Brianne Benness
@bennessb.bsky.social
currently: sick / haunted in Western Mass, host of No End In Sight - a podcast about life with chronic illness, creator of #NEISVoid | previously: Stories We Don’t Tell in Toronto | she / her
like if you have lived the kind of life that has you ideologically invested in rehabbing violent white people (which many white people have, it is our work to do after all) then like! stop excusing the violent behavior and learn about what exit work actually requires!
the resources are out there.
the resources are out there.
October 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
like if you have lived the kind of life that has you ideologically invested in rehabbing violent white people (which many white people have, it is our work to do after all) then like! stop excusing the violent behavior and learn about what exit work actually requires!
the resources are out there.
the resources are out there.
it’s a weird middle zone, compared to some earlier stages of other-people-relating-to-precautions.
I’m getting more enthused about the card idea! there are also shirts & stickers that I’ve known about for a while, but this was the first time where I was like oooh this is the context for that tool.
I’m getting more enthused about the card idea! there are also shirts & stickers that I’ve known about for a while, but this was the first time where I was like oooh this is the context for that tool.
October 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
it’s a weird middle zone, compared to some earlier stages of other-people-relating-to-precautions.
I’m getting more enthused about the card idea! there are also shirts & stickers that I’ve known about for a while, but this was the first time where I was like oooh this is the context for that tool.
I’m getting more enthused about the card idea! there are also shirts & stickers that I’ve known about for a while, but this was the first time where I was like oooh this is the context for that tool.
ooh that’s nice!
yeah it’s like… tacit acceptance of me masking is better than outright hostility by still not really a great feeling.
yeah it’s like… tacit acceptance of me masking is better than outright hostility by still not really a great feeling.
October 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
ooh that’s nice!
yeah it’s like… tacit acceptance of me masking is better than outright hostility by still not really a great feeling.
yeah it’s like… tacit acceptance of me masking is better than outright hostility by still not really a great feeling.
ooh that is good to know! I’m maxed out right now but will keep that in minds next year.
October 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM
ooh that is good to know! I’m maxed out right now but will keep that in minds next year.
there WERE other masked people at the march, but certainly not a majority of people.
and I have reached out to the organizers before about precautions at their meetings and gotten no response.
I don’t really have a point here, just reflecting on a future opportunity I guess.
and I have reached out to the organizers before about precautions at their meetings and gotten no response.
I don’t really have a point here, just reflecting on a future opportunity I guess.
October 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
there WERE other masked people at the march, but certainly not a majority of people.
and I have reached out to the organizers before about precautions at their meetings and gotten no response.
I don’t really have a point here, just reflecting on a future opportunity I guess.
and I have reached out to the organizers before about precautions at their meetings and gotten no response.
I don’t really have a point here, just reflecting on a future opportunity I guess.
I find that a lot of people I know now are able to accept/respect that I wear a mask bc of my disability & risk profile, but there is a real dissonance around the idea that they may be at risk too, or that they may be putting other people at risk through choosing not to think about precautions.
October 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I find that a lot of people I know now are able to accept/respect that I wear a mask bc of my disability & risk profile, but there is a real dissonance around the idea that they may be at risk too, or that they may be putting other people at risk through choosing not to think about precautions.
and I’m in a lot of online covid conscious & disability spaces that have really saved my sanity these last five years.
but I want to know more local people who are still masking too, to maybe build some power and new norms around precautions to counteract that alienation idk.
but I want to know more local people who are still masking too, to maybe build some power and new norms around precautions to counteract that alienation idk.
October 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
and I’m in a lot of online covid conscious & disability spaces that have really saved my sanity these last five years.
but I want to know more local people who are still masking too, to maybe build some power and new norms around precautions to counteract that alienation idk.
but I want to know more local people who are still masking too, to maybe build some power and new norms around precautions to counteract that alienation idk.
it’s hard because I do find it really alienating how prevalent covid denial or at least covid disinterest is in a lot of leftist spaces, including these marches.
I’m so fucking tired of raising awareness about precautions & fighting for precautions & the trademark glazed over looks this inspires.
I’m so fucking tired of raising awareness about precautions & fighting for precautions & the trademark glazed over looks this inspires.
October 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
it’s hard because I do find it really alienating how prevalent covid denial or at least covid disinterest is in a lot of leftist spaces, including these marches.
I’m so fucking tired of raising awareness about precautions & fighting for precautions & the trademark glazed over looks this inspires.
I’m so fucking tired of raising awareness about precautions & fighting for precautions & the trademark glazed over looks this inspires.
no influx here either, i think it’s probably like, not disability folks this round?
October 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
no influx here either, i think it’s probably like, not disability folks this round?
Reposted by Brianne Benness
If you gave up masking long ago, you can start anytime. “But none of my friends do.” Think back: did some of your friends “just disappear” in 2021 and stop planning hang outs with you?
October 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
If you gave up masking long ago, you can start anytime. “But none of my friends do.” Think back: did some of your friends “just disappear” in 2021 and stop planning hang outs with you?