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to you who are bedridden or bedridden/housebound due to severe illness and disability: if you are not the activist you used to be, or the activist you would be if you were less sick/disabled. i see you. i am you.
to be clear: plenty fucktons of activism have been done by extremely disabled and ill people, sometimes even bedridden people. @jenbrea made a film that inspired a MOVEMENT while basically bedridden.
however, many of us who are bedridden are bedridden and too sick to do almost anything. some people are in a dark room, just breathing, for decades. some of us manage -- just barely -- to eat or brush teeth on many days.
for many of you reading, this is sicker than you've ever imagined or seen. you just need to believe us.
(actually, you can watch @unrestfilm, that would help.)
(actually, you can watch @unrestfilm, that would help.)
but this thread is for us, for people bedridden and bedridden/homebound due to illness and disability and NOT the kind of illness/disability where yeah you're at home but you can do activism and work as long as it's accessible.
accessibility (of all kinds) is a phenomenal, absolutely essential thing.
and some of us are just too sick/disabled anyway, and all we can really do is try to live lives of being alive.
and some of us are just too sick/disabled anyway, and all we can really do is try to live lives of being alive.
to you: i don't know where you'd be if you could be places besides bed. but i believe you.
i know where i'd be. and that will have to be enough.
i know where i'd be. and that will have to be enough.
to be clearer: i don't want to be out there saving the world. i'm white -- white people are historically, culpably terrible at that. what i wish is that i could be out there lending my body to Black and Indigenous leaders as they do what they need to do.
