Summer Covid surge is here and I’m feeling…bad

We welcome our very first GUEST on the podcast!! Alyssa of the very wonderful Twitch account Bed Sores :) with special appearances by iconic cat Earl! Join Alyssa’s stream at https://twitch.tv/bedsores

On Gaza, student encampments, Covid safety, sicko activism, and a reading of my newest Your Sick Friend Column.

Covid infection #8, an intervention for our non-sick friends, and words from Jehad in Rafah—donate to his survival fund here: https://givebutter.com/AbuRouk

I shoot the shit, shout out local Covid activism, and read an old piece of mine written when I first accepted I might not ever get “better”. Support Walla and his family flee Gaza here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-wallas-family-escape-gaza-to-safetye-er-fb

Back from Covid/surgery/covid! Reintroducing myself and the show: who am I, why am I, and what am I doing? We get into it :) thanks for being here! CW: brief discussion of suicidality

New Year, New podcast news? Reading Your Sick Friend, shooting the shit about pain, screaming fuuuuuuck, listening to Fugazi 🤘🏻 made it to episode 10 babyyyy

A welcome letter to the newly disabled!

Breaking from usual form, this week I read Carlos Fuentes’ introduction to The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Portrait

Connecting the dots between Covid safety, the situation in Gaza, the IWW and the ethic of cross-issue solidarity. I read Your Sick Friend Vol. 5 and a piece from +972 Magazine called ”‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza”