#disabilityjustice — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #disabilityjustice, aggregated by home.social.
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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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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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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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#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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My new video essay breaks down compulsory able-bodiedness, fascist rhetoric around "deformity," and why disability is actually a vital source of human diversity and innovation.
#DisabilityJustice #DisabilityRights #Ableism #DisabilityStudies #VideoEssay
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I'm back with mutual aid requests roundup article for the week after an unplanned hiatus last week for technical stuff. Amplifying each request is the bare minimum. Give direct support if it's within your capacity. Either way, be the person who dismantles the rotten capitalist conditioning that isolates you; "nobody is going to help/save you." Prove them wrong.
https://mutualaidspace.org/mutual-aid-requests-roundup-8-july-2026/
@[email protected] @[email protected] @mutualaidspace @[email protected] @edendestroyer
#DisabledWriters #press #activism #activitypub #fediverse #writer #politics #Iran #Palestine #DisabilityJustice #disastercapitalism #MutualAid #mutualaidspace #MutualAidRequest #DisabilityCrowdfund
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I'm back with mutual aid requests roundup article for the week after an unplanned hiatus last week for technical stuff. Amplifying each request is the bare minimum. Give direct support if it's within your capacity. Either way, be the person who dismantles the rotten capitalist conditioning that isolates you; "nobody is going to help/save you." Prove them wrong.
https://mutualaidspace.org/mutual-aid-requests-roundup-8-july-2026/
@[email protected] @[email protected] @mutualaidspace @[email protected] @edendestroyer
#DisabledWriters #press #activism #activitypub #fediverse #writer #politics #Iran #Palestine #DisabilityJustice #disastercapitalism #MutualAid #mutualaidspace #MutualAidRequest #DisabilityCrowdfund
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I'm back with mutual aid requests roundup article for the week after an unplanned hiatus last week for technical stuff. Amplifying each request is the bare minimum. Give direct support if it's within your capacity. Either way, be the person who dismantles the rotten capitalist conditioning that isolates you; "nobody is going to help/save you." Prove them wrong.
https://mutualaidspace.org/mutual-aid-requests-roundup-8-july-2026/
@[email protected] @[email protected] @mutualaidspace @[email protected] @edendestroyer
#DisabledWriters #press #activism #activitypub #fediverse #writer #politics #Iran #Palestine #DisabilityJustice #disastercapitalism #MutualAid #mutualaidspace #MutualAidRequest #DisabilityCrowdfund
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I'm back with mutual aid requests roundup article for the week after an unplanned hiatus last week for technical stuff. Amplifying each request is the bare minimum. Give direct support if it's within your capacity. Either way, be the person who dismantles the rotten capitalist conditioning that isolates you; "nobody is going to help/save you." Prove them wrong.
https://mutualaidspace.org/mutual-aid-requests-roundup-8-july-2026/
@[email protected] @[email protected] @mutualaidspace @[email protected] @edendestroyer
#DisabledWriters #press #activism #activitypub #fediverse #writer #politics #Iran #Palestine #DisabilityJustice #disastercapitalism #MutualAid #mutualaidspace #MutualAidRequest #DisabilityCrowdfund
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I'm back with mutual aid requests roundup article for the week after an unplanned hiatus last week for technical stuff. Amplifying each request is the bare minimum. Give direct support if it's within your capacity. Either way, be the person who dismantles the rotten capitalist conditioning that isolates you; "nobody is going to help/save you." Prove them wrong.
https://mutualaidspace.org/mutual-aid-requests-roundup-8-july-2026/
@[email protected] @[email protected] @mutualaidspace @[email protected] @edendestroyer
#DisabledWriters #press #activism #activitypub #fediverse #writer #politics #Iran #Palestine #DisabilityJustice #disastercapitalism #MutualAid #mutualaidspace #MutualAidRequest #DisabilityCrowdfund
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❤️💛💚 Happy Juneteenth
Juneteenth reminds us that freedom & equality must include access, opportunity & full participation for everyone.
Today, we celebrate the strength, leadership & contributions of Black Americans, including people with disabilities whose advocacy helps move all of us toward a more inclusive future.
