Sick Comrade

📍East Berlin Contact: [email protected] LOOKING FOR A COVID CAUTIOUS* ASSISTANT *meaning you wear a mask at least in all indoor public spaces and the people you see without a mask are at least rapid-tested Nafas, a person with very severe ME + comorbidities is urgently looking for another personal assistant tasks: preparing shakes/medicine & bringing them to bed, assisting with bedpan, buying groceries, cleaning kitchen -ideally: helping with etsy orders & some admin tasks ~ 2x/week à 6 hrs (2-8pm) ~ 15€/hour ~ elevator available ~ covid measures on site: 3M aura masks (or comparable FFP2 masks) + rapid test or pluslife test (depending on your exposure) [alt text on images] #myalgicencephalomyelitis #berlin

Sick Comrade is experimenting with hosting an open community space for our community of sick comrades in Berlin. Once a month for the next three months, we will host an online call where we’ll facilitate a social space for sharing our current challenges and exchanging mutual aid requests and community knowledge specific to Berlin. Dates: Monday April 27th at 5:30 pm Wednesday May 20th at 5:30 pm Sunday June 28th at 4:00 pm Info: -The meetings will be in spoken English and two hours long. If this is a communication barrier or you have other access needs, please mention it in your email and we will do our best to accomodate. -To participate, please sign up by sending an email to [email protected] -We will choose participants on first come, first serve basis and have room for 15 people per session -Please only sign up for one of the sessions for now Access: -Captions will be running -We will read the chat out loud -Comfort prioritised -Come as you are -Short break in the middle -One of us will be focusing on access and you can message us at any time Image description: Slide one: black text reads “Sick comrade community meet up. Berlin edition. A space to make connections with other sick and disabled people in our city. Dates: Monday April 27th at 5.30 PM CET Wednesday May 20th at 5.30 PM CET Sunday June 28th at 4.00 PM CET. Online” Slide two: black text reads “Sick comrade community meet up. Berlin edition. Register for one session only via mail at [email protected]. Participation capped at 15 (no worries, this is the first iteration of hopefully many). Looking forward to gathering with you.” Background of both slides: soft panels of muted blues purples reds and yellows radiate out like sun rays from a heart shape at the centre

Call a Crip - A Sick Comrade Buddy Project As one response to the Sick Comrade Survey we sent our recently (thank you so much to all who contributed!) we are launching a project to pair sickos with fellow sickos. This is for you if you’re chronically sick, mad, mentally ill, or disabled. (If you’re asking if you’re sick enough, you probably are.) Join from anywhere. Sick Comrade Collective knows that its our connections with one another that allow for our survival. There are so many barriers to social connection for chronically sick and disabled people. But we know that community is necessary and keeps us safe. Capitalism and ableism are set on alienating ourselves from each other. We hope to put a dent in the loneliness. After you fill out the form, we will pair you with a buddy over email and you can decide how to connect. Our intention with this is to create connections of solidarity and support, but you can decide in which ways you engage (for example email, text, call, video, letters) and for how long. Being a buddy could look like - sharing tips on accessing care - just checking in and offering coping strategies - talking about shared hobbies or politics - exchanging about the struggles of ableism - anything else form: tinyurl.com/call-a-crip Get in touch with any questions: [email protected]

