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Writer zinester high school dropout twin cane-user lumpen flâneux. Crip-psychogeography. Feelings, madness, disability, poverty, səx wørk, witchcraft. they. ♎♊♐

Toronto / Tkaronto {hegira}
Joined May 2013
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Politicians talking about "affordability" is a neat trick to emphasize what we buy rather than the services government provides.
The governments of settler colonies & former imperial nations can already -afford- to care for the welfare of the people in their borders. That politicians are kleptocrats & genocide enthusiasts who answer to their wealthy supremacist patrons is the obstacle.
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Sharing is very much needed & appreciated! Eventually, I'll be searching for a new home altogether, but right now, I need a sublet pretty urgently. Long story short: Abolish Landlords.
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TORONTO! Putting the feelers out: Do you or a pal have a Winter sublet available at a reasonable $? Private 1-bedroom required! Prefer to stay near Queen West / Parkdale / Trinity Bellwoods, but tell me what you got. Must allow my cat! Current home turned sideways – need respite!
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TORONTO! Putting the feelers out: Do you or a pal have a Winter sublet available at a reasonable $? Private 1-bedroom required! Prefer to stay near Queen West / Parkdale / Trinity Bellwoods, but tell me what you got. Must allow my cat! Current home turned sideways – need respite!
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Sharing is very much needed & appreciated! Eventually, I'll be searching for a new home altogether, but right now, I need a sublet pretty urgently. Long story short: Abolish Landlords.
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”The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary, wherever he is, as a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our era.” —Ghassan Kanafani
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If you understand this then you should also understand that many of the same "resources" created by Canadian state for disabled people reify ableism not dismantle it. teapawt.net/mssinenomine/status/20…
Ableism is a tool for power, privilege, & social control that subordinates disabled people by defining our bodies-minds as "deviant" or "inferior" to the idealized "normal." It's perimeters are fluid. By defining some as 'other' it affects all.
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Cäre is theory. Mäsks are practice.
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In the same way that the systemic issue of ableism does not absolve individuals from using their agency to wear a mask, the systemic nature of issues exacerbated by the AI industry does not absolve consumers from exercising their agency in an oppressive structure.
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Not exactly amazing to me but to me but I still take a step back when I think of the number of people who are disappointed that I’m not dead, either from illness or the governments hands. Seems like quite a few folks would rather have a story to tell than help you survive.
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and if you’re “showing up for community” without wearing a high quality mask you simply do not care. concepts like “care” and “community” have been deeply compromised like the health of the *collective.
People often mistake socializing regularly for community. If there's no commitment to care, there's no community, no matter how fun the socializing is.
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There is a feeling of madness that all oppressed, silenced, ignored peoples share. We live outside of time. Large swaths of people arrive to conclusions we made years before. Many of us try to wake people up early, to beg others to help us before it’s too late Somehow, we go on
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This afternoon. 🍂
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Please share and join! Butterflies in the Coalmine: Solidarity, Strength & Warning Signs from Migrant Sex Worker Organizers  We invite you to an insightful panel with long-time organizers Elene Lam, @ChanelleGallant and @HarshaWalia Register: bit.ly/47SeNF2
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Just saw an engagement announcement on Instagram so shocking that I have to get more serious about my Maoist-feminist-Adornian-Foucauldian-psychoanalytic critique of marriage and the family
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“if you’re a good tenant, your landlord would want you to stay!” the average landlord would evict jesus christ himself if it meant they could move in someone who will pay $5 more a month, please be serious
every friend I’ve caught up with since coming back to Toronto has talked about rent control and auto-month-to-month being the only reason they’re still able to live here. this proposed change will functionally make homeless every long-term tenant in the city. absolute insanity
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Twenty one pages of questions to start a disability application vs one page for MAID.
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There's the condition itself, the kind of care someone receives, how promptly they receive care, consistency of access to treatment, etc. And medical ableism can show up at every stage in how someone is assessed & what treatment is even offered.
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