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Please tell me:
How many hours of health-/disability-related work do you do in a week?
If you were to INVOICE the systems and providers that rely on your sick/disabled labour, how much would they owe you?
#CripCompensation https://twitter.com/the_tweedy/status/1287978608166748163
How many hours of health-/disability-related work do you do in a week?
If you were to INVOICE the systems and providers that rely on your sick/disabled labour, how much would they owe you?
#CripCompensation https://twitter.com/the_tweedy/status/1287978608166748163
How many hours of uncompensated labour do you do in order to access care, accommodations, education, work, transportation, housing, etc... that nondisabled people do not have to do in order to access those same things?!
How much could you bill if you were an employee rather than an externality? Think about it: 2 hrs of your doctor's job (at their salary!), 4 hrs of medical admin, 3 hrs of university admin, 5 hrs of insurance admin, 1 hr as a transit manager, 8 hrs as a researcher...
It adds up! I mean, the hours add up for us but the $$$ add up FOR SOMEONE ELSE. For us, this labour subtracts from our already comparatively limited resources!
And for multiply marginalized folks who already earn less, do more, and face higher barriers with fewer resources...?
And for multiply marginalized folks who already earn less, do more, and face higher barriers with fewer resources...?
I want to know how much uncompensated labour other sick and disabled folks do for these systems!
Can we hashtag this? Maybe #CripCompensation -- as in we need to crip the idea of compensation and we need to literally compensate crips...?
Can we hashtag this? Maybe #CripCompensation -- as in we need to crip the idea of compensation and we need to literally compensate crips...?
And, yes, capitalism is evil. I am not suggesting we lean into the idea that a person's labour determines their value (FUCK NO!). I am just wondering about ways to demonstrate the extent to which these systems benefit from invisiblized/devalued crip labour...
#neisvoid @Imani_Barbarin @mattbc @SFdirewolf @miamingus (and any other incisive and insightful Disability Twitter folk), if you have the time/energy/inclination, I would be so grateful for your thoughts on this dynamic.
