#disabilityrights — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #disabilityrights, aggregated by home.social.
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RE: https://lgbtqia.space/@aceofcosmicspace/117226113967982260
Boost for reach, help where you can, fediverse! Poverty plus disability is hard AF.
#boost #boostplease #MutualAidSavesLives #MutualAidRequest #mutualaidspace #MutualAidMonday #MutualAidThread @mutualaid #letsgo #help #trans #lgbtqia #transgender #chronicillness #disabilityrights #disability
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Braille Is Beautiful, and Braille Is Literacy | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/braille-is-beautiful-braille-is-literacy/Kirk Adams argues braille is not an enrichment activity but literacy itself, and that the right principle is not braille or technology but braille and technology. Then he fact-checks his own side: the familiar 10% claim rests on a 1979 report, and the 90% employment figure on a 1996 study of 74 adults.
#Braille #DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity
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Braille Is Beautiful, and Braille Is Literacy | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/braille-is-beautiful-braille-is-literacy/Kirk Adams argues braille is not an enrichment activity but literacy itself, and that the right principle is not braille or technology but braille and technology. Then he fact-checks his own side: the familiar 10% claim rests on a 1979 report, and the 90% employment figure on a 1996 study of 74 adults.
#Braille #DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity
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Braille Is Beautiful, and Braille Is Literacy | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/braille-is-beautiful-braille-is-literacy/Kirk Adams argues braille is not an enrichment activity but literacy itself, and that the right principle is not braille or technology but braille and technology. Then he fact-checks his own side: the familiar 10% claim rests on a 1979 report, and the 90% employment figure on a 1996 study of 74 adults.
#Braille #DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity
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At her town hall meeting at Alameda High School, Congresswoman Lateefah Simon laid out a broad progressive agenda. Karin K. Jensen reports that Simon pledged to fight for disability rights, affordable housing, and healthcare. She also opposed war, cuts to social programs, and coal in Oakland. https://alamedapost.com/news/simon-lays-out-progressive-priorities-at-alameda-town-hall/
#alameda #AlamedaHighSchool #DisabilityRights #EdenChan #education #LateefahSimon #PublicTransit #RyanLaLonde
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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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July is Disability Pride Month—a time to celebrate the strength, resilience, and diversity of the disability community as well as the perseverance of the disability rights movement.
Disability is not something to hide—it’s something to recognize, respect, and take pride in.
Happy Disability Pride Month! 💙❤️💛🤍💚
#DisabilityPrideMonth #DisabilityPride #Accessibility #Inclusion #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #DisabilityRights #Neurodiversity #ActuallyAutistic -
The black background represents mourning for those who have lost their lives to ableist violence, and resistance against ableism.
#disability #disabilities #mentalhealthdisabilities #disabilityawareness #disabilityrights #inclusion #educationalaccommodations #mentalhealthsupport #humanrights #ymhc -
Disability pride month: the colours symbolise: blue - mental health disability, yellow - developmental disability, white - sensory disability, red - physical disability, green - invisible disabilities, black - activism and honouring those who have suffered in the past.
#disability #disabilities #mentalhealthdisabilities #disabilityawareness #disabilityrights #inclusion #educationalaccommodations #mentalhealthsupport #humanrights #ymhc -
The original disability pride flag, created by Ann Magill in 2019, underwent a makeover by Magill for accessibility purposes in 2021.
#disability #disabilities #mentalhealthdisabilities #disabilityawareness #disabilityrights #inclusion #educationalaccommodations #mentalhealthsupport #humanrights #ymhc -
July is disability pride month! We want to acknowledge the importance of accessibility within and outside of our schools. Allowing a student with a hidden disability to struggle academically or socially without accommodations is no different than failing to provide a ramp.
#disability #disabilities #mentalhealthdisabilities #disabilityawareness #disabilityrights #inclusion #educationalaccommodations #mentalhealthsupport #humanrights #ymhc -
Accessibility is more than a ramp. By @walking.on.wheels
#disability #disabilities #mentalhealthdisabilities #disabilityawareness #disabilityrights #inclusion #educationalaccommodations #mentalhealthsupport #humanrights #ymhc -
People with disabilities are not their diagnoses or disabilities; they are people, first.
