THREAD: It was inevitable. The first two deaths in about as many days in our close kin network. Since our family and kin are primarily Black and/or Indigenous folks, I knew this day was coming. We've been extraordinarily lucky to have made it this far without such loss.
2. For a variety of reasons, our kin will likely go down among the countless uncounted #COVIDCollateral deaths, but their lives were unquestionably stolen. But please (seriously) save the condolences because our family is not even close to being exceptional.
3 Instead resist, refuse & rage against the system, the lies, the incompetence, narcissism, opportunism, ageism, profiteering, racism, xenophobia, classicism, hoarding, posturing, jingoism, exploitation, fear mongering, racial capitalism, scapegoating, discrimination & denials.
4 I’ve also had it w/the liberal erasures of “we’re all in this together,” show must go on, respectability politics, virtue signaling, false equivalencing, do-goodering, passive aggressive wyte tears that only enable the system, center self & “steal the pain of others" (Razack)
5. Whether your seizing upon crisis to further profits or personal agendas – it’s all extractive. So I’m sorry if you can’t get your hair done but we’re dying out here. We’ve been dying out here.
6. So hold onto thoughts & prayers & support one of the long standing BIPOC-led efforts for anti-racist, anti-colonial systems of healthcare, education, social services, housing, food security, climate justice & life beyond the logics of settler colonialism & racial capitalism.
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