#disabilityjustice — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #disabilityjustice, aggregated by home.social.
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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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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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"The difference between their dependence and mine is not that mine exists. It is that mine is visible." This essay reframes independence from the ground up.
#Disability #Interdependence #Accessibility #Humanism #DisabilityJustice
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#Money, the interesting thing about it is if you #exist in #poverty, you desperately need it for your day to day survival, then if your on the opposite end as in being a multi million or billionaire in reality money means nothing, because everything you own and do is leveraged off of debt that you one don't actually own and second can never actually satisfy, and the rules of the game are very different for those in poverty, and the rules are slightly different if your in the middle, but if your on top, the rules don't apply to you unless somehow your generation and hoarding of wealth imposes upon another top income holder, basically if your in poverty all the way to the bottom end of double digit millions, your beholden to the entire state if it where, and beyond that the entire state apparently is beholden to you and your ability to leverage debt, it is a rigged system of epic inequality and strongly embraces prejudice against the rest of us whom simply would appreciate the basics in life to be readily available without so much turmoil, and stress to our mental and physical wellbeing, money is an illusion of power and has left far to many of us going hungry, literally;
You can encourage my continued useless #poetry, creativity and expression of self, #commentary, random thoughts, #philosophy and ideas, and by doing so your helping to feed, house and clothe a #disabled man living in #poverty, $5-10-15 It All Helps, via #cashapp at $woctxphotog or via #paypal at paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=…
#Austerity #Awareness #BrokenSystem #Capitalism #Change #ChronicPoverty #CorporateGreed #CriticalThinking #DailyStruggle #DebtSlavery #DisabledVoices #DisabilityJustice #EconomicInequality #EconomicJustice #EconomicViolence #Economics #Education #ExistentialThought #Financial #FinancialTrauma #FinanciallyDistressed #FoodInsecurity #Hunger #Homelessness #HumanCost #IllusionOfWealth #Inequality #Justice #LateStageCapitalism #MarginalizedVoices #MentalHealthMatters #MutualAid #Neoliberalism #Oligarchy #PhilosophyOfMoney #Plutocracy #Politics #PovertyAwareness #PowerAndControl #PowerDynamics #RealTalk #Reform #RiggedSystem #SocialCommentary #SocialEconomicWarfare #SocialJustice #Society #Solidarity #SpeakTruth #StatusQuo #SupportDisabled #Survival #SystemicOppression #SystemicPoverty #TaxTheRich #TruthBomb #TruthToPower #WakeUpCall #WealthGap #WealthInequality #WorkingClass #WorkingPoor
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it is time to face and accept the real world fact that Autistic adults use drugs and Autistic adults who use drugs are targeted by human traffickers #harmreduction #harmreductionsaveslives #humantrafficking #humanbenefitstrafficking #solidaritymakesallthedifference #communitysurvivalnetworks #disabilityjustice
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The biggest takeaway: the public still cannot reliably measure what happens in most ONWSIB reconsiderations.
This is an evidence transparency issue, not a basis for broad outcome claims.