#disability #disabilities #mentalhealthdisabilities #disabilityawareness #disabilityrights #inclusion #educationalaccommodations #mentalhealthsupport #humanrights #ymhc -
Adequate special education is not a dispensable luxury. It is the ramp that provides access to the statutory commitment to education made to all children.
#disabilityawareness #disabilityrights #inclusion #educationalaccommodations #humanrights #accessibility #students #education #teachers #ymhc
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Disabled Organizers Are Facing Down Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
Disability justice organizers are turning to immigrant rights groups to guide their interventions and support work.https://murica.website/2026/03/disabled-organizers-are-facing-down-trumps-immigration-crackdown/
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Your #Disability
Your Story
Your #Newspaper
🗞️ #TheDisabilityBulletin — Issue #1 is LIVE
Real voices. Real lives. Real impact.
👉 Read it now:
https://linktr.ee/thedisabilitybulletin
#DisabilityRights #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #DisabilityMedia #DisabledVoices
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Is AI just a "slot machine" for random content, or is it a digital prosthetic for the neurodivergent mind? My latest essay explores how I use AI as a shield to protect my dignity and survive in a world not built for me.
https://kalvin.my/the-slot-machine-and-the-shield-a-reflection-on-tools-survival-and-autonomy
#AI #Neurodiversity #Autism #Schizophrenia #DigitalProsthetic #HumaneTech #SocialSovereignty #Autonomy #TechEthics #InformationLiteracy #DisabilityRights #DigitalShield #SelfHosting #Sabah #Malaysia #Activism #DigitalSovereignty #ActivityPub
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On International Day of #People with #Disabilities, please note some disabilities are #invisible
#invisibleillness #disabled #disabledpeople #DisabilityRights #DisabilityRightsAreHumanRights
#IDPD #IDPD2025 #IDPD25 #IDPWD #IDPWD25 #IDPWD2025 #Disability
@mecfs @longcovid @pots
#LongCovid #MEcfs #CFS #PwME #hiddenillness #chronicillness #Invisibledisability -
Alice Wong, the disability justice advocate and author, died at the weekend at age 51. She was best known for founding the Disability Visibility Project. She also wrote multiple books and a column for Teen Vogue, and her final project was Crips for eSims for Gaza, which raised over $3 million to help connect people living in Gaza to the internet. Here's @19thnews's tribute to her.
#AliceWong #InMemoriam #DisabilityVisibilityProject #DisabilityRights #Gaza #Books #Activism
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I am autistic and have other disabilities. And like many, life has been shaped by exclusion, by being told I had to prove my worth and being treated as if my differences were flaws. That is why Donald Trump’s recent claim has cut so deeply. He said that autism could be prevented if mothers avoided paracetamol in pregnancy.
This is not true, and there is no credible scientific evidence that paracetamol causes autism. In Australia, the Therapeutic Goods Administration has said paracetamol is safe in pregnancy when used correctly. Autism Awareness Australia has stated there is no single cause of autism, and the Queensland Brain Institute has explained that autism arises from a complex mix of genetics and environment, not from one factor or one drug. These are facts.
What disturbs me most is the falsehood and the message underneath it. It suggests autistic people are broken and need fixing. It says our lives should have been avoided. This reflects the medical model of disability at its harshest: treating people as conditions, as deficits, as problems to be eliminated. I have lived with that view pressed on me from many directions. In classrooms where teachers assumed I could not learn. In communities that treated access as optional. In workplaces that demanded I change rather than the environment. These words from Trump echo every time I was told that I was less.
When I think of these remarks, I think of autistic children who will grow up hearing that they should not exist. I think of parents who will carry guilt, believing they did something wrong. I think of how easily this same logic spreads to every disability. If autism can be framed as awful, so can blindness, deafness, mobility impairments, or mental illness. This is the danger.
These ideas do not stay in speeches. They shape policies, schools, healthcare, and workplaces. They decide whether disabled people are offered jobs or whether society sees us as worth investing in. If disability is framed as a burden, exclusion is normalised. If it is framed as a tragedy, pity replaces equality. If it is framed as preventable, our very existence is questioned.
