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#DisabilityJustice #Comics #GraphicMedicine #DisabilityStudies

Call for papers!

https://www.graphicmedicine.org/cfp-special-issue-of-disability-studies-quarterly-global-and-intersectional-framings-of-disability-in-comics-graphic-narratives/

I was once engaged to a self-proclaimed communist manchild who made me scream my feelings just to be heard and then called me abusive. He also had a panic attack one time because I held him accountable for his failures to be present in the relationship. I remember he also often used his neurodivergence as an excuse. We're both AuDHD. He's just never been socialised with the same expectations and social standards as women have. He's been outsourcing emotional labour to the women in his life: his mum, his sister, and me back then. So that's just his male privilege, not his neurodivergence. I'm glad he's been deported back to America. Oh, he's an American who never deconstructed his orientalism and colonial gaze, overstaying his welcome here in Indonesia. There are levels of men's fvckeries that are hiding behind leftist and disability justice language and are proof that sexuality isn't a choice. Because what do you mean I still like men? Tf.
Men are the first victims and the ultimate perpetrators of patriarchy. If they haven't dismantled that shit within themselves, they should steer clear of women. Just saying.
Don't argue with me, argue with your dads.

#misogyny @autistics @actuallyadhd #personalispolitical #politics #patriarchy #neurodivergence #disability #DisabilityJustice

I was once engaged to a self-proclaimed communist manchild who made me scream my feelings just to be heard and then called me abusive. He also had a panic attack one time because I held him accountable for his failures to be present in the relationship. I remember he also often used his neurodivergence as an excuse. We're both AuDHD. He's just never been socialised with the same expectations and social standards as women have. He's been outsourcing emotional labour to the women in his life: his mum, his sister, and me back then. So that's just his male privilege, not his neurodivergence. I'm glad he's been deported back to America. Oh, he's an American who never deconstructed his orientalism and colonial gaze, overstaying his welcome here in Indonesia. There are levels of men's fvckeries that are hiding behind leftist and disability justice language and are proof that sexuality isn't a choice. Because what do you mean I still like men? Tf.
Men are the first victims and the ultimate perpetrators of patriarchy. If they haven't dismantled that shit within themselves, they should steer clear of women. Just saying.
Don't argue with me, argue with your dads.

#misogyny @autistics @actuallyadhd #personalispolitical #politics #patriarchy #neurodivergence #disability #DisabilityJustice

Amidst the rubble of these difficult days, my child’s glasses were broken, leaving him unable to see or move due to severe astigmatism. It pains us that we are currently unable to provide a replacement. We appeal to compassionate hearts for a kind gesture so our little one can see his path again.
https://chuffed.org/project/019dd4f2-f74a-7ef8-9752-9209219103d0

#Gaza #MutualAidGaza #HelpGaza #GazaGenocide #KeepEyesOnGaza #DisabilityJustice @calli @franciswashere @Shibanarchiste @PeteKirkham @delsaulnier @blakasmoko @gvenema @neutrino

Amidst the rubble of these difficult days, my child’s glasses were broken, leaving him unable to see or move due to severe astigmatism. It pains us that we are currently unable to provide a replacement. We appeal to compassionate hearts for a kind gesture so our little one can see his path again.
https://chuffed.org/project/019dd4f2-f74a-7ef8-9752-9209219103d0

#Gaza #MutualAidGaza #HelpGaza #GazaGenocide #KeepEyesOnGaza #DisabilityJustice @calli @franciswashere @Shibanarchiste @PeteKirkham @delsaulnier @blakasmoko @gvenema @neutrino

Keri Gray: Bridging Disability & Racial Justice | The Independent Ep. 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rchTDrODsjc #Disability #Racism #Ableism #DisabilityJustice

Keri Gray: Bridging Disability & Racial Justice | The Independent Ep. 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rchTDrODsjc #Disability #Racism #Ableism #DisabilityJustice

So in Denmark, to get a card to prove that I'm disabled, I have to pay a total of 950 DKK!

750 DKK for a doctor to write an attestation that "Yes, she's disabled", and a 200 DKK admin fee for the card itself.

And then every third year (or less), I have to pay the admin fee again to renew, and if my conditions are not deemed permanent enough, I'll have to pay for another attestation from the doctor, that I'm still disabled.

And there is no way to get this expense covered by insurance or benefits.

We may have a social safety net, and single payer healthcare system, but if you're disabled, you're often just left paying out of pocket.

#DisabilityJustice #Disabled #DKPol #Handicap #DKHandicap

So in Denmark, to get a card to prove that I'm disabled, I have to pay a total of 950 DKK!

