#Disabled

Brianne Benness

bennessb

I feel like every day there are new reasons for building more precise vocabulary that phases out using visible & invisible as a self-evident disability binary.It means such different things

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

Lorna

lornamcfindy

I think what I find hard about the national discourse on how hard it is to be in lockdown is that back when I first became sick and housebound, I

Erin Ekins (she/her)

QueerlyAutistic

The neurodiversity movement is born from the disability justice movement, and we need to be proud of being a part of that movement rather than moving away from it. Neurodiversity

Walmart Paramore🦓📸

HufflepunkZebra

What I love most about this thread is that while language is improving, certain disabled people like to stick to terms theybare familiar with and its mentioned and inferred that

Jo Verrent

joverrent

As the numbers of the Covid dead in the UK rise my heart breaks into ever smaller pieces. For every one and their loved ones, and the medical and support

Nicolas Steenhout

vavroom

I've been working in digital accessibility for a couple decades. I've been using screen readers for testing a "fair bit" over those years. But I'm not a daily user of

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

Basic Income Network Scotland

cbinscot

Great piece from @DaniGaravelli1 on how pandemic restrictions have been a double-edged sword for disabled artists.Author @everdundas argues the arts community should be lobbying for #BasicIncome to remove the need

Larime Taylor

XLarimeX

So let's get real and honest about why there aren't more disabled characters in popular culture - I'll be using comics as a specific, but all mediums have the same

Ben Dooley

BenTDooley

(Thread) Today is #IDPWD2020 and I was able to produce a radio show where that was something we actually talked about. A little over 24 years ago, a doctor told

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Sarah_Colero

Front page of @TorontoStar – they have the one disabled person with internalized ableism issues to interview on the benefits of MAiD.This one man, Ron Ponso, is someone politicians use

Disabled Academic Collective

DisabledAcadem

I'm applying to postdocs and jobs this cycle and I have not seen one job listing for history of medicine, early American history, or american studies that explicitly lists disability

Mik Scarlet

MikScarlet

The big problem with the way becoming disabled is understood by nondisabled people is that they don't grasp newly disabled people grieve. For who they were, who they thought they

Helen Barnard

Helen_Barnard

Lots of debate about equalities & protected characteristics today. My main thought: there's no choice to be made between taking action to dismantle racism, sexism, prejudice against disabled people etc

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

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