#disabilityjustice — Public Fediverse posts

🇵🇸 Interview with Moaz Mansour of Gaza Online

DIY meets Infrastructure: A conversation with Moaz Mansour of Gaza Online Jane Shi   On June 12th, 2025, Israel cut off

https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/08/24/interview-with-moab-mansour-of-gaza-online/

#FreePalestine #DisabilityJustice #Disability

🇵🇸 Interview with Moaz Mansour of Gaza Online

DIY meets Infrastructure: A conversation with Moaz Mansour of Gaza Online Jane Shi   On June 12th, 2025, Israel cut off

https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/08/24/interview-with-moab-mansour-of-gaza-online/

#FreePalestine #DisabilityJustice #Disability

🇵🇸 Interview with Moaz Mansour of Gaza Online

DIY meets Infrastructure: A conversation with Moaz Mansour of Gaza Online Jane Shi   On June 12th, 2025, Israel cut off

https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/08/24/interview-with-moab-mansour-of-gaza-online/

#FreePalestine #DisabilityJustice #Disability

🇵🇸 Interview with Moaz Mansour of Gaza Online

DIY meets Infrastructure: A conversation with Moaz Mansour of Gaza Online Jane Shi   On June 12th, 2025, Israel cut off

https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/08/24/interview-with-moab-mansour-of-gaza-online/

#FreePalestine #DisabilityJustice #Disability

🏗️ When coercion in care makes Kilmeade’s “just kill ’em” thinkable

  Shannon Pagdon  Content warnings: coercion, forced treatment, incarceration, institutionalization, eugenics, death,

https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/09/26/when-coercion-in-care-makes-kilmeades-just-kill-em-thinkable/

#PrisonAbolition #DisabilityJustice #Disability

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

#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

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

Symptom: Social Security Disability Rejection

61% of Social Security applicants are denied after their first application. I am now on the second appeal, when 49% of remaining applicants are approved, and have hired a lawyer (disability lawyers are only paid if they win your case).

I set a new goal on ko-fi, in order to get more illmarks pieces into the world. The fundraising would cover framing two Med Art Advocacy pieces, and submission fees + professional scanning for the Mütter Medical Museum, a Senior Living Center, a Health Care Center & 3 other shows.

If you are able to comfortably, please buy me a ko-fi. We’re 1/3 of the way to the goal!

https://www.illmarks.com/symptom-social-security-disability-rejection/

#artmuseum #BetterFutures #bodyHorror #chronicIllness #chronicIllness #chronicPain #crowdfund #disability #disabilityart #disabilityJustice #FederalGovernment #kofi #longcovid #medicalArt #MillionsMissing #pwLC #pwme #redesignSystems #socialSecurity #SocialSecurityReform #SSI #systemsFailing #TransformativeFutures #UniversalBasicIncome #US #usa #ushealthcare

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

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

Symptom: Coat Hanger Pain

I only learned about this term very recently, from yumpsuit on the Fediverse. Thank you so much for letting me know about it!

I am almost disproportionately thankful to have a handy description for letting people know what I’m feeling, as well as how to look for ways to try to mitigate the pain. Reading about Coat Hanger Pain resonated deeply, in a way similar to how I often feel when I get a diagnosis: a feeling of relief, connection, community, and hope.

Many people who have not been chronically ill see a diagnosis as a negative. Indeed, many disabled people are never told their diagnoses, and are never told they are disabled. This needs to change, because as Granite and Sunlight explained:

Many people are disabled for a long time before they get a diagnosis which explains what is happening to them, and there is a resistance in the medical profession to giving long-term diagnoses, especially for young people and for women with chronic conditions which lack good treatment options, because of an outdated belief that labels are limiting and they don’t want people to ‘see themselves as disabled’. The fact they are already disabled, already struggling, is why disability justice advocates are trying to help medical professionals change their approach to this. Most people just want answers and context for what is happening to them – not having a name for it doesn’t mean it isn’t affecting their lives. Diagnosis gives people access to context, support and community who can help a person manage the condition better, but these are not built into the medical response to disability. Despite these delays, the person is still disabled all that time, and still needs access to the support and adaptations which can help them live good lives managing their conditions.

