10. Practice corporeal politics. Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on the screen. Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them.
Timothy Snyder, Professor of History at Yale University, from On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Disabled activists put their bodies into the fight and were literally dragged from the arena and told to shut up by those who work for them. Others who work for them did nothing, and I imagine that is because they were disruptive, shrill, out of control.
The activists were called a sideshow.
What have you done to help disabled persons and the families of medically complex children fight for proper healthcare for everyone?
We are doing this for you, too.
Yes, it's a drag to have to beg, to applaud even those who waffle around about doing the right thing, but we're the sort of people that know fatigue and disappointment in ways that you might not imagine. We're stronger for it.
Help.
Make calls.
Put your body -- your healthy body -- into it.
Be shrill.
Be disruptive.
See the way the wind blows.
