Financial and economic detoxification..... HMMMM..............

This tweet from two years ago is as current as ever:

Max tweets,

' This is an exploratory THREAD about community medicine, how #AccessIsLove, & what #InaccessibilityMeans to abled & disabled people. '

https://twitter.com/MoFromTheGut/status/1124261526309883906?s=19

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Nourishing, supportive, consistent, relationship-building interactions with individuals surviving severe conditions...

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...*innoculate* privileged, denial-afflicted ableists...

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...against their own unfortunate experiences of destabilizing stress, life-threatening obliviousness, #AbledsAreWeird, confusion, paranoia, & unwitting cruelty.

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These nourishing, supportive interactions are essential community medicine -- only available if one treats survivors well + respects disabled & marginalized people.

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Without the kindness & respect of this community medicine, unwitting ableists don't understand why their lives are so difficult.

Their world is legitimately falling apart *because* it is disabling to individuals.

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#InaccessibilityMeans the community medicine disappears -- not just for disabled people.

#InaccessibilityMeans the community medicine disappears for everybody.

#InaccessibilityMeans we have only scapegoats in its place.

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All of this happens only because we lost track of how to care for human beings.

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#AccessIsLove helps us remember again.

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Please follow + support twitter.com/MiaMingus twitter.com/IntersectedCrip twitter.com/DisVisibility (#AccessIsLove), twitter.com/Emily_Ladau (#InaccessibilityMeans), & twitter.com/Imani_Barbarin (#AbledsAreWeird), the progenitors of these beautiful hashtags.

Thank you for making spaces for thriving.

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Othering & exclusion are uncomfortable feelings -- but are eased by a sense of community safety & belonging.

For all people, #AccessIsLove.

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#AbledsAreWeird when they inhibit their own functioning, safety, & recovery from hardship.

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Able-bodied people feel othered & excluded only because they haven't discovered yet how to extend community to disabled & marginalized people.

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That's the antidote.

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It's a great antidote.

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When we restore + support the community medicine of caring for one another...

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...we find that a lot of things are easier than they were before.

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Problems are solved more efficiently.

People are able to access their most personally healing, meaningful, & sustaining work.

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We feel connection + relief.

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This is medicine for communities.

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If you want to be free of stress, Abled People, build supportive community relationships with Disabled People.

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(What, you didn't think it could be that simple?)

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Make a practice of describing the infrastructure & response that you require —- in a simple, curious, kindness-oriented style & public media format.
Describe it existing now —- as if you have already achieved it, with the wonderful feelings that accompany that (future, present) realization.
You are writing the story of what happens next with the words you use, each moment.
Write this story the way you want it to happen.
https://t.me/IntuitiveStory/507

In honor of the passing of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, we are sharing his Ten Love Letters to the Earth. These meditations are an invitation to engage in intimate conversation, a living dialogue, with our Earth.
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Beloved Mother of All Things

Dear Mother Earth,

I bow my head before you as I look deeply and recognize that you are present in me and that I’m a part of you. I was born from you and you are always present, offering me everything I need for my nourishment and growth. My mother, my father, and all my ancestors are also your children. We breathe your fresh air. We drink your clear water. We eat your nourishing food. Your herbs heal us when we’re sick.

You are the mother of all beings. I call you by the human name Mother and yet I know your mothering nature is more vast and ancient than humankind. We are just one young species of your many children. All the millions of other species who live—or have lived—on Earth are also your children. You aren’t a person, but I know you are not less than a person either. You are a living breathing being in the form of a planet.

Each species has its own language, yet as our Mother you can understand us all. That is why you can hear me today as I open my heart to you and offer you my prayer.

Dear Mother, wherever there is soil, water, rock or air, you are there, nourishing me and giving me life. You are present in every cell of my body. My physical body is your physical body, and just as the sun and stars are present in you, they are also present in me. You are not outside of me and I am not outside of you. You are more than just my environment. You are nothing less than myself.

I promise to keep the awareness alive that you are always in me, and I am always in you. I promise to be aware that your health and well-being is my own health and well-being. I know I need to keep this awareness alive in me for us both to be peaceful, happy, healthy, and strong.

