#Disability

Rabbi Sara Zober BLM

RebbeSMZ

This year, for Black History Month, I'm going to highlight some of my favorite Black accounts here on Twitter that I follow and why I think they're making history today

TheDisabilityEnthusiast

twitchyspoonie

Yes! I often find that people's idea of Tourette's is so dramatic. And it certainly *can* be dramatic (mine is atm), but for some people, it's not even a disability.

Naomi Smart needs captions

NaomiDoesWords

Just me thinking ‘aloud’ about assistive technology... (thread) 1/6 My worry with some of the ‘assistive technology’ I see celebrated a lot is that it will push backwards against any

Senator Patty Murray

PattyMurray

Good morning. Today the Senate GOP wants to vote on a COVID-19 "relief" bill. Aside from the fact that this bill fails to meet deep needs nationwide, it actually has

Tor Butler-Cole

TorButlerCole

Finally able to read the Mental Health Act White Paper to see what it actually proposes.... People w/ learning disability/autism could still be admitted for assessment under s.2 "when their

Esmé Weijun Wang • 汪蔚君

esmewang

Storytime! Years ago, before anyone outside of my personal life knew who I was, I admired an artist/writer who was asking favors of the public. They were well-known in certain

Spread the Word: Inclusion

PledgetoInclude

It is never okay to use the R-word, use disability as an insult, or make jokes at the expense of others. When you hear someone use the R-word, take the

Tom Williams

shirleymush

We will truly never know the heartache endured by notorious Machiavellian arm-twister and ratfucker Tom Watson as he threw a general election, destroyed the reputation of a sweet old jam

Happy Holl-Zabé-s

ZREllor

The goal of #ownvoices as a movement is not to create a concrete set of rules for who can write what. The goal is to alter a publishing status quo

teona | crip gossip girl ♿👩🏾‍🦼🦓

tee_spoonie

When y'all inevitably talk about Harriet Tubman this month, let's not leave out the fact that she was disabled. And if anyone questions you about it, ask them what they

Read The Signs

Semiogogue

I keep seeing/hearing mention of rubber bullets, but I can't find any recent use of rubber bullets. Only pepper balls, sponge rounds, & bean bags. 1/8 Here, 'rubber bullets' are

Anneke Chodan

AnnekeTweets

I see what you’re saying but the “incentives” to stay put are things like disability services, laws that aren’t hostile to LGBTQ+ folks, reproductive health access including but not limited

Ms. Kwachou says #EndAnglophoneCrisis

montrelz

1. I am moved by the francophone activists who travelled to Kumba to show solidarity. As @africatechie empathy is the beginning of conflict resolution. Still I note as @BlaiseEyong said

Erin Ekins (she/her)

QueerlyAutistic

If you are a professional who has been trained to use person first language, and then autistic people tell you to use identify first instead, please don't dig in your

⭐️Chloe Norton

ChloeAlexNorton

THREAD: Why Sia's movie is a problem. 1). She cast an able bodied person to play the role of an autistic person.Therefore the movie will hold an incorrect representation of

Sophie Williams

SophWilliams28

I don't think people who have good media representation really understand the impact of having very little good representation does.Stereotypes and bad representation does harm in numerous ways but it

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