by Tasha Fierce | Nov 14, 2019 | capitalism, disability, musings of a black femme, racism & white supremacy
i was going to write about all the difficult lessons i’m learning this scorpio season about fluid boundaries and respecting others’ wholeness at the same time as you respect your own. but then i crashed back into depression after turning my attention to...
by Tasha Fierce | Aug 4, 2019 | capitalism, disability, magical depressive realism, musings of a black femme, racism & white supremacy, talkin' greasy, writing on writing
Society—other people, systems, institutions, culture—has so much more power over our lives than the average person gives it credit for. Acknowledging its outsized influence is devastating at first, incompatible as it is with a vision of the individual as master of...
by Tasha Fierce | Apr 4, 2019 | disability, magical depressive realism, my kind of crazy
[In the first installment of this series, I talked about my politics in general and how the connections between systems of oppression and my personal experience have become incredibly salient to me. Here I want to talk about how that awakening impacted my attitude...
by Tasha Fierce | Dec 19, 2018 | disability, my kind of crazy, talkin' greasy
CW: mental illness, suicide This week Kanye West and Chance the Rapper’s manager and some other folks decided to share a few thoughts on mental illness and medications that were less than ringing endorsements of the latter. In the midst of a Twitter rant against...
by Tasha Fierce | Sep 27, 2018 | bodies and fatness, capitalism, disability, feminism, racism & white supremacy
Neoliberal capitalism is obsessed with choice: the illusion of it, anyway. Same with patriarchy, white supremacy, imperialism, settler colonialism—they all sustain themselves in part by making our oppression our job. We internalize the rules so we can flog...
by Tasha Fierce | Jul 14, 2018 | disability, my kind of crazy
primary conflict: i know i’m insignificant in the grand scheme of things, but i need to believe i’m talented (aka special) in some way to motivate myself to try. why (is this a problem)? 1. the odds are stacked against me due to my: i. non-traditional (read:...
