THe chronic killjoy -
stop concealing bad feelings

Initially, I was using the term ‘covid killjoy’ to describe what it meant & how it felt to chronically bring up covid & advocate for covid protections in a world that just wants to get back to - & stay - capital ‘N’ Normal.

But, as has recently been demonstrated by the lack of unanimous covid-cautious support for Palestinian liberation amidst the ongoing genocide of Palestinians perpetrated by the Israeli & US governments, we cannot limit our covid activism to covid itself.

I began to conceptualize the ‘chronic killjoy’ (a la Ahmed’s The Feminist Killjoy Handbook) - the figure I needed to face the abandonment, erasure, & genocide of neuro* & immunocompromised individuals, especially those at the intersections, in the name of ‘community.’

My hope for the chronic killjoy is for it to be both someone we can lean on & a toolbox we can use to fight together in the face of eugenics, genocide, & white supremacy & settler colonialism.

The zine below, which I am currently working to expand, gives an overview of the chronic killjoy. I will put a link [here] with image descriptions shortly.