Freedom means access
Equality means inclusion
Community means everyone belongs#Juneteenth #FreedomDay #PCB #Accessibility #Inclusion #DisabilityJustice #VisionLoss #Blindness
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RE: https://ohai.social/@Garwboy/116753869821948051
Unintended consequences - The age verification debate is backwards. It prioritizes theoretical risks to privileged kids over documented harms to those already marginalized. For disabled youth, LGBTQ+ teens, and kids in unstable homes, social media isn't a distraction—it's a lifeline. Banning access punishes the most vulnerable while doing nothing about algorithmic harms. Real policy would protect without erasing. #AgeVerification #DigitalEquity #DisabilityJustice #a11y #MarginalizedVoices
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Wir lösen unser Transparenzversprechen ein!
Ab jetzt gibt es hier regelmäßig ungefilterte Einblicke in unsere Arbeit im Bezirksausschuss, mit allen Erfolgen und Hürden.
Die gute Nachricht zuerst: Wir sitzen in allen Unterausschüssen! Das wird Kraft kosten, aber wir nehmen diese Aufgabe für euch ernst.⬇️
#Kommunalpolitik #DieLinke #Bezirksausschuss #München #Studium #Wohnen #Selbstvertretung #Inklusion #Transparenz #SozialeGerechtigkeit #DisabilityJustice #NotAboutUsWithoutUs
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Die fallende Brandmauer. 🧱🔥
Die nackten Zahlen der Jahre 2021 bis 2026 zeigen ein erschreckendes Bild: Über 930 Mal haben CDU und CSU auf kommunaler Ebene bereits inhaltlich mit rechtsextremen Kräften zusammengearbeitet.⬇️
#NoAfD #Intersektionalität #Feminismus #EVP #Brandmauer #WeberLeaks #DisabilityJustice #Antifaschismus #Antifa #Solidarität #Politik #Demokratie #Menschenrechte #Asyl
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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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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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“[W]e owe it to ourselves to name the world we cannot live without, even as we diagnose the world we cannot live within.” (Benjamin 2022, 279)
“[T]ransformative change happens when we are willing to build the things that we know must exist.” (Hayes and Kaba 2023, 13)
Disabled people know how to live in a world that wishes we would die. Technology has long been in the business of writing disabled and otherwise oppressed people out of the future. The chapters of this book describe technological projects that enact eugenics through medical exclusion, educational exclusion, employment exclusion, and incarceration which produce layers of stratification and removal of disabled and oppressed people from public life. With every breath, disabled people write a disabled future, one in which we all belong, regardless of the circumstances of our births or the collisions of our fragile flesh with a harsh and sometimes toxic earth. Disabled articulations, our sociotechnical assemblages, chart a new future for us all by undermining what we believe is possible in the present.
This book has been an exercise in working my own way out of hopelessness. Sometimes, it can feel as though the structures of oppression are fractally distributed in never-ending spirals (Williams 2021). These structures become legible at every layer of our sociotechnical world, not merely because oppression has been built into technology, but because the structures of oppression are human. This revelation is not cause for despair but for hope and for action. Fundamentally, oppression is about human relationships — specifically toxic ones, neglectful ones, and domineering ones. We often talk about human relationships as a way out of our contemporary dystopia (Hayes and Kaba 2023; Piepzna-Samarasinha 2018; 2022), and I believe that, firmly. However, we sometimes interpret our social problems as stemming from absences of relation, from which relation will save us. Instead, it is necessary to understand that while our current relations are ones of alienation and subjugation, they are still relations. We are not tasked with building relations where there previously were none, but with forging new relations, healing relations, and growing relations away from toxic and hateful ones. This configuration requires that we acknowledge our role in oppression. We must abolish our internal metaeugenic logics, our ideologies of replacement, and our fascist alienation and domination as a part of this revolution.
