It’s not over:
“Covid is a mass disabling event”?~ Imani
When you know better, you do better.
Systems of power want us to believe that Covid is over. It’s not
“The cultural messaging, and the ways that we’ve been manipulated into not caring for each other in our behavior around (Covid) is serving to massively disable and kill off a huge group of people.” ~ Rebecca Studer
My nervous system cannot embrace that truth without rebelling. There is no acceptable level of collateral damage.
We have a choice
I choose to navigate life focused on community care and disability justice
Despite being gaslit and distracted from the truth by capitalist powers, we have a choice – to recognize the science and mitigate harm in every way possible. In small doable messy and imperfect steps
“I would rather have a grief process than collude with harm.”
I have so much love and appreciation for Rebecca Studer, for sharing, for caring the science, the somatics, and the emotional process of navigating this reality in her Substack podcast Start Making Sense, episode 2:
“By ignoring the truth of the pathogen and listening to the cultural messaging of minimization, you could be permanently disabling or killing your neighbor. we need to baseline care about not infecting each other and creating spaces with clean air that everyone can access”
Choose a next doable step:
“By ignoring the truth and listening to the cultural messaging of minimization, you could be permanently disabling or killing your neighbor. We don’t need to be perfect or change everything all at once; we get to make the next doable step/choice towards care and community and let that be momentum towards a different future. We get to create something else, and I invite you to join me.”
“What is the next doable step? You are enough, you belong by being human, and you get to make choices that serve the collective”
Here’s mine: I am dedicated to wearing an N91 mask in shared spaces that vulnerable persons cannot avoid – grocery stores, medical clinics.
You can listen to/read Rebecca’s podcast episode here.
Hello!
I’m Janine. My pronouns are she/her.
I am an anti-capitalist crone, post-trauma growth coach, and consensual copywriter.
I strive daily to identify and unlearn the voices of white heteronormative patriarchy that are insidiously planted in our brains from an early age – voices that, without critical inquiry, we often confuse as our own.
I dream of a return to the Commons and a world where all living beings have equal access to the necessities of life, including laughter, rest, creativity, and joy.
Even though I didn’t always have the words, this dream has been the undercurrent of all of my pursuits from an early age.
I host the Caucus of Crones and Self-Centred in the Kin Keepers’ Haven, co-held online with my dear friend Trevia Woods.
I am available for 1:1 coaching sessions.
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