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The Los Angeles Spoonie Collective is composed of disabled, neurodivergent, and chronically ill LGBTQIA community members within the Los Angeles area (Tongva land). We offer virtual and in-person workshops and panel discussions on the intersections of race, gender, and disability, disability justice, feminist theory, and more.

la.spoonie.collective

We’re a collective of LGBTQIA+ Disabled folks working to elevate the voices of our community, educate the world, and end ableism.

This Juneteenth, please consider supporting Ky Pet

This Juneteenth, please consider supporting Ky Peterson or his legacy organization, Freedom Overground. Ky and Freedom fight for the freedom & rights of TGNC people trapped in the legalized slavery of the Prison Industrial Complex. Ky is due to be released in the summer of 2020.

You can support Ky directly through PayPal :
petersonkm89@gmail.com

You can help fund his legacy of work through PayPal :
freedomoverground@gmail.com

the warriors in the streets fighting for our liber

the warriors in the streets fighting for our liberation might be the most visible arm of the revolution, and we must cherish and protect them. just please don’t forget that #disabilityjustice activists are hard at work too. for some of us, it isn’t safe for to be out there because of covid-19; for some of us we’ve never been able to make it to the march. but from our sick beds, our sitz baths, our doctors’ waiting rooms, we organize. we fundraise and redistribute and amplify and heal. we call on spirits and ancestors, call on our people to remember what slow breath moving through bodies at rest feels like. we weep and gnash our teeth and maybe curse our corporeal forms a bit but we are here, present, willing to do whatever is within our capacity to manifest this new world we are in the process of envisioning together. our labor, though it is made invisible, is vital to the revolution.
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the majority of our membership is disabled Black and brown QTI folks who have been working ceaselessly to bring a liberatory future into existence. give what you can to ensure our work can continue.
#blackdisabledlivesmatter #pride #pridemonth🌈 #pridemonth #pride🌈

URGENT!!! help needed Posted @withregram • @pea

URGENT!!! help needed
Posted @withregram • @peaceportervlogs My name is Shedrick (Ricky) Porter and I am in need of emergency housing support. I have been a resident of the Los Angeles LGBT Center homeless shelter for the past six months. On Monday, June 15 I was “exited” (kicked out) the program WITHOUT WARNING because my medical condition prevents me from wearing a mask at all times. I have both chronic asthma and bronchitis, and extended usage of a mask causes additional respiratory complications.

I was given until TOMORROW, June 16th to vacate the premises without any support or referral for shelter. I am a young Black father and prior experiences with the shelter lead me to believe this decision was motivated in part by racial bias. All Black Lives do NOT Matter here.

I will be on the streets tomorrow in the middle of a global pandemic, in a world where the color of my skin leaves me susceptible to state-sponsored violence, police brutality, and racial terrorism. Black men and women are being lynched throughout the country and even in the county of Los Angeles and I am asking for help staying safe.
I am crowdfunding to help rehouse myself. Into a Apartment of my Own
You can donate through Cash app $PeacePorter .
If you cannot donate, please share this message. I am in Los Angeles and looking for any kind of resources or linkage for housing. I hope my experience shed light on this Issue & Many others 💡✊🏾🖤 Thank you!!

Without Black Trans Disabled Sex Working Women & F

Without Black Trans Disabled Sex Working Women & Femmes, there is no movement...no pride...no liberation.
We lift up your name, Mother Marsha!
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#pridemonth #pride🌈
Posted @withregram • @thegizellemarie S.1 || We start in celebration of pride with thanking Marsha P. Johnson. She was a Black trans woman who advocated for Queer people of color, specifically trans women of color. She is known for organizing and leading the Stonewall uprising in 1969. Aka the reason why pride exists. It’s important to note that these uprisings were a resistance movement against POLICE BRUTALITY on particularly Black and Brown trans queer bodies. Along with Sylvia Rivera, she established (STAR), a group committed to helping homeless trans youth in New York City. She was murdered on July 6, 1992 at the age of 46 and her murder has yet to receive justice. So whenever we celebrate pride let’s remember that it exists because Black transwomen were and have always been protecting our communities against police and state sanctioned violence. •
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The link in the bio to donate to Black SW Relief Fund! •
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Venmo @thegizellemarie
Cashapp $gizellemarie
Art by @tashajfierce

