We are happy to share this project from Rise!
Sign-up as a COVID Cautious Careworker
Covid Cautious Care Workers Explained
- Welcome to covid cautious care workers yayyyy. What’s this? Swipe to read more. On the left is a picture of a white kn95 mask
- Covid Cautious Care Workers
Is a visual directory of care workers of all kinds who:
- Are still taking covid seriously
- Want to find other care workers with those values
- Want to find clients with those vaules
- Want to build community who shares those values
- Who is a care worker?
I am defining Care Worker expensively. This includes:
- People who care for and within community (birthworkers, massage therapists, reiki, circle keepers, acupuncture, herbalists, etc etc )
- All levels of folk who work within the medical system (CNAs, specialists, nurses, physicians, death/end of life care, food and custodial, etc etc)
- People who care for family (chosen, of origin, bio, etc etc)
- What’s next?
In the coming days or next week or so, I will be posting: - Community Agreements for being in this space
- Sign up form if you want to be highlighted
- Wait? Who’s behind this page?
Me rise!
A picture of Rise, a Black brown skin femme from the chest up, smiling - Rise is a queer Black disabled genderfluid femmeboi; A visual artist, poet, full spectrum (birth/postpartum/grief&loss/abortion) birthworker, yoga teacher, meditation facilitator, gender affirming and trauma informed care and disability justice educator, access consultant an community care worker.
Rise is deeply invested in disability justice, access, centering wellness for Black queer folk, trauma education, and rest. An a lover of doing the most
COVID CAUTIOUS CARE WORKERS
Community Agreements
As facilitator of the space I wanna start off cute and collective so I came up with these an got feedback from 3 friends.
I appreciate the folks showing love an support so far
Please read and also know that I hold myself to these Agreements as well. ✌🏾
When I put the form out, there will be a question confirming you read these an agree 🙂
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- Covid Cautious Care Workers community agreements. Yayyyy. Swipe to read more
2 kn95 masks on the bottom left and right sides - Covid Cautious is a catch all
I use Covid Cautious because it feels best for me. If you use a different term : Covid Conscious, Covid Safer, etc. Please do. I ain’t interested in regulating that. As long as you are:
Actually taking covid and covid mitigation seriously, including at least still masking in all indoor public spaces.
- Own your wholeness
We all have marginalized and privileged identities that will impact how we exist and interact in this space particularly because being covid cautious is unfortunately niche af. And. It’s not the sum total of us. Black, Latine and Indigenous communities continue to be most impacted by covid. Trans folks are disproportionately impacted by long covid. Move and speak from all of you. As well as own if your wholeness negatively impacts someone. Example: if someone is sharing and you have more privilege an power than them, do not speak over them (ie do not use your wholeness to silence them) or disregard them. If they say you doing too much, be open to that. Keep it cute ✌🏾 - This is an anti surveillance culture space
I’ve noticed, particularly with proclaimed “covid cautious ” yt folk, there is a tendency to surveil and nitpick other covid cautious folks, especially Black folks and then publicly be disrespectful. That is not welcome here. I understand the feeling of seeing someone not being what you define as covid cautious/safer/conscious. I have those feelings often. AND. There is a difference between being disappointed/concerned (which yes of course!) and voicing it and using your privilege to harass others. - No nonsense No mess
replicating oppressive shit is not welcome
NO antiblackness, ableism, classism, elitism, transphobia, mysogynoir/misogyny/, xenophobia, zi on ism, homophobia, etc. etc. etc. - Take care
Take care and ground in care whenever possible knowing that sometimes it ain’t. We do not know folks on the internet like that an so “assuming best intent” is more often than not, not an accessible tool. We are in serious isolating and ragefull times. I made this page so we can find each other but that doesn’t mean everything will be a bright & shiny garden.
*If you use this agreement to tone police
Black people & People of Color i’ll block you*