~ SICK COMRADE SURVEY ~ ❤️‍🔥 We live in a time of poly crisis. Poverty, pandemic, fascism and climate catastrophe shape our world. And sick and disabled people are some of the first to suffer the consequences. As the already profoundly inadequate healthcare services become less accessible globally, it is more clear than ever that all we have is each other. Sick Comrade, a Berlin based collective hopes to launch a mutual aid project that educates ourselves and each other and puts into practice how to better respond to the needs of fellow chronically sick and disabled people. This project is a reaction to our experience with and witnessing of the medical abandonment and gaslighting, cultural isolation and segregation of sick and disabled people. We hope to resist that isolation and find ways to respond to each other’s needs outside of the dominant and professional « care » systems. ✨ Some questions on our mind: How does system collapse relate to the worsening health of all of our bodies? How can we betray and extract from for-profit, exclusionary and ableist healthcare systems in order to get care for ourselves and everybody who needs it most? How can we build networks that break isolation and respond to unmet needs? How can we ensure our collective autonomy, while nurturing our inherent interdependence? We want to bring these questions out of the theoretical and actually respond to our collective needs in small, every day actions that connect us. We have in mind concrete mutual aid structures like anti-isolation phone hotlines, city wide solidarity webs, meal trains, doctor’s appointment accompaniment, medicine sharing, medical advocacy partners etc. This survey comes out of that intention (LINK IN BIO - please share with your sick comrades) 🐚 Do you question if you are « sick enough » to fill out this survey? Please put your disbelief aside. We welcome any sick comrade. The healthy body is an illusion. We contain multitudes. 🔥 If you prefer a more secure way to fill this form out feel free to email us with your answers (proton to proton mail is encrypted) [email protected]

Découvrez la nouvelle série de podcast Glitch, devenir handi.e !  Dans Glitch, Aziliz (@aziliz_peaudecerf ) raconte comment elle devient handicapée dans un monde de valides. Au fil de ce podcast on suit cette transition, à travers son regard mais aussi celui de ses proches. Ensemble iels tissent une toile qui donne à voir l’impact social du handicap. Des incompréhensions, aux heurts, à l’acceptation d’une réalité hors des cadres de la validité.   Ce podcast est aussi le récit d’un éveil à l’anti-validisme (la lutte contre l’oppression systémique que subissent les personnes handicapées) et à la culture Crip. Aziliz met en lumière les mots d’adelphes handicapé.e.s qui l’aident à mieux comprendre sa situation et à la politiser.   La série est disponible dès maintenant sur les applications de podcast. Le lien est dans notre bio ! Description du visuel : Logo du podcast Glitch, devenir handi.e. Risographie composée de radiographies du dos et du genou et d’images de bord de mer. Le titre du podcast Glitch, est écrit au centre en majuscules. Enregistrement, réalisation et montage : Aziliz Peaudecerf Mixage et composition de la musique : Marie-Lou HV (@grabugeprod ) Production éditoriale : Alizée Mandereau Lectures : Alizée Mandereau, Lilith Didier-Charlet (@lilith.didier ), Claire-Selma Aïtout (@selmakovich ) Réécoute : Claire-Selma Aïtout, Clémence Gross (@clea.sonore ), Sarah Baqué (@_srhbq ) Mise en ligne : Anthony Dumas (@adamas_fr ) Illustration : Flo et Kit de @sick_comrade Glitch, devenir handi.e est un podcast produit par La Clameur Podcast Social Club, avec le soutien du Concours Déclics jeunes de la Fondation de France.

📢 📖 Launching sick comrade’s first ever collaborative zine! 📖 📢 Way back we did a call out for creations about what sick comradeship means to you. We were so moved by all the submissions sent to us that we included all of them. Thank you, sick comrades, for the work you have gifted this project! The zine includes writings in English, French, Catalan, Galician, German and drawings and photography too. Links to view and download the zine are in the bio. Please enjoy, print, spread! Sick comrades forever ❤️‍🩹 … Many thanks to contributions from: Mary Slattery Sop Rich T.C. Baker Vilja Saarinen f.f.p. Andrea Alakran Teona Galgotiu Christa Lei Isabel Merler Xrissi Maio y Núria Sunniva Innstrand Nefeli Ppadimitropoulou mk zariel florence freitag/snow Karen Pittelman Stone Lou Casey CK krust goblin Margaret Deutch Anon Scarlet Mueller Maria Persu Helen Brecht Kit Blamire Suzanne Forbes Mira Brunner Lucie Schroeder ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