This book is titled “Disabling Intelligences” for many reasons. First, because so-called “AI” is built off of historical projects committed to the excision of disability from the classification of humanity. Second, because technochauvinism has created the conditions of disablement for many. And finally, I have named this book “Disabling Intelligences” because the concept of intelligence is inextricable from the heart of eugenics and must be dismantled as a socially constructed, metrically derived, and algorithmically upheld category of oppression.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-02665-1
[image is the cover of Rua M. Williams's Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI, a deep pink cover with orange vines published by palgrave macmillan, held in front of a rainbow glass background.]
#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #AIHype #DisabilityJustice #eugenics #metaeugenics
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I was honored to work with Cannach MacBride, Taraneh Fazeli, and Allie Lynn at United States Artists on Shift Space 5.0. In this issue, I was able to write the first official publication about the ongoing Cyborg Imaginaries Project. I was also able to have a beautiful conversation with my dear friend and fellow Just Tech alum, Tawana Petty. Please check it out!
"The Cyborg Imaginaries project has been about how disabled people configure their own socio-technical worlds, but it’s also about how policy will not save us. In my interviews, we really uncovered how the inadequacies and intentional obstructions in policy organize society against disabled life. In my work, I am targeting policy reform in particular. I’m also trying to work with technology researchers to understand how when you do research, particularly in adaptive and assistive technology, and you don’t look at the policy landscape, then that thing you made will probably never wind up in a disabled person’s life. So we work on that problem, but I’ve also always had an eye toward how to get away from the dependency on policy to protect us. Sometimes I view policy as a kind of band-aid on a society that won’t take care of itself. Policy can also be a scaffold that supports a society to organize different ways of relating to each other, and the opposite is also true. Many of the policy workers I interviewed were always anxious about how complaints about inadequacy in their policies could lead to the removal of those policies — and now we see that they’re taking it all away anyway. So now, more than ever, we really have to think about how we can organize outside of this structure."
Conversation with Tawana Petty: https://www.shiftspace.pub/writing/mycelium-is-technology-is-power-is-poetry
Cyborg Imaginaries: https://www.shiftspace.pub/writing/cyborg-realities-cyborg-imaginaries-cyborg-revolutions
Full Issue: https://www.shiftspace.pub/
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I am hosting a race and documentary to spread awareness against ABA in November.
https://www.facebook.com/share/1AMm2J8A49/
#AntiABA #EndABA #ABAReform #StopABA #Neurodiversity #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticVoices #ListenToAutistics #DisabilityRights #AutismAdvocacy #SayNoToABA #AutismAcceptance #ABAisAbuse
#AutisticJustice #AutisticRights #AutismEducation #AutismAwareness #HumanRights #AutismRevolution #StopTheHarm #BanABA #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #AutisticCommunity #Neurodivergent #DisabilityJustice -
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#AntiABA #EndABA #ABAReform #StopABA #Neurodiversity #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticVoices #ListenToAutistics #DisabilityRights #AutismAdvocacy #SayNoToABA #AutismAcceptance #ABAisAbuse #BoycottABA
#AutisticJustice #AutisticRights #AutismEducation #AutismAwareness #HumanRights #AutismRevolution #StopTheHarm #BanABA #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #AutisticCommunity #Neurodivergent #DisabilityJustice #AutisticSurvivors #TraumaInformedCare #AutismCulture #SupportNotSuppress -
#AntiABA #EndABA #ABAReform #StopABA #Neurodiversity #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticVoices #ListenToAutistics #DisabilityRights #AutismAdvocacy #SayNoToABA #AutismAcceptance #ABAisAbuse #BoycottABA
#AutisticJustice #AutisticRights #AutismEducation #AutismAwareness #HumanRights #AutismRevolution #StopTheHarm #BanABA #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #AutisticCommunity #Neurodivergent #DisabilityJustice #AutisticSurvivors #TraumaInformedCare #AutismCulture #SupportNotSuppress -
Disabled people have been trying to warn the public for years that “you do you” Covid policies were leading to increased discrimination and eugenics attitudes.
When States began criminalizing masks, we pleaded for support. We asked our non disabled peers to wear a mask in solidarity.
When healthcare facilities dropped masking, we called out the 10% fatality rate of hospital acquired COVID. We again asked for support. We begged people not to view us as expendable.
