Note: (My carer took this photo in the morning and I had a doc appt after. All afternoon and evening I’ve been the figure on the bag and I will be for who knows how many more days. ME/CFS is cruel!)
Emerge – a favourite ME/CFS charity – is using one of my drawings on their fundraising merch! In September I drew a figure with ME/CFS lying down, wholeheartedly resting (resting with no sensory stimulus), with an eyemask and noise-cancelling headphones on. Emerge has printed the figure on bags and t-shirts to help fundraise and increase awareness of the 600,000 Australians living with ME/CFS, Long COVID and other energy-limiting conditions. I love the slogan on the bag: ‘Myalgic Encephalomyelitis: Hard to say. Harder to live.’
My friend Amanda Francey (who created my See ME Expo, link in comments) also drew a girl with ‘Cure ME’ that’s printed on water bottles and shirts, and there are eyemasks.
I’m wearing my own ByShi ‘Sunflower Blossoming/ Flourishing’ shirt that symbolises hidden disability.