The MCS and Housing page has an entirely new updated resource section, divided into a few different categories.
Hope you find it helpful.
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May safe, accessible, medically required housing be available for all who need it.
The MCS and Housing page has an entirely new updated resource section, divided into a few different categories.
Hope you find it helpful.
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May safe, accessible, medically required housing be available for all who need it.
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Be fragrance-free in 23
It’s good for me. It’s good for thee.
2023
is the year
for me and for thee
to be fragrance-free
fragrance-free in 23
fragrance-free in 23
fragrance-free in 23
fragrance-free in 23
fragrance-free in 23
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Resources:
The Fragrance-free Checklist
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Help for How to Be Fragrance-Free
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They Said I Wasn’t Fragrance-Free. How Can That Be?
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So You Think We’re Being Difficult When We ask You to Change Products?
So You Think We’re Being Difficult When We ask You to Change Products?
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Wishing you all a very fragrance-free 2023!
♥
Posted in Environmental Health
We really don’t have accessible housing for people with severe MCS/ES. I have several good online friends living in vehicles now because there’s no accessible housing. Marie is one of them, and she needs a reliable new (to her) van really soon, so that she can continue to live and create the beautiful, challenging, and awareness-raising art she lives for.
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This excellent video about MCS/ES was made in 2020 by Maria Rizzo, who was behind the Fragrance Free Revolution, but has not aged a second. It is just as relevant today as it was then.
The only thing that has changed, is that Maria is no longer with us. She lost her life in December 2020 after being subjected to too many exposures when spending time in hospitals with her father.
She wasn’t able to recover from those exposures, the broken heart of losing her father, and of the world that harms us instead of welcomes us.
The tribute her partner wrote when he informed the community of her passing can be found here.
I miss collaborating with Maria, I miss her creative energy, and her ability to do things in clear and concise ways.
She’d still be with us if hospitals and the rest of the world stopped inflicting unnecessary poisons on us all, and instead respected our human rights as well as their own vulnerability to 24/7 exposures to unnecessary hazardous substances.
Her death is a great loss to the global MCS/ES community.
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Rest in power Maria.
Posted in Accessibility, Environmental Health, Environmental Sensitivities, Fragrance, Health
Tagged accessibility barriers, awareness, fragrance-free, IAQ, MCS, MCS video, MCS/ES
Traditionally May is MCS and MCS/ES Awareness Month.
After decades of awareness raising, it’s time to move on to welcoming action and accommodation, don’t you think?
Are people with MCS/ES, often referred to as Human Canaries, actually welcome in this world?
If you are a person with MCS/ES, please share in the comments if and how you are being accommodated and welcomed (or not) in this world.
If you are a person who doesn’t have MCS/ES, please share in the comments how you are accommodating and welcoming people with MCS/ES into the world.
Human Canaries are what’s left after the signs from wildlife and nature weren’t respected, but we’re not long for this earth either, unless there are some significant changes in people’s daily habits – yes, things everyone can start to do RIGHT NOW!
Let’s start with some hashtags:
Posted in Action, Environmental Health, Environmental Sensitivities, Human Rights, Policy, Public Health
Tagged accessibility barriers, autoimmune, cancer, cleaning products, emissions, essential oils, Fragrance, fragrance-free, hazardous products, IAQ, laundry products, MCS, MCS/ES, personal care products, pharmaceuticals, plastic, Pollution, scent free, science, toxic trespass, VOCs, Water
Some people are promoting their essential oils and EO containing products as being #FragranceFree.
A few years ago others were claiming their essential oils were #ScentFree.
It seems we need to have a closer look at this before more people are hurt.
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Greetings everyone! Please accept my sincere apologies for the post that went out yesterday.
Women’s Voices For the Earth are offering those of us who have been harmed by chemical exposures an opportunity to share our stories and experiences.
Has Your Health Been Harmed by Toxic Chemicals?
Share Your Story!
“When you share your experiences, it not only changes people who connect with your story, it also changes you. When people share their personal stories on a social issue, they become more invested in that issue because it is now theirs (Beautiful Rising.org). What’s more, it is contagious: Sharing leads to sharing leads to sharing and helps communities and individuals connect over similarities and differences.
We want to hear from you! Tell us, how have exposures to harmful chemicals impacted your health?
And if you are interested, WVE can also help you amplify your story in the media, or with policy and decision makers.”
Learn more here:
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But Shouldn’t Have to Be
Guest Post by Joanne Cabe
I read a post from someone who was out of work and broke, who wrote that being quarantined and broke, or being an essential worker and working over time, isn’t normal for anyone.
I had to respond. I don’t know that it will do any good on people’s awareness, but this was my try for the day:
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