Alana Mackey

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or example, for one hour of completed low-dopamine work, I reward myself with 15 min of high-dopamine behaviour at the end of the day. That means for 8 hours of low dopamine, I allow myself around 2 hours of dopamine. Of course, these are my ratios, you can tweak them to your liking
How I Tricked My Brain To Like Doing Hard Things [Dopamine Detox] | by Vinuki Vidhara | SoulSync | Medium
My philosophical commitments center the most vulnerable. My ethics demand accessibility for our revolutionary future. Anything else is just another stage of oppression.
Ableism will never end anti-Black racism
We silence our pain. We hide our tics and stims. We pretend to be normal so that we can be safe. We live in shame and guilt because there are rarely places that offer us dignity. We center the comfort of able-bodied people lest we be seen as criminal, deviant, and deserving of violence and harm.
Ableism will never end anti-Black racism
According to the Center for Public Representation, “up to 50 percent of police-use-force incidents involve a person with a disability, and half of all people killed by police have a disability. People with behavioral health issues are 16 times more likely to be shot by the police than persons without disabilities. And a Black person with mental illness is more than twice as likely to be killed in a police encounter than a white person.”
Ableism will never end anti-Black racism
What I saw unfold online felt very much like collective grief and tenderness at, once again, having to endure anti-Black racism. And, our collective wound that is continually splayed open whenever another atrocity happens to Black people could never be healed by ableist models of accountability.
Ableism will never end anti-Black racism
I was reminded how the comfort of able-bodied people must always be centered in my very uncomfortable disabled life. Again, I apologized.
Ableism will never end anti-Black racism
It is the white-centric notion that courage (like bootstraps) will lift us up out of our present conditions without us first addressing the structural and systemic frameworks that put us there in the first place.
Brené Brown, Courage Culture, and the Co-optation of Black Women's Intellectual Labor
It’s the same culture that Sheryl Sandberg mythologized when she told women to simply “lean in” at work as if the issue many white-collar women faced was our will to advocate for ourselves rather than the structural barriers pressing down on us. Further, the word “culture” here is intentional because we all actively participate in this environment when we prop these women up over Black, Brown, and Indigenous women who have courageously fought for our freedoms since this country’s inception. When we spend $30 on their New York Times Bestsellers while we let Black, Brown, Indigenous, queer, tran…
Brené Brown, Courage Culture, and the Co-optation of Black Women's Intellectual Labor
Having courage to finish that swim meet or ask for that big raise isn’t like having the courage to be Black in a country that wants us dead
Brené Brown, Courage Culture, and the Co-optation of Black Women's Intellectual Labor
Black women do not owe this world our calmness. We do not exist to serve the emotional dysregulation of white society. We are not machines, objects, or props. We are human beings who have a right to experience the full range of human emotion. We have a right to crash out, rage, and react.
Black women do not owe you "grace"
The obsession with respectability politics, a set of behaviors meant to align with white-coded social mores and norms, ensures that Black women are always existing in a place of self-betrayal.
Black women do not owe you "grace"
We need rest to live. Rest is required to survive. If we do not rest, we die. As such, that cannot be the site of our resistance. Likewise, eating is not resistance. Drinking water is not resistance. And, we all seem to agree that those things are basic human rights. These human necessities are our birthrights. We need to be clear about that.
Rest is not resistance: Commodification, Capitalism, and the Cult of Self-Care
resistance is rooted in intention rather than merely existing outside of normative boundaries set forth by the status quo
Rest is not resistance: Commodification, Capitalism, and the Cult of Self-Care
Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society.
Rest is not resistance: Commodification, Capitalism, and the Cult of Self-Care
Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
Rest is not resistance: Commodification, Capitalism, and the Cult of Self-Care
Initially, I was disappointed and surprised to find that the book centered sleeping (actually sleeping) without a deep analysis of the disparate access that people have to sleep based on race, gender, class, and ability.
Rest is not resistance: Commodification, Capitalism, and the Cult of Self-Care
Hersey taught us that it was okay to slow down, take naps, and remove our bodies and labor from systems of oppression and exploitation. Within that media environment, the message resonated and it worked.
Rest is not resistance: Commodification, Capitalism, and the Cult of Self-Care
Because the gap between knowing how something works and actually being able to do it is only ever crossed by doing it badly, repeatedly, until you are less bad. Every person you admire for their skill, their craft, their consistency — they were, at some point, exactly as lost as you feel right now. They just didn’t let that stop them.
How to be someone who actually does things - evermuse
So start small. Choose one thing you love doing, and give it your full attention for a short period of time. No multitasking, no phone, no pressure. Just you and the thing. And see where your mind takes you.
How to ACTUALLY find your 'flow' state
Also, choose tasks that matter to you! Flow rarely happens when you’re doing something purely for external validation - it’s most likely to appear when the task itself feels meaningful.
How to ACTUALLY find your 'flow' state
Next, find the right balance of challenge. Remember, flow thrives in that sweet spot between boredom and anxiety. If you do Pilates, you’ll know this idea of making small adjustments to make it easier or harder for yourself. If something’s too easy, make it a little harder - increase the tempo, add complexity, or raise your standards slightly. If it’s too hard, break it down into smaller steps.
How to ACTUALLY find your 'flow' state
He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read the progressive grocer magazine, and he read articles on how to stock a meat department...
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