here's some links to some other brilliannt folks who have written brilliant things about ableism, class, healing, all of it.

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http://midnightapothecary.blogspot.com/2012/10/more-healing-more-of-time.html   Dori Midnight on healing that's accessible and grassroots

http://poeticoverthrow.blogspot.com/2012/10/an-end-to-able-bodied-rhetoric.html  my beautiful friend Aaron on class, cripness, parenting and so much else

http://radicalaccessiblecommunities.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/on-gimp-time-activism-and-commitment/  <3sprinkles on being a crip on state disability, time, energy and organizing

http://organizingupgrade.com/index.php/modules-menu/community-care/item/737-care-is-the-core-of-change   Subhash on the importance of not being a 25 year old organizer dying of overwork

https://www.facebook.com/notes/brunhilda-christopher/my-response-to-an-end-to-self-care/10152210543650232  my beauitful, beautiful friend Bruin writing about what happens when being a burnout activist makes you sick, and then  the community doesn't show up to go to your doctor's appointments with you.

http://adriennemareebrown.net/blog/2012/10/15/how-about-a-beginning-of-self-determined-care/
Adrienne Maree Brown nails it, as always.

http://www.spectraspeaks.com/2012/10/response-to-an-end-to-self-care-community-care-how-about-an-end-to-the-martyr-complex/  amazing post about mental health and martyrdom.
 


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10/19/2012 02:00

Oh wow. Leah, I'm a huge supporter of your work, (adoring fan from afar) and so honored that you included a link to the post I wrote. Thank you so much. Sending you love.

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11/04/2012 12:53

We had some amazing conversation sparked by these posts, over at the People's Organization of Community Acupuncture blog- thought you might be interested! https://www.pocacoop.com/prick-prod-provoke/post/an-end-to-self-care

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