#Disabled

LOVE to see a guy w/ a Twitter bio explicitly opposing "excessive government intervention" write on triage protocols that disproportionately kill disabled, old, poor & racialized people w/o mentioning health
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can’t stop thinking about the ableism and the ‘overcoming her disability’ narrative that they give yennifer in the witcher - she deserves better basically taking a character with a deformed
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I now live in a Low Traffic Neighbourhood in Ealing. I have repeatedly seen disabled people deployed in arguments for & against the controversial #LTNSo here is my opinion as
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If you're hiring disabled faculty, staff, postdocs, VAPs, or adjuncts you need to remember that cost of living is so much higher for us than it is for able bodied
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Lukewarm take: but replacing ableist vocab with other words that will become ableist in the future because you use them as synonyms (linguistics 101) is a failure. Rather, you must
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lrt - i don't think people understand how hard disability is to get, how arbitrary the decisions are, especially in the US, and how little it gives you. i don't
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Okay something needs to be addressed regarding #NoComradeLeftBehind #NoComradesUnder1k. Many of us involved in this community organization are disabled, neuro divergent, and are living through a giant pandemic that’s killing
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Can anyone in Canadian media explain why the words "ableism" and "ableist" are not part of their lexicon?Racism and racist as well as sexism and sexist to give the true
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"you can't be that disabled if you can work full time"You know what else I can do? Absolutely nothing. If I want to take a shower, I have to take
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i dont know anything about this guy except what I have learned from his thread about elevators, which is that hes ableist as fuck "i merely SUSPECT this thing I
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Dear #MedTwitter, Please do not make statements assuming a person with a major disability has a poor quality of life. This is ableism. 1/https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11968402/disabled-man-died-texas-docs-refused-to-treat/ 2/St. David’s D
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Things I didn’t know about chronic pain til I got chronic pain: Chronic pain can change thru the course of a year, month, week, day or year. You can start
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If we ARE going to talk about straws (h/t @Lollardfish), here’s my piece on how performative environmentalism is bad and also how it ties deeply into environmental racism.https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/personal-will-not-save-you-envir
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Benefits shouldn't pay below the poverty line.Benefits shouldn't pay below the poverty line.Benefits shouldn't pay below the poverty line.People who are out of work or can't work shouldn't be forced
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My university has just built a new 200 seat auditorium. Whilst I can access the room, once inside I can’t access the staggered seating & there isn’t a dedicated space
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I have some very light mechanics for disability (specifically the incorporation of mobility aids, prostheses and medication) for the system I am working on. While the response I have received
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