ATTN ANGELENOS!!! QTIBIPOC Mutual Aid effort needs

ATTN ANGELENOS!!!
QTIBIPOC Mutual Aid effort needs our help.
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*NEW bit.ly LINKS* and updated forms, plz fill out again if you already have. Thx for your patience while forms were temporarily closed due to restructuring the butt end. Wide open now! plz repost.

A resource for LA. While ppl are mobilizing on the streets, let’s mobilize the material aid. Let’s prioritize getting resources to Black folks and Black led movement. Let’s prioritize getting resources to elders and folks w/ disabilities. Let’s get this cute ass/vital mutual aid *safely* flowing!
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If you’re a QtBipoc with material aid to offer and you need someone to transport it- fill out form bit.ly/QcreatorLA
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Semi chaotic disco, pink scooter w/ pigeon on it FTP, pink car ACAB, a call to mobilize qtbipoc mutual aid in LA
Thx @kasamaeats @msmauve @cyclopsmermaid

Stop Moralizing Food. Food is Fuel. #Repost @stin

Stop Moralizing Food.
Food is Fuel.

#Repost @stinegreveillustration
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🧁TW: food talk🧁Something a little different, but I feel like everyone could use a reminder! I saw an illustration today that said something like “will not feel shame or guilt for eating whatever” ish but then the caption said “of course clean eating can be important (...) it’s ok to be indulging once in a while”. If you truly want to not feel any shame or guilt around food you need to start by removing words from your vocabulary that moralizes food. Clean eating, indulging, healthy, unhealthy, bad, cheat days etc. These serve no other purpose than to categorize food into groups that will either make you feel bad or good about yourself. Food is just food. Everything has different nutritional value, but all has value and the way our bodies processes foods is different from person to person. Are blueberries super foods if you’re allergic? Does kale comfort you the same way ice cream does when you’re sad? I assume not. Literally eat whatever you want, you don’t get a gold star for eating spinach and you’re not doing anything wrong when you eat chocolate and nothing else the entire day. 🍏🍌🍒🍇🍓🍋🍊🍋🍆🌶🥒🥔🍠🥑🥦🥕🌽🥬🥝🧀🥨🥞🥖🍞🧈🍳🥓🌭🍔🍗🍖🍕🥗🌯🧆🥙🍝🥫🍤🍚🍘🦪🍭🥧🧁🍰🍿🎂🍪🌰🥜🍯🧃#fatpositive #fatliberation#fatart#fatartists#fatactivism#fuckdietculture #dietculturedropout #bodypositive#bodypositiveart#feministillustration #feministartist #feministart#fatphobia

#Repost @projectlets ・・・ We’re seeing a da

#Repost @projectlets
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We’re seeing a dangerous petition going around change.org (titled "Federally Required IAT and Psychological Screenings for Police Officer Employment") that calls for “increased psychological assessment for cops, specifically for psychotic disorders, mood disorders, and personality disorders.” It’s been signed by almost 900,000 people. We want to clarify some things:
1. Racism is NOT a mental illness.

2. Violent and racist cops are NOT mentally ill. They are indoctrinated into white supremacy and given unlimited power with no oversight.

3. It is ableist AND racist to excuse this type of violence by saying it is caused by mental illness.

4. Mentally ill people are MUCH more likely to be victims of violence than to be perpetrators.

5. There is no reform. Abolition is the only way forward.

Please call out this discourse when you see it. Our communities will not stand to be the scapegoats for police brutality and violence.

