Dear & Love: New Posts and Writing

As a way to record our journey to move together and live on the other side of dreaming, Stacey and I will be writing at To the Other Side of Dreaming, a tumblr we set up.  We will be writing letters to each other, taking turns posting as we send letter-posts back and forth.  This will be a place for us to be in conversation with each other, creating a living record of two queer disabled diasporic korean radical women of color being intentional, vulnerable, fierce and loving with each other. This is an offering to you, each other and ourselves.

Right now we are in the process of finding accessible affordable housing in the east bay, a seemingly impossible task.  You can read my latest post here.  To read our original letter announcing our move, please click here.  I won’t be cross-posting my posts to this blog, so please subscribe to or follow the tumblr to keep up with our writing and journey(s).

Thank you thank you thank you for all the love and support from our communities.  <3

Creating Collective Access–Check It Out!

Are you a crip and/or someone with a chronic illness that is going to be in Detroit this summer for the Allied Media Conference and/or the US Social Forum?

We know that for many of us, access is on our minds when it comes to traveling, navigating the city, movement spaces, buildings, sidewalks, public transportation, rides, the air, the bathrooms, the places to stay, the pace, the language,the cost, the crowds, the doors, the people who will be there and so so so much more.

Would you like to be connected to a network of crips and our allies/comrades who are working together to create collective access?

What is collective access?  Collective Access is access that we intentionally create together, instead of individually.

Most of the time, access is placed on the individual who needs it.  It is up to you to figure out your own access, or sometimes, up to you and your care giver, personal attendant (PA) or random friend.  Access is rarely weaved into a collective commitment and way of being; it is isolated and relegated to an after thought (much like disabled people).

Access is complex.  it is more than just having a ramp or getting disabled folks/crips into the meeting.  Access is a constant process that doesn’t stop.  It is hard and even when you have help, it can be impossible to figure out alone.

We are working to create mutual aid between crips and beyond!  Things we are thinking about as possibilities for collective access in Detroit…

READ SO SO MUCH MORE HERE: http://creatingcollectiveaccess.wordpress.com/

Adoptees of Color Roundtable Statement on Haiti

A great statement on the adoption of Haitian “orphans” and so, so much more.  I wish i could quote the entire statement.  Fierce and brilliant.  Thank you!

“We bear testimony to the ways in which the intercountry adoption industry has profited from and reinforced neo-liberal structural adjustment policies, aid dependency, population control policies, unsustainable development, corruption, and child trafficking…  We uphold that Haitian children have a right to a family and a history that is their own and that Haitians themselves have a right to determine what happens to their own children. We resist the racist, colonialist mentality that positions the Western nuclear family as superior to other conceptions of family, and we seek to challenge those who abuse the phrase “Every child deserves a family” to rethink how this phrase is used to justify the removal of children from Haiti for the fulfillment of their own needs and desires. Western and Northern desire for ownership of Haitian children directly contributes to the destruction of existing family and community structures in Haiti. This individualistic desire is supported by the historical and global anti-African sentiment which negates the validity of black mothers and fathers and condones the separation of black children from their families, cultures, and countries of origin.”

Click here to read the entire statement: Adoptees of Color Roundtable Statement on Haiti