Amelia leads this week, reflecting on what it’s like to be disabled in public. They’ve got some really helpful rules for everyone who wants to help. tl;dr When it comes to helping, ask first. And listen to what they need.

There’s a bit of Disney, too.

Your Something Larger can be anything. Even Captain Phasma. And especially Chewbacca.

Time for a little escapism this week. Not a Disney fan? It’s OK. It all maps out to ventral spaces, Polyvagal Theory and accessibility, too.

Content warning for a tragic but not graphic story of an accident at the resort from about 53 - 56 min.

Links:

Latchkey kid

FSP Season 2, Episode 4: Polyvagal 101

Insights from Disney’s 30-Foot Trash Can Rule

Disney’s Polynesian Village resort music loop (Youtube)

(If you can’t relax to this, I don’t know what to tell you.)

Meeting Mary Poppins on Paige's Make A Wish Trip (Youtube)

(You will cry. In a good way.)

The Dapper Dans - If You're Happy and You Know It (Youtube)

Go Away Green

Happily Ever After fireworks show

(Also, apologies to Emily but the original illumations show at epcot was better even though she had to trick me into sitting still for it -editor)

Season 2, Episode 2: We're Stronger Than the Fire

Emily’s pleasure book is Come Together

WDW Chronicles: History of the Hoop-Dee-Doo Musical Revue

Wintering: The power of rest and retreat in difficult times

tl;dr The one rule you really need to follow when you eat food is: Listen to your body.

There you go. Hope you’ll still listen to the episode.

PS: Amelia is still going live on Youtube on Fridays @4pm eastern:

⁠https://www.youtube.com/@feministsurvivalproject⁠

Links:

FutureCanoe (Youtube)

BlackForager (Youtube)

Internet Shaquille (Youtube)

What Cooking is Like for Someone Who Doesn't Cook (Youtube)

Tasting History

Let’s talk about what makes a good goal. Amelia kind of biffed on No Buy Low Buy, but in the service of owning enough clothing to leave the house without looking like a hobo. Maybe it’s OK to not be a minimalist in all things? 

Definitely stick around to the VERY end.

PS: Amelia is still going live on Youtube on Fridays @4pm eastern:

https://www.youtube.com/@feministsurvivalproject

Dana K White - A Slob Comes Clean

Dawn the Minimal Mom

Indyx app

Are you Ready Dot Gov?

Nicholas Boulton on Cameo

Maria Bamford on Cameo

If hope is your reason to do nothing, that’s delusion. But what is hope? Do you need it? The second half of the episode gets a little dark, but hopefully it’ll be helpful to hear. 

Help is available right away.

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 988 or 1-800-273-8255, 1-800-273-TALK - website

Trans Lifeline: 1-877-565-8860 - website

Links:

FSP 2025: We're Stronger Than the Fire

Is This a Coup?

An Alternative to Hope: Or, The Secret Medicine for When the Thing With Feathers Stop Singing (Emily on Youtube)

Monty Python - Dead Parrot (Youtube)

FSP 2020 episode 8: The Monitor

No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz, PHD (book)

Rae McDaniel

Do you have a box of stuff you've carried between moves and never dealt with? Yeah, I totally don't have 100 of those. This week, Amelia declutters a Dreaded Doom Box. And then Emily and Amelia go a little deeper on decluttering.

Today! Amelia is going live on Youtube on Fridays starting, February 21 @ 4pm eastern. Follow here:

https://www.youtube.com/@feministsurvivalproject

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Links:

Dana K White - A Slob Comes Clean

https://www.aslobcomesclean.com

This Is Your Brain on Music: THE SCIENCE OF A HUMAN OBSESSION

By Daniel J. Levitin

Take Your House Back Course

Kay Patterson - The Organized Soprano

Emily and Amelia are both doing some variation on low-buy/no-buy this year. There are many good reasons to do so, and many good ways to make it work for you. All that and bonus toaster oven and kitchen counter commiseration! 

Amelia is going live on Youtube starting next Friday, February 21 @ 4pm eastern. Follow here.

Links:

Project for Awesome

Wax Oil Wick

Amelia takes the lead this week with a history of Autism and how it’s intertwined with Fascism. It gets dark, but not explicit.

Links:

Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna

FSP 2020 Episode 03: Human Giver Syndrome

This American Life: 81 words

Hannah Gadsby: Douglas

Emily’s NYT profile

You probably have too much stuff. Most of us have too much stuff. And that’s not even taking into account the emotions we feel about having too much stuff. Luckily, Emily has done the research. Let’s make your space more ventral.

Links:

Saturn Ion (Wikipedia)

FSP 2025 Season 2, Episode 4: Polyvagal 101

Freshwave (the stuff in the buckets)

Dana K. White

Cas Aarssen (Youtube)

Kay Patterson (Youtube)

Goodbye, Things (the silent to do list)

KonMari method

FSP 2020 Episode 41: The Bikini-Industrial Complex

Everyone masks to make it easier to live in the world. Emily and Amelia discuss theirs, and have some insights about times when things were particularly difficult.

Content warning, there are some dark thoughts and mentions of suicidal ideation in the form of a Zombie Leprechaun around the 50 minute mark. No one was harmed. Please take care.

Editor’s note: There is some extremely cathartic laughter at the end.

Amelia’s video from the beginning of this episode

Follow Amelia's Youtube channel here

Autistic masking

Cat-Q Scale

Charles Entertainment Cheese

FSP 2020 Episode 04: The Abyss

The Come As You Are podcast

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