Read the update 👇 https://www.3mpwrapp.ca/community-updates/research/workers-compensation/2026/04/26/onwsib-outcome-gap-audit-update/
#WorkersComp #WSIB #DisabilityJustice #OpenData #CivicTech #Accessibility #DataTransparency #Ontario
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Kürzlich saß ich mit einer anderen Aktivistin zusammen, die ebenfalls mit einer Behinderung lebt. Wir haben uns darüber ausgetauscht, wie schnell uns das Etikett „unbequem“ oder „ungeduldig“ angeheftet wird, sobald wir Missstände in dieser Gesellschaft offen und präzise benennen.⬇️
#Ableismus #DisabilityJustice #CripPower #AbleismusKritik #Inklusion #DisabilityPride #Ableism #Behinderung #Feminismus #Feminismus #Widerstand #Selbstbestimmung #SocialJustice #Aktivismus #Gerechtigkeit #Empowerment
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Everyday Acts of Care as Resistance in Our Communities
Resistance encompasses diverse actions beyond physical presence, such as mutual aid and community care, which are crucial forms of support. These involve sharing resources, checking on neighbors, and behind-the-scenes organization, often led by disabled and neurodivergent individuals. Helping others is a vital form of resistance that emphasizes sustainability and connection within communities.https://dreamspacestudio.net/everyday-acts-of-care-as-resistance-in-our-communities/
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Everyday Acts of Care as Resistance in Our Communities
Resistance encompasses diverse actions beyond physical presence, such as mutual aid and community care, which are crucial forms of support. These involve sharing resources, checking on neighbors, and behind-the-scenes organization, often led by disabled and neurodivergent individuals. Helping others is a vital form of resistance that emphasizes sustainability and connection within communities.https://dreamspacestudio.net/everyday-acts-of-care-as-resistance-in-our-communities/
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Everyday Acts of Care as Resistance in Our Communities
Resistance encompasses diverse actions beyond physical presence, such as mutual aid and community care, which are crucial forms of support. These involve sharing resources, checking on neighbors, and behind-the-scenes organization, often led by disabled and neurodivergent individuals. Helping others is a vital form of resistance that emphasizes sustainability and connection within communities.https://dreamspacestudio.net/everyday-acts-of-care-as-resistance-in-our-communities/
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Everyday Acts of Care as Resistance in Our Communities
Resistance encompasses diverse actions beyond physical presence, such as mutual aid and community care, which are crucial forms of support. These involve sharing resources, checking on neighbors, and behind-the-scenes organization, often led by disabled and neurodivergent individuals. Helping others is a vital form of resistance that emphasizes sustainability and connection within communities.https://dreamspacestudio.net/everyday-acts-of-care-as-resistance-in-our-communities/
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Everyday Acts of Care as Resistance in Our Communities
Resistance encompasses diverse actions beyond physical presence, such as mutual aid and community care, which are crucial forms of support. These involve sharing resources, checking on neighbors, and behind-the-scenes organization, often led by disabled and neurodivergent individuals. Helping others is a vital form of resistance that emphasizes sustainability and connection within communities.https://dreamspacestudio.net/everyday-acts-of-care-as-resistance-in-our-communities/
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The most excellent end of year #DeathPanel episode, Health Fascism and the Anti-State State, is now no longer paywalled and fully transcribed.
https://blindarchive.substack.com/p/health-fascism-and-the-anti-state
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Wenn Menschen wie ich politisch Stellung beziehen, kommt sofort der immer gleiche alte ableistische Reflex: Wir seien "missbraucht", "vorgeschoben" oder "manipuliert". Dahinter steckt kein Zufall, es ist eine Strategie.⬇️
#DisabilityJustice #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #Disability #IntersectionalFeminism #QueerAndDisabled #AntiAbleism #Ableism #AntiRacism #QueerResistance #DisabledAndProud #Solidarity #Solidarität #Inklusion #SolidarityIsPower #MarginalizedVoices #Behinderung #FaceSMA
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There’s a disabled trans woman in my extended network who needs someone to help manage her Chuffed campaign for a family in #Gaza. The role is mostly staying in touch with her, keeping the page updated, and helping sustain visibility.
If you’ve done digital organising before, or have the steadiness and capacity to take on this labour, it would genuinely help. Mutual aid is shared work, not something one person should be carrying alone.
If you’re in a position to help, hmu.
Boosting this helps it reach the right people. Thank you.#CollectiveCare #mutualaid #CareWork #transmutualaid #DisabilityJustice #disabledmutualaid #MutualAidRequest #MutualAidBoost #palestine
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There’s a disabled trans woman in my extended network who needs someone to help manage her Chuffed campaign for a family in #Gaza. The role is mostly staying in touch with her, keeping the page updated, and helping sustain visibility.
If you’ve done digital organising before, or have the steadiness and capacity to take on this labour, it would genuinely help. Mutual aid is shared work, not something one person should be carrying alone.
If you’re in a position to help, hmu.
