Look, for all of you talking about rebuilding/building the village/solidarity, there's something you're going to deal with - the consequences of the pandemic. That's to say, so many people are and were willing to let disabled people die, to do your thing.
You're going to have to prove yourselves TRUSTWORTHY.
The fact is, many of you have proven not to be, and are STILL re-perpetuating ideas and practices that are hundreds of years old, and, dare I say it: reactionary in nature even when dressed up in "progressive" ideals.
(Even progress-as-idea has major unexamined flaws).
You are performing, and have performed, actions which make you untrustworthy. And we see when you don't even CONSIDER that.
Because for all the talk about "including us" there's a whole BUNCH of reasons why disabled people DON'T want to be "included", to be "adjuncts", on the terms of the dominant status quo.
We need to be at the *heart* of the building. We need to be felt in our place at, and as its ROOTS. Where we always were, and are.
Because we have knowledge you lack. Ways of thinking and being that you lack. We always have, because we've had to. We don't exist at the pleasure of your "inclusion" but in SPITE of it.
Build trust. Because otherwise "Inclusion" might very well be DOMINATION and violence by another name.