Making Kin with Disability by Sophie Strand

...most ecosystems these days share more kinship with disabled bodies given that they have been changed and interrupted by pollution and anthropogenic development. I have been offering more and more as someone with incurable genetic illness and PTSD, that it is to the neurodivergent, the chronically ill, the disabled, the terminally ill, the survivors who we must turn for information on how to come into relationship with beings and landscapes that are intimate with harm and impairment. 

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Quote: Bad vibes.

Saw this, attributed to unknown via smile through the pain:

Give yourself permission to immediately walk away from anything that gives you bad vibes. There is no need to explain or make sense of it. Just trust what you feel.

Huzzah to this. Many of us, especially women and girls are quick to over-ride our instincts to "be nice" in situations where we might be scared for our safety. Let alone something more "minor" like being in a negative environment or having to tolerate someone's shitty comments. Let's all give ourselves more credit - and respect our instincts.

We have every right to say "no." We have every right to say "nah, I'm not into this."