Boosting this helps it reach the right people. Thank you.#CollectiveCare #mutualaid #CareWork #transmutualaid #DisabilityJustice #disabledmutualaid #MutualAidRequest #MutualAidBoost #palestine
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Die Bundesregierung plant ernsthaft, psychisch erkrankte Menschen zu Sonderkontrollen ins Jobcenter zu zwingen, um zu prüfen, ob sie "wirklich" krank sind. Das ist kein Sozialstaat.⬇️
#Ableismus #AbleismusTötet #Ableism #Saneismus #Saneism #PsychischeGesundheit #Inklusion #Inkluencer #Behinderung #Bürgergeld #Sozialpolitik #Klassismus #Menschenrechte #DisabilityJustice #MentalHealthIsHealth #MentalIllness #MentalHealth #Solidarität #StopTheStigma
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Critics Alarmed as Trump Leverages Shutdown to Gut Special Education Office
Some believe the layoffs are a way to force the special education law to be managed by some other federal office. -
Buchtipp zum #ProtestTag5Mai
Subjekte der Inklusion
Die Theorie der trilemmatischen Inklusion zum Mitfühlen
von der großartigen Mai-Anh Boger ✊ 💞"Dieses Buch handelt von dem dissonanten Begehren, nicht diskriminiert zu werden. [...] Es ist geschrieben worden für alle, die (a) sich anders fühlen oder (b) darauf bestehen, ganz normale Menschen zu sein oder (c) sich fragen, ob die Worte ‚anders‘ und ‚normal‘ für sie überhaupt Sinn ergeben oder (d) alles davon auf einmal – in einem manchmal kaum aushaltbaren Gewirr der Selbstbefragung, sowie für deren Pädagog_innen und andere, die dieses Gefühl verstehen wollen."
https://www.edition-assemblage.de/buecher/subjekte-der-inklusion/
#DisabilityJustice #Inklusion #Trilemma #UnSichtbar #Barrierefreiheit #AngryCripples #InklusionIstMenschenrecht #HumanRights #beHindert #BehindertenrechteSindMenschenrechte #SocialJustice #AuDHG #MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #DeafStudies #AbolishAbleism #Ableismus #AbleismusAbschaffen #Neurodivergenz #CrippleFight #WirSindNichtAlle #verRückt
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In my twenties, I was denied a medically necessary hysterectomy because I “might meet a man who wants kids”
I fought for years to get the surgery, spending weeks out of every month stuck in a hospital bed needing iron and blood transfusions. Too disabled to work. Fainting almost daily. In constant pain.
No matter how sick I got, the hypothetical future husband and baby came before my health. What these imaginary beings might want was more important than what I needed.
When I finally had the surgery, I had a severe post operative complication. The surgeon didn’t believe me. She sent me home.
I had to go to the ER four times before they found the life threatening internal bleed. Each time dismissing me as “attention seeking” or accusing me of not understanding some pain was to be expected.
My then boyfriend saved my life. He got loud and refused to take me home, saying he was convinced I would die.
It turns out, he was right. I had a giant bleed in my belly and an infected abscess that had been growing for weeks while they gaslit and ignored me.
It was a hell of a crash course in medical misogyny, as well as the need to always have an advocate in healthcare settings:
#misogyny #disability #chronicillness #patriarchy #womenshealth #disability #obgyn #hysterectomy #childfree #medicalmisogyny #disabilityjustice
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Educate your students and yourself about the battle for this landmark legislation. Get our free Crip Camp resources to bring this story to your learning community.
https://journeysinfilm.org/product/crip-camp-guides/
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By my friend Anna Zivarts, "Don’t Forget About Non-Drivers in Rural America". Aging population, housing prices, needs of nondrivers all come together in rural America.
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2024/08/23/dont-forget-about-nondrivers-in-rural-americaI highly recommend Anna's book When Driving Is Not an Option https://islandpress.org/books/when-driving-not-option#desc.
#BikeTooter #transportation #rural #RuralLife #housing #infrastructure #transit #WeekWithoutDriving #nondrivers #disability #MobilityJustice #MoveEquity #AnnaZivarts #DisabilityJustice
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I was coincidentally gushing about #SunauraTaylor last night, then woke up and realized she's on the latest episode of #DeathPanel to discuss a new book called #DisabledEcologies
I'm 10 minutes in and it's already so good-- looking at ecological damage as both a cause of and a type of disability, and many connected ideas and movements.
