hey, sounds like you’re coming from a mad pride perspective based on the “toxic chemicals” rhetoric.

as a mad person myself, I don’t believe using unscientific language like that helps us achieve liberation. whether something is toxic depends on dosage, circumstance and context. for example, regardless if estrogen saved my life, administering it to a trans man in the same dosage I use would probably kill him. can you see how me calling a certain medicine toxic because it killed someone even would be taking things out of context?

chemicals are value-neutral, and making this association between something being chemical and something being harmful and “artificial” can easily lead to ableist policy like MAHA.

thank you for reading thus far and hopefully this is not taken as an attack on you ❤️

the most visible example of solarpunk praxis I’m seeing is visitors wearing respirators to keep their loved ones safe from COVID and also the other patients. people forget that being hospitalized is an immunocompromising condition to be in.

I’m afraid hospitals are systemically and ideologically incompatible with solar punk.

getting together with other medics and starting neighborhood clinics however would be much easier than attempting reform from the inside.

also stuff like DIY medicine, it would help me greatly as a trans person if medics stopped policing medical knowledge and taught us their skills instead. the idea that medicine can only be safe if practiced with a license is one that’s getting countless trans people killed because we’re denied the autonomy to save ourselves. the major example is DIY estrogen being safe but most doctors would tell me succumbing to a dysphoria-induced suicide is the healthier option

i do not actually. if I start treating fascists as people, that’s how trans and disabled women end up dead with the blame placed on us for not being submissive enough during the assault

if Nazis wanted to be changed, they wouldn’t have become Nazis. fascism is where the open minded mentality goes to die. the only way to make them stop is to take their power to abuse oppressed people away