#disabilityjustice — Public Fediverse posts

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

Für manche bedeuten Seile Begrenzung. Für mich bedeuten sie Befreiung. Mein Körper ist kein Widerspruch zu Lust, Kontrolle oder Hingabe. Bondage gibt mir den Raum, in dem ich bestimmen darf, wie ich gehalten werde und von wem.⬇️

Foto by @fotokunst_razupaltuffsp

#DisabledAndDesirable #Consent #ConsentIsEverything #Kink #Selbstliebe #BDSMCommunity #Bondage #Intimacy #RadikaleZärtlichkeit #DisabilityJustice #Disability #ShibariArt #BDSM #Behinderung #BodyAutonomy #SensualResistance

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!

#CovidIsNotOver #Anarchism #Disability #DisabilityJustice

Please read and share this letter with your comrades alongside with groups, events and spaces you are part of. Many people and groups involved in radical organising have sadly surrendered to the capitalist, eugenics and ableist narrative - and thus practices - that pretends there isn't an ongoing pandemic, thus ignoring how Covid is still killing people alongside being a mass disabling event. This letter hopes to help change this and amplify voices and experiences that have sadly been marginalised and ignored, whilst giving practical advice regarding Covid safety for organising, spaces and events.

"We need to try and create the kind of events, spaces and groups that can serve as models for a future, better, world. This is what prefigurative praxis looks like. It is the work we need to do."

Read in full here:

https://rant.li/atlettertoourcomradesatrant-li/an-open-letter-to-our-anarchist-socialist-and-radical-leftist-comrades

Other links to this letter:

https://lettertoourcomrades.bearblog.dev

https://web.archive.org/web/20231102142409/https://rant.li/atlettertoourcomradesatrant-li/an-open-letter-to-our-anarchist-socialist-and-radical-leftist-comrades (Thanks to @maxi for this link)

#CovidIsNotOver #CovidisAirborne #Pandemic #Anarchism #RadicalCommunalCare #Covid #LongCovid #NotRecovered #Disability #DisabilityJustice #AntiAbleism #Intersectionality

The article also raised awareness of a GoFundMe fundraiser for a Long-Covid and ME/CFS billboard campaign, with the first going up in Bournemouth this week (pictured below).

This is great, and I am so glad it mentions ME/CFS and Long-Covid; the many years of abuse, mistreatment, minimising and ignoring that people with ME/CFS have experienced is sickening.

More on the fundraiser here:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/billboards-for-long-covid-and-mecfs

#LongCovid #MECFS #CovidIsNotOver #Disability #DisabilityJustice #NotRecovered

Some agitating comments about the pandemic being over or no longer a 'global health emergency' aside, this article helps highlight the daily reality of living with Long-Covid and the lack of treatment alongside problems with gaslighting, including medical gaslighting.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/long-covid-uk-coronavirus-hospitals-b2435701.html

#LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #Disability #DisabilityJustice #CovidInquiry #NotRecovered

My #Introduction. AKA the Hashtag Explosion. My name is Rua M Williams and I am a #Disabled #Mad #Autistic #CommonCyborg and an #Academic studying #TechEthics #DisabilityJustice #MadRhetoric #Crip #Technoscience and #Autistic #Technoculture.

I work in the #STS #CriticalDisability and #HCI disciplines. I idolize #Histodon and #HistMed. I also study contemporary eugenics, which I clal #MetaEugenics.

I'm a #JustTech fellow with the #SSRC Social Science Research Council's #JustTechPlatform. My project is #CyborgImaginaries (formerly #Cyborg Coalitions but that sounded too neoliberal.. Which I did on purpose to get the award 🙃).