What did we hear in response??
Just stay home
How many comorbids do you have?
That person was probably going to die anyways
Survival of the fittest
The voices of those who hate us got louder and louder. Public spaces became increasingly unsafe, and we normalized large numbers of deaths and disability.
Now Trump is coming after accessibility. He’s ordering federal employees in “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility” programs to be put on paid leave and have a written plan to lay them off by Jan 31st. They’re going to literally force them to “just stay home”. He’s demanding lists from employers of everyone who was working in those offices as of election day.
He’s also frozen all civil rights cases at the Justice Department, which is responsible for handling ADA complaints.
He explains that we’re moving to a “merit based” society… which is a fancy way of saying disabled and marginalized people not welcome.
I urge all Americans to fight for the ADA. Fight for people in DEIA programs to keep their jobs.
We are not “less than”. We’ve been fighting for survival in a world that has told us over & over that they’re content to leave us by the wayside. Taking our employment is just another step towards making us disappear forever.
Wear a mask. Speak up. Support businesses run by marginalized and disabled individuals. Reach out to them and ask them how you can provide support.
Don’t leave us by the wayside.
#dei #deia #ada #americanswithdisabilities #disabilityrights #disabilityjustice #ableism #eugenics
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Disabled people have been trying to warn the public for years that “you do you” Covid policies were leading to increased discrimination and eugenics attitudes.
When States began criminalizing masks, we pleaded for support. We asked our non disabled peers to wear a mask in solidarity.
When healthcare facilities dropped masking, we called out the 10% fatality rate of hospital acquired COVID. We again asked for support. We begged people not to view us as expendable.
What did we hear in response??
Just stay home
How many comorbids do you have?
That person was probably going to die anyways
Survival of the fittest
The voices of those who hate us got louder and louder. Public spaces became increasingly unsafe, and we normalized large numbers of deaths and disability.
Now Trump is coming after accessibility. He’s ordering federal employees in “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility” programs to be put on paid leave and have a written plan to lay them off by Jan 31st. They’re going to literally force them to “just stay home”. He’s demanding lists from employers of everyone who was working in those offices as of election day.
He’s also frozen all civil rights cases at the Justice Department, which is responsible for handling ADA complaints.
He explains that we’re moving to a “merit based” society… which is a fancy way of saying disabled and marginalized people not welcome.
I urge all Americans to fight for the ADA. Fight for people in DEIA programs to keep their jobs.
We are not “less than”. We’ve been fighting for survival in a world that has told us over & over that they’re content to leave us by the wayside. Taking our employment is just another step towards making us disappear forever.
Wear a mask. Speak up. Support businesses run by marginalized and disabled individuals. Reach out to them and ask them how you can provide support.
Don’t leave us by the wayside.
#dei #deia #ada #americanswithdisabilities #disabilityrights #disabilityjustice #ableism #eugenics
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Disabled people have been trying to warn the public for years that “you do you” Covid policies were leading to increased discrimination and eugenics attitudes.
When States began criminalizing masks, we pleaded for support. We asked our non disabled peers to wear a mask in solidarity.
When healthcare facilities dropped masking, we called out the 10% fatality rate of hospital acquired COVID. We again asked for support. We begged people not to view us as expendable.
What did we hear in response??
Just stay home
How many comorbids do you have?
That person was probably going to die anyways
Survival of the fittest
The voices of those who hate us got louder and louder. Public spaces became increasingly unsafe, and we normalized large numbers of deaths and disability.
Now Trump is coming after accessibility. He’s ordering federal employees in “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility” programs to be put on paid leave and have a written plan to lay them off by Jan 31st. They’re going to literally force them to “just stay home”. He’s demanding lists from employers of everyone who was working in those offices as of election day.
He’s also frozen all civil rights cases at the Justice Department, which is responsible for handling ADA complaints.
He explains that we’re moving to a “merit based” society… which is a fancy way of saying disabled and marginalized people not welcome.
I urge all Americans to fight for the ADA. Fight for people in DEIA programs to keep their jobs.
We are not “less than”. We’ve been fighting for survival in a world that has told us over & over that they’re content to leave us by the wayside. Taking our employment is just another step towards making us disappear forever.
Wear a mask. Speak up. Support businesses run by marginalized and disabled individuals. Reach out to them and ask them how you can provide support.
Don’t leave us by the wayside.
#dei #deia #ada #americanswithdisabilities #disabilityrights #disabilityjustice #ableism #eugenics
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Disabled people have been trying to warn the public for years that “you do you” Covid policies were leading to increased discrimination and eugenics attitudes.
When States began criminalizing masks, we pleaded for support. We asked our non disabled peers to wear a mask in solidarity.
When healthcare facilities dropped masking, we called out the 10% fatality rate of hospital acquired COVID. We again asked for support. We begged people not to view us as expendable.
What did we hear in response??
Just stay home
How many comorbids do you have?
That person was probably going to die anyways
Survival of the fittest
The voices of those who hate us got louder and louder. Public spaces became increasingly unsafe, and we normalized large numbers of deaths and disability.
Now Trump is coming after accessibility. He’s ordering federal employees in “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility” programs to be put on paid leave and have a written plan to lay them off by Jan 31st. They’re going to literally force them to “just stay home”. He’s demanding lists from employers of everyone who was working in those offices as of election day.
He’s also frozen all civil rights cases at the Justice Department, which is responsible for handling ADA complaints.
He explains that we’re moving to a “merit based” society… which is a fancy way of saying disabled and marginalized people not welcome.
I urge all Americans to fight for the ADA. Fight for people in DEIA programs to keep their jobs.
We are not “less than”. We’ve been fighting for survival in a world that has told us over & over that they’re content to leave us by the wayside. Taking our employment is just another step towards making us disappear forever.
Wear a mask. Speak up. Support businesses run by marginalized and disabled individuals. Reach out to them and ask them how you can provide support.
Don’t leave us by the wayside.
#dei #deia #ada #americanswithdisabilities #disabilityrights #disabilityjustice #ableism #eugenics
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Disabled people have been trying to warn the public for years that “you do you” Covid policies were leading to increased discrimination and eugenics attitudes.
When States began criminalizing masks, we pleaded for support. We asked our non disabled peers to wear a mask in solidarity.
When healthcare facilities dropped masking, we called out the 10% fatality rate of hospital acquired COVID. We again asked for support. We begged people not to view us as expendable.
What did we hear in response??
Just stay home
How many comorbids do you have?
That person was probably going to die anyways
Survival of the fittest
The voices of those who hate us got louder and louder. Public spaces became increasingly unsafe, and we normalized large numbers of deaths and disability.
Now Trump is coming after accessibility. He’s ordering federal employees in “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility” programs to be put on paid leave and have a written plan to lay them off by Jan 31st. They’re going to literally force them to “just stay home”. He’s demanding lists from employers of everyone who was working in those offices as of election day.
He’s also frozen all civil rights cases at the Justice Department, which is responsible for handling ADA complaints.
He explains that we’re moving to a “merit based” society… which is a fancy way of saying disabled and marginalized people not welcome.
I urge all Americans to fight for the ADA. Fight for people in DEIA programs to keep their jobs.
We are not “less than”. We’ve been fighting for survival in a world that has told us over & over that they’re content to leave us by the wayside. Taking our employment is just another step towards making us disappear forever.
Wear a mask. Speak up. Support businesses run by marginalized and disabled individuals. Reach out to them and ask them how you can provide support.
Don’t leave us by the wayside.
