MutualAde: Holiday Edition

‘Lo, all, and welcome to the Time Has No Meaning Anymore edition of MutualAde, where the days are made up and the hours don’t matter until I have to go back to work in January.

Two things today: first, a list of disabled people who have aid funds. While we’re all busy stanning Luigi, let’s remember - and assist - the people who are most at the mercy of the absolute garbage fire that is the United States healthcare “system.” Second, a list of resources to help you get the reproductive care you need safely and affordably.

@ferociouskatie says, “Just trying to get my car fixed so I can human and make my 876 doctors appointments to be functional 😭,” and frankly, that’s a fuckin’ mood, Katie.

@weinerswag is a producer at Big Muddy Music Hour and they say, “Disabled and in low season, would use funds to host my local queer mutual aide.” Their Venmo handle is @emmi-.

@tanyacontois is, “[s]till on my second appeal to Social Security to get my benefit restored and all donations will be used to pay bills and for other necessities.” Appeals can take ages, friends.

@femmesupremacy says, “hi! i'm karina. i'm a disabled nonbinary queer femme survivor. surviving between disability checks has been rly challenging & stressful. my account is going to overdraft in the next few days & i'm just. having a rly hard time. tysm” Their Venmo is @karinahagelin. They also make zines of affirmations for survivors, and for allies and advocates on how to support survivors in practical and meaningful ways.

Hey, I don’t know if you noticed, but we’re sliding ever deeper into an oppressive hellscape! If you have a uterus or love someone who does, here are some reproductive care resources you might want to keep in mind, or even stock up on while you can.

Plan C is a public health creative campaign on abortion pill access, started in 2015 by a small team of veteran public health advocates, researchers, social justice activists. Plan C works to transform access to abortion in the US by normalizing the self-directed option of abortion pills by mail.

Opill is the first daily OTC birth control pill available online and at your favorite retailers in the US — no doctor’s appointment or prescription needed. It’s about $20 a month and they even have an autoship option if you’re afraid of forgetting about it until it’s too late.

Plan B is the morning after pill. You can stock up on this and it doesn’t expire for a few years. Full disclosure: you can find it more cheaply at Amazon, but I’m linking to Wisp for a lot of reasons, not least of which is that they provide a ton of other reproductive and sexual health resources on their site.

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