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  1. 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.

    youtu.be/Bbj1stZwDsc

    #DisabilityJustice #DisabilityRights #Ableism #DisabilityStudies #VideoEssay

  2. 🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Joel Snyder, Founder & President, Audio Description Associates, LLC and Founding Director Emeritus, ACB's Audio Description Project | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
    drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr

    Kirk talks with Joel Snyder, a pioneer of audio description since 1980, on the field's history and why a trained human voice still beats AI for describing dramas and films.

    #AudioDescription #DisabilityRights #BlindCommunity

  3. 🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Joel Snyder, Founder & President, Audio Description Associates, LLC and Founding Director Emeritus, ACB's Audio Description Project | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
    drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr

    Kirk talks with Joel Snyder, a pioneer of audio description since 1980, on the field's history and why a trained human voice still beats AI for describing dramas and films.

    #AudioDescription #DisabilityRights #BlindCommunity

  4. 🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Joel Snyder, Founder & President, Audio Description Associates, LLC and Founding Director Emeritus, ACB's Audio Description Project | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
    drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr

    Kirk talks with Joel Snyder, a pioneer of audio description since 1980, on the field's history and why a trained human voice still beats AI for describing dramas and films.

    #AudioDescription #DisabilityRights #BlindCommunity

  5. 🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Joel Snyder, Founder & President, Audio Description Associates, LLC and Founding Director Emeritus, ACB's Audio Description Project | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
    drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr

    Kirk talks with Joel Snyder, a pioneer of audio description since 1980, on the field's history and why a trained human voice still beats AI for describing dramas and films.

    #AudioDescription #DisabilityRights #BlindCommunity

  6. 🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Joel Snyder, Founder & President, Audio Description Associates, LLC and Founding Director Emeritus, ACB's Audio Description Project | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
    drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr

    Kirk talks with Joel Snyder, a pioneer of audio description since 1980, on the field's history and why a trained human voice still beats AI for describing dramas and films.

    #AudioDescription #DisabilityRights #BlindCommunity

  7. 🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Joel Snyder, Founder & President, Audio Description Associates, LLC and Founding Director Emeritus, ACB's Audio Description Project | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
    drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr

    Kirk talks with Joel Snyder, a pioneer of audio description since 1980, on the field's history and why a trained human voice still beats AI for describing dramas and films.

    #AudioDescription #DisabilityRights #BlindCommunity

  8. 🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Joel Snyder, Founder & President, Audio Description Associates, LLC and Founding Director Emeritus, ACB's Audio Description Project | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
    drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr

    Kirk talks with Joel Snyder, a pioneer of audio description since 1980, on the field's history and why a trained human voice still beats AI for describing dramas and films.

    #AudioDescription #DisabilityRights #BlindCommunity

  9. 🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Joel Snyder, Founder & President, Audio Description Associates, LLC and Founding Director Emeritus, ACB's Audio Description Project | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
    drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr

    Kirk talks with Joel Snyder, a pioneer of audio description since 1980, on the field's history and why a trained human voice still beats AI for describing dramas and films.

    #AudioDescription #DisabilityRights #BlindCommunity

  10. 🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Joel Snyder, Founder & President, Audio Description Associates, LLC and Founding Director Emeritus, ACB's Audio Description Project | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
    drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr

    Kirk talks with Joel Snyder, a pioneer of audio description since 1980, on the field's history and why a trained human voice still beats AI for describing dramas and films.

    #AudioDescription #DisabilityRights #BlindCommunity

  11. 🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Joel Snyder, Founder & President, Audio Description Associates, LLC and Founding Director Emeritus, ACB's Audio Description Project | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
    drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr

    Kirk talks with Joel Snyder, a pioneer of audio description since 1980, on the field's history and why a trained human voice still beats AI for describing dramas and films.

    #AudioDescription #DisabilityRights #BlindCommunity

  12. 🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Joel Snyder, Founder & President, Audio Description Associates, LLC and Founding Director Emeritus, ACB's Audio Description Project | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
    drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr

    Kirk talks with Joel Snyder, a pioneer of audio description since 1980, on the field's history and why a trained human voice still beats AI for describing dramas and films.

    #AudioDescription #DisabilityRights #BlindCommunity

  13. Advocacy opportunities in today's news. Don't miss these →

    📰 15 curated stories on disability rights, accessibility & workers' rights.

