Hello disabled comrades! I can't believe we're entering a new year... which is year six of the pandemic, hooray. I'm a firm believer that we must always have revolutionary optimism, but I can't say it hasn't been hard for the past few years as more and more leftists have abandoned COVID precautions. But as disabled people, we keep agitating, we keep organizing, and we keep going. Solidarity in the face of pandemic eugenics, always.

As always, we ask that in order to participate in the weekly megathread, one self-identifies as some form of disabled, which is broadly defined in the community sidebar:

"Disability" is an umbrella term which encompasses physical disabilities, emotional/psychiatric disabilities, neurodivergence, intellectual/developmental disabilities, sensory disabilities, invisible disabilities, and more. You do not have to have an official diagnosis to consider yourself disabled.

Mask up, love one another, and stay alive for one more week.

  • khizuo [ze/zir]M
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    9 days ago

    I’m sorry, I’ve locked the post, I really need to rest and eat. But I’m not done addressing fatphobia on the site I promise, I’m still going to work on this.

    • StillNoLeftLeft [none/use name, she/her]
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      9 days ago

      Care-Comrade

      I am still in awe that the comment that asked the people who are harmed to bring receipts so that they can believe that dieting does not work got over 50 upbears.

      I always knew that if this discussion ever happened on this site, it would go exactly the way it went.

      I mean you learn to expect disappointment existing in a large body, but the slap in the face never stops stinging.

      Ffs, I need to go touch-grass

      • khizuo [ze/zir]M
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        8 days ago

        Someone made a post to bring attention to fatphobia and a bunch of hexbears came out to start concern trolling on it. It got way out of hand and eventually I locked the thread. I'm still feeling quite upset and disappointed with a lot of people on that thread (not the op and not the people who were pushing back on the fatphobia) and I think this is an aspect of site culture that really needs to change.