Writing

March 9, 2021

COVID MEMORIAL SPEECH 2021

Covid Memorial Speech by Aidan Zingler I am a nonbinary neurodivergent disabled person. I am homebound and live alone with my cat. Many disabled folks I know are either in similar situations, live in a home, or forced to live with people that harm them. Many of us struggle in poverty due to restrictions on Continue reading

Writing
January 2, 2021

First Essay of 2021: Nothing about People is a Binary

Human beings are complex. We can both criticize each other and yet still love each other; the criticism does not mean our love is false, and yet society teaches us thus. This binary thinking is killing us. Our society teaches us that everything is a binary: either we are Black or White, Man or Woman, Continue reading

Author, Blogging, disability, Feminism, Philosophy, Race, transgender, Writing

4 R's, accountability, binary thinking, dismantling bias, dismantling binary thinking, healing, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, reciprocity, relationship, Respect, responsibility
October 12, 2020

Indigeous Peoples’ Day: We Need to Show Up Year Round

Indigenous People’s Day. The wind blows fiercely as the leaves tumble down the sidewalk. At the capitol, Indigeous people speak their truths, broadcast it in a livestream. Around them and us, Western Society throttles on slowly, its gears mucked up with Mother Nature, the pandemic slowly everything down. Ilarion (Larry) Merculieff (Unangan Tunuu) and Libby Continue reading

disability, Race, Writing

anti-capitalism, anti-racism, being in relation, disability, disability justice, dismantle imperialism, dismantling whiteness, indigenous, Indigenous Peoples' Day, Indigenous rights, relationship, white privilege
October 1, 2020

Accessible Spaces

For definitions on the terms used here and an example that breaks down ableism, see my Tackling Ableism post. NOTE: i think i am probably preaching to the choir here, but i’ve thought a lot about disability justice lately and how movements practice that. (Note: i’m in pain today so capitalization isn’t happening). This was Continue reading

Writing

access, accessibility, activism, disabilities, disability, disability justice, justice, mobility justice, social justice, space
September 10, 2020

Tackling Ableism Framing

I’m going to discuss Ableism framing in this article, and to do so, I’ll use an example from a friend (who attends social distancing church services). First, let’s cover some basic definitions. Definitions: Abled-bodied person is a person who is not disabled. As in they have no physical or mental disabilities. Or they are someone Continue reading

Author, disability, Feminism, Race, transgender, Writing

ableism, ableism narratives, disability, disability justice, disabled, discrimination, mobility justice
May 28, 2020

Riots are the Language of the Unheard

Important point by Robert Jones, Jr. (Son of Baldwin): Property damage should never matter more than people’s lives. If anyone cares more about the looting and damage to property, then I’m gonna ask y’all to sit down and think hard about every single death by police. Police are waging war on Black folks; folks fighting Continue reading

Author, Blogging, Race, Writing

anti-racism, Black uprising, minnesota, police murder, protest, Race, white supremacy, whiteness
May 24, 2020

Quarantine Poetry

Living alone by Aidan Zingler Living in a pandemic while living alone splinters my mind, breaks me down pain ignites and drenches my soul an endless kaleidoscope nightmare again and again my body crushed against the shoals of silence. A slice of the sun burns my eyes Buzz of machine howls in my ears Cold Continue reading

Author, Poetry, Writing

collective compassion, collective grief, collective solidarity, covid-19, death, grief, pandemic, poetry, quarantine, truth
February 18, 2020

Replace harmful theology with liberation

A portion of American Christianity is: Capitalism Nationalism White supremacy Worshiping wealth (prosperity doctrine) Imperialism/colonialism This is why many evangelicals for Trump view Trump as a savior or “blessed by God.” They don’t actually worship Jesus, and instead worship the above five as “god,” so Trump who embodies all five, is seen as “blessed” and Continue reading

Author, Blogging, Feminism, Philosophy, Writing

American Christianity, anti-racism, Christianity, colonialism, dismantle imperialism, imperialism, liberation, liberation theology, power, white supremacy
February 11, 2020

Poetry: Birth

Birth by Aidan Zingler (fractal also by me) Scattered enriched guts splattered across the skies, Bubbling froth, seething energy permeating space-time Wisp of a second, our existence overlooked by the brilliant magnitude of a 13.7 billion year old. Intrepid explorers, we stumble into the black vastness of a giant, violent ocean — star-birthing hurricanes, with Continue reading

Art, Author, Poetry, Science, Writing

poetry, rebirth, science, space, space-time
January 16, 2020

Power disparities from Unexamined Privilege

As an Intro: I feel folks need a reminder. Cisgender allies — talk to your peeps about this. Do The Work of allyship. I really want to see communities live out their claims of allyship and “welcoming to trans folks” by listening to us (this essay has good action items). I’m sure us trans folks Continue reading

Author, Feminism, transgender, Writing

cis as default, cisgender privilege, LGBTQIA, Questioning cisnormativity, trans rights, trans*, transgender