whoa

think about how unventilated dorm rooms are. think about how you somehow have a cold for 4 months straight at school. think about how fast the flu moves through a dorm. think about how foolish people act at when they’re drunk with friends. all it takes is one get together where 5 people remove their masks to play kings cup and the whole school is fucked. 

like I see ableism everywhere, even in feminist spheres. I see people throwing around "crazy" "psycho" "narcissist". i see so called feminists saying the r slur WAY too easily.

we're completely left out of environmental conversations or just dismissed (see: the straw ban). we're collateral damage in their eyes.

I've seen a skinny woman get abuse and hate for posting a selfie of her in her wheelchair and tagging it as "body positive", told she was "hijacking the movement".

black disabled or mentally ill (like schizophrenia) people die, and i see people excusing it as "how was he acting?" as if being mentally ill is a fucking death sentence!

disabled women are more at risk for abuse, especially at the hands of carers, and its glossed over! nobody ever talks about it!

abled feminists call us inspirational. the government only cares about us when we can do something for it, like playing in an elite basketball team (like my husband used to. the second he stopped, he stopped getting aid).

If a vomiting agent is in fact being used, it is likely a strategy to get people to take off their masks. This poses obvious risks given the COVID pandemic, but also provides opportunities for law enforcement to gather photographs of protestors for later retaliations. 

If you suspect you have been exposed to any unknown chemicals - or have had excessive exposure to teargas - please get regular health screenings from the relevant professionals, including cancer screenings if at all possible. Chemical weapons can cause a variety of health problems, so documenting any evidence  that a condition could have been directly caused by exposure may be critical for later legal retaliation against authorities. 

embalming, the process of chemically preserving a corpse, is typically not required by law. unless you need to transport the body long-distance or postpone the burial, it’s 100% a vanity thing.

a body still rots in air-tight conditions. so “protective” or “sealed” caskets are basically a scam, and anything fancy like metal is a waste of money.

want a beautiful casket for a viewing, but think burning or burying an expensive piece of hardwood is a waste of money and trees? rentals exist.

you don’t need a coffin for cremation. the minimum requirement is that the body be in a “cremation container,” which is a simple cardboard box.

home funerals are an option. you don’t need to hand the body over to a funeral home, and you can keep their involvement to a minimum.

natural burial sites exist. you can have your unembalmed body straight up thrown in the dirt to be tree food, if you want.

there are a lot of funeral homes that will prey on your ignorance and vulnerability in order to get as much money out of you as possible. they may imply optional certain services are legally mandatory, steer you away from cheaper options, charge additional costs for what’s supposed to be all-inclusive services, etc.

embalming requirements

protective caskets

casket rentals

cremation container requirements

home funerals

She then proceeds to ask me why I couldn’t early vote.

I tell her that I guess I could have but I didn’t and the option was now closed and my next and last chance is Tuesday.

Cue her giving me a hard time for not early voting.

I politely tell her that I didn’t so I’ll be requiring time off on Tuesday.

Her response?

“I mean we’ll try to get you out.”

Umm no.

I say - “Legally the law requires that you allow me time off work to go vote.”

Her response?

“Yes, I mean legally it does.”

Yes bitch, legally! As in the law! As in it is my right!

So whatever, I leave her office with a bad taste in my mouth and run into a coworker (who’s worked there as long as I’ve been alive), and I tell her about what happened.

She goes OFF, tells me I better make sure they let me go vote Tuesday and that if they try to fight me on it to tell them to look in their files for the law that she printed off for them years ago stating my right to do so.

So she leaves and I feel a bit better but just for shits and giggles I decide to look up the law for Tennessee voting rights (I knew it was a law that they have to let you off but I didn’t know the exact parameters.)

You know what Tennessee law says?

Up to three hours PAID time to go vote, (and my dumb ass was planning on clocking out.)

Yes, the ICE operations were a clear predecessor to this and people really shouldn’t be as surprised as they are, but pretending that resistance to these fascist policies is smaller than it really is is nothing but demoralizing. It gives people the impression that it’s too late, that they’re all alone, that no one is standing with them in solidarity