#disability-justice — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #disability-justice, aggregated by home.social.
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There Is No Correct Way to Be Poor
The policing of poverty is a form of class discipline. It protects unequal distributions of wealth and power by turning deprivation into evidence of personal failure and obedience into a condition of survival. It teaches people to scrutinise the poor instead of the structures that keep wealth concentrated at the top, making inequality appear earned, moral, and inevitable.
People want to believe the world is fair, so if someone is poor, they must’ve failed somehow. That belief protects the comfortable from confronting a harsher reality: poverty is produced and maintained by an economic order in which some people accumulate property, profit, and security because others are underpaid, overcharged, indebted, displaced, and kept desperate enough to accept whatever conditions are offered to them.
Dividing poor people into “deserving” and “undeserving” serves that order perfectly. It allows society to ration help through surveillance, shame, bureaucracy, and humiliation while leaving the distribution of wealth and power untouched. The scrutiny stays fixed on whether a poor person has suffered correctly enough to deserve relief, while the people and institutions controlling wealth remain largely beyond examination.
When people are closer to poverty than they want to admit, enforcing these rules against other poor people can feel like buying safety or respectability. If they can prove that someone else is lazy, irresponsible, fraudulent, or morally inferior, perhaps they can convince themselves that their own precarity is different. Disciplining people below you does nothing to move you closer to the people above you. It gives you none of their property, capital, political access, or protection from catastrophe. It recruits you into defending a hierarchy that can discard you just as easily.
That is the class contradiction at the heart of it: workers are encouraged to police one another over scraps while those who control wages, housing, credit, land, and capital continue deciding the conditions under which everyone else lives. A person on a salary is taught to resent someone receiving assistance, while the landlord raising the rent, the employer suppressing wages, the company cutting benefits, and the wealthy extracting far more from society frequently escape the same moral scrutiny.
When poverty is framed as a moral, behavioural, or skill issue, the people with the most power get to keep that power. The system is also disabling by design: it creates and worsens illness and disability through deprivation, overwork, inaccessible healthcare, unsafe housing, and chronic insecurity, then punishes people when those conditions make them less able to work. Employers can suppress wages. Landlords can keep raising rents. Governments can refuse to guarantee housing, healthcare, childcare, or income.
There is no manual for “how to be poor correctly,” because poverty is a material condition shaped by decisions about wages, rent, ownership, taxation, debt, public services, labour rights, policing, and who is allowed to control resources that everyone needs.
The obsession with how poor people spend money reveals the hierarchy plainly. A poor person is expected to justify every meal, every purchase, every moment of pleasure, while wealth itself is rarely subjected to comparable moral scrutiny. The poor are asked whether they deserve a small comfort. The rich can possess more homes, land, money, and power than they could use in several lifetimes without being required to justify the accumulation with anything approaching the same intensity.
A serious response to poverty requires reducing the power of those who benefit from deprivation and expanding the material power of the people living under it. That means trusting poor people with resources and dignity: unconditional cash, stable housing, healthcare, childcare, strong labour protections, and wages that actually cover life.
People generally know what they need to survive. Deprivation keeps people desperate enough to accept exploitation, and the moral language surrounding poverty helps make that arrangement appear natural, deserved, and inevitable.
So stop demanding that poor people prove they deserve to live. Stop making survival conditional on obedience, humiliation, employability, productivity, or moral purity. Guarantee the material conditions people need to survive, take power away from those who profit from keeping people desperate, and make hoarded wealth the thing society is forced to justify.
#poverty #disability #politics #disabilityjustice @disability @disability #neurodivergence #activism #writer #mentalhealth #healthcare #capitalism
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There Is No Correct Way to Be Poor
The policing of poverty is a form of class discipline. It protects unequal distributions of wealth and power by turning deprivation into evidence of personal failure and obedience into a condition of survival. It teaches people to scrutinise the poor instead of the structures that keep wealth concentrated at the top, making inequality appear earned, moral, and inevitable.
People want to believe the world is fair, so if someone is poor, they must’ve failed somehow. That belief protects the comfortable from confronting a harsher reality: poverty is produced and maintained by an economic order in which some people accumulate property, profit, and security because others are underpaid, overcharged, indebted, displaced, and kept desperate enough to accept whatever conditions are offered to them.
Dividing poor people into “deserving” and “undeserving” serves that order perfectly. It allows society to ration help through surveillance, shame, bureaucracy, and humiliation while leaving the distribution of wealth and power untouched. The scrutiny stays fixed on whether a poor person has suffered correctly enough to deserve relief, while the people and institutions controlling wealth remain largely beyond examination.
When people are closer to poverty than they want to admit, enforcing these rules against other poor people can feel like buying safety or respectability. If they can prove that someone else is lazy, irresponsible, fraudulent, or morally inferior, perhaps they can convince themselves that their own precarity is different. Disciplining people below you does nothing to move you closer to the people above you. It gives you none of their property, capital, political access, or protection from catastrophe. It recruits you into defending a hierarchy that can discard you just as easily.
That is the class contradiction at the heart of it: workers are encouraged to police one another over scraps while those who control wages, housing, credit, land, and capital continue deciding the conditions under which everyone else lives. A person on a salary is taught to resent someone receiving assistance, while the landlord raising the rent, the employer suppressing wages, the company cutting benefits, and the wealthy extracting far more from society frequently escape the same moral scrutiny.
