#Disability

Kitty ♿⚫️🦓

Retro_Kitty79

A lesson in ableism courtesy of Ravelry. I will break this down in the following thread.......#RavelryAccessibility Firstly, make sure you patronise the person you're replying to in the first sentence.

Michael Ausbun II

michaelausbun

Many questions right now on Twitches decision to remove "Blind walk through," as a tag on the basis of ableism. –a thread Disability identity and the way we engage with

I Am Disabled.

thespinsterymc

Alright abled assholes: A mini-thread on why y’all weaponizing this grinning bastard’s disability helps him spread his Nazi filth to other white abled assholes. First, look at this fucking grafted

Shani Dhanda 💥

ShaniDhanda

Today marks #DisabilityPayGap 2020 - the day disabled workers stop getting paid for the rest of the year - that’s 2 months!#DisabledWorkers now earn a fifth (20%) less than non-disabled

Niamh Shields

eatlikeagirl

Just explaining to my flatmate (who is male) some of the things I have had to deal with from men online. Abuse, entitlement, just downright aggressive and rude. He was

TheDisabilityEnthusiast

twitchyspoonie

Ok I just thought of a better way of explaining this.Ableds will really think that disabled people are somehow defective ableds until we give away all our medical information to

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

jrf_uk

This week across JRF and @theJRHT we’re marking International Day of Disabled People and celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. [THREAD] #IDPWD2020 #IDPD2020 Lots of progress

Cllr Ross McMullan

rossalliance

It really is a sign of the extraordinary times we live in that a conspiracy theory that denies the existence of disability rights activist, author & lecturer #HelenKeller is an

Alex Haagaard (they/them)

alexhaagaard

Been thinking a lot lately about the construction of disability along lines of in/visibility to the medical gaze and I figure I may as well compile these fragmentary thoughts into

The Rings System

TheRingsSystem

I think a lot of the narratives of system pride center “I’m proud to have survived” or “I’m proud of myself despite this.”And it’s took a long time to say

Brianne Benness

bennessb

[med trauma]Sometimes people talk about internalized ableism in the undiagnosed/recently diagnosed community as if it's a character flaw and not a common side effect of a lifetime of medical neglect

eudora melty

clairealsto

I’m going to gripe about the casting of The Stand miniseries in a minute BUT FIRST let me complain about an ableist writing trope that the book is also guilty

Neil Crowther

neilmcrowther

Excellent paper by @SR_Disability on the human rights of older disabled people https://undocs.org/en/A/74/186 Hope work like this inspires more advocates for older people, in the light of Covid19, to pursue

Diversify Our Narrative

TheDONCampaign

INTERSECTIONALITY: DISABILITY & SOCIOECONOMIC STATUSA THREAD “If you have a disability in the US, you're TWICE as likely to be poor as someone without a disability.”**Source: NPR Intersectionality among socioeconomic

Natasha Mitchell

natashamitchell

#agedcare 'residents' are PEOPLE not PATIENTS. They are *all of us* in a matter of years, months, decades. Mothers, brothers, daughters, cousins. Whole beings - thinking, speaking, feeling the full

Brianna Bell ♿️

briannasbell

CW: euthanasia Given draft legislation in Queensland due to be passed in 2020, I wish more Aussies were paying attention to this debate in Canada.Access to euthanasia is often framed

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