#Disabilities

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

ASlavitt

COVID Upate October 26: There's a dangerous new disease I've been reading about that's a dangerous off-shoot of COVID.Its highly seasonal and potentially lethal. It strikes the temporal lobe and

Rabbi Michael Adam Latz #BlackLivesMatter

RavMABAY

Hello Tweeps! It seems quite a few of you are new followers these days. Welcome! Since we’re new to each other, here’s some stuff to know about me. A thread:1.I

Dr Nili Kaplan-Myrth, MD, PhD, CCFP

nilikm

First we’re told schools are safe. Then we are told that kids jostling into schools pose a risk. There is an erosion of trust for families & educators. Now Ontario

Cal Montgomery

Cal__Montgomery

Someone contacted me to ask about reposting "Autism is Not Behavioral" on their blog.I went to the blog.Top post was in praise of planned ignoring in an ABA context. I

el gato malo

boriquagato

maher is an embarrassing pseudo-intellectual poser and attempts to "bork" barrett over religion have struck me as ill conceived and dishonest.i like to make up my own mind. so i

Styna Lane 🏳️‍🌈

StynaLane

It’s disability pride month, and did you know disabled people in the US with Medicaid are not allowed to have more than $2,000 in money and assets combined, or else

Dr. Steven W. Thrasher

thrasherxy

An ableist culture that glorifies "beating" and "getting over" sickness has ushered in the grotesque carnival we are going to be subjected to in the coming days. The conflation of

Kayla Ancrum- On Deadline 😔

KaylaAncrum

Those women who get really obsessed with a specific time period and start dressing like that and decorate their whole house like that and run a lifestyle blog of it.........they’re

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venusedlin

Thread of my stories from The Pioneer Log. See my author profile here, and I will highlight individual stories belowhttps://piolog.com/author/venus-edlin/ Here’s the first story I wrote for the Piolog, which

Justin Garrison

rothgar

I think Chris makes a lot of good points here and in the more thought out post here https://devopsish.com/193/ But I respectfully disagree with the conclusionhttps://twitter.com/ChrisShort/status/1330121850362470400 First of all I comp

Kaitlin Stack Whitney

KStackWhitney

the current @nytimes ethicist is constantly promoting ableism. this week is unfortunately hardly the first time. a thread of receipts (don't click through if you will be sad or enraged)

Jeffrey Ngo 敖卓軒 😷🎗🧋

jeffreychngo

1. THREAD: Today is #HongKong’s Election Day. The polls will open momentarily through 10:30 p.m. local time. Across 18 districts, 452 seats are contested under the first-past-the-post system. (27 ex

The Latina Institute

LatinaInstitute

Today is the 1st day of "#LatinxHeritageMonth" and we're spending it reminding ppl tht forced sterilization of our community is genocide that has been happening to Black, Brown, & Indigenous

Alex Haagaard (they/them)

alexhaagaard

Been thinking a lot lately about the construction of disability along lines of in/visibility to the medical gaze and I figure I may as well compile these fragmentary thoughts into

Jen ⚡

leoniedelt

I'm gonna thread cos I'm furious.Dear @mwendling @mariannaspring Look at my profile.I and my family were damaged deeply by the lockdowns.Kids with SEND and disabilities cut off from school and

Per Busch (en)

PerBusch

Is there perhaps a connection between the primal fear of darkness and fear of contact with blind people? Sighted humans feel insecure, helpless and afraid in the dark. It's a