Today I've started my analysis of the Disability Royal Commission final report, starting with Volume 7 on group homes and boarding houses.
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Please help our beloved @tinu.bsky.social access chemo medication!
We don't know if we can move her now.
Please, if you can't help, please share this.
I cannot live without Tinu.
No one should be without chemo meds because they can't afford them.
I like that you call her "she" - I looked up at the sky last night and said "you look like a bulldog with its face pressed up against a window [non-derogatory]"
Go look at the moooooooooon
When they meet at his place he's the hostress with the mostress
Something's happening with the sports because the roaring in my neighbourhood is turning me into Obi-Wan
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Andy Jackson, as always, bringing my heart to its knees with his poetry. He wrote this poem for the DRC and read it at the final hearing. It's titled 'Listen'.
"The air is full of seeds.
This time let your discomfort mean something."
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The powerhouse @bluntshovels.bsky.social (El Gibbs) wrote this essay 'Being heard' ahead of the DRC findings being made public, and I urge every nondisabled person to read her writing.
"As always, it is disabled people who do the work to get change."
www.bluntshovels.au/being-heard/
"The bulk of the Disability Royal Commission reporting was done by actually disabled people"
Here is @carlyfindlay.bsky.social's excellent blog post, 'Some thoughts on the eve of the DRC findings being made public':
carlyfindlay.com.au/2023/09/28/s...
#DisabilityRC
"We need to retire the expectation that for change to occur, disabled people must reveal our trauma publicly."
- @carlyfindlay.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥
#DisabilityRC
Starting a #DisabilityRC thread as I read through the Royal Commission findings and coverage
I'm so glad I pay an ever-increasing phone bill every month so that the spam callers have somewhere to reach me
Knives in their feet
Photo of Alice Wong, an Asian American disabled woman in a power chair. She is wearing an orange and black tiger-striped sweater, black pants, a bold red lip color and a trach at her neck. In the background is a gray cement wall with greenery. Photo credit: Eddie Hernandez Photography.
A new piece by me for about my adventures in public speaking and my rage against ableism and Boston University’s School of Public Health. Enjoy!
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HELL YEAH
GIT 'EM
I've been in a per capita recession for ages, Australia ain't special
Welcome!
Oh you heard it too!
I was feeling nostalgic for weather Tw*tter and then I remembered this website exists
It's windy.
I appreciate everyone who shares @tinu.bsky.social 's fundraiser every day.
Tinu needs to get out of Texas asap and get to a state where she can consistently access chemo.
No one should have to be dealing with this.
Please keep sharing, please help if you are able.
Thank you so much, it's #ForTinu
Please share widely!
Please help our beloved @tinu.bsky.social move so she can access consistent chemo treatment!
We cannot lose Tinu! I cannot lose Tinu!
Tinu has always done so much for so many, please help save her life!
Please, if you can't help, please share #ForTinu! <3
*grabs a stick and heads out to help them*
I am so fucking HERE for this wave of battles for labor rights!
Here’s a reminder to make all strike information accessible as possible— include ALT text on all images, & implement Covid safety practices like masking at picketing & other labor rights events.
Labor rights are disability rights too!
I AM SO PUMPED. THANK YOU FOR THE THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS
"This shower is really foggy" "oh no"
In my head for the past week:
🎶 I’m just Ken
and I’m Kenough
and I’m great at doing stuff
All of the dream
How does it mean?
Women are my favourite guy 🎶
Ilana on Broad City pulling a baffled and disgusted expression while making air quotes with her hands
"Reskeet"???
I have >15years’ exp living with post-viral illness. It drastically changed my life course. I have had to not finish degrees; quit jobs even when I had a lot of flexibility & support; and the fact I’m doing okay-ish right now is almost completely due to family financial support.