When poverty is framed as a moral, behavioural, or skill issue, the people with the most power get to keep that power. The system is also disabling by design: it creates and worsens illness and disability through deprivation, overwork, inaccessible healthcare, unsafe housing, and chronic insecurity, then punishes people when those conditions make them less able to work. Employers can suppress wages. Landlords can keep raising rents. Governments can refuse to guarantee housing, healthcare, childcare, or income.
There is no manual for “how to be poor correctly,” because poverty is a material condition shaped by decisions about wages, rent, ownership, taxation, debt, public services, labour rights, policing, and who is allowed to control resources that everyone needs.
The obsession with how poor people spend money reveals the hierarchy plainly. A poor person is expected to justify every meal, every purchase, every moment of pleasure, while wealth itself is rarely subjected to comparable moral scrutiny. The poor are asked whether they deserve a small comfort. The rich can possess more homes, land, money, and power than they could use in several lifetimes without being required to justify the accumulation with anything approaching the same intensity.
A serious response to poverty requires reducing the power of those who benefit from deprivation and expanding the material power of the people living under it. That means trusting poor people with resources and dignity: unconditional cash, stable housing, healthcare, childcare, strong labour protections, and wages that actually cover life.
People generally know what they need to survive. Deprivation keeps people desperate enough to accept exploitation, and the moral language surrounding poverty helps make that arrangement appear natural, deserved, and inevitable.So stop demanding that poor people prove they deserve to live. Stop making survival conditional on obedience, humiliation, employability, productivity, or moral purity. Guarantee the material conditions people need to survive, take power away from those who profit from keeping people desperate, and make hoarded wealth the thing society is forced to justify.
#poverty #disability #politics #disabilityjustice @disability @disability #neurodivergence #activism #writer #mentalhealth #healthcare #capitalism
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There Is No Correct Way to Be Poor
The policing of poverty is a form of class discipline. It protects unequal distributions of wealth and power by turning deprivation into evidence of personal failure and obedience into a condition of survival. It teaches people to scrutinise the poor instead of the structures that keep wealth concentrated at the top, making inequality appear earned, moral, and inevitable.
People want to believe the world is fair, so if someone is poor, they must’ve failed somehow. That belief protects the comfortable from confronting a harsher reality: poverty is produced and maintained by an economic order in which some people accumulate property, profit, and security because others are underpaid, overcharged, indebted, displaced, and kept desperate enough to accept whatever conditions are offered to them.
Dividing poor people into “deserving” and “undeserving” serves that order perfectly. It allows society to ration help through surveillance, shame, bureaucracy, and humiliation while leaving the distribution of wealth and power untouched. The scrutiny stays fixed on whether a poor person has suffered correctly enough to deserve relief, while the people and institutions controlling wealth remain largely beyond examination.
When people are closer to poverty than they want to admit, enforcing these rules against other poor people can feel like buying safety or respectability. If they can prove that someone else is lazy, irresponsible, fraudulent, or morally inferior, perhaps they can convince themselves that their own precarity is different. Disciplining people below you does nothing to move you closer to the people above you. It gives you none of their property, capital, political access, or protection from catastrophe. It recruits you into defending a hierarchy that can discard you just as easily.
That is the class contradiction at the heart of it: workers are encouraged to police one another over scraps while those who control wages, housing, credit, land, and capital continue deciding the conditions under which everyone else lives. A person on a salary is taught to resent someone receiving assistance, while the landlord raising the rent, the employer suppressing wages, the company cutting benefits, and the wealthy extracting far more from society frequently escape the same moral scrutiny.
When poverty is framed as a moral, behavioural, or skill issue, the people with the most power get to keep that power. The system is also disabling by design: it creates and worsens illness and disability through deprivation, overwork, inaccessible healthcare, unsafe housing, and chronic insecurity, then punishes people when those conditions make them less able to work. Employers can suppress wages. Landlords can keep raising rents. Governments can refuse to guarantee housing, healthcare, childcare, or income.
There is no manual for “how to be poor correctly,” because poverty is a material condition shaped by decisions about wages, rent, ownership, taxation, debt, public services, labour rights, policing, and who is allowed to control resources that everyone needs.
The obsession with how poor people spend money reveals the hierarchy plainly. A poor person is expected to justify every meal, every purchase, every moment of pleasure, while wealth itself is rarely subjected to comparable moral scrutiny. The poor are asked whether they deserve a small comfort. The rich can possess more homes, land, money, and power than they could use in several lifetimes without being required to justify the accumulation with anything approaching the same intensity.
A serious response to poverty requires reducing the power of those who benefit from deprivation and expanding the material power of the people living under it. That means trusting poor people with resources and dignity: unconditional cash, stable housing, healthcare, childcare, strong labour protections, and wages that actually cover life.
People generally know what they need to survive. Deprivation keeps people desperate enough to accept exploitation, and the moral language surrounding poverty helps make that arrangement appear natural, deserved, and inevitable.
So stop demanding that poor and disabled people prove they deserve to live. Stop making survival conditional on obedience, humiliation, employability, productivity, or moral purity. Guarantee the material conditions people need to survive, take power away from those who profit from keeping people desperate, and make hoarded wealth the thing society is forced to justify.
#poverty #disability #politics #disabilityjustice @disability @disability #neurodivergence #activism #writer #mentalhealth #healthcare #capitalism @disability
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There Is No Correct Way to Be Poor
The policing of poverty is a form of class discipline. It protects unequal distributions of wealth and power by turning deprivation into evidence of personal failure and obedience into a condition of survival. It teaches people to scrutinise the poor instead of the structures that keep wealth concentrated at the top, making inequality appear earned, moral, and inevitable.
People want to believe the world is fair, so if someone is poor, they must’ve failed somehow. That belief protects the comfortable from confronting a harsher reality: poverty is produced and maintained by an economic order in which some people accumulate property, profit, and security because others are underpaid, overcharged, indebted, displaced, and kept desperate enough to accept whatever conditions are offered to them.
Dividing poor people into “deserving” and “undeserving” serves that order perfectly. It allows society to ration help through surveillance, shame, bureaucracy, and humiliation while leaving the distribution of wealth and power untouched. The scrutiny stays fixed on whether a poor person has suffered correctly enough to deserve relief, while the people and institutions controlling wealth remain largely beyond examination.
When people are closer to poverty than they want to admit, enforcing these rules against other poor people can feel like buying safety or respectability. If they can prove that someone else is lazy, irresponsible, fraudulent, or morally inferior, perhaps they can convince themselves that their own precarity is different. Disciplining people below you does nothing to move you closer to the people above you. It gives you none of their property, capital, political access, or protection from catastrophe. It recruits you into defending a hierarchy that can discard you just as easily.
That is the class contradiction at the heart of it: workers are encouraged to police one another over scraps while those who control wages, housing, credit, land, and capital continue deciding the conditions under which everyone else lives. A person on a salary is taught to resent someone receiving assistance, while the landlord raising the rent, the employer suppressing wages, the company cutting benefits, and the wealthy extracting far more from society frequently escape the same moral scrutiny.
When poverty is framed as a moral, behavioural, or skill issue, the people with the most power get to keep that power. The system is also disabling by design: it creates and worsens illness and disability through deprivation, overwork, inaccessible healthcare, unsafe housing, and chronic insecurity, then punishes people when those conditions make them less able to work. Employers can suppress wages. Landlords can keep raising rents. Governments can refuse to guarantee housing, healthcare, childcare, or income.
There is no manual for “how to be poor correctly,” because poverty is a material condition shaped by decisions about wages, rent, ownership, taxation, debt, public services, labour rights, policing, and who is allowed to control resources that everyone needs.
The obsession with how poor people spend money reveals the hierarchy plainly. A poor person is expected to justify every meal, every purchase, every moment of pleasure, while wealth itself is rarely subjected to comparable moral scrutiny. The poor are asked whether they deserve a small comfort. The rich can possess more homes, land, money, and power than they could use in several lifetimes without being required to justify the accumulation with anything approaching the same intensity.
A serious response to poverty requires reducing the power of those who benefit from deprivation and expanding the material power of the people living under it. That means trusting poor people with resources and dignity: unconditional cash, stable housing, healthcare, childcare, strong labour protections, and wages that actually cover life.
People generally know what they need to survive. Deprivation keeps people desperate enough to accept exploitation, and the moral language surrounding poverty helps make that arrangement appear natural, deserved, and inevitable.
So stop demanding that poor and disabled people prove they deserve to live. Stop making survival conditional on obedience, humiliation, employability, productivity, or moral purity. Guarantee the material conditions people need to survive, take power away from those who profit from keeping people desperate, and make hoarded wealth the thing society is forced to justify.
#poverty #disability #politics #disabilityjustice @disability @disability #neurodivergence #activism #writer #mentalhealth #healthcare #capitalism @disability
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Symptom: Seasonal Variability, Summer ExacerbationMany people with chronic illnesses experience different symptom sets worsening seasonally, including the October Slide.
For me, summer is often my most uncomfortable season. Heat and sunlight intolerances from many of my chronic conditions & their medications, plus seasonal increases to environmental triggers like VOC offgassing, create a miserable confluence.
The climate crisis is a health crisis, and their denials & minimizations are intertwined. Other vector-borne diseases, including [CW image of bug on human skin] diseases spread by ticks are expanding both seasonally and geographically. People with Chronic Lyme are kin to people with fibromyalgia, chronic pain, ME/CFS and long COVID in experiencing medical stigmatization and disbelief.
However, we are not powerless. Our communities offer skills, resiliency, and understanding.
That’s a lot of links! If you’re looking for my top pick, it’s A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles, from the Yale Global Health Review
https://www.illmarks.com/symptom-seasonal-variability-summer-exacerbation/ #chronicIllness #disability #disabilityJustice #heat #MillionsMissing #SciArt #summer #SummerFlare -
Symptom: Seasonal Variability, Summer ExacerbationMany people with chronic illnesses experience different symptom sets worsening seasonally, including the October Slide.
For me, summer is often my most uncomfortable season. Heat and sunlight intolerances from many of my chronic conditions & their medications, plus seasonal increases to environmental triggers like VOC offgassing, create a miserable confluence.
The climate crisis is a health crisis, and their denials & minimizations are intertwined. Other vector-borne diseases, including [CW image of bug on human skin] diseases spread by ticks are expanding both seasonally and geographically. People with Chronic Lyme are kin to people with fibromyalgia, chronic pain, ME/CFS and long COVID in experiencing medical stigmatization and disbelief.
However, we are not powerless. Our communities offer skills, resiliency, and understanding.
