Hello disabled comrades! I can’t believe we’re entering a new year… which is year six of the pandemic, hooray. I’m a firm believer that we must always have revolutionary optimism, but I can’t say it hasn’t been hard for the past few years as more and more leftists have abandoned COVID precautions. But as disabled people, we keep agitating, we keep organizing, and we keep going. Solidarity in the face of pandemic eugenics, always.

As always, we ask that in order to participate in the weekly megathread, one self-identifies as some form of disabled, which is broadly defined in the community sidebar:

“Disability” is an umbrella term which encompasses physical disabilities, emotional/psychiatric disabilities, neurodivergence, intellectual/developmental disabilities, sensory disabilities, invisible disabilities, and more. You do not have to have an official diagnosis to consider yourself disabled.

Mask up, love one another, and stay alive for one more week.

  • Blockocheese [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    14·
    5 days ago

    Here’s a life hack for anyone currently suffering from a chronic pain flareup: your body can actually make you experience menstrual cramps a week before you even get your period, and then for the entirety of your period, making you want to die

    big-cool

    • Beetle [hy/hym]@hexbear.net
      10·
      5 days ago

      Thanks for the life hack! Also hope you’re okay 🫂. Menstrual cramps are no joke.

      I usually have to lay in bed with curtains closed and lights off waiting for hours while crying until the pain meds kick in because any kind of overstimulation makes me throw up. I can’t believe we have to live through that.