#dei #deia #ada #americanswithdisabilities #disabilityrights #disabilityjustice #ableism #eugenics
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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/
#WomenWithDisabilities #DisabilityJustice #DisabilityPolicy #DisabledAndCapable #IntellectualDisabilities -
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/
#WomenWithDisabilities #DisabilityJustice #DisabilityPolicy #DisabledAndCapable #IntellectualDisabilities -
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/
#WomenWithDisabilities #DisabilityJustice #DisabilityPolicy #DisabledAndCapable #IntellectualDisabilities -
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/
#WomenWithDisabilities #DisabilityJustice #DisabilityPolicy #DisabledAndCapable #IntellectualDisabilities -
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/
#WomenWithDisabilities #DisabilityJustice #DisabilityPolicy #DisabledAndCapable #IntellectualDisabilities -
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/
#WomenWithDisabilities #DisabilityJustice #DisabilityPolicy #DisabledAndCapable #IntellectualDisabilities -
Wow! We just cannot express how grateful we are to everybody at @lucyparsonscent for organizing #LiberationSoup. This was an incredibly well-organized pamphlet and event that not only got a bunch of amazing orgs in one room, but also allowed us to connect with so many great folks in our community to talk about the state of houselessness in Boston since Wu’s vicious attack on Atkinson St. It was also incredible to see past Warm Up volunteers leading new groups in this area! If you reached out to us, we have a whole bunch of messages and we will be getting back to you all as soon as possible. #WarmUpBoston #LiberationSoup #Cambridge #CommunityDefense #HarmReduction #Indigeneity #ClimateJustice #Abolition #TenetUnions #AntiWar #ImmigrationJustice #MutualAid #OrganizedLabor #BlackLiberation #QueerPower #TransPower #DisabilityJustice #Activism #BostonActivism
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Summary of "Metaeugenics and Metaresistance: From Manufacturing the ‘Includeable Body’ to Walking Away from the Broom Closet
I will start this summary by explaining the title. I usually skip that part. This time I am going to explain the title because the title is so long, and so annoying. In "Academia" (which is just a fancy way to say college), there is a joke about how professors choose titles for their papers. It's not a specific joke. But everyone likes to make fun of titles that go like this "short catchy title": "long title with complicated meaning". I choose this kind of title a lot, because I think it's fun. I don't take myself too seriously.
The first part of this title is "Metaeugenics and Metaresistance". Something-ics is a kind of science, or a way of thinking, like economics, or politics. Eugenics is a way of thinking that says there are good bodies and bad bodies, and that human beings have a moral duty to keep their bodies "good" and to only have children with "good" bodies. Eugenics also says that governments are responsible for making sure their citizens are only people with "good" bodies. Eugenic science was overtly racist and ableist.
Most people believe that eugenics is over. They believe it was a bad science that happened in the past, and that we don't believe in it anymore. The problem with believing eugenics is over is that it makes it hard for you to notice when it is still happening. When more black and Indigenous people die from a virus, some people understand that this is because of racism in medicine. But when more disabled people die, we think it is because their bodies are weaker - That they do not have "good" bodies. The truth is that disabled people are dying more not /just/ because they are vulnerable but also because we made public choices that endanger their lives.
We made these choices because we still believe in good bodies and bad bodies. We still believe that it is everyone's moral duty to make their body as strong as possible. We still believe that some people deserve to die because of the body they are in. This is metaeugenics.
For something to be meta- is for it to exist without being said or written out loud. It is important to be clear that when we say disabled people, we do not mean just white disabled people. Understanding metaeugenics helps us to understand why we are okay with so many disabled people dying. It also helps us to understand that black and Indigenous people are not just vulnerable to racism, but to ableism also, even when they are not disabled in ways that are obvious to us. Because we do not care about disabled people, we allowed black and Indigenous people to be put at greater risk from racism in public health. Metaeugenics can help us understand how racism and ableism work together.
Resistance means to work against something. In this paper I want us to think about the ways we can work against metaeugenics by paying attention to metaresistance. To notice metaresistance, you have to think differently about what you are seeing when you see people resisting something. You have to notice both what someone is directly working against, and also notice how that resistence “speaks” or does resistance against other things that are not clear - like metaeugenics. I will give some examples later.
The next part of the title is “manufacturing the includable body”.
