#Disability

Alternately, vulnerability is part of our humanity and we shouldn't aspire to be made of metal. Capitalism puts people at risk, exploits vulnerabilities and uses them as a means to
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1/n Tweeple, Tweebrities and Tweeterattis, my tuppence on the whole OROP, NFU, Veterans’ issues with serving top brass , Armed Forces Vs Civil Services and such boiling issues. No malice
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w e w this depiction of chaos is fucking sending mehes a smiling river :) smiley water :) the whole Sonic Adventure arc in the comics is super contrived and
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[abuse]I see a lot of people expressing shock 1) this happened at all & 2) that it seems increasingly common to see stories like this.So I want to talk about
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I must say I’m concerned about some of the things being said about disadvantaged communities and #covid19. Let’s not tarnish whole communities by saying they are not taking personal responsibility.
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The charitable interpretation of this word salad is that the Queen's Speech isn't the place where government actually sets out priorities/tradeoffs or measurable success criteria - that's for the promised
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1)Gov. Cuomo & the ventilator mess he created. In July, 2011, the CDC stated:”Individuals who require a ventilator are unlikely to recover sufficient function to contribute to the preservation of
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Matthew Cramer, age 21, asked Vietnamese-American Shane Nguyen, a food truck owner and operator, for a ride. Later, Cramer murdered Nguyen then he and two men dismembered him. Before anyone
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Today is the 8 year anniversary of Alyssa’s ankle surgery that caused #CRPS It wasn’t the surgery alone, it was the subsequent Tx’s after that played a hand in it
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Not only is living with a chronic illness or disability rough.After years of battling for equality & still facing discrimination regularly, those of us in the #shielding group now face
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A thread about social justice and privilege: I’m putting this out there because it’s important to me, especially with the current state of things. “How do I have a conversation
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With the news of another big-publishing merger, the space for indies and divergent publishing is squeezed even further. What can we (readers, authors, indie publishers) do? Some ideas 1)
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Watching Hunchback of Notre Dame tonight b/c despite being problematic, I’m here for disability rep & making the villain a literal incel religious hypocrite. Hunchback of Notre Dame will *always*
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Fuck Biden, but the fact that "we'll be better off w out Trump" is a controversial statement among some leftists tells me we're not discussing the realities of fascism enough
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CW: prejudice against scars / disfigurement.I'm tired of how scars (especially facial scars) are represented in fiction.It seems like, if a character has (a lot of) visible scarring, they have
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QUESTION THREAD: - who do you resemble more, your mum or dad? - do you believe in marriage? - is sex an absolute necessity in a relationship? - would you
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