    🔥 Today's Headlines:

    1. The Disability Bulletin
    2. Please Advise! Will Testicle-Tanning Tucker Carlson Invade Canada?
    3. RCMP Seeks to Quash Discrimination Ruling by Human Rights Tribunal

    🔗 Full digest: 3mpwrapp.pages.dev/blog/#curat

    #3mpwrApp #DisabilityRights #Accessibility #ChronicIllness #WorkersRights #Canada #Neurodivers...

  14. ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Pet

    Please sign this #petition.
    As a #caregiver to a child with a #disability, I can say that all of this is true; due to my being able to work, our income took a whopping hit. Other than a minimal tax credit/small monthly #childbenefitcredit for those that qualify, we get zero financial support as caregivers in #canada.

    #disabilityrights #caregiversupport #canpoli #houseofcommonspetition

  15. #MaineQuestion1 is a good reason to vote in an "off-year" election (you know, when the sneaky types try and pass shit!).

    #Mainers like #AbsenteeVoting. Question 1 would make that option harder.

    The November referendum has been framed around requiring #VoterID, but it also includes a host of changes to absentee voting.

    Rachel Ohm, August 24, 2025

    Excerpt: "#MaineVoters have come to increasingly rely on absentee or #MailInBallots — a practice that is routinely targeted by #Republicans politicians as rife with potential fraud, even though evidence doesn’t support that.

    "During last year’s presidential election, almost half of all votes cast were absentee. The latest citizen-initiated proposal would make that more difficult.
    If passed, it would prohibit voters from requesting absentee ballots by phone, and would require older Mainers and those with disabilities to renew their eligibility each year. The proposal also would limit the number of #DropBoxes municipalities are allowed to have and prohibit them from including prepaid return postage."

    Read more:
    pressherald.com/2025/08/21/que

    Archived version:
    archive.md/CuNbt

    #Absentee #BallotAccess #Disabled #Poor #MaineVoters #DisabilityRights #VoterDisenfranchisement #USPol #MainePol #USElections

  16. #MaineQuestion1 is a good reason to vote in an "off-year" election (you know, when the sneaky types try and pass shit!).

    #Mainers like #AbsenteeVoting. Question 1 would make that option harder.

    The November referendum has been framed around requiring #VoterID, but it also includes a host of changes to absentee voting.

    Rachel Ohm, August 24, 2025

    Excerpt: "#MaineVoters have come to increasingly rely on absentee or #MailInBallots — a practice that is routinely targeted by #Republicans politicians as rife with potential fraud, even though evidence doesn’t support that.

    "During last year’s presidential election, almost half of all votes cast were absentee. The latest citizen-initiated proposal would make that more difficult.
    If passed, it would prohibit voters from requesting absentee ballots by phone, and would require older Mainers and those with disabilities to renew their eligibility each year. The proposal also would limit the number of #DropBoxes municipalities are allowed to have and prohibit them from including prepaid return postage."

    Read more:
    pressherald.com/2025/08/21/que

    Archived version:
    archive.md/CuNbt

    #Absentee #BallotAccess #Disabled #Poor #MaineVoters #DisabilityRights #VoterDisenfranchisement #USPol #MainePol #USElections

  17. #MaineQuestion1 is a good reason to vote in an "off-year" election (you know, when the sneaky types try and pass shit!).

    #Mainers like #AbsenteeVoting. Question 1 would make that option harder.

    The November referendum has been framed around requiring #VoterID, but it also includes a host of changes to absentee voting.

    Rachel Ohm, August 24, 2025

    Excerpt: "#MaineVoters have come to increasingly rely on absentee or #MailInBallots — a practice that is routinely targeted by #Republicans politicians as rife with potential fraud, even though evidence doesn’t support that.

    "During last year’s presidential election, almost half of all votes cast were absentee. The latest citizen-initiated proposal would make that more difficult.
    If passed, it would prohibit voters from requesting absentee ballots by phone, and would require older Mainers and those with disabilities to renew their eligibility each year. The proposal also would limit the number of #DropBoxes municipalities are allowed to have and prohibit them from including prepaid return postage."

    Read more:
    pressherald.com/2025/08/21/que

    Archived version:
    archive.md/CuNbt

    #Absentee #BallotAccess #Disabled #Poor #MaineVoters #DisabilityRights #VoterDisenfranchisement #USPol #MainePol #USElections

  18. #MaineQuestion1 is a good reason to vote in an "off-year" election (you know, when the sneaky types try and pass shit!).