That’s a lot of links! If you’re looking for my top pick, it’s A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles, from the Yale Global Health Review
https://www.illmarks.com/symptom-seasonal-variability-summer-exacerbation/ #chronicIllness #disability #disabilityJustice #heat #MillionsMissing #SciArt #summer #SummerFlare -
Symptom: Seasonal Variability, Summer ExacerbationMany people with chronic illnesses experience different symptom sets worsening seasonally, including the October Slide.
For me, summer is often my most uncomfortable season. Heat and sunlight intolerances from many of my chronic conditions & their medications, plus seasonal increases to environmental triggers like VOC offgassing, create a miserable confluence.
The climate crisis is a health crisis, and their denials & minimizations are intertwined. Other vector-borne diseases, including [CW image of bug on human skin] diseases spread by ticks are expanding both seasonally and geographically. People with Chronic Lyme are kin to people with fibromyalgia, chronic pain, ME/CFS and long COVID in experiencing medical stigmatization and disbelief.
However, we are not powerless. Our communities offer skills, resiliency, and understanding.
That’s a lot of links! If you’re looking for my top pick, it’s A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles, from the Yale Global Health Review
https://www.illmarks.com/symptom-seasonal-variability-summer-exacerbation/ #chronicIllness #disability #disabilityJustice #heat #MillionsMissing #SciArt #summer #SummerFlare -
Symptom: Seasonal Variability, Summer ExacerbationMany people with chronic illnesses experience different symptom sets worsening seasonally, including the October Slide.
For me, summer is often my most uncomfortable season. Heat and sunlight intolerances from many of my chronic conditions & their medications, plus seasonal increases to environmental triggers like VOC offgassing, create a miserable confluence.
The climate crisis is a health crisis, and their denials & minimizations are intertwined. Other vector-borne diseases, including [CW image of bug on human skin] diseases spread by ticks are expanding both seasonally and geographically. People with Chronic Lyme are kin to people with fibromyalgia, chronic pain, ME/CFS and long COVID in experiencing medical stigmatization and disbelief.
However, we are not powerless. Our communities offer skills, resiliency, and understanding.
That’s a lot of links! If you’re looking for my top pick, it’s A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles, from the Yale Global Health Review
https://www.illmarks.com/symptom-seasonal-variability-summer-exacerbation/ #chronicIllness #disability #disabilityJustice #heat #MillionsMissing #SciArt #summer #SummerFlare -
RE: https://autistics.life/@aptronym/117325156234908800
and americans also think the Americans with Disabilities Act “gives us rights” because we’re allowed to sue after our “rights” have already been violated - and we have to WIN that lawsuit too, but what’s most likely is that no one will speak with us, calls never returned, or even if they are, they will have to “be real honest” with us about our lack of documentation or our lack of credibility or our lack of financial resources or our lack of clairvoyance or our lack of anyone who matters giving a rat’s ass about us
we do not have rights we cannot litigate - and no one recognizes that more clearly than the people who do the violating
#ADA #disability #DisabilityRights #disabilityjustice #capitalism
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RE: https://autistics.life/@aptronym/117325156234908800
and americans also think the Americans with Disabilities Act “gives us rights” because we’re allowed to sue after our “rights” have already been violated - and we have to WIN that lawsuit too, but what’s most likely is that no one will speak with us, calls never returned, or even if they are, they will have to “be real honest” with us about our lack of documentation or our lack of credibility or our lack of financial resources or our lack of clairvoyance or our lack of anyone who matters giving a rat’s ass about us
we do not have rights we cannot litigate - and no one recognizes that more clearly than the people who do the violating
#ADA #disability #DisabilityRights #disabilityjustice #capitalism
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RE: https://autistics.life/@aptronym/117325156234908800
and americans also think the Americans with Disabilities Act “gives us rights” because we’re allowed to sue after our “rights” have already been violated - and we have to WIN that lawsuit too, but what’s most likely is that no one will speak with us, calls never returned, or even if they are, they will have to “be real honest” with us about our lack of documentation or our lack of credibility or our lack of financial resources or our lack of clairvoyance or our lack of anyone who matters giving a rat’s ass about us
we do not have rights we cannot litigate - and no one recognizes that more clearly than the people who do the violating
#ADA #disability #DisabilityRights #disabilityjustice #capitalism
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RE: https://autistics.life/@aptronym/117325156234908800
and americans also think the Americans with Disabilities Act “gives us rights” because we’re allowed to sue after our “rights” have already been violated - and we have to WIN that lawsuit too, but what’s most likely is that no one will speak with us, calls never returned, or even if they are, they will have to “be real honest” with us about our lack of documentation or our lack of credibility or our lack of financial resources or our lack of clairvoyance or our lack of anyone who matters giving a rat’s ass about us
we do not have rights we cannot litigate - and no one recognizes that more clearly than the people who do the violating
#ADA #disability #DisabilityRights #disabilityjustice #capitalism
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Just found a new citation for the Demandifesto and have no idea how to get Google Scholar to pick it up.
https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/993125/
That makes four citations now missing from Google Scholar, not counting the academic misconduct intentional lift detailed in my pinned toots.
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/59p1s287
https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/cipa/chapter/practices-by-students/
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Just found a new citation for the Demandifesto and have no idea how to get Google Scholar to pick it up.
https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/993125/
That makes four citations now missing from Google Scholar, not counting the academic misconduct intentional lift detailed in my pinned toots.