750 DKK for a doctor to write an attestation that "Yes, she's disabled", and a 200 DKK admin fee for the card itself.

And then every third year (or less), I have to pay the admin fee again to renew, and if my conditions are not deemed permanent enough, I'll have to pay for another attestation from the doctor, that I'm still disabled.

And there is no way to get this expense covered by insurance or benefits.

We may have a social safety net, and single payer healthcare system, but if you're disabled, you're often just left paying out of pocket.

#DisabilityJustice #Disabled #DKPol #Handicap #DKHandicap

How's your mental health these days?

As the U.S. regime is defunding mental health services, there are people who are stepping up.

This week on the @rootschangepodcast I am so happy to chat with Ashley Williams from Mind the Movement.

At a moment when organizations are being defunded and activists are in crisis, mental health is a key issue to uplift across our organizations and movement.

https://rootschangepodcast.transistor.fm/s5/6
#mentalhealth #disabilityjustice #activism #resist #nonprofit #podcast #care

How's your mental health these days?

As the U.S. regime is defunding mental health services, there are people who are stepping up.

This week on the @rootschangepodcast I am so happy to chat with Ashley Williams from Mind the Movement.

At a moment when organizations are being defunded and activists are in crisis, mental health is a key issue to uplift across our organizations and movement.

https://rootschangepodcast.transistor.fm/s5/6
#mentalhealth #disabilityjustice #activism #resist #nonprofit #podcast #care

too many U.S. Americans still believe in the Pro Bono Fairy who leaves a free attorney under the pillows of those who really really deserve it. This is not harmless. #disabilityjustice #poverty #injustice #marginalization #SocialAtomization #Neoliberalindividualism #justworldfallacy

too many U.S. Americans still believe in the Pro Bono Fairy who leaves a free attorney under the pillows of those who really really deserve it. This is not harmless. #disabilityjustice #poverty #injustice #marginalization #SocialAtomization #Neoliberalindividualism #justworldfallacy

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.

https://youtu.be/Bbj1stZwDsc

#DisabilityJustice #DisabilityRights #Ableism #DisabilityStudies #VideoEssay

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.

https://youtu.be/Bbj1stZwDsc

#DisabilityJustice #DisabilityRights #Ableism #DisabilityStudies #VideoEssay

RE: https://mutualaidspace.org/118539-2/

🌟Disabled people exist🌟 and it's really expensive to exist as a disabled person jfc. You know how long I have gone without meds in favour of having the ✨️luxury✨️ of eating something at all? How far into 2026 are we right now? That's how long I have gone without meds.
#mutualaid #poverty #disability #healthcare @[email protected] @[email protected] @disability
#classism #disabilityjustice

RE: https://mutualaidspace.org/118539-2/

🌟Disabled people exist🌟 and it's really expensive to exist as a disabled person jfc. You know how long I have gone without meds in favour of having the ✨️luxury✨️ of eating something at all? How far into 2026 are we right now? That's how long I have gone without meds.
#mutualaid #poverty #disability #healthcare @[email protected] @[email protected] @disability
#classism #disabilityjustice

I drew this after my recent art workshop in partnership with ME Action! I felt so much connection and awe (also, exhaustion and brain fried ofc).

Thank you everyone who participated in the workshop or helped make it happen in any way. It was truly magic.

P.S. I have art in an art exhibition about art for therapy & health, and I think the exhibit is really incredibly curated. I can’t believe 21 views of long covid received an honorable mention amongst so many phenomenal artists’ & powerful pieces!

You can check out the virtual gallery here:

Divulge: A National Exhibition Featuring the Use of Art for Therapy & Mental Health Awareness

I drew this after my recent art workshop in partnership with ME Action! I felt so much connection and awe (also, exhaustion and brain fried ofc).

Thank you everyone who participated in the workshop or helped make it happen in any way. It was truly magic.

P.S. I have art in an art exhibition about art for therapy & health, and I think the exhibit is really incredibly curated. I can’t believe 21 views of long covid received an honorable mention amongst so many phenomenal artists’ & powerful pieces!

You can check out the virtual gallery here:

Divulge: A National Exhibition Featuring the Use of Art for Therapy & Mental Health Awareness

Today I’m in a celebratory mood. On one hand, it’s Pride weekend in Berlin, and I’m on my way to the Internationalist Queer Pride march, a valued alternative to the commercialized and pinkwashing-ridden CSD. On the other, all 6 episodes of the first season of my #ActuallyAutistic podcast The Autistic Rant Hour are now online and available to binge.

Being a queer and disability activist doesn’t stop at making sure we have the right to change our names and change or delete our gender markers, to love whomever we choose or have the right to self-determination along with needed support and accessibility measures.
It also means standing up for the rights of people in intersecting struggles: migrant rights, asylum rights, worker rights, bodily autonomy, the right to live free of oppression, eugenics and apartheid, and the right to live at all, in times where folks are hunted down, locked up, denied life-saving medical care, ethnically cleansed and genocided, in more countries than anyone would have believed would still be the case in the 21st century.