I want to say clearly that autism is not a disease and does not need to be cured. Autism is part of human diversity. Autistic people bring creativity, honesty, focus, persistence, depth, and community. We are musicians, writers, carers, scientists, leaders, neighbours, friends. Our lives are meaningful. Our contributions are real. We are not mistakes.
In fact, the autistic scholar Dr Damian Milton speaks of the “double empathy problem,” which reframes autism not as a lack, but as a difference in communication between autistic and non-autistic people. Autism is not the absence of humanity, but a different way of being human. That reframing is what society needs, not rhetoric that blames mothers or devalues children.
I also know this is not only about the United States. Here in Australia, we face our own battles with underfunded systems, with access treated as optional, with stereotypes that devalue our lives. Harmful ideas spread quickly across borders, and when a leader with influence speaks them, they ripple out everywhere.
So let us be clear. Autism cannot be prevented by avoiding paracetamol. What must be prevented is the harm caused by words that tell disabled people they are less. We deserve respect, dignity, access, and a fulfilling life. That is not optional. That is not negotiable.
To every autistic person: you are not broken. You are not a problem. You are worthy as you are. To parents: do not carry guilt. Carry pride in your children and the richness they bring.
We must confront misinformation. We must resist the medical model when it reduces us to conditions. We must insist on the truth: barriers come not from our neurology or bodies, but from inaccessible environments and prejudice. Autism is not something to be eliminated. It is something to be understood, respected, and embraced.
#AutismAcceptance #DisabilityRights #Neurodiversity #ActuallyAutistic #DisabledAndProud #RespectDignityAccess #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #StopAbleism #InclusionMatters #HumanRights
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A pattern of practices, both deliberate and unintentional, has concealed the history of Massachusetts’ state institutions from the public, including institutional survivors and their family members. This is the finding of a newly released report from the Massachusetts Special Commission on State Institutions — a commission that was made up of majority disabled people, many with personal experience of having been institutionalized. Here’s @gbhnews’s story about the report, which could have national ramifications, since Massachusetts was the home of the U.S.'s first institution for disabled people, creating a blueprint for the nation.
#Disability #DisabilityRights #Massachusetts #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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UK - Under-22s to be excluded from #incapacity benefits
by Mitchell Labiak, March 18, 2025
Excerpt:
'Trapped out of work'
"The reforms come as part of a wider push by Labour to cut spending by reducing the number of people on incapacity benefits, which is forecast to reach a record high by the end of the decade.
"Experts say the increase is due to a combination of worse #MentalHealth since the #pandemic and a higher retirement age meaning some are instead claiming incapacity benefits.
"#Starmer said he is 'not prepared to stand back and do nothing while millions of people – especially young people – who have potential to work and live independent lives, instead become trapped out of work and abandoned by the system'.
"However, #DisabilityRightsUK said that barring under-22s from claiming the health element of universal credit alongside the proposal to increase assessments 'mark dangerous cuts for all #disabled people'.
"The charity added that the package of reforms was 'not about supporting disabled people into work, but making brutal and reckless cuts'."
Read more:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg8pz1g8q9o
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Continued thread of interests 🧵
#Ancestors #Death #Dying #Grief #DeathDoula #DeathAdvocacy #Apophatic #RadicalCompassion #Compassion #Bodhisattva #Atisha #Lojong #LojongSlogans #Interbeing #Meditation #PlumVillage #EngagedBuddhism #SocialJustice #PublicHealth #SocialWork #EnvironmentalJustice #DisabilityRights #HealthEquityI'll continue to post interest hashtags in this thread.
