#Abled

Sharna Bremner

sharnatweets

I’ve tried to be restrained, professional, whatever, about all of this. I gave my quotes to Buzzfeed. I’d said my piece & thought that would be that. But I’m beyond

Alex Haagaard (they/them)

alexhaagaard

Weighted blankets becoming popular among abled folks was compared elsewhere in the replies to the curb cut effect.And this has gotten me thinking (again) about how we tend to frame

Kera O’Regan

keraoregan

I really need pākehā & abled allies to understand that when we call out oppression - like white supremacy and ableism - these things operate as systems. We’re not saying

American Horror Callie

DeathCab4Callie

PLZ RT. On paths through grad school and employment in STEM, a thread: #DisabledInSTEM #DisabilityTwitter #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #Academia #Science #STEM #DisabledInSTEM #DisabledInHigherEd #Science #Biology #physiology #Help #Me

AutisticSciencePerson

AutSciPerson

#ActuallyAutistic people, especially AFAB people and women:You are not "really annoying."You are not a "know it all."It is not okay to make fun of autistic-coded characters, and negatively label common

Jenn

geekgalgroks

Alright, because maybe if an abled bodied white lady says to do it, you will.I keep retweeting articles and tweets from awesome people in the disability space that boil down

American Horror Callie

DeathCab4Callie

I'd like to address disability erasure in academia (a thread) I'd like to do this without animosity, because it's a profoundly important teaching moment that highlights the obstacles disabled folks

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

💎 (legally) blind himbo sailor mars 🦯 💎

afrodykee

When you center lesbianhood around non attraction to men above even loving women to the point where you force binaries onto nonbinary people to determine who’s a man and who

an overwhelming surplus of diggity

DirtyNerdy2

This only happened bc we pushed so hard. And even with all of that pushing, the ball didnt really get rolling until an autistic person who happened to personally know

Ya know, stuff 🧵🏳️‍🌈

AliciLee

Gonna speak on this for a moment. Because it is horseshit. I am stay at home mom. I am a stay at home mom because after budgeting, I would have

Dr. Amajimbo 🇰🇪

njokingumi

Saying "housewives don't make financial contributions in homes" is wrong.Domestic care work and child care work (esp. early child care), are valuable by ANY metric, whether time/resource input, time saved

aug.org / abolish policing

panadeineforte

one of the worst parts of having a degenerative condition is being forced to contend with the convictions of your former self. ever wished you could be ill, not deathly

Mishell Baker

mishellbaker

It's difficult for people to understand Borderline Personality Disorder and place it on the disability spectrum for a couple of reasons. The main one is that so many of its

The Sapphic Bouquet ⚖

Multi_Sapphire

The word "disability" has never been defined by disabled people."disability" is largely defined by able bodied people, by able bodied medical systems, and by able bodied committees.Give it a minute.

Naomi Chainey

GnomesChainey

I'm not going to justify this appalling piece with a link. The woman is literally trying to claim that unexplained comas are psychosomatic with no evidence beyond her opinion, but