Links: Wider perspectives

world language; your story my story; guanacos by asakiyume, featuring a linguistics video on why it's hard to count the number of languages in the world. The post also contains a photo of a very colorful bird and the term Salvadorans use to refer to themselves.

How Disabled Mutual Aid Is Different Than Abled Mutual Aid by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. Includes some lovely art with disabled people of color.

Like every kind of oppressed people, disabled people are geniuses of staying alive despite everything. However, the kind of non-disabled “mutual aid” that got popularized during COVID didn’t always talk about disabled-specific ways of surviving.

When I think about disabled mutual aid, I think of a million examples of subtle, diverse forms of disabled survival work. Work that is mostly not seen as “real work.”

Omelas Is Here: On Kyle Rittenhouse, White Supremacy, and Us by T. Thorn Coyle.

We cannot escape this. We cannot walk away from Omelas, not while Omelas still stands. Not while one child is still tethered in a dark basement, being tortured.

And these days? Any life of relative comfort is built on torture.