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/59p1s287
https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/cipa/chapter/practices-by-students/
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Just found a new citation for the Demandifesto and have no idea how to get Google Scholar to pick it up.
https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/993125/
That makes four citations now missing from Google Scholar, not counting the academic misconduct intentional lift detailed in my pinned toots.
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/59p1s287
https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/cipa/chapter/practices-by-students/
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Just found a new citation for the Demandifesto and have no idea how to get Google Scholar to pick it up.
https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/993125/
That makes four citations now missing from Google Scholar, not counting the academic misconduct intentional lift detailed in my pinned toots.
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/59p1s287
https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/cipa/chapter/practices-by-students/
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A huge part of neuronormative culture is being obsessed with exposing lies and cheating rather than being honest in the first place and I always have to think about that, when another non-normative person has been falsely accused of using LLMs or some other kind of fraud, because it’s so nonsensical in itself. They don’t trust people who differ from the norm, while the norm itself is built around different stages of dishonesty.
#ActuallyAutistic #neurodivergent #DisabilityJustice @autistics
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A huge part of neuronormative culture is being obsessed with exposing lies and cheating rather than being honest in the first place and I always have to think about that, when another non-normative person has been falsely accused of using LLMs or some other kind of fraud, because it’s so nonsensical in itself. They don’t trust people who differ from the norm, while the norm itself is built around different stages of dishonesty.
#ActuallyAutistic #neurodivergent #DisabilityJustice @autistics
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A huge part of neuronormative culture is being obsessed with exposing lies and cheating rather than being honest in the first place and I always have to think about that, when another non-normative person has been falsely accused of using LLMs or some other kind of fraud, because it’s so nonsensical in itself. They don’t trust people who differ from the norm, while the norm itself is built around different stages of dishonesty.
#ActuallyAutistic #neurodivergent #DisabilityJustice @autistics
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A huge part of neuronormative culture is being obsessed with exposing lies and cheating rather than being honest in the first place and I always have to think about that, when another non-normative person has been falsely accused of using LLMs or some other kind of fraud, because it’s so nonsensical in itself. They don’t trust people who differ from the norm, while the norm itself is built around different stages of dishonesty.
#ActuallyAutistic #neurodivergent #DisabilityJustice @autistics
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I stand in my kitchen wanting to use an appliance I have already paid for. Its smooth touchscreen gives me no tactile information. I use a camera app to find the controls, place markers where I think buttons may appear, and hope the layout has not changed. One accidental tap can take me somewhere I cannot identify or exit without sighted help. A task that should take moments becomes a process requiring concentration, technology, and luck.
Many disabled people know this experience. We become skilled at adapting. We label buttons, memorise layouts, ask friends or family to help with setup, search for accessible workarounds, and learn to make do with only part of what a product offers. Those strategies can be useful, and they can protect our independence in the moment.
Yet the effort is rarely recognised as work. It takes time, money, energy, confidence, and sometimes privacy. Products then appear “accessible” because a disabled person has managed to force a way through, even where the design itself has excluded us from using the product fully and reliably.
The barriers differ across disability experiences. A device that communicates only through sound can leave Deaf and hard of hearing users without vital information. Controls requiring fine precision, force, or repeated physical effort can be inaccessible for people living with pain, fatigue, mobility limitations, or reduced dexterity. Busy, inflexible interfaces can overwhelm or exclude people with cognitive disabilities and neurodivergent people. Voice assistants cannot serve everyone, especially people whose speech is not reliably recognised.
Manufacturers have choices. A touchscreen appliance can include tactile controls and meaningful feedback. Digital instructions can be made accessible. Settings can be simplified and personalised. Disabled people can be included while products are being researched, designed, tested, and supported. These approaches recognise that disabled people are customers, experts in our own access needs, and members of every household.
Sharing adaptations with each other remains important because people need solutions today. We also need to expect more from society, from businesses, and from the institutions responsible for consumer access. When access barriers are treated as individual problems for disabled people to solve, exclusion becomes routine. Naming the barrier, reporting it, supporting disability led advocacy, and insisting on inclusive design can help shift that expectation.
#AccessibleDesign #DisabilityJustice #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs
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I stand in my kitchen wanting to use an appliance I have already paid for. Its smooth touchscreen gives me no tactile information. I use a camera app to find the controls, place markers where I think buttons may appear, and hope the layout has not changed. One accidental tap can take me somewhere I cannot identify or exit without sighted help. A task that should take moments becomes a process requiring concentration, technology, and luck.
Many disabled people know this experience. We become skilled at adapting. We label buttons, memorise layouts, ask friends or family to help with setup, search for accessible workarounds, and learn to make do with only part of what a product offers. Those strategies can be useful, and they can protect our independence in the moment.
Yet the effort is rarely recognised as work. It takes time, money, energy, confidence, and sometimes privacy. Products then appear “accessible” because a disabled person has managed to force a way through, even where the design itself has excluded us from using the product fully and reliably.
The barriers differ across disability experiences. A device that communicates only through sound can leave Deaf and hard of hearing users without vital information. Controls requiring fine precision, force, or repeated physical effort can be inaccessible for people living with pain, fatigue, mobility limitations, or reduced dexterity. Busy, inflexible interfaces can overwhelm or exclude people with cognitive disabilities and neurodivergent people. Voice assistants cannot serve everyone, especially people whose speech is not reliably recognised.
