This tweet from @Duhlency, edited by Exposing Racism, makes me think how I’m working on this.

I’m working on this every day.

I’m navigating this within academia and the voluntary sector. In disability care and queer spaces, and where these places overlap. 

All these things I’ve been made to believe about myself and others and how we connect and disconnect. It’s based in lies, half truths and deceptions. It’s a power dynamic based around control, capitalism and white supremacy and the wider kiararchy. 

Once that veil goes up there’s no bringing it down. 

Feminism doesn’t work if it’s not intersectional and the disability movement doesn’t work without being intersectional. I wish I saw more anti-racism work from white disability activists online. 

Before I started doing this work, I was worried about getting things right, being seen a certain way, being piled on online. 

The thing is I’ve had this with disability work, I was happy to put myself on the line for that. And my queer and trans work. 

I’m putting myself in that same place for anti-racist work because I can’t get annoyed about people wanting free labour from queer and Disabled people and then ask that of Black and Brown people and people of the Global Majority. 

I will make mistakes but that is part of learning and growing. There will be growing pains and that will happen for the rest of my life around all these areas of work. 

It started with a conversation with a friend and it’s flowering into reading Black Feminist work every day. Reading from Global Majority folx around creating a safer space within my work. 

We live in an age where this information is accessible, some of it is free (and the stuff that isn’t is worth paying for). 

I don’t know if this sounds odd but I’m excited about what I’m learning. Not about pain and oppression but what we can all do to reduce harm.