Month: March 2025

Crip tips for planet earth

Getting weepy about Violet Affleck pointing out that Planet Earth experiences post-exertion malaise, and people with ME/CFS know the hard truths about how to deal with that.

Because pwME know that a crash is unpredictable and impossible to reverse, the goal of pacing is to not encounter the symptoms at all. Success is measured not by a fast and furious response at the moment of crisis but by the absence of a need for intervention. But US society, like a new pwME still unfamiliar with the costs of PEM, is staring down a cycle of “crashes” from which we won’t be able to easily return

Quirks and Quarks for Long Covid Awareness Day

Huge shout out to Bob McDonald for asking David Putrino all the good naive questions about covid on mainstream public radio. Starts at 19:30 or scroll down to that section.

Quirks & Quarks Mar 15: The silent, long-term effects of COVID, and more…

“Wow is that nervous system damage permanent?”

“What is special about covid that allows it to spread through the body, when we think of it infecting the lungs?”

“If covid has the ability to suppress the immune system, how does that affect our ability to fight off other pathogens?”

“What about people who think since they are living a healthy lifestyle, covid isn’t really a worry for them?”

“How far do you think this might go towards explaining the huge spike in excess deaths?”

And the biggie:

“What should we do with all this information, now that most people think the threat of covid is gone?”

I’m pretty into this framing of “new information about silent health damage from every covid infection”, even though it is not new or very silent. I hope it helps some covid deniers rejoin the evidence-based world. Nice one, Quirks and Quarks.

Enemy Feminisms

Ahhh I knew I would love this latest Death Panel podcast with Sophie Lewis talking about their book Enemy Feminisms but it’s so so fun.

I appreciate Sophie Lewis for being willing to take things to their logical conclusion. If there are all these historical examples of feminists collaborating with fascist groups (cops, kkk, imperialists, nazis, alt-right transphobes…) why can’t we describe those forms of feminism as fascist?

Is there a book award for best book titles? I would nominate Sophie Lewis for lifetime achievement. (Enemy Feminisms, Full Surrogacy Now, Abolish the Family…)