Sometimes I forget. Lost in the confusions and worries of daily life, I forget that my body is your body, and sometimes even forget that I have a body at all. Unaware of the presence of my body and the beautiful planet around me and within me, I’m unable to cherish and celebrate the precious gift of life you have given me. Dear Mother, my deep wish is to wake up to the miracle of life. I promise to train myself to be present for myself, my life, and for you in every moment. I know that my true presence is the best gift I can offer to you, the one I love.
from: https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/ten-love-letters-to-the-earth/

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Because our content is coordinated mainly by-and-for severely disabled and severely affected community members and core organizers across this Intuitive network, what we finally publish on our public platforms is a very small fraction of what is being offered for broadcast and added on a day-to-day basis to our knowledgebase.
For physical safety and honorable relationship with those bearing the greatest burden of harm and invisible violence, it is our intention to share as much as we can in our public platform publishing and public media broadcasts. This effects survivors' circumstances directly in powerful and positive ways.
Where we still fall short, we can improve with your help.
All media skills are immediately requested and deeply appreciated.
When you assist us in publishing what survivors' groups compile each day, you contribute directly to situational stabilization, recovery potential, and collaborative success with those experiencing most extreme hardships.
There's a lot to learn, tremendous joy, and lasting satisfaction in applying oneself to these worthy efforts.
Contact @IntuitiveMedia through comments or message @maxmorris directly on Telegram messenger, or email max@intuitive.pub, to be introduced to our network.
https://t.me/IntuitiveMedia/42

Do nearly all organized spiritual communities exclude severely disabled trafficking survivors?
Do nearly all organized trauma recovery resource hubs exclude severely disabled trafficking survivors?
Does nearly all safe food resourcing exclude severely disabled trafficking survivors?
Do nearly all shelters exclude severely disabled trafficking survivors?
Does nearly all in-person care resourcing exclude severely disabled trafficking survivors?
This couldn't be the case.
Could it?
https://t.me/IntuitiveTraffic/1965

Diving into GDTF!

Gesturing Toward Decolonial Futures

GCE Otherwise:
In Earth’s CARE
dispositions / learning objectives

The “In Earth’s CARE” curriculum proposes a set of dispositions for a pedagogy of everyday life organized around the five dimensions of transformative justice/wellbeing:

• Cognitive justice/wellbeing (healing and transforming our patterns of thinking)

Deepening analyses of historical and systemic forms of violence
Critically examining assumptions, desires and complicities in harm
Thinking in multiple layers acknowledging tensions and paradoxes at the intersection of different histories, contexts and worldviews
Responding in generative ways to teachings that challenge one’s self image
Making space for and relating generatively to the unknown and the unknowable
Disinvesting in arrogance and desires for totalizing knowledge, superiority, certainty and control.



• Affective justice/wellbeing (healing and transforming our patterns of feeling)

Developing the capacity to be in discomfort and to accept uncertainty without feeling overwhelmed or irritated
Learning to access the unconscious and to sit with internal complexities, paradoxes and contradictions
Identifying and starting to compost individual and collective projections, attachments, traumas and insecurities
Learning to interrupt intellectualizations in order to sense, relate and show up differently to oneself and to the world
Processing emotions and accessing and releasing pain without narrative framings
Disinvesting in desires for consumption and individualism



• Relational justice/wellbeing (healing and transforming our patterns of relating)

Learning to form genuine relationships without idealizations (projections, instrumentalizations and romanticizations)
Exploring different possibilities for being and relating not grounded on shared meaning, identity or conviction
Feeling part of a wider metabolism (planet/land) and collective body (group/community)
Experiencing the difficulties and complexities of ethical engagements and solidarity from a space of accountability
Learning through difficult events with humility, compassion, generosity and patience
Going through the difficult work of mobilizing visceral responsibility



• Economic justice/wellbeing (healing and transforming our exchanges)

Interrupting patterns of consumption (of stuff, knowledges, experiences and relationships) as a mode of relating to the world
Decentering yourself and centering collective needs (doing what was needed rather than what one wants to do)
Interrupting patterns of entitlement coming from social, economic and/or racial privilege
Interrupting calculations (based on self-interest or utility maximization) in order to give and receive differently
Learning to practice economies based on abundance, reciprocity and redistribution



• Ecological justice/wellbeing (healing and transforming our relationship with the cycles of the wider metabolism of the planet that we are part of)

Manifesting education from a space where humans are not separated from the land/planet
Reflecting on the challenges of co-existence from different perspectives, including those of non-human beings
Grappling with the complexities of addressing complicities in ecological harm
Opening up possibilities for adjacent possibilities of thinking, relating and being
Developing stamina and resiliency for the slow and challenging work that needs to be done in the long term.