love this Iris, thank you for your beautiful words! this really resonated with me. I also love pretty much anything written by Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha - so glad you're digging into the Future is Disabled, disability justice has been a huge influence on my worldview.
Thank you! I’m glad to hear it. It’s a whole process of parsing out, but it feels like we have to try, you know?
And yes, I am all about their work and really glad I found them. Sometimes I wish I could just hoover whole books into my consciousness, and theirs are definitely included in that.
absolutely, if we don't try then we are letting the status quo persist! and we get to learn things by trying, even if it doesn't go the way we hoped. <3 excited to hear more through your writing on how this all plays out, and sending you resilience as we do hard and brave work!
Iris, I love this, thank you so much for putting words to these mullings over, the ambivalences, the contradictions. I love Nic's framework of enoughness, it's been really helpful for me too. I just wrote a really long rambly comment processing my own poverty trauma brain and a bunch of other things but it really was a bit ~trauma dumpy~ for the comments section lol. So, to be continued in this conversation with you I hope (I want to take Nic's next round of this!). Appreciate you!
Thank you! It is hard not to go here and take ourselves in circles, though I think sometimes that's what we need in order to get to each of the layers. Definitely would love for this to be one part of a continued conversation and to hear your thoughts on it!
love this Iris, thank you for your beautiful words! this really resonated with me. I also love pretty much anything written by Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha - so glad you're digging into the Future is Disabled, disability justice has been a huge influence on my worldview.
Thank you! I’m glad to hear it. It’s a whole process of parsing out, but it feels like we have to try, you know?
And yes, I am all about their work and really glad I found them. Sometimes I wish I could just hoover whole books into my consciousness, and theirs are definitely included in that.
absolutely, if we don't try then we are letting the status quo persist! and we get to learn things by trying, even if it doesn't go the way we hoped. <3 excited to hear more through your writing on how this all plays out, and sending you resilience as we do hard and brave work!
Iris, I love this, thank you so much for putting words to these mullings over, the ambivalences, the contradictions. I love Nic's framework of enoughness, it's been really helpful for me too. I just wrote a really long rambly comment processing my own poverty trauma brain and a bunch of other things but it really was a bit ~trauma dumpy~ for the comments section lol. So, to be continued in this conversation with you I hope (I want to take Nic's next round of this!). Appreciate you!
Thank you! It is hard not to go here and take ourselves in circles, though I think sometimes that's what we need in order to get to each of the layers. Definitely would love for this to be one part of a continued conversation and to hear your thoughts on it!