My next tattoo

[kestrell]

This morning I spent two hours in a meeting listening to my health care program talk about their great plans for getting people with disabilities vaccinated. Granted, they are now getting homebound people vaccinated, and they have prioritized twenty high-risk communities which should be getting vaccinated by, um, June.

There was no word on when any of the people with disabilities in the meeting would be able to get vaccinated. We kept hearing that they had a plan, and they were going to discuss it, but somehow they ran out of time.

None of us with disability diagnoses have any sort of priority, not even the woman who uses a respirator.

However...

I recently read that the Kindly Ones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erinyes
not only pursue naughty children who have murdered their parents, but also punish naughty high-ranking civil servants who have broken their sworn oaths.

Now I know what my next tattoo will be.

I'm just irked that I have to wait for this pandemic to be over to get it.

Are there any good temporary tattoos of the Kindly Ones?

Can you pay people to create them? Surely there are out-of-work graphic artists who would be willing to help out a poor blind woman?

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Yikes, I'm amazed that your panel of hot-headed disabled people didn't set the room on fire by point your zoom cameras at lasers.

[alexxkay]

I was unable to discover any pre-existing temporary tattoos of the Kindly Ones. I did, however, find many custom temporary tattoo makers. Would you like to collaborate on a design?

[kestrell]

To be fair, as the health care people kept pointing out, they were working with the Massachusetts vaccination guidelines. But yes, there was some anger in the virtual room. The thing is, we've been working with these same people for the past two years, and this isn't really their fault, it's the fault of politicians and policy makers.

[kestrell]

Oh, yeah!

[duskpeterson]

I like your way of dealing with this. :)

[kestrell]

Art+activism is always a good.
Alexx found an online service that produces custom temporary tattoos (it turns out that there are a number of these), and I picked out a design, which he is obsessively perfecting --er, cleaning up. We'll post a link to the original online image and give a brief description sometime soon. I chose an image from a classical Greek kater (a cup for mixing wine with water).

[duskpeterson]

My goodness. I had no idea there were tattoos available of katers.

[kestrell]

Oops, my typo: that should be "krater."