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"I'm a real tough kid, I can handle my shit, they said babe you gotta fake it til you make it and I did." -I Can Do It With a Broken Heart by Taylor Swift Disability rights activist, teacher, #Trekkie, boccia player and forever #Swiftie.
Today is International Wheelchair Day and the start of Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month! My wheelchair opens up my world. Ask me anything about CP or being an ambulatory wheelchair user here! #CerebralPalsyAwareness #AmbulatoryWheelchairUsersExist
#JournoRequest: I’m looking to interview Black women with Tourette syndrome about specific difficulties they face, diagnostic disparities and feeling unseen — And yes, also the BAFTA incident. Email me at sluterman at 19thnews dot org or DM if interested.
DRA logo + "DRA is hiring! Directing Attorney, New York. https://dralegal.org/jobs/"
DRA is hiring for a Directing Attorney in our #NewYork office!
This is an incredible opportunity to build and litigate some of the most blockbuster #DisabilityRights cases that are happening in this country.
Spread the word or apply today! dralegal.org/jobs/directi...
“But what do you expect Democrats to doo-hooo?”
1) Refuse to fund this criminal government anymore.
2) EVERY one of them call to abolish ICE (and bonus, DHS). No more “they need training” shit. Promise prosecutions.
3) EVERY one of them call for Trump’s impeachment, relentlessly, EVERY day.
My husband and I set reminders for ourselves labeled “drugs” and “ice.” Drugs as in ibuprofen, ice as in cold pack from the freezer. Only realized how ridiculous it was when both reminders went off. Sigh.
Anyway…abolish ICE.
Less than three chapters in to SLAYERS OF OLD by @jimchines.com and I'm already in love. Magic, humor, a bookshop I want to live in, what's not to love?? Will update after I finish. Which may be tonight. Sleeping? What sleeping?
Yet somebody at MSNBC got fired for pointing out the hate that ole Charlie gave.
Why are some still spreading misinfo that "masks only work when everyone wears one," & use it as an excuse not to mask as "no-one else is."
It isn't all or nothing. While it's safer when more mask because there's less virus in the air, a well-fitting mask protects you even if no-one else masks.
Either there's significantly less Swifties over here or the algorithm hasn't picked up on my love and devotion to Taylor Swift and either is plausible.
I don't do sensitivity reading for intellectual disability but signal boosting this!
If you're going to be at this Nassau County NY No Kings event and plan to be masking also for health reasons (there's a covid wave). Please get in touch with me for a @motherjones.com piece, as I'd like to connect you with @artiscuriskis.bsky.social who will be there. www.mobilize.us/progressived...
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
Oliver, a cream colored dog with tan ears, sits happily in front of a field of tulips.
Oliver is a finalist for Alexandria's Cutest Pup! He's one of 15 chosen out of over 100 entries.
Vote for Oliver! Voting is open until May 19, and you can vote once per day: alexandrialivingmagazine.com/pets/meet-th...
I've been begging for another book in the Locked In universe for ages, @scalzi.com. 😛
Also would love to see another Indexing book from Seanan!
I'm sure someone has already said this more eloquently, but autistic folks who don't pay taxes are still valuable human beings, and people with criminal records should still not be disappeared to foreign extra judicial prison sites. Inherent human worth is the hill.
Our homes, NOT nursing homes!!!
Members of BCID, DNY ADAPT and allies gathered in midtown Manhattan on April 14, 2025 calling on Governor Kathy Hochul to stop the transfer of state provided home care to a private, for-profit hedge fund.
(Photos by Erik McGregor)
Perioidic reminder that the reason you didn't see autistic people with intellectual disabilities on the street five decades ago was not because they didn't exist. It's because they were sent away to institutions and their parents were told to put away pictures of them.
HT make Bluesky better than Xwitter--PERMANENTLY. Choose your account's "Settings" (gear icon) from menu; pick "Accessibility" from next choices; check "Require alt text before posting" from next choices. Presto! Instant DEI! Your photo posts can now be read by lowsight/blind people like me FOREVER!
No one should ever have to live in fear of being kicked out of their own home. This is what I am facing now bc of mean family who don't care abt their disabled sister, me.
melissaautisticfields.wordpress.com/2025/04/06/i...
Reminder: photos of protests & you want as many people as possible to see & share them?
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If you want to add context about a cool sign someone was holding in a pic?
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If you want to be part of the fight against the elimination of disabled ppl from work & public life?
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The coronavirus vaccine is not specifically supposed to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
It's meant to make your experience having coronavirus less severe and hopefully prevent you from dying as people did in large numbers early in the pandemic.
As an American Jew I cannot express how much less safe I feel living in a country where people can be snatched off the street and institutions can be bankrupted for making Dear Leader mad
Seeing so much content around either "how to prepare to flee the US" or "how to prepare for fadcism."
The content is very good but it's so frustrating for me because neither are realistic for my disabled and chronically ill self and loved ones.
Here's a hot tip: if you don't know what the relationship is between two people, don't make assumptions--especially not out loud.
Brought to you by the bookstore employee who said to my fiancé: "we can move things out of the way...for your sister, obviously."
She lost our business real quickly.
Forcible institutionalization of disabled people is part of our mass incarceration system.
Dismantling the Administration for Community Living (ACL) threatens to undo years of progress that have improved access to services for older adults and people with disabilities.
Read our full statement here: bit.ly/ACLStatement
I have it open in a separate tab right now!
