#Disability

cherry thompson 🧬

cherryrae

I’m just gonna point out something I haven’t seen anyone else say - In the trailer for Music, Maddie Ziegler is actually mimicking movements, facial expressions, and sounds that are

Doron Dorfman

DorfmanDoron

Why is the #Bostock SCOTUS decision is important from a #DisabilityRights point of view? A ThreadCC: @clarkeja @katie_eyer @ezraiyoung @BRSoucek @lsepper @AnthonyMKreis @ProfLWiley @profmohapatra @Jeharrislaw @Maayan_Sudai @kmtani 1 / 12

Suzy Byrne

suzybie

Last month’s tweet....https://twitter.com/suzybie/status/1325037065822740481 Today’s news report for #IDPD2020? The perspective of able bodied people staffing a disability service and locating disabled people as a burden. Seriously poor

Bianca Woods

eGeeking

Looks like we're going to be discussing "person-first language" versus "identity-first language" again this week, so buckle in!...https://twitter.com/learningsolpub/status/1357011589547909121 ... When it comes to tal

margo, undiagnosed

sicc_bitch

hey #DisabilityTwitter! i want you to tell me about your idyllic leftist community/society daydreams.i see lots of anarchist sustainability dreaming about communes and cooperative farming and hand-sewn clothes, and i

Jaipreet Virdi

jaivirdi

Interested in learning more about Disability History or incorporating it into your teaching? A good place to start is my syllabus which is arranged by theme: https://www.history.udel.edu/Documents%20Bios%20CVs/faculty/syllabus/virdi/Virdi_H

Zara Bain

zaranosaur

sitting here both in and witnessing discussions on the social model and it’s fascinating how much contention there is over including people with disabling chronic illnesses I get it but

Tinu Abayomi-Paul

Tinu

I HIGHLY DOUBT IT IS EVEN .001% of #disabled people who turn out to be faking..#WhoWouldFakeThis There’s literally no upside. By the time you went through everything a person trying

Orla Burke

OrlaBurkeCork

Why is it so important to listen to disabled people and disabled peoples' organisations? Why is it so problematic that the discourse in Ireland is led by service providers? Here

TheDisabilityEnthusiast

twitchyspoonie

Oh shithttps://twitter.com/jmartinwrites/status/1349921639312535563 This is a good thread to catch up on the basics, though I will say, I strongly disagree with the idea that being abled passing is what decides

Monique Botha #TransRights

DrMBotha

On #IDPWD I want to talk about a taboo subject that often makes people uncomfortable - the performance of disability. Being disabled isn't only experiencing disability, it's also about having

Ayaz Manji

ayaz_manji

Just as England is about to go into lockdown it looks like the DWP have slipped through changes that could leave many more disabled people at risk of seeing their

n o r a

slaylongloveyou

I wanna talk about how we, as able people, view disabled people. I feel like it's important to recognize our biases that we hold. When it comes to disability, our

Shay Erlich

Shay_Erlich

Disabled people often have full clarity about how the world sees disabled people and disability. If a disabled person ever tells you that the world wants them dead, the only

Sejal Shah💃🏽FKA fictionalsejal

SejalShahWrites

I'm realizing how much gaslighting goes on when one is a Brown woman in a white institution and the institution doesn't acknowledge anything about your racialized or gendered work experience--just

Dr. Thrasher, jouRNAlist

thrasherxy

Damn it. Why do media critics like @Sulliview and @NPRpubliceditor @kellymcb get to use "lame" without ever having to respond? "Lame" is ableist, akin to using "gay" or "ghetto" as

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