Audio, transcript, and notes:
https://m.soundcloud.com/deathpanel/disabled-ecologies-w-sunaura-taylor
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CW: Attacks on Disabled people, PIP, UK politics
The attacks on Disabled people and social security such as Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is further evidence of what the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Disabled People reported last week, which "said the UK government had 'failed to take all appropriate measures to address grave and systematic violations' of disabled people’s human rights and had 'failed to eliminate the root causes of inequality and discrimination' since November 2016. It particularly highlighted its failures on the rights to independent living, to work, and to an adequate standard of living and social protection, laid out in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD)." - https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/seven-years-on-and-no-progress-on-disability-rights-by-uk-government-says-un/
(Obviously to really tackle the root causes, things like capitalism need to go and no electoral system is going to help here!)
Central to independent living is the recognition that Disabled people face socio-economic and ideologically (e.g medical model) shaped barriers, linking into the social model of disability. PIP - which already has such a harmful, damaging application and assessment process central to it - is intended to help with related extra costs, whether in work or not...
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"Alice Wong:
My main message is you are not alone but ableism, like white supremacy, is designed to pit us against each other to fight for the crumbs. We can build power, collaborate, and stir shit up because our cause is righteous and true. It is exhausting just to exist let alone defend our humanity every day. Honestly, I think what I went through last week brought me right to the breaking point. I have never felt so beaten down and defeated. It’s important to admit those dark scary thoughts and not gloss things over just to move on or put on a brave face. Lean into your rage, despair, and fear. Being honest with ourselves and others strips away the need to constantly perform and advocate. Remind yourself it never had to be this way and that all of us can resist in big and small ways. You are a goddamn oracle and your wisdom is a light that can show us the way forward. And we will not be erased no matter how hard these bastards try."
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Lawmakers Want To End SSI #MarriagePenalty For People With #DevelopmentalDisabilities https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2024/01/26/lawmakers-want-to-end-ssi-marriage-penalty-for-people-with-developmental-disabilities/30716/
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The #RadicalCommunalCare group who led on the above letter aims to be a network - with it currently connecting people across Europe - for disabled, chronically ill people & their partners where communal care can be discussed from an anarchistic/feminist viewpoint, but also put into practice. We have a Signal chat for exchange of information & support in the day-to-day & we aim to meet every 2-4 weeks via Signal video - with pacing - for thematic discussions (for instance: #MutualAid #AbolishTheFamily) alongside support & solidarity. It is an #AntiAbleist #AntiCapitalist #AntiFascist & #Intersectional space.
Being part of this group has had such a positive impact on me in a very short time. Despite being very introverted & also struggling with intense social anxiety - made worse by my #LongCovid & #OCD - from the first moment I got involved I have felt at ease, safe, welcome & heard. I have seen my confidence increase, my ability to advocate for myself - especially in terms of the #pandemic & my Long-Covid - improve. It's a place of solidarity & comradeship, approached from an intersectional #anarchist perspective.
If this sounds like something you want to be part of, help co-create & grow as a group & space, please get in touch!
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@Phil @OccasionalDucks
I am in favor of separate accounts, allowing us to discuss different issues. I am preparing to re-initiate my #AccordionEmoji 🪗 account so I can spin off my emoji discussionsI want to start one for my political and #disabilityJustice activism too so this one could be more accordion focused though there’s plenty of overlap
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International Women’s Day Hero of Invisible Disability Rights – Elaine Wilson:
In celebration of International Women's Day, OutOfExile_IDR honors Elaine Wilson, champion of invisible disability rights and the Olmstead Act. It seems germane, as March is also Developmental Disabilities Month.
During Martin Luther King week, I posted about Lois Curtis, a champion for Invisible Disability Rights (link below). Lois, togather with another woman, Elaine Wilson, fought all the way to the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) for the right to live in the community, rather than being institutionalized. Fighting courageously for their freedom, they won the right to freedom for all people with invisible disabilities. The case is often refered to as the “Brown v. Board of Education” for people with (Invisible) disabilities.
Excerpt below & image of Elaine from:
https://www.olmsteadrights.org/iamolmstead/history/[“Elaine Wilson became seriously ill when she was one years old. She was hospitalized with a raging fever and it was unclear whether she would survive... When the fever finally broke and Elaine was …sent home, ….Elaine had lost some of her early motor function abilities, such as crawling or even sitting up by herself. The doctors assured Elaine's mother that (it) was only a lingering effect of the illness…. Elaine eventually did recover, but very slowly”.[]
In school, Elaine lagged behind other students having difficulties with focus and learning , eventually being diagnosed with an Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) attributed to the prolonged high fever as an infant. Likley, this was the correct diagnosis.
