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December 18, 2023

Building Communities of Care and Liberation

We need to build better communities of care and support, desperately. With how our society keeps refusing to acknowledge the pandemic (Covid levels are so high in my state right now that it’s dangerous to go out), it makes existing with other people even harder, and often disabled, marginalized folks like me get left behind. Continue reading

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anarchism, collective care, communal care, Communalism, communities of care, community, justice, liberation, Race, radical and revolutionary movements, social justice, solidarity
January 11, 2023

What we Know about XBB 1.5 and Long Covid

I’ve heard folks talking about XBB 1.5 “Kraken” variant, especially with some confusion as to what its symptoms are since they differ a bit from the more common symptoms seen with Delta and earlier variants. (As a side note, the name “Kraken” was actually coined by T. Gregory, a epidemologist/immunologist that’s on Twitter. He’s been Continue reading

activism, Biology, disability, Science

Airborne Virus, COVID VARIANTS, COVID19, pandemic, pandemic mitigations, PeoplesCDC, SARS-CoV-2, Viral Mutations, XBB 1.5
September 6, 2022

Ways of Learning

Curiosity, Creativity, Compassion, and Cooperation are the 4 C’s of human nature. A fifth C is the darker side of our nature: Control. In past (and non-western or Indigenous) societies, they educated their youth through self-directed learning that required a high level of respect, cooperation, creativity, and mutual exploration. Adults guided the children rather than Continue reading

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capitalism, critical pedagogy, dismantling whiteness, education, equality, equity, justice, liberation, Paulo Freire, theory of social control, unlearning capitalism, unlearning colonialism, unlearning imperalism, unschooling, white supremacy
June 26, 2022

Building Coalition for Change is Hard but Crucial

This article will discuss US politics. Content Warning for discussion of transphobia, racism, genocidal ideology, and sexism. Concerning the Series of Terrible Supreme Court Decisions All four of these decisions cause tremendous harm to our society, and they all build off each other. The ‘fund private religious schools’ is a way for conservatives to eliminate Continue reading

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cishet patriarchy, Gun control laws, healthcare, Judiciary, labor unions, mutual aid, protest, Race, religion, Rogue Court, Separation of church and state, solidarity, Supreme Court, US Politics, white supremacy
December 27, 2021

Omicron and Pandemic Mitigations

Ok. Y’all, Listen Up. Time to do a breakdown of what we know of the new variant – Omicron. First off, let’s look at this Pretty-But-Terrifying-Image of the genetic sequencing of all the known variants of COVID19. Why is it alarming? Look at that red line that shoots out on the right hand side. That’s Continue reading

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abelism, Biology, breakdown of the science, coronovirus, covid, covid-19, disability, disability justice, Filitration, FVAM, genetic sequencing, masks, omicron, pandemic, pandemic mitigations, unlearning ableism, variant, ventilation
November 14, 2021

Let’s Unlearn Capitalism Myths

I think this needs said: The framework that society shoved into us is capitalistic and it tries to teach us that the capitalistic view of reality is the ONLY view. This socialization is full of myths that aren’t actually true. There are many worlds within our biosphere of Earth, and we need to understand that Continue reading

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anti-capitalism, anti-imperalism, anti-racism, capitalism, colonialism, corporations, doughnut economics, feminism, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, intersectionality, objectivity vs subjectivity, pluriverse, Race, racial capitalism, regenerative economy, Relationality
August 22, 2021

Deconstructing worldviews

“The notion of a “one-world-world” (OWW) is predicated on the West’s ability to arrogate to itself the right to be “the world” and to relegate all other worlds to its rules, to a state of subordination, or to nonexistence. It is thus an imperialist, colonial notion.” (chapter 1 of Pluriverse Politics by Arturo Escobar) So Continue reading

activism, nature, Philosophy, Physics, Writing

anti-capitalism, anti-capitalist, anti-imperalism, Arturo Escobar, climate justice, decolonize, imagination, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, justice, organizing, philosophy, science, settler-colonialism, ways of thinking
August 6, 2021

There Is No Moderates

Y’all, I think most won’t like what I got to say, but it needs said: There is no such thing as a middle ground. There is no moderate in America. You are either: 1. for genocide OR 2. Not for genocide. Republican party has thrown their lot in with number 1 to the point they Continue reading

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abolish ICE, abolish police, Abolition, accessibility, climate change, climate disaster, climate justice, disability justice, genocide, immigrants, Indigenous rights, justice, LGBTQIA, Race, resources
July 6, 2021

My Open Letter to City Designers

I originally wrote this email for the Des Moines City Council. For the past year, I’ve adjusted the verbiage to reflect what I’ve heard in their City Council Meetings with the Public. I also adjust the bullet points and actions I (and others) wish to see them take. Otherwise, most of the letters are verbatim Continue reading

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ableism, access, accessibility, Accessible Cities, disability, disability justice, Disability Pride, Fight Ableism, Homelessness, No More Ableism