Art by: @caitdissociates

Is your fight for justice accessible? Who’s miss

Is your fight for justice accessible? Who’s missing from the table...if you don’t have a seat, you are frequently on the menu.
#blacklivesmatter #allblacklivesmatter #disabledblacklivesmatter ✊🏿💜♿️💜✊🏿💜♿️💜✊🏿
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A resource to help ensure protest language and etiquette is anti-ableist and centering disabled people. Please feel free to share at will. I will be making one about inclusive resource-sharing shortly, as well. // ORANGE BACKGROUND WITH WHITE AND LIGHT-COLORED TEXT. Title slide: disability-inclusive protest etiquette: a guide. Slide 2: Remember that many disabled people will not be able to attend protests, no matter how much they want to be there. Avoid language like “just show up,” “the front lines are where the real work is done,” etc. It is anti-ableist, shaming, and unhelpful. There are many ways to be involved, such as organizing, donating, and doing daily work. Doing the work is not unique to the front lines. Slide 3: some disabled people will be attending protests alongside you. Understand that you won’t always know who they are, as many disabilities are invisible. Respect people’s space. Do not touch physically disabled people or their wheelchairs/mobility equipment. Don’t tell anyone you’re inspired by them. And this is an absolute rule: never assume someone is “faking it” if you see them using a mobility device one minute and not the next. Slide 4: contact protestors beforehand to ensure that events are accessible. Specific actions include: ensuring there is a rally alternative to each march, checking in about access to ramps/restrooms and interpreters, providing mobility aids and a team to assist if possible, ensuring that all organized protest language is anti-ableist. Slide 5: educate yourself - black disabled people should never be an afterthought, especially when it comes to police brutality. Disabled people make up between one third and one half of all people killed by police. This issue is CENTRAL to the black disabled community. Learn the names of black disabled victims of police violence. Advocate for measures that protect disabled people whenever you discuss deescalation techniques or alternative

Hey friends! The amazing organizers of @lazinefest

Hey friends!
The amazing organizers of @lazinefest have generously included us in their fundraiser this year. We are proud and thankful to be supported by the zine community. Please check out their bio for more info. The LAZF audiozine compilation is on sale today for $5!
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AUDIOZINE RELEASE NOW ON BANDCAMP (link in bio)
Comp is $5 or more and ALL proceeds will go to the orgs listed below

Cover art by Whitney Romberg @whitneykittyart

Thank you to the following contributors:
@gutwrenchpress
@whitneykittyart
@cinnamonblanket
@eyedraugh
@rulfodekievan
@lomariegonzalez
@dopeminas
@antimatterzone
@rivuletdotnet & @qjhanip
@vanessaholyoak
@angieinart
Teo Rivera-Dundas
@yolowzines
Donations of $25 or more will be mailed the collaborative zine "This is What Community Looks Like" curated by Tony Hoang for LAZF 2017.

We are so excited with how this turned out!!!! Orgs all proceeds will be donated to:

1) Los Angeles Action Bail Fund
linktr.ee/ActionBailFundLA

2) The L.A. Spoonie Collective Mutual Aid Fund for Pandemic Relief
www.gofundme.com/f/send-the-la-spoonie-collective-to-oakland?utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet

3) The Los Angeles Street Vendor Emergency Fund
www.gofundme.com/f/street-vendor-emergency-fund

CALLING ALL #QTIBIPOC!!!
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@nqttcn is accepting applications for their #mentalhealth fund that seeks to connect #queer, #trans, & #intersex #peopleofcolor with funds for #therapy during these intensely traumatic and triggering times. Please spread the word.