For more information about this, I recommend Brianne of No End In Sight’s TEDx Talk, Disease Begins Before Diagnosis.

https://www.illmarks.com/symptom-coat-hanger-pain/

#art #bodyHorror #chronicIllness #chronicPain #coatHangerPain #coathangerpain #disabilityArt #disabilityJustice #Dysautonomia #eds #heds #longCovid #longcovid #medicalArt #MillionsMissing #neis #NEISvoid #POTS #pwLC #pwme #spoonie

"Project 2025 would end efforts to tackle issues such as #ClimateChange, and politicized research produced to back the project’s views on #EnvironmentalPolicy, the 'evils' of #Transgenderism, and #WomensHealth would take priority." https://globalextremism.org/project-2025-the-far-right-playbook-for-american-authoritarianism/
#Project2025 #ChristianNationalists #ChristianNationalism #ReproductiveRights #LGBTQ+ #DisabilityJustice #Immigrants #Women #PeopleOfColor #DEI #Equity #RacialJustice

:black_sparkling_heart: #Introduction #Intro

TL:DR: I'm mostly posting this intro to connect with other Black and BIPOC Anarchists or Anti-authoritarians. Hit me up! :Fire_Panafrican:

Hey, everyone

My partner and I are currently working on a docuseries, @Elememts_of_MA, about the origins, structures, healing ways, and logistics of mutual aid-based organizing. The project isn't exclusively profiling anarchist groups, but it is deeply anti-authoritarian - we're especially staying away from charismatic leaders and celeb "activist" types.

The whole thing is independent - no producers; everything is out of pocket. We've been living out of a van we converted so we could make this happen; which has been amazing. We've been on the road since May Day this year, and have already filmed some solid interviews as far north as Montreal and as far south as Puerto Rico.

However, I'm personally struggling to find Black organizations or collectives that aren't MLM, AADOS, authoritarian, Black Capitalist, nonprofit style groups. Reading and theory groups or media collectives are rad, but I'm really looking for groups that're doing interesting work on the ground (*not food distro*) from an anti-state-nationalist analysis.

Lorenzo and JoNina Irvin will appear in the film, among other radical Black people like Jessica Gordon Nembhard, The Northeast Action Collective in Houston, and Arm the Girls in Oakland. So, I'm not at a complete loss.

But, please send me all the rad groups of Black people you know that are creating long-term, democratic, mutual aid projects in their communities. They do not need to identify as anarchist, but they *cannot* be down with the nation state and have to be doing more than food distro.

Thanks a ton, y'all.

Beyond all that, I'm also really interested in connecting with people to write Star Wars analysis and fan-fiction. I think the galaxy far, far away is an interesting canvas to explore the tensions of autonomous world building vs authoritarian revolutionary movements. If I lived in that universe, I'd no doubt be getting into arguments with the Rebel Alliance.

Thanks for reading this long-winded post.

#Solidarity

#Black #BlackMastodon #BlackAnarchism #Anarchism #Anarchy #Antifa #Antifascism #Antiracism #Feminism #DisabilityJustice #BlackLiberation #IndigenousAnarchism #indigenousFedi #BlackFedi #blackfediverse #decolonize #decolonization #TransLiberationNow #transliberation #LGBTQ #queerliberation #QueerLiberationNow #StarWars #Andor #SciFi #Literature #creativewriting #creativewritingsocial #documentary #documentaryfeaturefilm #documentaryfilm #film #antiauthoritarianism #antiauthoritarian #vanlife #anarkata #anticapitalism #antinationalism #AnarchismOfBlackness #AnarchistPeopleOfColor #APOC #democraticconfederalism #MutualAid #collectivism #Zapatismo #Farming #UrbanFarming #Gardening #FoodSovereignty #LandBack #internationalism #JinJiyanAzadi

They warned me of becoming a “professional patient.” Interesting, I thought to myself, chewing on this new diagnosis, this label of all labels, this phrase meant to shame me into submission. I spit it out. How sly a way to say that I know too much.

#MadMastodon #MadStudies #MentalHealth #MentalIllness #RadicalMentalHealth #Madness #AntiPsychiatry #Psychiatry #CriticalPsychiatry #PsychiatricSurvivor #DisabilityJustice #DisabilityStudies #MadJustice