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I rambled about this in tags on another post but I can’t emphasize enough how only focusing on large-scale issues WILL lead to hopelessness & burnout. Activism must include small-scale, achievable works. If you don’t have something you can get your hands around and look at directly, despair will eat you alive.

I want to elaborate here for people who don’t think they’re capable of practical activism due to disability: what a LOT of volunteer groups need most is clerical and logistical support. Maybe you can’t get down to the river to pick up trash, but how about working the sign-up table? Or sending out email reminders or creating promotional graphics? How about making calls to the city to get funds for supplies?

Many volunteer groups rely on retired people to run their day-to-day functions, so as the economy worsens and retirement ages go up, charities are feeling the squeeze as their aging participants aren’t replaced. If you’re unable to work full-time due to disability but have the means to attend a zoom meeting once a month and take minutes, there’s an activist group that needs you. If you don’t have the financial means to donate to charities you care about, there’s a local advocacy group that needs help deciding how to allocate donation funds.

If you’re not sure how you or your disability can fit into a group, call and ask. My prison book group works from a basement that isn’t wheelchair accessible, so when I was unable to do stairs last year, I built them a database.

You can help and you are needed.

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Dilemma: I want to get back to studying on italki and hit up my old Japanese teacher like hi [name] sensei sorry for lowkey (highest possible key) ghosting you,,,,,,can you help me with my pitch accent please 🥺 but I am worried it’ll be SO awkward. Yes I could make up a tragic backstory (2023 did kinda suck) but I do not want to lie to this very nice woman.

I also could just find another teacher but this one is both super nice/cool/progressive (not weird about me being a lesbian and mentioning my ex partner) and actually a good teacher.

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