“Sixth is the cripped principle of Sustainabilit

“Sixth is the cripped principle of Sustainability, that we value the teachings of our lives and understand that our embodied experience as a critical guide and reference pointing us toward justice and liberation.” - @patty_berne & @sinsinvalid ✊🏿🧸✊🏿🧸✊🏿🧸✊🏿 #Repost @sparklejams
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Fat people have much to offer on and off the streets of activism. We are an asset.
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Grateful for any and all additional ideas from fat comrades in the comments.
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Edited to say: you can find more about the awesome #nobodyisdisposable campaign over at @fatlibink •
#nojusticenopeace #bodyjustice #acab

Posted @withregram • @tashajfierce someone on th

Posted @withregram • @tashajfierce someone on the @la.spoonie.collective fb page pointed out that sex workers don’t get discussed when we talk about how #allblacklivesmatter and as someone who has done SW i agree. Black sex worker lives matter. sex work is work. period. support Black sex workers, fuck FOSTA/SESTA, abolish the carceral state so we don’t need to #decriminalizesexwork & remember #blacksexworkersmatter when we say #blacklivesmatter & #blacktranslivesmatter 💜✊🏽

Posted @withregram • @tashajfierce because every

Posted @withregram • @tashajfierce because every Black life matters, every day. more than property built on stolen land. more than white feelings. more than cishet supremacy & damn sure more than abled comfort. and we won’t stop until the entire world acts like it. #pride #pride🌈 #pridemonth #blacklivesmatter #blacktranslivesmatter #blackdisabledlivesmatter #allblacklivesmatter

A young Black trans woman named #IyannaDior was br

A young Black trans woman named #IyannaDior was brutally attacked by a group of mostly Black cis men in Minneapolis last night. There’s video online that I won't share.

But this is why we must always clarify that all #BlackLivesMatter every time we invoke this chant.

What will happen to us Black women, Black LGBTQ+ folks, Black trans women if we continue to only rally around the state violence that cishet Black men face?

The police, the state, and white supremacy are killing us, but so is an insecure version of masculinity that views Black womanhood, transness, and queerness as a threat.

If you aren't rallying behind Black trans victims of violence as much as you are cishet Black men, you don’t really believe that #BlackLivesMatter .

Cis Black men need to step forward and model a healthier masculinity.
Black cis men need to start holding each other accountable to not be transphobic. Some of y'all know better and refuse to do better.

Black cis women need to hold these men accountable too. Your laughs and cooing at their transphobia is just as dangerous. Your own trans misogyny is just as dangerous.

Intracommunity violence must be taken seriously too. Step ya politics up, boo. - Raquel Willis

Check out this splendid podcast, @chroniclespodcas

Check out this splendid podcast, @chroniclespodcast, hosted by our comrades Yoce (@yocelanegra) and Luna about living with chronic illness as a queer femme of color. ♿️💜♿️💜♿️💜♿️💜
This episode features one of our co-founders, Lilac Vylette (@boldly.femme ). Listen to a spirited conversation between fellow activists and friends about making the revolution accessible to all, dismantling anti-Blackness in the Latinx community, community organizing for spoonies, uglification and the work of @the.ugly.black.woman and so much more.
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#blacklivesmatter #chronicillness #disability #neurodiversity #spoonie #LGBTQ #queer #trans #transgender #femme #blackmothers #covid_19 #coronavirus #accessibility #disabledandcute #prettyprivilege #poetry
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Prrrrrrr prrrrrrrrrr let’s welcome the first guest to our show Lilac 😻😻😻😻🌺🌺🌺 Out on Spotify and apple iTunes hit up link in bio. We are discussing so many things....anti blackness in “latinx” community, ableism in riots, interdependence..... A bit about Lilac:

Lilac Vylette Maldonado (she/they) is a community organizer and culture worker who identifies as a sick & disabled, neurodivergent, Two-Spirit, Chicanx femme. She has been actively organizing since 2009 around many intersectional social justice issues such as racial justice, gender justice, disability justice, LGBTQIA+ issues, and body autonomy and acceptance. They are an avid zinester who has written and created artwork for various academic and social justice themed DIY booklets. She is a co-founding member of and logistics coordinator for the Los Angeles Spoonie Collective, a grassroots disability justice group connecting disabled activists and artists to community organizing and education opportunities.