My guest on the closing episode of Season 1, Tal’y Wozner (she/her), is the kind of person who understands that and who has always been part of this kind of struggle, resisting intersectionally and challenging preconceptions, both outside and inside queer spaces and discourse. This is why it was such a pleasure and a privilege to have her on the show, even though she isn’t autistic (how dare she!). Tune in to hear us discuss the different challenges of accessing places and services: I from the autistic perspective, and she from the mobility perspective. Together we not only explain the challenges, but also dig into their systemic reasons and reach some conclusions about the meaning of community and how disabled people can be there for each other to make going places more accessible than it, infuriatingly, is.

Get The Autistic Rant Hour wherever you get your podcasts, or see here for links to various platforms, RSS, online player and human-proofread transcripts: https://prepped.to/podcasts/autistic-rant-hour

#podcast #podcasting #disability #disabilityJustice #disabilityLife #autistic #autisticLife #CP

@autistics

Today I’m in a celebratory mood. On one hand, it’s Pride weekend in Berlin, and I’m on my way to the Internationalist Queer Pride march, a valued alternative to the commercialized and pinkwashing-ridden CSD. On the other, all 6 episodes of the first season of my #ActuallyAutistic podcast The Autistic Rant Hour are now online and available to binge.

Being a queer and disability activist doesn’t stop at making sure we have the right to change our names and change or delete our gender markers, to love whomever we choose or have the right to self-determination along with needed support and accessibility measures.
It also means standing up for the rights of people in intersecting struggles: migrant rights, asylum rights, worker rights, bodily autonomy, the right to live free of oppression, eugenics and apartheid, and the right to live at all, in times where folks are hunted down, locked up, denied life-saving medical care, ethnically cleansed and genocided, in more countries than anyone would have believed would still be the case in the 21st century.

My guest on the closing episode of Season 1, Tal’y Wozner (she/her), is the kind of person who understands that and who has always been part of this kind of struggle, resisting intersectionally and challenging preconceptions, both outside and inside queer spaces and discourse. This is why it was such a pleasure and a privilege to have her on the show, even though she isn’t autistic (how dare she!). Tune in to hear us discuss the different challenges of accessing places and services: I from the autistic perspective, and she from the mobility perspective. Together we not only explain the challenges, but also dig into their systemic reasons and reach some conclusions about the meaning of community and how disabled people can be there for each other to make going places more accessible than it, infuriatingly, is.

Get The Autistic Rant Hour wherever you get your podcasts, or see here for links to various platforms, RSS, online player and human-proofread transcripts: https://prepped.to/podcasts/autistic-rant-hour

#podcast #podcasting #disability #disabilityJustice #disabilityLife #autistic #autisticLife #CP

@autistics

Pan Piotr z Fundacji 515 kilometrów idzie pieszo z Krakowa do Warszawy po 250 dniach braku reakcji premiera.
Miałam okazję być przy nim na starcie tej trasy i nawet nagrać krótki wywiad.
Dobra wiadomość jest taka, że można pomóc za darmo, podpisując petycję pod linkiem 💛

https://www.naszademokracja.pl/petitions/glos-rodzicow-dzieci-z-autyzmem-mamy-dosc-zadamy-godnosci-i-zmiany-systemowej?utm_source=naklejka&fbclid=IwVERDUATQENpwZG9mAWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHm9FAeu6Y_gOC6jm4OLmT6KKIEp7OyRi0Wy_GX6_g7DACeZv5lSDe9ycCXLp_aem_VJ5HwNUbgVoWn270icgWow

#autyzm #autisticsolidarity #niepełnosprawność #disabilityjustice #petycja #aktywizm

Pan Piotr z Fundacji 515 kilometrów idzie pieszo z Krakowa do Warszawy po 250 dniach braku reakcji premiera.
Miałam okazję być przy nim na starcie tej trasy i nawet nagrać krótki wywiad.
Dobra wiadomość jest taka, że można pomóc za darmo, podpisując petycję pod linkiem 💛

https://www.naszademokracja.pl/petitions/glos-rodzicow-dzieci-z-autyzmem-mamy-dosc-zadamy-godnosci-i-zmiany-systemowej?utm_source=naklejka&fbclid=IwVERDUATQENpwZG9mAWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHm9FAeu6Y_gOC6jm4OLmT6KKIEp7OyRi0Wy_GX6_g7DACeZv5lSDe9ycCXLp_aem_VJ5HwNUbgVoWn270icgWow

