#Disabled

Dr. Anjali F-P

anjalifp

Happy 30th birthday to the Americans with Disabilities Act!!! Bc of the ADA, I am grateful to be educated, have a job, able to go to public places (when not

Lyrak

raiju

This is still bothering me this morning, so we need to have a chat about why it's still a problem if you're only applying the ableist language to people you

nic

NicMakesStuff

at the end of the month, i will be taking an indefinite hiatus from full time work. I'm hoping there is still time to reverse the damage to my health

Aimi Hamraie they/them

AimiHamraie

#CoronaAbleism looks like: #thread Tl;dr: disability justice needs to be at the center of our discussions right now: 1. Assuming that you and everyone you know will survive this and

DeepThought

DeepTho61766254

@Twitter: My "Interests" page lists several subjects multiple times with no [meaningful] distinctions between them. It is annoying to go to my Interests page and discover that an item I

Evan 🩸🦷🧦

Tschudi_Davai

I know no one actually sees it, cause I don't ever complain or talk about the very rigid and particular limitations of disabled life, how each and every day I

Mona Eltahawy

monaeltahawy

Fuck normal. Refuse to “go back to normal.” #COVID19 @rerutled Let go of the “normal.” See it for the abnormal it was.Look around and see all the injustices that

Tamara Taggart

tamarataggart

Thread: I’m an abled person, I have a disabled son + my experience is as his mom.Many disabled people live in poverty + are rarely a priority when it comes

o_o_l_a_

oola77798569

I don’t understand why people are defending Nessa Barrett and saying she didn’t know what the man was saying and let me tell you why [ Read this thread ]

Ruth Madeley

ruth_madeley

FANCY A LITTLE THREAD ABOUT INSPIRATION PORN?Awesome term innit?! Inspiration porn is the idea that a #disabled person is inspirational simply because they have a disability.For example... "You're so brave

G Peters ♿️ It's still a pandemic btw.

mssinenomine

Number 1 is remember disabled people of all ages exist and are a part of society (despite society's best efforts to exclude/ignore us) and face particular risk if we are

Kaitlin Stack Whitney

KStackWhitney

the current @nytimes ethicist is constantly promoting ableism. this week is unfortunately hardly the first time. a thread of receipts (don't click through if you will be sad or enraged)

robo

holyrobo

a thread of resources to read and consider when writing fic where there is a character who is a wheelchair user. please note this thread will contain NSFW text and

Cooper

Cooperstreaming

Disabled community, what’s one thing you wish able bodied people would understand about us? I wish they understood:That I know what I’m talking about when I say I can’t do

Little Cog

LittleCog1

DISABLED-LED THEATRE THREAD - I wonder if you'd like to join us in sharing photos & info from the amazing body of UK disabled-led theatre work. In recent years, some

Ashe Boycott Autism Speaks Grey MACDS

crippledscholar

One of the things I want people to consider in the context of that little girl with cerebral palsy climbing the stairs and other videos like it is that disabled