#chronicillness #chronicpain #ableism #antiblack #rhumatoidarthritis #qtpoc #missmajor ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 #riots #sickanddisabled #sdq #blackandbrown #colombian

Going out to a protest? Please care for yourselves

Going out to a protest?
Please care for yourselves and each other. Take the proper precautions against COVID.
If you can’t join, the movement still needs you. Get involved now!

One of our favorite femmes in this world, the love

One of our favorite femmes in this world, the lovely Mx. DJ Spears, needs our help putting food on their table and would really appreciate if we could gather some coin for them. They are an important part of the @la.spoonie.collective and a peach of a human being.
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If you believe that #blacktranslivesmatter, please consider sending any amount to our sibling today. Thank you in advance!

To our Black kindred: Take care of yourselves firs

#Repost @chairbreaker ・・・ NEXT FRIGAY 5/29:

#Repost @chairbreaker
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NEXT FRIGAY 5/29: The Coronavirus & Fatness in the U.S., 2pm PST/5pm EST

Monday evening, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi used an opportunity being interviewed on Anderson Cooper 360 to diagnose Donald Trump as ‘morbidly obese,’ suggesting it was a risk factor in his decision to take hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 preventative treatment. Pelosi’s comments mirror patterns of anti-fatness from liberals and leftists in the U.S.—partially through, as Pelosi attempts to do here, using fatness as an insult, or a stand-in indicator of a person’s character. It also echoes histories of the medicalization of fat embodiment as an innately ‘unhealthy’ status, which has seen a revitalization during the pandemic.

For example, following trends of displacing blame for the impacts of the Coronavirus on vulnerable communities, the New York Times published a story headlined “Obesity Linked to Severe Coronavirus Disease, Especially for Younger Patients” on April 17th. This story comes on the heels of additional data that reveals deaths from the virus to also lie disproportionately in Black communities, and that the Navajo nation has the highest per capita infection rate. Cutting across all these communities, disabled activists have warned of eugenicist metrics being engaged to determine who receives care when hospitals are pushed to triage model by a lack of appropriate response from the U.S. government. In this panel, fat activists, artists and intellectuals will surface the interconnected legacies of fat stigma, anti-Blackness and settler colonialism, as they appear in the contemporary pandemic.

Panelists:
JerVae
Da’Shaun Harrison
Tricia Rainwater-Tutwiler
Caleb Luna

moderated by Sonalee Rashatwar

Registration link in bio!
We are currently still confirming ASL interpreters. Please DM @chairbreaker for other access questions or needs.

This event is free, but donations are requested ($5-25) to compensate artists, interpreters and panelists. Donations can be made to:
paypal.me/sonaleer
venmo: sonaleer
cashapp: sonaleer

flyer by @huntythelion

Be patient with yourself. 🌷🌻🌷🌻🌷🌻

Be patient with yourself.
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Cell by cell, your body is working overtime to repair and renew your deepest wounds, your harshest maladies, your traumas. Tend to yourself like you would a cherished garden. You will blossom in time, and the scars left behind will remind you of how far you’ve grown, and how powerful your body is at regeneration and resilience.
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We believe in you!!!
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Healing is difficult, uncomfortable and even messy. Having to do a lot of self reflection and owning your shit is not easy but there is freedom on the other side and that's what makes it worth it. Break your bonds, break your chains and free yourself for yourself. No one can do the work for you 💖 .
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#Selflove #resilience #healing #Hopedealer #healyourself #empowerment #strength #heal #Manifest #selfcare #selflove #selfllovematters #selfloveclub #word #growth #mujer #poderosa #queening #ChingonaManifest #explorepage #vivalavida #spiritualgangster #vibehigher #Stayinyourpower

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