Manufacturers have choices. A touchscreen appliance can include tactile controls and meaningful feedback. Digital instructions can be made accessible. Settings can be simplified and personalised. Disabled people can be included while products are being researched, designed, tested, and supported. These approaches recognise that disabled people are customers, experts in our own access needs, and members of every household.
Sharing adaptations with each other remains important because people need solutions today. We also need to expect more from society, from businesses, and from the institutions responsible for consumer access. When access barriers are treated as individual problems for disabled people to solve, exclusion becomes routine. Naming the barrier, reporting it, supporting disability led advocacy, and insisting on inclusive design can help shift that expectation.
#AccessibleDesign #DisabilityJustice #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs
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I stand in my kitchen wanting to use an appliance I have already paid for. Its smooth touchscreen gives me no tactile information. I use a camera app to find the controls, place markers where I think buttons may appear, and hope the layout has not changed. One accidental tap can take me somewhere I cannot identify or exit without sighted help. A task that should take moments becomes a process requiring concentration, technology, and luck.
Many disabled people know this experience. We become skilled at adapting. We label buttons, memorise layouts, ask friends or family to help with setup, search for accessible workarounds, and learn to make do with only part of what a product offers. Those strategies can be useful, and they can protect our independence in the moment.
Yet the effort is rarely recognised as work. It takes time, money, energy, confidence, and sometimes privacy. Products then appear “accessible” because a disabled person has managed to force a way through, even where the design itself has excluded us from using the product fully and reliably.
The barriers differ across disability experiences. A device that communicates only through sound can leave Deaf and hard of hearing users without vital information. Controls requiring fine precision, force, or repeated physical effort can be inaccessible for people living with pain, fatigue, mobility limitations, or reduced dexterity. Busy, inflexible interfaces can overwhelm or exclude people with cognitive disabilities and neurodivergent people. Voice assistants cannot serve everyone, especially people whose speech is not reliably recognised.
Manufacturers have choices. A touchscreen appliance can include tactile controls and meaningful feedback. Digital instructions can be made accessible. Settings can be simplified and personalised. Disabled people can be included while products are being researched, designed, tested, and supported. These approaches recognise that disabled people are customers, experts in our own access needs, and members of every household.
Sharing adaptations with each other remains important because people need solutions today. We also need to expect more from society, from businesses, and from the institutions responsible for consumer access. When access barriers are treated as individual problems for disabled people to solve, exclusion becomes routine. Naming the barrier, reporting it, supporting disability led advocacy, and insisting on inclusive design can help shift that expectation.
#AccessibleDesign #DisabilityJustice #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs
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I stand in my kitchen wanting to use an appliance I have already paid for. Its smooth touchscreen gives me no tactile information. I use a camera app to find the controls, place markers where I think buttons may appear, and hope the layout has not changed. One accidental tap can take me somewhere I cannot identify or exit without sighted help. A task that should take moments becomes a process requiring concentration, technology, and luck.
Many disabled people know this experience. We become skilled at adapting. We label buttons, memorise layouts, ask friends or family to help with setup, search for accessible workarounds, and learn to make do with only part of what a product offers. Those strategies can be useful, and they can protect our independence in the moment.
Yet the effort is rarely recognised as work. It takes time, money, energy, confidence, and sometimes privacy. Products then appear “accessible” because a disabled person has managed to force a way through, even where the design itself has excluded us from using the product fully and reliably.
The barriers differ across disability experiences. A device that communicates only through sound can leave Deaf and hard of hearing users without vital information. Controls requiring fine precision, force, or repeated physical effort can be inaccessible for people living with pain, fatigue, mobility limitations, or reduced dexterity. Busy, inflexible interfaces can overwhelm or exclude people with cognitive disabilities and neurodivergent people. Voice assistants cannot serve everyone, especially people whose speech is not reliably recognised.
Manufacturers have choices. A touchscreen appliance can include tactile controls and meaningful feedback. Digital instructions can be made accessible. Settings can be simplified and personalised. Disabled people can be included while products are being researched, designed, tested, and supported. These approaches recognise that disabled people are customers, experts in our own access needs, and members of every household.
Sharing adaptations with each other remains important because people need solutions today. We also need to expect more from society, from businesses, and from the institutions responsible for consumer access. When access barriers are treated as individual problems for disabled people to solve, exclusion becomes routine. Naming the barrier, reporting it, supporting disability led advocacy, and insisting on inclusive design can help shift that expectation.
