..'to defend ourselves and other people, our comrades (either disabled or temporarily able-bodied) from oppressive demands that are placed in terms of productivity, workload, performance. Maybe on that basis, do not be honest with your employer or whoever that is'.
- Egista 2/2

'Learning to understand ourselves without guilt & without shame - I think that's *huge* [...] To be able to say: "no, this is what I need", to advocate for that, to self-advocate or advocate for other people - that, I think, is a really big one - for people to not feel the kind of shame'
- Julia 2/2

#18 - Gus
'Doing less things but to a better standard is as valuable as this intensification that we've ended up in. Say no, just say no!'
- Gus 2/2

'Just keep your eyes, your ears, and your heart open to see them, to listen to them, to connect with them. And I'd send them a big smile'.
- Ronald 3/3
#Rest #Disability #Work

And if the box doesn't fit you, throw it. Don't try the second time, the third time; just throw it. If it's not for you, it's not worth the effort. Throughout the journey you're going to come across wonderful people'.
- Ronald 2/3
#Rest #Disability #Work

‘This connection between life and organising might be an answer to our constant burnout. Rather than individualising our capacities to resist – reflecting the pressures placed upon us by our precarious working lives – we can begin collectivising our projects’ scottishleftreview.scot/precarity-an...

'And organise - organise, organise, organise. If we all got together and really insisted on what we need, it'd be difficult for them to keep fucking us over one-by-one, which is I think what happens to workers who are precarious in body/mind, as they see it'
- Ursula 3/3

'If you don't look after yourself, you get into the spiral where you work too hard, try too hard, and it breaks you. It's not productive for you, it's not self-fulfilling and it usually backfires on you'.
- Ursula 2/3

“In this we have been foolish, but there is no reason to go on being foolish for ever.”

1: Emulate Bertrand Russell.
2: Post his writings to motivate others.

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