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Exactly. I saw that post and was like, that does not feel right. I'm glad you and others are calling it out.

Completely. They don't care if there are 5 of us, or 50 million. They want us to shut up, die, and disappear.

Definitely weird.

Yay!! I'm glad you like them! Totally ok to dm, let's brainstorm :)

I would so love that! What have you been interested in recently? A little project I've been working on is drawing mobility aids in a fantasy setting (I'll attach some pics). I want to start including characters and people. If you had any ideas that could be very small, and spoon-friendly collab!

I loved it so much! The dead/dreadful/dangerous is such an accessible framework, and it's sad how few disabled characters fall outside these categories. Though I hadn't articulated it so well, I titled my newsletter "The Wicked Crip," in part to reclaim the dreadful and dangerous, on my own terms.

These are so pretty! You could make an oracle deck!

You are so prolific!! I do like one piece a month, this is so impressive.

Absolutely!! And I'll look forward to anything you post! Creating a community writing group is very exciting.

That is so sad and unsettling. Like what is going on in peoples' minds? I imagine that was really come to terms with.

It took me a long time to give up on my friend. I spent so much time trying to understand her, and challenge her, until I just felt it was almost my moral duty to cut off contact.

That's so real. Similarly, it's been on my mind for a long time, but I haven't taken any concrete steps. I joined another art group, but it was definitely a bad experience. I think I'm hesitating because I don't want to recreate something similar, hence my interest. I believe yours will be great!

This. exactly. "Fat" is only an insult if you believe it is fundamentally humiliating and degrading to be fat. So yucky.

I love this! I want to do something similar. If you start one, and decide to share any wins/challenges that you encounter, I would definitely follow along! I would want to make it a really good experience for anyone joining.

I had to divorce a very good friend over politics. I still miss her sometimes, but yeah, completely incompatible world views. And towards the end of our friendship, I felt constantly dehumanized as a queer, disabled person. I share my story to say you are not petty, and it's hard, and I empathize.

I'm totally open to listen if you have thoughts about this, this may be the wrong take. I'm still trying to parse my feelings.

But I don't want to tone police people who are feeling disgust, frustration, and rage. Those feelings are valid, and I'm not trying to defend these reprehensible people. I'm just feeling weird about expressing our rage through the use of ablism, racism, and agism.

Reinforcing pretty=good, and ugly=bad. We've all seen the villains in media, depicted as fat/disabled/brown bodies, moralizing our bodies as inherently evil, greedy, gluttonous, or lazy.