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UK’s Tory government to explain to the UN why it violates disabled people’s rights | Vox Political
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2024/03/11/uks-tory-government-to-explain-to-the-un-why-it-violates-disabled-peoples-rights/#Tories
#Disabilities
#Disabled
#DisabilityRights
#Disability
#WarOnDisabled
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United Nations Summons UK Government Over Breaches of UN Convention on Disabled People's Rights – Byline Times
https://bylinetimes.com/2024/03/11/united-nations-summons-uk-government-over-breaches-of-un-convention-on-disabled-peoples-rights/#UN
#Disabled
#Disabilities
#DisabilityRights
#WarOnDisabled
#UNCRPD
#UNCommitteeOnTheRightsOfPersonsWithDisabilities
#UNConventionOnTheRightsOfPersonsWithDisabilities
#EqualityAct2010
#EHRC
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A #CradleCatholic. As a wee lad, I did all the stuff - Baptism, First Communion, Confirmation. I was born here all my life. When I was around four years old, the church kicked out my mom and, by extension, my family. An #ExcludedCatholic? I explored other practices and faiths, #meditation, #yoga, #Buddhism, and all the things. I wanted to not convert to a religion or practice that I had not been born to or wasn't otherwise ancestrally connected. A deep dive into Protestant fellowships lead to immersion into the #EarlyChurch Fathers and early #ChurchHistory. Entering the #OrthodoxChurch, I lived in several monasteries and wandered around the US like the guy in Way of a Pilgrim. I was ultimately drawn to #Theosis and the #PrayerOfTheHeart, sometimes called the #JesusPrayer. Long story short, decades later, a pandemic, and a few ends of the world, here I am. The #2024Election US has me wondering about US Christianities that support social actions and movements that contradict the teachings of Jesus. Shouldn't Christ's Gospel teachings be central?
Some of my interests:
#NewMexico #Ogapoge #SantaFe #SantaFeRiver #Water #Birds #Plants #Medicine #Hiking #Walking #NaturePhotography #Biophilia #Wilderness #Rewild #Rewilding #Regenerative #RegenerativeDesign #UniversalDesign #RegenerativeAg #RegenAg #AppropriateTechnology #Contemplation #Hesychasm #Prayer #Ancestors #Death #Dying #Grief #DeathDoula #DeathAdvocacy #Apophatic #RadicalCompassion #Compassion #SocialJustice #PublicHealth #SocialWork #EnvironmentalJustice #DisabilityRights #HealthEquity #Recovery #RecoveryPosse #Drawing #Writing #VisualThinking #WriteToThink #Journal #BulletJournal #SystemsChange #Humanrights #Inclusion #Accessability #InvisibleDisabilityRights #DisabilityVoice #RacialEquality #PublicHealth #Grief #Hospice #Humanrights #Food #Health #Fasting #MovementI'll continue to post interest hashtags in this thread to be.
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“The Good Doctor” reinforces false stereotypes that autistic people can’t form meaningful relationships, understand boundaries or treat others respectfully.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/05/11/good-doctor-memes-autism/
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Hello to new followers! Just so you know - these are my top things to toot about/things I'm passionate about:
- #HumanRights
- #Cats
- #Environmentalism
- #SocialJustice
- #EcoJustice
- #DisabilityRights
- #StopRacism
- #misogyny
- #CancelBillionaires
- #DisbandRCMPCIRG
- #DefundRCMP
- #CorporateGreed
- #Equity & #FairWages
- #Geopolitics
- #CPTSD #PTSD & #AdultADHD
- #Trauma #Recovery #InterpersonalRelationships
- #Art & #Music
- #Psychology & #neuroscienceThis is my nutshell quickie.
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Some of my interests:
#RadicalCompassion #Compassion #SocialJustice #PublicHealth #SocialWork #EnvironmentalJustice #DisabilityRights #HealthEquity #SystemsChange #Metta #Buddhism #Dharma #Grief #Hospice #DeathAdvocacy #Humanrights #BodyWeight #Calsthenics #Taichi #Taiji #Movement #Play #DIY #Drawing #Writing #VisualThinking #WriteToThink #Journal #BulletJournal -
I have a https://pixelfed.org/ account, and I'm looking for a good https://joinpeertube.org/ instance as well. I'd like to eventually get off of all corporate social media. I look forward to getting to know folx here as time unfolds.
Some of my interests:
#RadicalCompassion #Compassion #SocialJustice #PublicHealth #SocialWork #EnvironmentalJustice #DisabilityRights #HealthEquity #SystemsChange #Metta #Buddhism #Dharma #Grief #Hospice #DeathAdvocacy #Humanrights