#autyzm #autisticsolidarity #niepełnosprawność #disabilityjustice #petycja #aktywizm

Latest update on GOAT Space! https://www.patreon.com/GOATspace/posts/mid-july-hijinks-164489893 #Makerspaces #Oakland #wheelchairs #DisabilityJustice

Latest update on GOAT Space! https://www.patreon.com/GOATspace/posts/mid-july-hijinks-164489893 #Makerspaces #Oakland #wheelchairs #DisabilityJustice

‘Substance use does not exist in a vacuum a vacuum; it is often intertwined with mental health, poverty, homelessness, discrimination and systemic barriers in accessing healthcare and other living supports. Many people with disabilities who may also live with addiction experience these realities simultaneously. To reduce their lived experience to a dismissive stereotype is not only inaccurate, it is profoundly offensive’ https://disabilityalliancebc.org/disability-alliance-bc-calls-on-mla-tara-armstrong-to-resign-following-harmful-and-misleading-comments-about-people-with-disabilities/
#DisabilityJustice #bcpoli

‘Substance use does not exist in a vacuum a vacuum; it is often intertwined with mental health, poverty, homelessness, discrimination and systemic barriers in accessing healthcare and other living supports. Many people with disabilities who may also live with addiction experience these realities simultaneously. To reduce their lived experience to a dismissive stereotype is not only inaccurate, it is profoundly offensive’ https://disabilityalliancebc.org/disability-alliance-bc-calls-on-mla-tara-armstrong-to-resign-following-harmful-and-misleading-comments-about-people-with-disabilities/
#DisabilityJustice #bcpoli

RE: https://mastodon.social/@SabiLewSounds/116948568591036342

Hi is anyone on tonight? A quick #boost can help this reach new eyes. This is due in the morning!!!

#SabiLewSounds #SupportDisabledArtists #DisabledCreator #DisabilityPride #MutualAid #Poverty #DisabilityPrideMonth #DisabilityMutualAid #disabilityjustice #DisabilityCrowdfund #DirectAid #HelpFolksLive

RE: https://mastodon.social/@SabiLewSounds/116948568591036342

Hi is anyone on tonight? A quick #boost can help this reach new eyes. This is due in the morning!!!

#SabiLewSounds #SupportDisabledArtists #DisabledCreator #DisabilityPride #MutualAid #Poverty #DisabilityPrideMonth #DisabilityMutualAid #disabilityjustice #DisabilityCrowdfund #DirectAid #HelpFolksLive

Our family knows from multiple experience how bad PIP is; not the support (although the level is getting worrying by attrition) so much as the injustices of administration and the hostile bureaucracy predicated on popular tropes demonising the victims of biological errors and misfortunate events (most of whom rely on PIP to enable them to enjoy the dignity of work and participation in society).
A Government review, part one, just 'landed'. The review is being published in two halves. This week's bit just admits the system is broken. The real decisions - what actually changes - land in the autumn. That gap between admitting a problem and fixing it is exactly where pressure works. Governments write reports all the time. They only change policy when enough of us are watching.
Petitions at least let them know we are. Add your name:
https://the.organise.network/campaigns/network-stop-proposed-changes-to-pip-b50ae8d8532eaeea?utm_campaign=UYphl1GCPi&utm_medium=copy-link&utm_source=share
#disabilityjustice #UKpolitics #PIP

Our family knows from multiple experience how bad PIP is; not the support (although the level is getting worrying by attrition) so much as the injustices of administration and the hostile bureaucracy predicated on popular tropes demonising the victims of biological errors and misfortunate events (most of whom rely on PIP to enable them to enjoy the dignity of work and participation in society).
A Government review, part one, just 'landed'. The review is being published in two halves. This week's bit just admits the system is broken. The real decisions - what actually changes - land in the autumn. That gap between admitting a problem and fixing it is exactly where pressure works. Governments write reports all the time. They only change policy when enough of us are watching.
Petitions at least let them know we are. Add your name:
https://the.organise.network/campaigns/network-stop-proposed-changes-to-pip-b50ae8d8532eaeea?utm_campaign=UYphl1GCPi&utm_medium=copy-link&utm_source=share
#disabilityjustice #UKpolitics #PIP

Many of the disability activists who got the most coverage before 2020 were white. But Black and brown disability activists have been there all along.

There's a site highlighting some of the work of these disability rights and disability justice activists.

https://www.weweretheretoo.org/

#DisabilityPrideMonth #BIPOC #DisabilityJustice #History

Many of the disability activists who got the most coverage before 2020 were white. But Black and brown disability activists have been there all along.

There's a site highlighting some of the work of these disability rights and disability justice activists.

https://www.weweretheretoo.org/

#DisabilityPrideMonth #BIPOC #DisabilityJustice #History

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

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