The “includable body” is something disability scholars write about. When we talk about inclusion, we usually mean that society should be open and accessible to everyone, no matter their disability. But when we “do” inclusion, schools and workplaces usually set some rules about what a person must do or be or look like in order to be included. Some scholars that write about this are Tania Titchkosky, Sara María Acevedo, Joe Stramondo, Eunjung Kim, and Anne McGuire. When a disabled child has to “earn” their place in the mainstream classroom by graduating from certain therapies, this means they have been made “includable”.
This is one way we uphold metaeugenics. We make disabled people work to make their bodies “includable” in therapies before we will accommodate them in “mainstream” spaces. Disabled people are morally obligated to make their bodies as “good” as possible, and if they don’t, they are called “non compliant”.
If you know anything about inclusion, you might be a little confused. Inclusion is a right! In the United States, we have the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act which means disabled people have the right to accommodations to access public life, work, and school. Unfortunately, rights and laws do not work without people doing the right thing. Even if you have the "right" to be included, who decides what counts as inclusion?
The problem with rights is that someone else is always in charge of deciding what "counts".
The United Nations has the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). In my paper, I try to explain that when you put these documents together, they show a global metaeugenic attitude toward disability. The CRPD says that disability must be recognized as a natural part of human diversity, but that adult decision makers have the authority to determine the "best interests" of a disabled child. In the CRC, adults are responsible for considering the "best interests of the Child" and children are guaranteed the right to "develop healthily". What does this mean when the child is born into a body that the world declares is "unhealthy" or "disordered"? Basically, a disabled child has the right to be "fixed". Our rights comand us to manufacture an includable body for any person whose body is not "normal".
The final part of this paper's title is "Walking away from the broom closet". Ursula K. le Guin was a famous science fiction author. She wrote a book called "The Ones who Walk away from Omelas". In this book, Omelas was a Utopic society. A utopia is a place where everyone is happy and cared for. In the story, people find out that Omelas's happiness is only possible because there is a child, locked in a broom closet, who takes on all the suffering so that everyone else can be happy.
I think that in the real world, we have lots of broom closets where we make people suffer so that we can have our happy idea of normal. I think prisons are an example of broom closets. I also think that for many disabled children, the "intensive interventions" we force them to do in their "best interests" are a kind of broom closet. They suffer so that we can have our happy idea of a future without disability.
Attitudes toward children can tell us about attitudes toward the future. If we want to ensure our children do not have to be disabled, then we must also want a future where there are no disabled people. The disabled community is large and diverse. There are some conditions which are painful and some people want treatments that help them feel at peace in their own bodies. But that doesn't mean that you can eliminate disability. Disability is a natural part of human life. The society that wants to eliminate disability can only hope to eliminate itself.
I will end this summary with some stories.
On August 2, 2018, NBC News’ Health website published an article praising Google Glass
and researchers at Stanford University for the creation of a wearable app that may improve eye
contact for children with autism (Scher, 2018).
In preschool, [he] struggled socially with other kids. One hit him in the
face with a rubber mallet and another in the shoulder with a metal shovel.
“He didn’t see it coming,” [she] told NBC News. “When you don’t look
kids in the face, you can’t see their reactions or know what to expect.”
When he was 5, he was diagnosed with autism.
[N]ow 9, [he] started working one on one with a therapist using applied
behavioral analysis, a technique to improve social behavior, but [his
mother] saw little progress.
“Nothing really changed,” she said. “Until Google Glass.”This child was assaulted by his peers. Because he was disabled, the solution was to put him in therapy. To use technology to change his behavior. To put him in a broom closet. So that other people could be happy.
In another project, researchers made a smart watch that would buzz to notify a child that they were behaving inappropriately. In this example, even "hand flapping" was considered inappropriate. At one point, "Child 5" was buzzed. He looked up and noticed that his teacher was too far away to stop him, and he continued flapping his hands. This child is my patron saint of noncompliance. His microresistance, written down in a scientific paper, is a testimony for all to see that the researchers are focusing on the wrong idea.
There are other examples, like the children who run away from robots designed to teach them social skills, or the children who scream at their therapists.
If we pay attention to where our participants are resisting our research, we can learn to recognize these broom closets, unlock the doors, and take these children out of Omelas forever.
https://ojs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/cjcr/article/view/1976
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