#Disability

Ai-jen Poo

aijenpoo

Thread: Today is the 30th anniversary of the Americans w/ Disabilities Act! This historic legislation enshrined many basic rights for people with disabilities.Disabled organizers continue fighting 4 a fully accessible,

Stardust Patch Makin Pies

PatchDonal

Let's talk about "stay in your lane". What does it mean? It means that allies are the worst people to try talking about in-group issues for communities they are not

elinor

crochetparrot

Disabled people in the UK (and I’m sure many other countries) who rely on benefits are also not allowed to save that capital or own property at all.https://twitter.com/cannibality/status/1338574430293790721 Guys this

Apnalaya

ApnalayaTweets

Rajani Kardak, Deputy Programme Manager, Health and Disability, Apnalaya, speaks about the difficulties girls with disabilities face. #NationalGirlChildDay@PreranaATC @NGOprotsahan @STCI_Mumbai @CSAfamilyforall @LeherIndia @ArunKumar3165 Na

GeorgeJulian

GeorgeJulian

New @ScotLDO research looking at (premature) mortality rates of learning disabled children and young people. Gut churning stuff. Mortality rate 12 times higher for those who are learning disabled. 12

Jennifer Kretchmer

dreamwisp

I want to push back on this a tiny bit—Making disabled villains is ableist if they are: 1) rooted in awful tropes around disability 2) the only, or one of

Dr. Debby Sneed

debscavator

My first article was published last week and got some attention in the press and I was thrilled. I got plenty of positive feedback, but also plenty of negative, including

Gerbychic 👠💄

Gerbychic

For those who think the country is surrounded by "fake" disabled people fiddling the system this one's a thread for you About a year ago my seizures got out of

Dr. Tara Sander Lee

DrTaraSanderLee

THREAD: Testifying in South Dakota today in support of HB 1110, a #prolife bill which would protect unborn children from abortion due to a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome 1/10

Grace Krause 🌹🍞 🐗 💻

TheGraceK

One reason I hate the language of "overcoming disability" or "not letting your disability stopping you" so so much is that for me personally becoming comfortable with seeing myself as

Syreeta Nolan

nolan_syreeta

Thank you again @riley_ilyse for inviting me to guest lecture in your course. Speaking on intersectionality and inclusion on disability in higher ed was amazing. Watching a Zoom webinar afterwords

Lori

lorihensler

After this morning’s experience with @Walmart delivery, I have some suggestions for companies who now offer delivery services. First off, Walmart did a great job trying to help me solve

Kim

kimbert

A few years ago when this was a topic of critique for TCAF, I suggested, as one of the only POC on staff, that every time we asked an exhibitor

Ross Showalter

rosshowalter

Paul Hostovsky has a forthcoming poetry book called DEAF & BLIND. I won’t read it. I don’t think there needs to be another book about hearing gawking. A thread— In

Eb Defender of Upholstery

EbThen

People who get really defensive of the Social Model are almost impossible to talk to about its limitations.The Social Model has and has always had limitations. Many of those imitations

cici

hrrylml

why you should stop using fonts. — a thread i can’t believe i’m fucking making first off, disabilities aren’t chosen. people can’t help that they can’t read because of being

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