Rebekah / is on Nostr

She/Her ● Queer ● Neurodivergent ● Obsessed with animals & nature ● Union Organizer ● Writer & Musician ● Abolitionist ● Still Masking 😷

I think the way things are is bullshit and we all deserve better, so I'm doing what I can to help make that happen.

Last Notes

2024-06-29 20:00:11

Yesterday, my #VoteBlueNoMatterWho brother FINALLY admitted that the dems running Biden was a mistake.
He said "its as if they don't care about the American people."
At which point, I laughed wryly and responded:
"Exactly. They never have."
I think maybe he's finally realizing through all of his privilege that capitalism is fucked.

2024-06-13 00:58:20

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@npub1483…lv2w my cat Windsor taps me with his paw if he wants attention but I'm not noticing him as quickly as he would like.

2024-05-04 21:44:12

Happy #Caturday ! Maxwell is obsessed with our new apartment. Lots of windows and much quieter than the last place.
#Catsdodon #CatsOfMastodon #BlackCat #Sabotabby
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/384/523/784/572/736/original/fc3aa29ad60c69c6.jpg

2024-04-24 00:53:23

This is why I always say #YourBossIsNotYourFriend ! Recently, this person's work shut down unexpectedly and is now ghosting their employees along with denying them their last paycheck.
This person is now unable to pay their rent and is looking at losing their apartment because of wage theft.
Please donate if you can. We gotta look out for each other.
https://gofund.me/07755d8f
#MutualAid #BossesSuck #WorkersOfTheWorldUnite #Solidarity

2024-02-14 06:55:02

#CDCSays , I'm not racist, I have a black friend.

2023-08-15 18:47:13

Went to a new dentist today.
The whole staff was wearing K95 masks or better.
Patients are required to wear masks in the waiting area and there are HEPA filters in the waiting area and all exam rooms running on high.
My dentist told me I'm welcome to request any other modifications during treatment to make me more comfortable.
Literally not that hard to be #COVIDSafe. I'm so grateful ♡

2023-08-13 23:43:42

Rant incoming:
During the last year or so amid so many people and groups just completely dropping precautions and going back to "normal" - the most upsetting instances have been watching fellow activists and leftists do this.
I expected the ruling class and government to push us all back to "normal" - but what I didn't expect was so many folks who I watched be the first to initiate precautions at their events and pass out masks, saying they were standing in solidarity with workers and those most at risk (which to be blunt is all of us) for covid complications to just take the Biden administration's word that covid was "over".
These are the same people who helped radicalize me, who challenged me to expand my knowledge - who helped me understand that the ruling class has never had the poor and working classes best interests in mind. Who taught me how none of us are free until we are all free.
I am baffled because they are now seemingly taking the governments word for it and dropping all their precautions - even though we've all discussed over and over how our government exists to maintain a patriarchal, white supremacist capitalist state that benefits the ruling class via oppression and exploitation.
How can they possibly justify their abandonment of their fellow community members?
The ruling class makes their events #DavosSafe , they can afford to miss work while they recover from COVID, they can access the best doctors and the best treatments. The ruling class directly benefits from pretending COVID is over.
It justifies taking away increased food stamps, rental assistance, paid leave for COVID, access to testing, and so many other pandemic safety nets that made organizing among the poor and working class even easier.
Even more members of the poor and working class, being chronically ill and disabled directly benefits the ruling class because it is a barrier to organizing. Obviously, the disabled community has BEEN organizing for decades. But it does make it more difficult to organize if you barely have the energy to get out of bed.
The ruling class is banking on a mass disabling event amid the rise of organization across race, class, gender, and labor.
So, like I said: it is baffling to me to watch fellow activists and leftists playing into the #letitrip approach with COVID.
Not only are they pushing away folks who would otherwise love to be involved in their work by dropping protections like masks at events/meetings - they're also making their work harder by risking repeat COVID infection. They're also perpetuating abelism by not making their events and meetings accessible while claiming to be dismantling their internalized abelism.
How are we supposed to build in the shell of the old if we aren't even willing to see that the ruling class is up to their same old ablelist, racist, and classist tricks? How are we supposed to fight together for a better world when you won't wear a mask to protect yourself and others?
Anyway , this is my rant about covid and my frustrations around folks abandoning protocols that save lives and make events accessible to everyone.
I am deeply encouraged and excited by so many folks on here talking about this and working with others to help change things - even when my experiences since mask mandates started being dropped have been very isolating. As always, there is much work to do. ♡