Fallen angel

Noah Wyle wrote a character in season 3 episode 3 of the Pitt based on an activist friend of his, who was arrested alongside Noah and 100 other ADAPT disability rights activists in Washington DC in 2012. Here are some footage from the protest along with the LA Times the Envelope podcast interview.

2012 footage by NBC News, Tim Wheat and Dean DeRusso.

Despite making this post in August, this post spikes in brief periods throughout the year, depending on when folks like to start.

Reading all the cool costume projects people are working on

I am the soft stars that shine at night.

and yet no grace is given to our exhaustion, our pain, our anger. anything other than perfect smiling compliance and simpering gratitude can be punished. if you do things they don't approve of, they may retaliate, or drop you entirely, and write things in your notes that will guarantee future mistreatment.

if you can't imagine how difficult it is to rely on people for basic survival, especially underpaid strangers who don't give a fuck about you, lucky you. if you've never had to appease anyone or choke back justified hurt and anger so as not to be left to rot, lucky you. it takes enormous social energy, which not everyone has. disabled people's survival shouldn't be a popularity contest.