Hey if you're chronically ill and feeling particularly powerless because your body does not have the stamina for direct action against injustice, how are you?

Like I get it, there aren't many spaces to talk about this because that often involves centering your illness and stamina in conversation with people who Don't Have The Bandwidth right now & absolutely don't owe us any bandwidth.

But I have the bandwidth, that's why I'm asking.

And like, this brings up so much of the old "other people are struggling too but still find a way to do [x]."

I'm not talking about very valid calls for white people to surrender their comfort in pursuit of meaningful change.

I'm describing a lifetime of ableist gaslighting.

https://twitter.com/bennessb/status/1266389251786244099?s=19

Here's the inadequacy of the word comfort again.

It's important that Americans, particularly white Americans, feel uncomfortable right now. Unlearning the settler propaganda you were raised on is not comfortable.

But sometimes sick bodies really can't survive more discomfort.

(I've been directing more tweets at white people lately [see: 2 tweets in this thread, a thread yesterday] and I just want to say that I don't normally think that I'm only talking to white people when I tweet. There's just a lot of stuff I want to yell at other white folks rn.)