Coronavirus: Wisdom from a Social Justice Lens
Social Justice Resources for COVID-19 Rapid-Response series
Published March 10, 2020
We’re bringing you medical information, invocations, grounding practices and dialogue from the March 7, 2020 webinar: COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Preparation for People Living with Chronic Illnesses in the United States.
Unlike much of what we’re seeing in the media and public discussion, the virtual gathering -- organized in a week’s time -- centered the wisdom and life experiences of people who live with chronic illnesses and disability.
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On this episode, you’ll hear:
JD Davids, strategist and storyteller, The Cranky Queer
Evvie Ormon, a healer, facilitator and generative coach from Emergent Phoenix Consulting
Crissaris Sarnelli, MD, a primary care/family doctor and healer from Harlem NY
Elandria Williams, executive director and trainer, PeoplesHub
The words of Dori Midnight (catch her on episode 28)
Bonus episode: “Should we cancel?” Coronavirus, travel, & organizing
Published March 12, 2020
Should we be cancelling our events and travel due to COVID-19?
In this mini bonus feature, we expand upon our previous episode "Coronavirus: Wisdom from a Social Justice Lens" to bring you advice about how to adapt your travel and gatherings. We share from the perspective of organizers and folks participating in social justice movements, and the decisions we need to make about our own plans and plans for our groups, teams, and campaigns. Host Kate Werning is joined by Maryse Mitchell-Brody to hear their recommendations about how we move responsibly and with care during this time. Check out Maryse’s accompanying guide as you navigate your decisions.
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Resource List
Organizing in Pandemic: Disability Justice Wisdom with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Patty Berne, and Lydia X. Z. Brown
#ShareMyCheck: Redistributing Stimulus Money for Justice & Mutual Aid with Resource Generation & Movimiento Cosecha
Preparing For and Dealing with COVID-19 Coronavirus by Crissaris Sarnelli, MD
Caring Across Distance: Some Things to Consider Before Movement Gatherings During COVID-19 by Maryse Mitchell-Brody
Dori Midnight poem/invocation: Wash Your Hands
Susan Raffo on coronavirus, climate change and community care
Diana Inlak'ech, ND: Holistic Support for Immunity & Virus Prevention
NPR’s CodeSwitch podcast: When Xenophobia Spreads Like a Virus
adrienne maree brown: in the corona
Disability Visibility’s Alice Wong on Coronavirus and the disability community
The webinar team is building up a folder of resources on COVID-19 and practices centering people with chronic illnesses and disability. You can use this form to sign up for the emerging network, to contribute your wisdom and strategies, share concerns or questions, or recommend links or materials for their resource collection. And if you’d like to donate funds to this effort, there’s a GoFundMe.
Everyone’s a Socialist in a Pandemic by Farhad Majoo for the New York Times
Several webinar participants have set up a group on Slack (an instant messaging platform) called Caring Network Group, to continue to support each other and help people connect local and regional networks.
PeoplesHub Community Care Clinic for Disabled and Chronically ill Movement Folks: If you identify as a disabled and/or chronically ill and consider yourself to be a movement or social justice warrior who believes in disability justice, join this peer support space. Sign up here
coronavirus and community care… a few weeks in by Susan Raffo
Coronavirus Outbreak coverage from YES! Magazine
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