    #Mainers like #AbsenteeVoting. Question 1 would make that option harder.

    The November referendum has been framed around requiring #VoterID, but it also includes a host of changes to absentee voting.

    Rachel Ohm, August 24, 2025

    Excerpt: "#MaineVoters have come to increasingly rely on absentee or #MailInBallots — a practice that is routinely targeted by #Republicans politicians as rife with potential fraud, even though evidence doesn’t support that.

    "During last year’s presidential election, almost half of all votes cast were absentee. The latest citizen-initiated proposal would make that more difficult.
    If passed, it would prohibit voters from requesting absentee ballots by phone, and would require older Mainers and those with disabilities to renew their eligibility each year. The proposal also would limit the number of #DropBoxes municipalities are allowed to have and prohibit them from including prepaid return postage."

    Read more:
    pressherald.com/2025/08/21/que

    Archived version:
    archive.md/CuNbt

    #Absentee #BallotAccess #Disabled #Poor #MaineVoters #DisabilityRights #VoterDisenfranchisement #USPol #MainePol #USElections

  19. #MaineQuestion1 is a good reason to vote in an "off-year" election (you know, when the sneaky types try and pass shit!).

    #Mainers like #AbsenteeVoting. Question 1 would make that option harder.

    The November referendum has been framed around requiring #VoterID, but it also includes a host of changes to absentee voting.

    Rachel Ohm, August 24, 2025

    Excerpt: "#MaineVoters have come to increasingly rely on absentee or #MailInBallots — a practice that is routinely targeted by #Republicans politicians as rife with potential fraud, even though evidence doesn’t support that.

    "During last year’s presidential election, almost half of all votes cast were absentee. The latest citizen-initiated proposal would make that more difficult.
    If passed, it would prohibit voters from requesting absentee ballots by phone, and would require older Mainers and those with disabilities to renew their eligibility each year. The proposal also would limit the number of #DropBoxes municipalities are allowed to have and prohibit them from including prepaid return postage."

    Read more:
    pressherald.com/2025/08/21/que

    Archived version:
    archive.md/CuNbt

    #Absentee #BallotAccess #Disabled #Poor #MaineVoters #DisabilityRights #VoterDisenfranchisement #USPol #MainePol #USElections

  20. #Trump Admin Threatens to Stop #SocialSecurity If #DOGE Can’t Have #PersonalData

    Trump’s interim Social Security chief says he wants to turn off the program if Musk and DOGE can’t access Americans’ most sensitive data

    by Andrew Perez, March 21, 2025

    "Donald Trump’s interim Social Security chief suggested Thursday night he will effectively turn off the agency that manages the essential safety net program for seniors and the disabled, if Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) can’t access the non-anonymized sensitive personal information and data of hundreds of millions of Americans, based on a judge’s order.

    "'My anti-fraud team would be DOGE affiliates. My IT staff would be DOGE affiliates,' said #LeeDudek, acting Social Security Administration (#SSA) commissioner, arguing the order was too broad, according to Bloomberg News. 'As it stands, I will follow it exactly and terminate access by all SSA employees to our IT systems,' he said, adding: 'Really, I want to turn it off and let the courts figure out how they want to run a federal agency.'

    "Dudek’s threat to block SSA employees from using the agency’s IT systems — a move that could halt #SocialSecurityPayments — came in response to a judge’s temporary restraining order in a case brought by the #AFLCIO #LaborUnion. The order bars Social Security Administration officials from allowing DOGE, including Musk, and the SSA’s DOGE team to access personally identifiable information. It also directs Musk and DOGE to delete from their possession all non-anonymized personal data, and bars them from having access to SSA computers or code.

    "Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander wrote that the SSA had likely violated administrative and privacy laws when it gave DOGE 'unbridled access to the personal and private data of millions of Americans, including but not limited to Social Security numbers, medical records, mental health records, hospitalization records, drivers’ license numbers, bank and credit card information, tax information, income history, work history, birth and marriage certificates, and home and work addresses.'

    "She added that the 'defendants, with so-called experts on the DOGE Team, never identified or articulated even a single reason for which the DOGE Team needs unlimited access to SSA’s entire record systems, thereby exposing personal, confidential, sensitive, and private information that millions of Americans entrusted to their government.'"

