Tabitha

“As Mia Mingus wrote in her essay “You Are Not Entitled to Our Deaths”: “We know the state has failed us. We are currently witnessing the pandemic state-sanctioned violence of murder, eugenics, abuse and bone-chilling neglect in the face of mass suffering, illness, and death.29 In my and many others’ nightmares, this is a final solution for disabled people: all COVID mitigation strategies are thrown out the window so abled people can shop, work, and watch football, and disabled people either die or stay within our immune-safer bubbles for the rest of our lives. I believe in disabled resilience, but my suicidal ideation popped up again when I thought about that. I don’t want a future where I never get to have in-person communion with people I love again, where I get harassed for wearing my N95 in the supermarket, and/or where most of the people I love are living with even more disability from long COVID with no government support, or are dead.”
― Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs

“I love how you say conquer when you mean erase.
Let me borrow from their sayings here: they who rewrite stories are doomed to create monsters.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Lost Ark Dreaming

“My dearest All-Infinite-

You must understand
that this is the way
the world always ends:

in

worthy questions
left unanswered
lonely
hearts and empty eyes;

lapping warnings
nightly silence
ripples
in the undersea.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Lost Ark Dreaming

“Dangerous is a name for things we do not understand. I am a thing that is not understood, both among my people and among yours.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Lost Ark Dreaming