Andrea Grimes
bitch kraken / she/her / 📍atx / 😎 blocking out the haters w @reproaction.bsky.social / co-founder @theflytrapmedia.com
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- she biscuit
- I was very temporarily physically disabled when I lived in the Bay Area (ACL tear) and tried to get local lefty groups to just TELL ME or ANYONE if there was a step up/down into the venue or the house we were meeting at (or steps to the bathroom) and the crickets were LOUD
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View full threadTo this day I still have people who rag on me because I don't do protest-march type stuff (my knees/ankles/bunions simply Cannot, ask me about destroying your body with ballet as a child) and I will always advocate for accessibility but I cannot go to every gd thing even as i am plugged tf in
- anyway all to say, a whole bunch of people who are mad as hell also can't access a whole bunch of ~ visible ~ means of protest and organizing and it blows
- Many years later with an ADHD diagnosis (and my ADHD was well-managed/unidentified prior) even floating it with a non-neurodiverse person carries a surprising weight of stigma/refusal to accommodate generally
- I remember what it was like to be physically disabled (I still am, to some degree) and I can't forget what it IS like to be neurodiverse and I also remember what it was like, before I identified as either/both of these things, to think I was immune until I got "old" and it's such horseshit, truly
- we don't talk enough about how the 1995-2010 online publishing era produced truly remarkable on-the-spot writers, the skill is unparalleled
- sometimes i think about how I used to write like 1500 words a day for $2 a week, walking uphill in the snow both ways and I don't wish it on anyone else but boy the fuck I was good at it
- There's much historical precedent for this white supremacist, xenophobic fuckery, but notably the "bounty hunter" abortion bans of 2021+ explicitly encourage right-wingers to position themselves as state-sanctioned vigilante enforcers who stand to benefit monetarily from fucking with their neighbors
- Wrote about the masked, plainclothes immigration goon squads. Gift link: wapo.st/438r062
- i avoid Substack-platformed content as a rule because of the Nazi-subsidizing thing but the claim that "there is near-universal agreement among Democrats that the party needs to expand its tent and appeal to more moderate and independent voters" is simply dripping with boot-licking drool
