#Disability

Manchester based @ukfast donated £100,000 to the Conservative Party.http://search.electoralcommission.org.uk/?currentPage=1&rows=10&query=ukfast&sort=AcceptedDate&order=desc&tab=1&et=pp&et=ppm&et=tp&et=p
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Facemasks have been one of the more contentious issues during the pandemic. Advice has been conflicting and changeable, so we’ve tried to group together some information to help you navigate
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Who is a woman journalist who whenever you see their byline, you know you are going to learn something? Bonus points if you list what they cover. I'd be remiss
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The fastest growing company that claims to use AI to make the internet accessible for blind people is actually making it harder for them to access websites, sources say. That’s
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(1/n)There is a mischievous msg being circulated saying the death rate (other than #COVID19) has come down everywhere now that Drs have closed outpatient. As a Dr., I’m happy if
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1. Included? Learning Disability History Podcast Update Full roster! We now have all our readers. Three recordings in already. They are beautiful and I expect all will be. Read on
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Actually maybe I'll start it now while I'm thinking of it. I present to you: Eddie's thread of shit that able-bodied people should stop saying/doing. Others are free to chime
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TW: medical racism Yesterday I posted about distancing disability claims/benefits/accommodations from medicine. This is part of the reason why. BIPOC have historically never received equivalent care in the system. 1/7https://www.npr.org/sec
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Thank you for sharing your story, @ericabrivera. I was struck by “Don’t affirm my truth-telling in private, echo it publicly.” So here’s a thread.https://twitter.com/ericabrivera/status/1263806589330489344 I also have a chronic illn
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Just as women are sick of being told to shut up and shove up, so are disabled people.Saying trans identified males should use the disabled toilets shows that you think
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Not that I wasn’t sensitive to the issues before, but taking regular care of disabled people in the last few years — my dad; my mother-in-law; my wife at the
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I wish we could destigmatise mental illness and disorders. It would also help if we stopped calling all issues in the mind/brain “illness”. Or “disability”. Smol thread. I have ADHD.
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A 15 year old and a 17 year old are in my mentions telling me I can't be bi because I like more than two genders. When I was
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Why I support Former HUD Secretary + San Antonio Mayor @JulianCastro for President in 2020 (a thread!). This thread has been a long time coming, and I am so excited
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This week (4th - 10th October) is #DyspraxiaAwarenessWeek2020! Each day I will be sharing a fact/some information about dyspraxia. Please feel free to RT! #dyspraxia #dyspraxia20 Day 1 of #DyspraxiaAwarenessWeek:
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This is going to sound like a strange thing for me to say by most of your standards. It is something I want to get off my chest. I am
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