The Body Is Not an Apology

They kept echoing off the walls of all my hidden hurts.

Team members were given time to consider what they needed or what the team should know to aid in their fullest participation in the meeting. A teammate had chronic pain and said they would need to step away to stretch during the call. Another shared how their depressive episode was impacting their information processing and might need folks to repe

You are better positioned to challenge fat bias and weight stigma when you have proximity to the lives of fat people.

#abledsareweird

Contrary to purpose, natural intelligence does not require we do anything to achieve it.

a capitalist system, disabled bodies and differently working brains are difficult to exploit for profit and thus have been framed as bad bodies that should be hidden, pitied, or, as with the eugenics movement, murdered.

We are, however, connecting some straggling dots we believe others may have missed along the way.

Each of us has traversed a gauntlet of traumas, shames, and fears to be where we are today, wherever that is. Each day we wake to a planet full of social, political, and economic obstructions that siphon our energy and diminish our sense of self.

We practice self-acceptance when we have grown tired of self-hatred but can’t conceive of anything beyond a paltry tolerance of ourselves.