Maranda With An A
@MarandaDearest
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Writer zinester high school dropout twin cane-user lumpen flâneux. Crip-psychogeography. Feelings, madness, disability, poverty, səx wørk, witchcraft. they. ♎♊♐
Toronto / Tkaronto {hegira}
Joined May 2013
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"Crips come back to life after they die, much to the horror of the non-disabled. There's always a new generation of crip: we come back to life in the next disabled person, and the next, and the next..." - Marie Palacios, "Crip Resurrection" from Sins Invalid's Stages of Grief
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Please share and join! Butterflies in the Coalmine: Solidarity, Strength & Warning Signs from Migrant Sex Worker Organizers We invite you to an insightful panel with long-time organizers Elene Lam, @ChanelleGallant and @HarshaWalia Register: https://t.co/37NxtRZvrb
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Just saw an engagement announcement on Instagram so shocking that I have to get more serious about my Maoist-feminist-Adornian-Foucauldian-psychoanalytic critique of marriage and the family
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“if you’re a good tenant, your landlord would want you to stay!” the average landlord would evict jesus christ himself if it meant they could move in someone who will pay $5 more a month, please be serious
every friend I’ve caught up with since coming back to Toronto has talked about rent control and auto-month-to-month being the only reason they’re still able to live here. this proposed change will functionally make homeless every long-term tenant in the city. absolute insanity
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Twenty one pages of questions to start a disability application vs one page for MAID.
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There's the condition itself, the kind of care someone receives, how promptly they receive care, consistency of access to treatment, etc. And medical ableism can show up at every stage in how someone is assessed & what treatment is even offered.
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This pretend hard border between track 1 and track 2 MAiD relies on public ignorance. Not only do many health conditions not have predictable trajectories and/or there exists very little or preliminary understanding of, but even those with more predictability have variability.
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A few days ago we began clearing the rubble where our small clinic once stood in Jabalia. The bricks gave way like old bones, and the dust rose in a gray prayer no one answered. Today, returning on the long broken road that devours time like a beast devours bread, a young man
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I realize that the possibility of meeting this goal is slim but I have to try. I want to survive. Thank you.
Please consider donating if you are financially secure & safe, if not to me then one of the many others who could use help. I am grateful to everyone who’s helped me make it this far. Look out for each other & stay gold. https://t.co/pNgU1dgaGx
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I don't get to the post office too often these days, but I'll be sending mail this week. Zines on friendship, pøverty, madness, & disability, trash-magic, plus crip-psychogeography photography... Books are currently discounted! 🐌 schoolformaps ♡ etsy dot com
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I'll be sending mail on Wednesday the 22nd. CUPW has shifted to rotating strikes – mail is moving again, but slowly. Strike locations aren't announced in advance, but I've got a ride, so I'm hoping for the best. 🐌 #zines schoolformaps ♡ etsy . com https://t.co/DDz07Jm9FZ
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the renegade glamour of late fall, owlish, fox-ish, how brightness is and isn't a color exactly, the one tree from a city years ago, its weeping branches of pink-white poisonous berries, like a vow against winter, against giving in —Carl Phillips, from "This Is the Light"
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I am happy to share that my dissertation on Israeli green colonialism has been published. It accomplishes four major goals: 1) I theorize settler colonialism as a process that is inherently genocidal and ecocidal. https://t.co/DaZbK8ulnY
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Congrats Maggie Helwig on @cityoftoronto #bookaward for ‘Encampment. Resistance, Grace and an Unhoused Community’. I imagine she is a bit busy this morning as city evicts people from St. Stephen’s-in-the-Fields, again. @MayorOliviaChow under your watch. https://t.co/H0iWerURiC
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Maggie Helwig is the winner of the 2025 Toronto Book Award for her memoir, Encampment: Resistance, Grace and An Unhoused Community (Coach House Books). Helwig is the rector at St. Stephen-in-the-fi...
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The hard part is the mourning & finding better community
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They aren’t my friends. They used to be and I’m mourning that, but it’s 2025 & my friends wear masks. Nothing makes this clearer for me than seeing/going to covid safe events If strangers will protect themselves & me, are my “friends” actually safe or are they fair weather ?
Like how do you not feel hurt by your friends who see you begging for people to mask and like your posts about it, yet every single of them thinks it magically doesn't apply to them? I don't think they mean harm. Still don't know how to handle it
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My grandmother, who is older than Israel, and I survived the war.
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