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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    21 days ago

    actually pulling my hair out at the thread on anti-fatness (not at op). god so many hexbears are INSUFFERABLE

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

      Yeah, chiming in that I dare not mention my longcovid or chronic pain issues that I have in there right now, because it would just uphold the issues we are trying to combat.

      And noticing this moderation in myself on this supposedly leftist site makes me feel stuff for sure.

      But to all comrades who get it, thank you.

    • ihaveibs [he/him]
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      21 days ago

      Does it feel kind of like, edgier lately to anyone else? I feel like I've seen a lot of threads lately just full of some nastiness that I don't want even to engage in

      • un_mask_me [any]
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        21 days ago

        Yes, that's a good way to put it. It's been difficult to engage or connect because it feels so...false, I guess

        • ihaveibs [he/him]
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          20 days ago

          Normally, I don't really mind as much if I feel like someone is being (unknowingly) reactionary. Although this is an online shitposting forum at its core, I genuinely do consider most people here as comrades, and calling out comrades to be constructive is fairly easy. But some of the behavior lately has not felt that way. I can't quite put my finger on what it's felt like lately but I can certainly say I have not felt like there have been many constructive discussions lately nor the space to have them.