this pandemic sharpens a divide that already existed, between those of us whose labor is "inessential" but who have the privilege of, basically, hibernating indefinitely, and those whose labor is "essential," but whose lives are treated as disposable

all that the discourse of the "American dream" seems able to offer now is platitudes thanking firefighters, nurses, and cashiers for their sacrifice. it's wearing thin

I feel more sharply than before how we have failed to construct a survivable society, a society that is survivable for the people whose labor sustains it through a crisis