    Read more:
    rollingstone.com/politics/poli

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/vvgMF
    #ResistDOGE #TakeToTheStreets #KillThePoor #USPol #KillTheElderly #HungerGames #Authoritarianism #Oligarchy #DisabilityRights #ElderRights #TakeCareOfThePoor

  21. #MadLiterature
    Available for pre order:

    A Mad Turn
    Edited by Phil Smith

    Written by Mad scholars, A Mad Turn explores the field of Mad Studies in theory and practice, and what Mad Studies can bring to academia and to other social institutions. What does it mean to “do” Mad Studies? What are the field’s intersections with disability justice, Mad justice, and gender and queer studies? This book is a bold step toward the Mad Studies yet-to-come—a Mad Studies that Mad people will build, twisting and turning and singing and dancing, a new realm of thinking-being-doing-knowing. Step into it with us.

    autonomous-press.myshopify.com

    Hashtags & Group mentions below
    #LivingMad
    #Madness #MadMastodon #MadPride #MadThought
    #MadMovement #MadStudies #Mad #Madodon #TransMad

    #Ablesim #DisabilityCommunity #InvisibleDisabilities
    #PsychiatricSurvivor #AntiPsychiatry #DisabilityJustice
    #LivedExperience #PsychSurvivor #ChronicPain
    #DisabilityMastodon #Neurodivergent #RadicalMentalHealth
    #CripCamp #DisabilityRights #NeuroDiversity
    #Sanism #Disability #DisabilityStudies
    #Stories #isolation #SystemicInjustice #AltMentalHealth #instutionalization #PeerSupport #asylum

    ——

    @MadMovementMastodon @[email protected] @disability @[email protected]
    @disabilityhistory @neurodivergence

  22. #MadLiterature

    Empire of Normality
    Neurodiversity and Capitalism
    by Robert Chapman

    This is a priority read for me!

    I’m looking forward to how Chapman explains the emergence and rise of the pathology paradigm and its entanglement with the fundamental logic of capitalism. Specifically how the medical and scientific definitions of illness, disability, and normality have grown in response to economic and ideological developments.

    plutobooks.com/9780745348667/e

    Hashtags & Group mentions below

    #Madness #MadMastodon #MadPride #MadThought
    #MadMovement #MadStudies #Mad #Madodon #TransMad

    #Ablesim #DisabilityCommunity #InvisibleDisabilities
    #PsychiatricSurvivor #AntiPsychiatry #DisabilityJustice
    #LivedExperience #PsychSurvivor #ChronicPain
    #DisabilityMastodon #Neurodivergent #RadicalMentalHealth
    #CripCamp #DisabilityRights #NeuroDiversity
    #Sanism #Disability #DisabilityStudies
    #Stories #isolation #SystemicInjustice

    ——

    @MadMovementMastodon
    @[email protected]
    @disability
    @[email protected]
    @disabilityhistory
    @neurodivergence

  23. 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 #Movement

    I'll continue to post interest hashtags in this thread to be.

    #introduction #introductions

  24. This #book changed me! The chapters are standalone stories and as a compilation they critique "the system" psy-complex, mental health, sanity, all the things. I can't say enough about how powerful this text is! Diverse #authors Living all over the globe experiencing insanity or sanity or a combination of the two! #GoodWriting #writers #readers

    I have close relationships with a few of the authors but their chapters were a surprise to me!

    Because the book is newly-released, some online booksellers don’t have it listed on their sites yet; some sites are quicker than others with such things. But it’s already available on the Amazon and Barnes & Noble sites.

    Local brick-and-mortar booksellers can also order it for customers via the Ingram distribution catalogue, and customers whose mailing addresses are in the USA can order it direct from Autonomous Press.

    Amazon: amazon.com/Tinfoil-Hats-Storie

    Barnes & Noble: barnesandnoble.com/w/tinfoil-h

    Autonomous Press: autonomous-press.myshopify.com

    #Madness
    #MadMastodon
    #MadPride
    #MadThought
    #MadMovement
    #MadStudies
    #Mad
    #Madodon
    #TransMad
    #Ablesim
    #DisabilityCommunity
    #InvisibleDisabilities
    #PsychiatricSurvivor
    #AntiPsychiatry
    #DisabilityJustice
    #LivedExperience
    #PsychSurvivor
    #ChronicPain
    #DisabilityMastodon
    #Neurodivergent
    #RadicalMentalHealth
    #CripCamp
    #DisabilityRights
    #NeuroDiversity
    #Sanism
    #Disability
    #DisabilityStudies
    #Poetics
    #Stories