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Stacked emergencies require teamwork. Bridges of language are needed, and ways to share concepts of the levels and types of emergencies we can easily address together with best practices led by knowledgeable survivors.
Join this conversation: https://t.me/joinchat/wAkcU94xFzo1MTUx • https://t.me/IntuitiveIntensive/15

Teamwork is something that has seemed to dribble out of the seams of many of our communities, replaced by financially advantageous technology that serves the needs of some while disabling others.

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

Because there has been a preponderance of bots and bot-behaviors on Telegram, we are revitalizing a practice of requiring introductions from individuals who join our chats. Introductions may be private (message @maxmorris), or part of the group conversation.
If an individual does not introduce themselves within an hour or so of entering a chat, we will remove them from the chat to prevent Telegram bot build-up.
If you would like help with your introduction, have a particular circumstance, or were removed in error, please message @maxmorris (or email max@intuitive.pub) to be in touch.
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Chaga tea. ☕

Memories like these really bring us big strength. These are so important. I love the sound of your laughter!

Memories and energy like this is a big part of how I repaired my body's ability to digest food when I had completely lost the ability to digest food.

Survivors, service users, and professionals (and the many of us that are all of these) are invited to meet on Fridays for conversations related to mutual aid and building networks of supports that center the most intersectionalized survivors (including those who are not currently safe enough to join these meetings). 

Intuitive is working with particular diligence to add more degreed professionals to the network to support with advocacy, navigating epistemic oppression, and network expansion.

The initial focus of these conversations centers on deep listening and orientating to the wisdom and needs of Survivors of Severity. We are learning to listen and talk to each other as fellow humans, and exploring what can emerge as trust is built.

https://inclusivetherapists.com/events/mutual-aid-collaboration-with-survivor-led-networks-intuitive-community

https://t.me/IntuitivePublicRadio/8739 • https://t.me/IntuitivePublicRadio/8740

In these meetings we aim to learn to see differently and communicate differently, centering the insights and wisdom of Survivors of Severity.

We are particularly seeking people who can pause and reflect on complexity and engage in deep listening and creative problem-solving for complex situations.

Through being human together (including, as professionals, recognizing our mistakes) so much is possible. 

Please join and share with others. We are building community.

https://inclusivetherapists.com/events/mutual-aid-collaboration-with-survivor-led-networks-intuitive-community

https://t.me/IntuitivePublicRadio/8739 • https://t.me/IntuitivePublicRadio/8740

"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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"Please include survivors of severe disabilities and invisible violence such as human trafficking in your health information awareness, as there are more and more of us striving to reach and be included in community environments. Intuitive Public Radio is a good source to follow if you need a place to start." • https://t.me/IntuitiveCommunity/1604 • https://t.me/DisabilityAid/444

"Charrette - a design workshop for solving real world problems. The term "charrette" is derived from the French word for "little cart." In Paris during the 19th century, professors at the Ecole de Beaux Arts circulated with little carts to collect final drawings and models from their students. Students were said to be working "en charrette", or in the carte, while they tried furiously to put finishing touches on their presentation minutes before the deadline.
As we continue our project By Design ... we look at how designers apply their thinking to solve problems. And how they use charrette workshops to try to transform organizations and communities.
Bill Lennertz is co-author ofThe Charrette Handbook and executive director of the National Charrette Institute... a non-profit organization that trains people how to run charrettes and advance community planning and public involvement.
Zahra Ebrahim is principal and partner of archiTEXT, a design think tank and consultancy. She has worked with dozens of clients and led many charrettes."
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/sep-17-2014-1.2907550/how-community-charettes-revolutionize-design-and-solve-real-world-problems-1.2907557