Thankfully, teamwork is easily restored when we tune to learning respect for one another.

As we learn one another's languages of respect and kindness, we are able to co-create communications methodologies that solve our problems with collective capacity and dignity.

Sometimes this means the collaborative invention of truly unique and surprising languages. Often it means bridging languages previously thought to be unbridgeable.

To work together with caring and courage in this way is a true font of healing and life energy revitalizing strength.

"I know more than one genius organizer—usually a Black or brown sick or disabled woman or nonbinary person who doesn’t have a ton of disability community—who’s casually told me that they’ll be dead by the age of fifty.

I respect that crip years are like dog years, and sometimes we live really huge lives in short amounts of time, but I can’t help but think that it doesn’t have to be that way.

We’re soaked since birth in narratives that we will die young, that our lives aren’t worth living, and that we’re up against everything from insurance denials to police trying to kill us who want to do the same damn thing.

But as I hear my friends talking about how they’re sure they’ll die young, I wonder if changing the narratives around care might change their expectations of dying young. I think about what it would take to continue to build communities of care, where caring for each other is something we actually practice and build the structures to hold."

— Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/C/Care-Work

"Victims of human trafficking may develop disabilities from abuse at the hands of their traffickers, and individuals with disabilities may be targeted by traffickers because they are vulnerable. Many human trafficking task forces miss identifying this risk factor or fail to make provisions for people with disabilities. People with physical disabilities, cognitive or intellectual disabilities, sensory disabilities, and mental illnesses all need special attention and protection.

There are several factors that make people with disabilities vulnerable to trafficking.

People with disabilities often rely on others to meet their basic needs. These caregivers have opportunities to traffic them as a result.

People with disabilities may become submissive to their caregivers and comply with their caregivers’ wishes because they are so dependent upon them. This learned response makes the unequal power dynamic in relationship with a trafficker, even if the trafficker is abusive, seem normal.

People with disabilities may lead isolated lives and crave friendship and human connection. Because of this need, they may be persuaded to perform sexual acts if they are promised friendship or money as a reward. Isolation can also make it difficult or impossible for people with disabilities to make contact with people who could help them.

Some people with disabilities cannot speak clearly or require communication devices or interpreters to make their needs known, so they, also, cannot ask for help.

Because of the level of touching that accompanies intimate care and medical procedures, people with disabilities can become desensitized to touch and/or may be unsure about whether they have the right to object to and report unwanted touch, sexual abuse, and sexual acts. They lack information about and understanding of what constitutes a crime and what their rights are as victims of crimes. This is also true of trafficked workers.

People with disabilities may not be believed if they report abuse and violence. If they are believed and their cases are prosecuted, their abusers may be given shorter sentences than abusers of able-bodied people. Task forces should promote awareness of these trends when training service providers, police, prosecutors, and judges."

https://www.ovcttac.gov/taskforceguide/eguide/4-supporting-victims/45-victim-populations/victims-with-physical-cognitive-or-emotional-disabilities

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Hardness of belly and lymph from small excess sugars; pain, bloat, sickness.
Food security, food sovereignty; food resource stabilization, food misinformation, food marketing, food trauma, food apartheid.
The word 'food' looks funny writ lots of times...
What is safest for the body while being held down and harmed?
Starvation, despair.
We can trace from the symptoms we catalog to the world we deserve to manifest. We can trace from the resourcing we recognize as necessary through the challenges we have encountered in establishing that resourcing.
When supply gaps and stopgap decisions are made, how do we avoid life-threatening compromises?
If we chart a new path to travel, there is some place to go. On one accessible path, there would be no way to avoid some one thing without entertaining some new thing; here is another possible path. And here is another possible path.
Cleansing fresh vegetables and fruit in combinations that support the nutrient needs of the body have been starvation in the past, impossible or unabsorbable, but are no longer the same as before.
Despite the murky dark, something new is possible now.
Somatic vehicle weeps dark matter tears, yearns entrenched dreams of healthy air and strength and reconstruction of detoxification pathways.
Thrashes in its prison.
Begs silent screaming hope, relief for light and function.
Make the prison pretty enough, no one will suspect imprisonment --- until they're caught themselves in the same trap.
Bars solid, doors clapped shut.
Maybe all are done for.
But is it locked?
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The Golden Spiral of Consciousness: Inspiration & Enlightenment through Art & Science

8/31/21 by Sol Luckman

https://anchor.fm/sol-luckman/episodes/The-Golden-Spiral-of-Consciousness-Inspiration--Enlightenment-through-Art--Science-e102hrc

Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/127858175
Episode: https://anchor.fm/s/596c4450/podcast/play/32638252/https%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fanchor-audio-tts-production%2Fproduction%2F2021-08-31%2Ftts.963c4e82-fcea-4e7d-aca8-3acac30f9de6.mp3

Learn more about Robin Craig Clark: www.peliguin.com This episode is also available as a blog post: http://snooze2awaken.com/2013/12/15/the-golden-spiral-of-consciousness-inspiration-enlightenment-through-art-science

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So truly --- the most intensive part of the experience is first being able to sit presently with the presence of intensity.
As we are able to increase the ways we are present with our real present moments, we are able to recognize a lot of very helpful things.
Seemingly unbearable intensity is the real present reality of living beings.
This kind of contact is holy. However you refer to your spiritual source, this is part of recognizing how we've all come from the same place. We know one another as aspects of ancient cosmic emergence.
If I am another you and you are another me, do we turn away from one another's intense experiences?
Do we learn from one another's intense experiences, and build bridges?
We discover that there is no substitute for this kind of deeply courageous and compassionate learning.
It connects us to the greatest power of love and regenerativity that has ever been.
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'Join Victor Lee Lewis for "An Exploration of EFT and Human Liberation." Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) tapping workshop. Gift Economy.
About this event
We invite you to join nationally-recognized social justice educator and EFT trainer Victor Lee Lewis along with special guests for this transformational 5-hour workshop.
Together we will focus on learning and exploring how EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) can be used specifically for topics of Human Liberation, Social Justice, and Community Care.
As we learn tools and frameworks to support community health (beyond the common "personal health" paradigms), together our bandwidth grows. This supports us in engaging with the complex challenges of late-stage capitalism, structural and interpersonal and internalized oppression, and the trances of seperation and supremacy.
EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) incorporates tapping select points from the Meridian system of Traditional Chinese Medicine (acupoints), additional somatic techniques, and strategic words for a combined effect that is transformative, liberatory, and able to support many of the complexities we face when engaging in change work and community care.
Context around the history and use of EFT will be shared as part of this liberation-focused workshop.
We welcome those new to EFT along with advanced practitioners seeking to apply EFT to the intersections described here. If you are interested in this topic and/or are already a big fan of Victor, you are in the right place.
This introductory workshop teaches people to use the EFT tool for a variety of circumstances, all within liberation-based frameworks. Victor's workshops typically include demonstration and community practices on using EFT for a variety of topics and challenges, inviting in ways of being and knowing that we perhaps didn't know were possible.
Victor exclusively offers workshops, trainings, consultation, mentorship, and coaching through the gift economy or tiered pricing models. This workshop is offered via the gift economy and options for giving (at any level) will be shared upon registration. You may also directly contribute to Victor before or after the workshop thorugh Venmo or PayPal @VictorLeeLewis.
Victor Lee Lewis (they/he) is a EFT Advanced Practitioner. Victor has been certified to teach EFT by the world’s two largest certification bodies. Victor also has advanced training in NLP, hypnotherapy, Somatic Experiencing, and other modalities. You may recognize Victor from their inspiring leadership role in the "The Color of Fear" (1994) documentary on racism, or their many keynote speeches and embodied, relational approach to liberation-based trainings that address racism with an intersectional lens. You can find out more about Victor here or sign up for one of their powerful "Hard Conversations" courses here.
Cori Woodland is part of a team that is supporting Victor in being able to show up and offer workshops such as this. Please direct questions/comments/accessibility needs regarding this workshop to connect@coriwoodland.com
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Electroshocking Veterans and Their Fetuses 2015 Lauren Tenney Mad in America

11/11/21 by Lauren Tenney

Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/131196566
Episode: https://www.blogtalkradio.com/talkwithtenney/2021/11/12/electroshocking-veterans-and-their-fetuses-2015-lauren-tenney-mad-in-america.mp3

During the spring of 2015 I began a series of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) exchanges with the Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration.

FOIA (FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT) RESULTS OF THE VA FROM 2015. This is a 2021 Veterans Day Reading of "Electroshocking Veterans and Their Fetuses" by Lauren Tenney first published in 2015 i n Mad in America.

Electroshocking Veterans and Their Fetuses

By Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor

First Published: November 24, 2015

Read along:

https://www.madinamerica.com/2015/11/electroshocking-us-veterans-and-their-fetuses/

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