#AccessibleDesign #DisabilityJustice #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs
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Today's recommended read that I could not pick a single pull quote from because it's all so 🎯 :
https://www.vanityfair.com/story/healthcare-cancer-treatment-essay
#healthcare #medicine #bodies #healthAdvocacy #disabilityJustice
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Today's recommended read that I could not pick a single pull quote from because it's all so 🎯 :
https://www.vanityfair.com/story/healthcare-cancer-treatment-essay
#healthcare #medicine #bodies #healthAdvocacy #disabilityJustice
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Today's recommended read that I could not pick a single pull quote from because it's all so 🎯 :
https://www.vanityfair.com/story/healthcare-cancer-treatment-essay
#healthcare #medicine #bodies #healthAdvocacy #disabilityJustice
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Today's recommended read that I could not pick a single pull quote from because it's all so 🎯 :
https://www.vanityfair.com/story/healthcare-cancer-treatment-essay
#healthcare #medicine #bodies #healthAdvocacy #disabilityJustice
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🇵🇸 Interview with Moaz Mansour of Gaza Online
DIY meets Infrastructure: A conversation with Moaz Mansour of Gaza Online Jane Shi On June 12th, 2025, Israel cut off
https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/08/24/interview-with-moab-mansour-of-gaza-online/
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🇵🇸 Interview with Moaz Mansour of Gaza Online
DIY meets Infrastructure: A conversation with Moaz Mansour of Gaza Online Jane Shi On June 12th, 2025, Israel cut off
https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/08/24/interview-with-moab-mansour-of-gaza-online/
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🇵🇸 Interview with Moaz Mansour of Gaza Online
DIY meets Infrastructure: A conversation with Moaz Mansour of Gaza Online Jane Shi On June 12th, 2025, Israel cut off
https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/08/24/interview-with-moab-mansour-of-gaza-online/
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🕊️ Interview with Moaz Mansour of Gaza Online
DIY meets Infrastructure: A conversation with Moaz Mansour of Gaza Online Jane Shi On June 12th, 2025, Israel cut off
https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/08/24/interview-with-moab-mansour-of-gaza-online/
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🕊️ Interview with Moaz Mansour of Gaza Online
DIY meets Infrastructure: A conversation with Moaz Mansour of Gaza Online Jane Shi On June 12th, 2025, Israel cut off
https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/08/24/interview-with-moab-mansour-of-gaza-online/
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🕊️ Interview with Moaz Mansour of Gaza Online
DIY meets Infrastructure: A conversation with Moaz Mansour of Gaza Online Jane Shi On June 12th, 2025, Israel cut off
https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/08/24/interview-with-moab-mansour-of-gaza-online/
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I’ve just signed this open letter calling on Higher Education to strengthen systems of care for Black, global majority and neurodivergent staff and students, following the death of Professor Jason Arday.
It sets out three specific demands for action, alongside calls for urgent inquiry into the circumstances leading to his death.
You don’t have to work in academia to sign it - please sign or share if you can.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfz8pSxrx8h4iZiw6pywyuW0XxaJpxUj19P5zkPi2dxObymMQ/viewform
#Neurodivergent #BlackLivesMatter #Autism #DisabilityJustice #Ableism
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I’ve just signed this open letter calling on Higher Education to strengthen systems of care for Black, global majority and neurodivergent staff and students, following the death of Professor Jason Arday.
It sets out three specific demands for action, alongside calls for urgent inquiry into the circumstances leading to his death.
You don’t have to work in academia to sign it - please sign or share if you can.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfz8pSxrx8h4iZiw6pywyuW0XxaJpxUj19P5zkPi2dxObymMQ/viewform
#Neurodivergent #BlackLivesMatter #Autism #DisabilityJustice #Ableism
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I’ve just signed this open letter calling on Higher Education to strengthen systems of care for Black, global majority and neurodivergent staff and students, following the death of Professor Jason Arday.
It sets out three specific demands for action, alongside calls for urgent inquiry into the circumstances leading to his death.
You don’t have to work in academia to sign it - please sign or share if you can.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfz8pSxrx8h4iZiw6pywyuW0XxaJpxUj19P5zkPi2dxObymMQ/viewform
#Neurodivergent #BlackLivesMatter #Autism #DisabilityJustice #Ableism
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I’ve just signed this open letter calling on Higher Education to strengthen systems of care for Black, global majority and neurodivergent staff and students, following the death of Professor Jason Arday.
It sets out three specific demands for action, alongside calls for urgent inquiry into the circumstances leading to his death.
You don’t have to work in academia to sign it - please sign or share if you can.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfz8pSxrx8h4iZiw6pywyuW0XxaJpxUj19P5zkPi2dxObymMQ/viewform
#Neurodivergent #BlackLivesMatter #Autism #DisabilityJustice #Ableism
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📢 “Still A Locked Door”: Mental Health Peer Advocates Remember Those Living in Disability Institutions
Jess Whatcott For the staff at the Peer Self-Advocacy Program of Disability Rights California, experiences with …
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📢 “Still A Locked Door”: Mental Health Peer Advocates Remember Those Living in Disability Institutions
Jess Whatcott For the staff at the Peer Self-Advocacy Program of Disability Rights California, experiences with …
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📢 “Still A Locked Door”: Mental Health Peer Advocates Remember Those Living in Disability Institutions
Jess Whatcott For the staff at the Peer Self-Advocacy Program of Disability Rights California, experiences with …
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September at HT: make room for what feels useful.
Lakefront Field Day. A queer bodybuilding film at Reeling. A dysautonomia roundtable + movement lab with Chicagoland DPOCC. Plus yoga, Zumba, game night, D&D, book club, and more.
#MoveWithHan #Chicago #QTPOCChicago #DisabilityJustice #Fitnesssky -
🏗️ When coercion in care makes Kilmeade’s “just kill ’em” thinkable
Shannon Pagdon Content warnings: coercion, forced treatment, incarceration, institutionalization, eugenics, death,
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🏗️ When coercion in care makes Kilmeade’s “just kill ’em” thinkable
Shannon Pagdon Content warnings: coercion, forced treatment, incarceration, institutionalization, eugenics, death,
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🏗️ When coercion in care makes Kilmeade’s “just kill ’em” thinkable
Shannon Pagdon Content warnings: coercion, forced treatment, incarceration, institutionalization, eugenics, death,
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🏗️ When coercion in care makes Kilmeade’s “just kill ’em” thinkable
Shannon Pagdon Content warnings: coercion, forced treatment, incarceration, institutionalization, eugenics, death,
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Dizzy when you stand up? Your body isn’t being dramatic. 🧠
Join us Sunday, September 27 for Dizzy Does It, a #dysautonomia roundtable + movement lab at Han Training.