SICKNESS SAYS: COMPOST IT ALL First picture is our mother poster. This is on the backside of all our eleven posters 🫧 Second picture is a little description of the project. Send us a DM if you want to order a poster! Price: sliding scale starting from a free poster and paying for the cost of shipping, alllllllllll the way up to a billion euros. Pay whatever you can and want to pay. The first 800 posters are raising money for @medicalaidpal . Shipping: by punk post and in crip time. One of us goes to the UK today and occasionally and can send within the island. One of us goes to the US in the fall and will take some there. We can ship out within Germany. If people are willing to pay we can ship internationally too, we’ll need to figure out prices first :) We can post them to Berliners too and are planning on also organising a sick comrade picnic in Berlin to give them to people in person in July. 🖤

11. HEALTH IS THE FIRST LIE LEAVES AND BODIES AND EMPIRES FALL Send us a DM if you want to order a poster! Price: sliding scale starting from a free poster and paying for the cost of shipping, alllllllllll the way up to a billion euros. Pay whatever you can and want to pay. The first 800 posters are raising money for @medicalaidpal . Shipping: by punk post and in crip time. One of us goes to the UK today and occasionally and can send within the island. One of us goes to the US in the fall and will take some there. We can ship out within Germany. If people are willing to pay we can ship internationally too, we’ll need to figure out prices first :) We can post them to Berliners too and are planning on also organising a sick comrade picnic in Berlin to give them to people in person in July. 🖤

10. THE HEALTHY BODY IS AN ILLUSION Send us a DM if you want to order a poster! Price: sliding scale starting from a free poster and paying for the cost of shipping, alllllllllll the way up to a billion euros. Pay whatever you can and want to pay. The first 800 posters are raising money for @medicalaidpal . Shipping: by punk post and in crip time. One of us goes to the UK today and occasionally and can send within the island. One of us goes to the US in the fall and will take some there. We can ship out within Germany. If people are willing to pay we can ship internationally too, we’ll need to figure out prices first :) We can post them to Berliners too and are planning on also organising a sick comrade picnic in Berlin to give them to people in person in July. 🖤

9. WE WILL ALL BE EATEN BY THE EARTH IN THE END WE CALL THIS HOMECOMING Send us a DM if you want to order a poster! Price: sliding scale starting from a free poster and paying for the cost of shipping, alllllllllll the way up to a billion euros. Pay whatever you can and want to pay. The first 800 posters are raising money for @medicalaidpal . Shipping: by punk post and in crip time. One of us goes to the UK today and occasionally and can send within the island. One of us goes to the US in the fall and will take some there. We can ship out within Germany. If people are willing to pay we can ship internationally too, we’ll need to figure out prices first :) We can post them to Berliners too and are planning on also organising a sick comrade picnic in Berlin to give them to people in person in July. 🖤

8. SICKNESS IS HERETICAL Send us a DM if you want to order a poster! Price: sliding scale starting from a free poster and paying for the cost of shipping, alllllllllll the way up to a billion euros. Pay whatever you can and want to pay. The first 800 posters are raising money for @medicalaidpal . Shipping: by punk post and in crip time. One of us goes to the UK today and occasionally and can send within the island. One of us goes to the US in the fall and will take some there. We can ship out within Germany. If people are willing to pay we can ship internationally too, we’ll need to figure out prices first :) We can post them to Berliners too and are planning on also organising a sick comrade picnic in Berlin to give them to people in person in July. 🖤

7. THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO PRODUCE Send us a DM if you want to order a poster! Price: sliding scale starting from a free poster and paying for the cost of shipping, alllllllllll the way up to a billion euros. Pay whatever you can and want to pay. The first 800 posters are raising money for @medicalaidpal . Shipping: by punk post and in crip time. One of us goes to the UK today and occasionally and can send within the island. One of us goes to the US in the fall and will take some there. We can ship out within Germany. If people are willing to pay we can ship internationally too, we’ll need to figure out prices first :) We can post them to Berliners too and are planning on also organising a sick comrade picnic in Berlin to give them to people in person in July. 🖤