in for times of revolution:

When do you notice craving drinking? Is it when you feel overwhelmed? Lonely? Wanting community? Financially afraid? After talking with someone? Hopeless? Fearful?

Noticing cravings can help meet ourselves with gentleness #sober#recoveryispossible

I think about how many football players and military folks have chronic concussion/CTE who probably struggled to watch the#superbowlhalftimeshow tonight because the flashing lights can be SO painful if you have a concussion. #concussion#superbowl#disability#kendricklamar#NFL#halftimeshow

Something to take note for your films, TV, and live performances, and content:

Flashing lights and shaky camera like we saw at the Super Bowl Halftime Show can cause seizures/cognitive pain. Consider that in your event design and accessibility. #superbowl#disability#kendricklamar#disabilityjustice

Kendrick’s Super Bowl performance was painful to watch. Literally, as in it was inaccessible for photosensitive folks. The flashing lights, pyro, and unstable camera made that show visually inaccessible.

I LOVED it 🍉, and I’m sad I probably can’t rewatch 😭. #superbowl#kendricklamar#disability

Ways you can contribute to #movement:

Can you make music or art that will inspire the people? Do you know law and can help your community? Do you have privilege to be able to document and de-arrest?

We will need all of us bringing forward our skills to resist

#communitycare#artists#liberation

We all have to identify what we can contribute to #movement. What are your talents? What do you enjoy?

Can you cook for your neighbors? Can you educate? Can you drive/have a car)? Are you good at listening to folks?

We have to all do our part in resistance #communitycare#resistance#liberation

Reach out to and check in on that person you were thinking of. If you’ve been in your head, maybe check in on how someone else is doing with all this heaviness.

We need each other, now and always. We need to know we are thought of and loved #resist#communitycare#revolution#community#love#queer

Be gentle with yourself and others in this time. A lot of the collective is very activated and grieving, numb, in shock, anxious, and/or scared all at once.

It’s a lot to move through with so much threat. Meet yourself and others with gentleness. #decolonize#mentalhealth#capitalism#trump#selfcare

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Please continue to support Black families affected by the wildfires in Altadena, CA! You can also share this document!

Grateful for your presence and shining your light boo!

Thinking of all the folks with chronic pain, chronic illness, experiencing herpes flare ups, aggravated period pain with all the unrest this week.

Please rest as you notice you need to.
It’s important we honor our bodies and moving at the pace of #disabilityjustice with all of this.

Thinking of all the folks who are drinking through this inauguration, who are struggling to feel like you can be here. You’re not alone. It makes so much sense. Meet yourself with gentleness. You are seen and held. We as a planet will resist. #trumpinauguration#sobercurious#dryjanuary#harmreduction

Why does the TikTok ban note feel like a beyonce album drop? This feels like political theatre for sure #tiktokban#tiktok

The resistance to martial law in South Korea is a lesson for Americans in how to do de-arrests. As fascism escalates here in the forms of policing and militarism, we need to know how to prevent them from succeeding #abolition
#martiallaw
#southkorea
#wekeepussafe

I know I’m not alone in the angst of #thanksgiving when this is a colonial ass holiday at the core about giving thanks for genocide.
#decolonize#capitalismkills

Shoutout to everybody confronting the challenges of the colonial, capitalist holiday that is #thanksgiving.
If you’re wanting some help getting through it, check out my latest podcast episode of Recovery for the Revolution: The Podcast anywhere you stream podcasts and on YT.
#recovery#sobercurious

Folks who are on a harm reduction, sober curious/sobriety/harm reduction journey:

How have you been holding up since the election? Our struggles are often invisibilized, but we aren’t alone!

#harmreduction#sober#sobercurious#recovery

We must recover our ancestral practices to combat colonization #landback#decolonize

I’m Carolyn (they/them)
I’m about
💙 dreaming of a decolonized present and future
💙supporting folks on recovery, sobriety/sober curious, and harm reduction journeys in realizing how systemic oppression impacts us
💙 helping folks return to ancestral ways of being
#decolonize#ancestors#recovery

The election taught us we need to show folks more is possible than capitalism. Because if folks are hurting, they can be swayed to fashism#decolonize#capitalism#election2024