#Disabilities

Daniela Altimari

capitolwatch

In honor of my colleague Josh Kovner, who died today, I'm going to highlight some of his finest work. I'll start with this beautiful story about an 11-year-old boy with

Eddie Perez

eddieperezTX

1/ PSA: If you’re wondering what it means to “make a plan for voting” & HOW to do it...Here’s a thread w/ the specifics voters need. Please share.Most impt: Contact

Jack Gillies

JackGillies99

The absolute scenes playing out amongst the Alba/Wings crowd has prompted me to finally actually use this Twitter. Thread on the utter nonsense being spouted The central claim being

Cal Montgomery

Cal__Montgomery

The problem I'm having with "health care is a human right" (tactically; I believe it) is that some people's humanity itself doesn't get recognized. "[Y]you start pretty much from scratch

Shannon Dingle

ShannonDingle

When we adopted our youngest from Taiwan, we had to sign a form stating that we understood she was likely “mentally defective” and that we wouldn’t try to return her

Independent SAGE

IndependentSage

We're live! Professor Pagel is discussing the latest figures. The number of new deaths per day in the UK is still coming down. New confirmed cases has flatlined over the

☂️ Cindy Baldwin ☂️

beingcindy

I've been thinking for a while that one of the problems with disability rep in media is that abled people are a) used to traditional disability narratives and b) unfamiliar

fun facts with lulu

FunFactsLulu

Honestly what wrecks me is these research studies are always like an evil mirror image of a Really Important Point we need proof for.Heaps of Autistic people are living in

Erika Bogárka ♿

StardustEtoile

To the people retweeting my editing services, thank you. It's been a rough year of healing from a 5.5 year long breakup, followed by a physically and emotionally abusive relationship

Heart n Soul

HeartnSoulArt

Hello and happy Friday! It’s a bittersweet day for the Heart n Soul team, because today would have been the day the Beautiful Octopus Club took place at @ExploreWellcome [A

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

Conservatives are attacking so called "cancel culture" because they want to normalize racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. by drawing attention to isolated instances where the efforts to undo such bigotries were

Oliver Lewis

DrOliverLewis

The @scotgov's new guidance for care home staff is far better than anything @DHSCgovuk has produced for care home staff in England. This thread compares the and approaches.

Brittney Miles, MEd

BlkSchlr_BMiles

It was an honor being an invited panelist at #UKAceCon2020. Much praise to my co-panelists @LibraryChar, @DebTheAuthor, @Aurora_T_Books, @foveauxx, and our host @khderrick. Connecting with scholars, activists, and creatives was

Stabby Jesus (((officially Bisexual)))

StabbyJesus_

Why I joined @UKLabour party, a thread1. Political apathy. I spent most of my life till my mid 30's being cast around by the warp and weft of political weaving,

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Bureau2020

“I was tortured mentally as well as physically, denied food and water... and treated inhumanely" while in custody [MORE INFO BELOW] "I have not been allowed to step outside at

Ben Chu

BenChu_

THREAD ON UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS AFTER COVIDRecall this in the PM’s conference speech last month?“In the depths of WW2, in 1942 when just about everything had gone wrong, the government sketched