HeyJaredFarrah Garland
Disability & queer rights activist. Community & political organizer. Artist. Writer. Public Speaker. Disabled, queer, tired.
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Reducing friction (opens the original)
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Please contact me if you are disabled or low income and would like to be considered for a free subscription to my work. Because, fuck capitalism, right?I caught the end of an interview the other day. I’m not sure who it was with, but I suspect it may have been Sarah Rose Cavanahg. Whoever it was, she was speaking about the popular understanding of the concept of “reducing friction” in life. You know, weeding out the things that slow you down. The hurdles. The things that can often derail you fro
August update (opens the original)
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July was, and so far August has been a busy, hot, fascinating month.Legislative AdvocacyI had the deepest pleasure of getting to work alongside Josh Elliott as he campaigned for Governor. He did not win the Democratic primaries, but he did make a HUGE impact, and I am deeply proud of everything we did, and everything yet to come. In my work with his campaign, I had the pleasure of being one of the leaders in the LGBTQ+ policy platform and outreach teams, as well as writing the
Manifestation (opens the original)
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I have thought, and written, a lot about the capitalistic idea of “doing and producing.” About how our idea of value is so often (and improperly) linked to how much we are able to do or produce. Production can sometimes mischievously be reframed as “creating” which definitely makes it harder for folks like me to separate the work from our own value. But as my therapist told me years ago, and continues to, “no one’s value lies in what they can do, or produce. That is the great lie of capitalism.
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