Ahead of Dysautonomia Awareness Month, we’re making space to talk about it together.
#disabilityjustice #lgbtq+ #Chicago #event -
DWP is letting a private company use AI to help decide disabled people's benefits - with barely any oversight. I've signed to get it stopped. Takes 30 seconds: https://the.organise.network/campaigns/network-ban-ai-pip-assessments-remove-ingeus-contracts-06e372b810577d0b
#PIP #Disabilityjustice #LLM #AI #inequality -
DWP is letting a private company use AI to help decide disabled people's benefits - with barely any oversight. I've signed to get it stopped. Takes 30 seconds: https://the.organise.network/campaigns/network-ban-ai-pip-assessments-remove-ingeus-contracts-06e372b810577d0b
#PIP #Disabilityjustice #LLM #AI #inequality -
DWP is letting a private company use AI to help decide disabled people's benefits - with barely any oversight. I've signed to get it stopped. Takes 30 seconds: https://the.organise.network/campaigns/network-ban-ai-pip-assessments-remove-ingeus-contracts-06e372b810577d0b
#PIP #Disabilityjustice #LLM #AI #inequality -
DWP is letting a private company use AI to help decide disabled people's benefits - with barely any oversight. I've signed to get it stopped. Takes 30 seconds: https://the.organise.network/campaigns/network-ban-ai-pip-assessments-remove-ingeus-contracts-06e372b810577d0b
#PIP #Disabilityjustice #LLM #AI #inequality -
Thousands of us are asking DWP to stop replacing nurses with untrained staff in PIP decisions. Will you add your name? 👉 https://the.organise.network/campaigns/network-don-t-let-untrained-staff-decide-our-pip-claims-6f6a3ebfb860fa3e
#PIP #inequality #UKpolitics #disabilityjustice -
Thousands of us are asking DWP to stop replacing nurses with untrained staff in PIP decisions. Will you add your name? 👉 https://the.organise.network/campaigns/network-don-t-let-untrained-staff-decide-our-pip-claims-6f6a3ebfb860fa3e
#PIP #inequality #UKpolitics #disabilityjustice -
Thousands of us are asking DWP to stop replacing nurses with untrained staff in PIP decisions. Will you add your name? 👉 https://the.organise.network/campaigns/network-don-t-let-untrained-staff-decide-our-pip-claims-6f6a3ebfb860fa3e
#PIP #inequality #UKpolitics #disabilityjustice -
Thousands of us are asking DWP to stop replacing nurses with untrained staff in PIP decisions. Will you add your name? 👉 https://the.organise.network/campaigns/network-don-t-let-untrained-staff-decide-our-pip-claims-6f6a3ebfb860fa3e
#PIP #inequality #UKpolitics #disabilityjustice -
"Sami Schalk, Washieka Torres, Subini Annamma, Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis, Anna Hinton, Jina B."
🔗 The State of Critical Race Disability Studies A White Paper Report from the Disabled Scholars of Color Collective
https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/10/15/graphic-with-a-white-background-with-text-that-reads-the-state-of-critical-race-disability-studies-a-white-paper-report-from-the-disabled-scholars-of-color-collective/ -
"Sami Schalk, Washieka Torres, Subini Annamma, Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis, Anna Hinton, Jina B."
🔗 The State of Critical Race Disability Studies A White Paper Report from the Disabled Scholars of Color Collective
https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/10/15/graphic-with-a-white-background-with-text-that-reads-the-state-of-critical-race-disability-studies-a-white-paper-report-from-the-disabled-scholars-of-color-collective/ -
"Sami Schalk, Washieka Torres, Subini Annamma, Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis, Anna Hinton, Jina B."
🔗 The State of Critical Race Disability Studies A White Paper Report from the Disabled Scholars of Color Collective
https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/10/15/graphic-with-a-white-background-with-text-that-reads-the-state-of-critical-race-disability-studies-a-white-paper-report-from-the-disabled-scholars-of-color-collective/ -
Wenn mir das nächste Mal alte Menschen beim Flaschensammeln begegnen oder eine alleinerziehende Person um ein paar Euro für eine Brezel fürs Kind bittet, sage ich einfach: Reißt euch zusammen, ihr lebt schließlich im Paradies.⬇️
#HartAberFair #Klassismus #Kritik #Privilege #SozialeGerechtigkeit #Armut #Privilegien #DisabilityJustice #Systemkritik #Talkshow #Monchi
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Wenn mir das nächste Mal alte Menschen beim Flaschensammeln begegnen oder eine alleinerziehende Person um ein paar Euro für eine Brezel fürs Kind bittet, sage ich einfach: Reißt euch zusammen, ihr lebt schließlich im Paradies.⬇️
#HartAberFair #Klassismus #Kritik #Privilege #SozialeGerechtigkeit #Armut #Privilegien #DisabilityJustice #Systemkritik #Talkshow #Monchi