She was reevaluated as a teen upon enrollment at “Gracewood State School and Hospitol” in Georgia. There, she was diagnosed with an ableist slur containing the “R" word, once used in reference to PEOPLE living with Down Syndrome. Providers believed the only recourse was institutionalization. (I am bitting my tongue and holding back my opinions on the lot of it.)
She would spend about a decade living in institutions (State hospitals) against her will. Following that, in the 1980s, she would be “ping-ponged" from care homes to hospitals, back and forth for nearly two decades of her life.
“When I was in an institution, I didn't like myself," Elaine says. "I was trapped. . . . I had no hope. I thought, Oh God, Oh God - When am I ever going to leave here?"
Another hero deserving mention on IWD is Sue Jamieson, the Atlanta Legal Aid Society Attorney who brought the case. Sue and Lois Curtis were joined by co-plaintiff Elaine Wilson, to blaze the path of freedom for countless individuals with disabilities in their wake.
After more than 30 years and 36 psychiatric institutions, at times living homelessness and in varous “care homes", Elaine along with Lois Curtis, were victorious and finally free.
The 1997 ruling by Senior U.S. District Judge Marvin H. Shoob said that “… denying the women a community-based life amounted to segregation of people covered by the Americans With Disabilities Act.” Judge Shoob later remarked “They were both so articulate” in regard to the testimony of Elaine Wilson and Lois Curitis.
Elaine passed in 2004 at the age of 53 but, will be forever remembered as a Disability Rights Legend for her resilience, strength and courage. As part of her testimony, she told the court: “When I was in an institution, I felt like I was in a little box and there was no way out”.
Thanks to Elaine Wilson and Lois Curtis, people with invisible disabilities are afforded the right to live in freedom at home, instead of confinement in a “box", cage or institution, merely because of a health issue. Thanks and honor to Elaine, Lois and Sue on this International Women’s Day.
“The Brave and the Strong” Lois Curitis – OutOfExile_ID:
https://kolektiva.social/@OutOfExile_IDR_Voice/109690867328587920Elaine’s story continued:
http://www.olmsteadrights.org/iamolmstead/history/item.5405-Elaine_Wilsons_Story_ContinuedMore on Olmstead and Elaine’s impact:
https://olmsteadrights.wordpress.com/tag/elaine-wilson/More from disabilityjustice.org:
https://disabilityjustice.org/olmstead-v-lc/ADA – Community Intergration for Everyone:
https://archive.ada.gov/olmstead/olmstead_about.htmInternational Women’s Day Image from:
https://www.desicomments.com/womens-day/international-womens-day-5/IMAGE CW - (eye contact)
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Hi! I'm peej. Introductory post to help find my people:
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Hi! I'm peej. Introductory post to help find my people:
Interests include
#Science #Plants #Astronomy #Folklore #Space #Mycology #ClimateJustice #DisabilityJustice #Vintage #Collections #Photography #Cooking #Baking #DIY #HomeDesign #FiberArts #PaperArts #Art #History #ArtHistory #Whales #Cats #Desert #DesertLife #Thrifting #Sustainability
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Hi! I'm peej. Introductory post to help find my people:
Interests include
#Science #Plants #Astronomy #Folklore #Space #Mycology #ClimateJustice #DisabilityJustice #Vintage #Collections #Photography #Cooking #Baking #DIY #HomeDesign #FiberArts #PaperArts #Art #History #ArtHistory #Whales #Cats #Desert #DesertLife #Thrifting #Sustainability
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Hi! I'm peej. Introductory post to help find my people:
Interests include
#Science #Plants #Astronomy #Folklore #Space #Mycology #ClimateJustice #DisabilityJustice #Vintage #Collections #Photography #Cooking #Baking #DIY #HomeDesign #FiberArts #PaperArts #Art #History #ArtHistory #Whales #Cats #Desert #DesertLife #Thrifting #Sustainability