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Gratitude and Values

Ways to Support

Hey there! If my work, existence, or a simple exchange of energy has impacted you, ignited you or helped you in any way, there are lots of ways you can convey gratitude:

Financial

I accept financial offerings via PayPal — please select the “friends and family” option to avoid a fee.

Poems

For the creatives out there, I’ve been known to blub at the occasional poem that is kindly sent to me. Please reach out via the contact form.

Written Love Letters, Cards or Emails of Gratitude

I love reading letters of gratitude at the best of times. Yet, as a wholeheartedly Disabled AF, British-Pakistani man and notable figure, I can receive hate and ableism, so they genuinely replenish me. Measuring the impact of my work is also often difficult, so I love hearing from you. I cannot always reply, but I read every single note of gratitude I get. Please email digital letters through the contact form.

Gifts

If your love language, like mine, is gifting, I would be happy to receive e-gifts. Or, if you prefer to send something physical, I am pleased to receive non-alcoholic and non-perishable gifts via post. Please simply reach out through the contact form for a forwarding address.

Values

My personal and professional values are consciously in alignment with each other and consistently centred on interdependence and Revolutionary LOVE®. They are a reflection of my existence, actions, and interactions.

In my divinity, truth, power, creativity, interdependence, and Revolutionary LOVE® as a whole and complete moon — craters, scars, flaws, farts, and all: I know I won’t always get things right; instead, my intention is to use these values do better today than I did yesterday. I trust my Disability, fungi, the universe, my ancestors, and my descendants to support me and guide me on this adventure to the next right and best thing for me.

Radical, restful, regenerative. Always. XO

The Magnificent Seven: My Seven Values

[Open Quote] We are not afraid to adopt a revolutionary stance — if, indeed, we wish to be radical in our quest for change — then we must get to the root of our oppression. After all, radical simply means ‘grasping things at the root.’ [Close Quote]

— Angela Y. Davis

  • Transformative (Innovative).
  • Abundant (Adventures).
  • Loving.
  • Collective liberation (justice-orientated, specifically Disability and environmental).
  • Life-affirming infrastructures.
  • Transparent and accountable.
  • Holistic.
  • Self-awareness.
  • Consciousness.
  • Human but not human-centric.
  • Imaginative (creative)
  • Playful.

[Open Quote] Disabled people know what it means to be vulnerable and interdependent. We are modern-day oracles. It’s time people listened to us…[Close Quote]

— Alice Wong 王美華, Disabled Oracle

  • Human Dignity.
  • Ambitious Expressionists.
  • Anti-capitalism.
  • Post-capitalism.
  • Anti-ableism.
  • Post-ableism (as defined by Sulaiman R. Khan).
  • Humourous.

[Open Quote] In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist. [Close Quote]

— Angela Y. Davis

  • Decolonisation.
  • Intersectionality (as defined by Professor Kimberlé W. Crenshaw)
  • Anti-oppression
  • Post-oppression.
  • Anti-racism.
  • Post-racism.
  • Curiosity, compassion, and courageousness. 

“Liberation is the opportunity for every human, no matter their body, to have unobstructed access to their highest self, for every human to live in radical self-love.”

— Sonya Renee Taylor

  • Social Justice (including Disability Justice, racial justice, migrant justice, health justice, gender justice, media justice, research justice, design justice, communication justice, transformative justice, healing justice, reproductive justice, Indigenous justice, ocean justice, Funga justice, environmental justice, and climate justice)
  • Community.
  • Holistic learning (curious).
  • Abundance and growth mindset.
  • Storytelling.
  • Holistic teaching.
  • Compassionate (beyond empathy).

[Open Quote] All that you touch, You Change. All that you Change, Changes you...[Close Quote]

— Octavia E. Butler

  • Access Intimacy (as defined by Mia Mingus).
  • Dignity Giving.
  • Life Affirming.
  • Safe.
  • Abundant.
  • Spaciousness.

[Open Quote] There’s room for all of you, and for everything you experience — the grim and the glorious, the wounded, wounding, healing and healed. [Close Quote]

— Hiro Boga

  • Human dignity.
  • Joyful.
  • Grieving.
  • Radical self-care (as defined by Angela Y. Davis).
  • Radical self-love (as defined by Sonya Renee Tayor).
  • Somatic care and practice.
  • Authentic.
  • Abundant Pleasure Activism.
  • Liberatory and Rebel Play.
  • Hopeful.
  • Community care and collective healing.

[Open Quote] Liberated relationships are one of the ways we actually create abundant justice, the understanding that there is enough attention, care, resource, and connection for all of us to access belonging, to be in our dignity, and to be safe in community. [Close Quote]

— adrienne maree brown

  • Revolutionary LOVE®.
  • Cyclical amplification.
  • Ancestral and Descendant Wisdom.
  • Nature kinship and Systems Wisdom.
  • Life Giving.
  • Gentleness, cosiness, and spaciousness.
  • Slowness, softness, tenderness.
  • Rest, stillness, and sleep.Holistic.
  • Holistic.

Radical Accomplices

To highlight the importance of interdependence and Revolutionary LOVE®, in no particular order, here are some people and brands that ignited and influenced the creation of these values (183 radicals and counting).

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