Disabled Love
What happens when we tell the whole truth about the parts of us we’ve been taught to pretend don’t exist?
Laura-Marie Strawberry Nopales is a queer disabled art witch who lives in community.
Blog: listeningtothenoiseuntilitmakessense.com
Instagram: xtrikeslutsx
Disabled Sex Is a Human Right
Sex is a human right, and all people deserve access, including disabled people and elders. Sex is a human right like the right to food, shelter, clothing, medicine, care, spirituality, and consent. Sex as a human right means: privacy to masturbate at home, including...
Disabled Love: our first ride after the death of David Morris
“Is my skirt in danger of the chain?” I asked. “No,” Ming said. “Am I showing any parts of my body that I’m not supposed to show?” I asked. “No,” Ming said. Those questions are comfortingly repeated toward the beginning of most of our rides. It was our first ride...
Disabled Love: content warning – death bike accident
Something was very wrong. A big pickup truck was off the road near the dark blue fence and tardis. A car was stopped on the road. Why would someone leave crumpled bike parts on the sidewalk? People were milling around on their phones. An older white man walked away...
Disabled Love Poetry
breasts are alive Breasts are sentient beings with their own lives. They aren’t inert, rounded lumps of flesh. They make their own judgments. The lymph nodes, milk ducts, fat, skin, fascia, muscle– are living their own needs. The nipples have their reactions to...
love is a challenge: what I’ve learned in community
I believe in supportive community and want it, but community is one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. I’m going to come out and say that community is how people are supposed to live, and most “mental illnesses” are not diseases, but are actually the fruition of...
I need all the knowledge of my body, in order to do the work I’m here on earth to do: Radical Mental Health
What’s the normal thing to say at a funeral, after a miscarriage, when someone’s pet is sick, in the ashes of a housefire, when a parent dies, when a spouse leaves? In culture at large, people avoid their own feelings, and avoid the feelings of their loved ones also....
You Get to Show Up Too: an Interview with Jack About Community
Jack is a vibrant nonbinary person who shines with the light of God. They have lived in several communities in Eugene. I admire how they bring people together and make an effort to mesh with everyone in a group, something I’ve never been able to do. Jack is the...
Harm Reduction is Respect
Being real about emotions and inner life is everything to me. I’m a radical mental health person. Relatedly, addicts are my people. I think a lot about self-harm, substance use, addiction, and harm reduction. What am I doing that’s fucking up my life, and how...
Disabled Love: telling the truth in community
carnelian: telling the truth in community "So does it work? Does carnelian help you tell the truth?" my radical mental health friend asked. "Well, something does!" I said. We laughed. I thought of causes-- all the ways we get here. ...
Disabled Love: Racism in Community
I go to the altar in my heart and light the candle, asking Spirit to bless my writing about racism in community. Mother God, Parent Earth, and all that is Love, please help me tell the truth, now and every day of my life. Thank you. admit it...