01/05/2025
👑 it's International Labour Day 👑
Today, we honour a different kind of labour—the quiet, relentless, and often invisible work of those advocating against endo violence.
This is not symbolic appreciation. This is a political recognition of the unpaid, unresourced, and often uncredited labour of artists, activists, researchers, and cultural workers navigating chronic illness, medical neglect, and systemic misogyny—all while trying to hold space for others.
We’re not talking about resilience as performance. We’re talking about strategic survival within hostile systems.
The work of holding grief while moderating Instagram comments.
Of building archives from pain.
Of writing theory between surgeries.
Of showing up, not for recognition, but because we know silence is violence too.
This is labour shaped by hyper[in]visibility. We are simultaneously too visible (flagged, shadowbanned, dismissed as “too emotional”) and not visible enough to be included in research funding, institutional partnerships, or policymaking spaces.
But this is not victimhood.
We are not passive recipients of care—we are architects of new frameworks.
We are not “overly emotional”—we are responding to structural neglect with the emotional clarity it demands.
We are not broken—we are adapting inside systems that were never meant to support us.
We are not disorganised—we are working within conditions of dynamic disability, digital violence, and deep epistemic erasure.
We are not waiting to be saved—we are building endo violence free futures.
This is what transformative justice asks of us:
To resist punishment and productivity narratives.
To centre care over cure.
To see our collective work not just as survival, but as knowledge production, healing practice, and strategic disruption.
On this International Labour Day, we invite you to reflect with us:
💡 What forms of labour in endo advocacy have you done that no one saw—but that mattered?
💡 How do you define value when the work isn’t paid, published, or praised?
💡Where do you feel your labour is most invisibilised—and by whom?
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