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We were excited to have Mia Mingus join us for our #MillionsMissing Global event. Mia is a “writer, educator and trainer for transformative justice and disability justice. She is a queer physically disabled korean transracial and transnational adoptee raised in the Caribbean. She works for community, interdependence and home for all of us, not just some of us, and longs for a world where disabled children can live free of violence, with dignity and love.”
The White House chose Mia Mingus as one of “fifteen Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander women as ‘Champions of Change’ who are doing extraordinary work to create a more safe, equal, and prosperous future for their communities and the country.”
During her speech at #MillionsMissing, Mia shares what our community and the wider disability community has been sharing since the pandemic began, “This pandemic will create millions more disabled people with chronic illnesses.”
You can learn more about #Long COVID and ME here (including our critically important #StopRestPace campaign).: www.meaction.n...
Mia also shared an excerpt from her essay “You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence” during the event. You can read the full piece here: leavingevidenc...
Mia’s call for recognition that “interdependence is the only way out of the most pressing issues that we face today” is critically important for us to remember as it applies not just to the #MillionsMissing movement but to all movements. It is something we must work to lead on and include in every part of our movement if we are truly to effect change on the scale that is needed.
Mia shared during #MillionsMissing, “If there was ever a time to be in solidarity with disabled people, it is now.” One way that you can do that is to support #MEAction and other disability-led, patient-led orgs.
Support the work #MEAction is doing right now to effect change for people living with ME for years; people with co-morbid chronic complex illness, and people who are now experiencing disability and chronic illness after COVID-19. Help us to advocate on national and local levels and help us as we work to be an example in the global fight for a better world for people with ME. Support our research, our medical education, our outreach to press, and our support for people with ME and their caregivers. Give to our #MillionsMissing Giving Campaign: www.meaction.n...

[@ThePublicHealthHeaux]

❤❤❤❤ Mia Mingus!!!! #YouAreNotEntitledToOurDeaths

[@lauriLokkeni9002]

Beautifully said ❤️