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"Deaf, disabled, & chronically ill people have always existed, but we have been erased from society" 1/2 @JenDeerinwater
..."through our exclusion in decision making in government, employment, education, housing, healthcare, religion, transportation, food, and every other facet of life you can imagine" 2/2 – @JenDeerinwater
"Equality is based on the idea that we should all want to live like our oppressors, regardless of the expense the world suffers. I don't want what the white man has." 1/2 – @JenDeerinwater
"I want to see an end to the prison industrial complex, capitalism, white supremacy, poverty, and the torture and trauma
of marginalized people." 2/2 – @JenDeerinwater
"Disability justice is the path to get us where we deserve to be...Disability justice isn’t merely a term or even a movement. It’s our very right to survive and thrive" - @JenDeerinwater
"We can't progress if we don't have the tough conversations and hold ourselves and others accountable. We can't progress if only a few voices are heard." – @JenDeerinwater
"There is beauty and strength in differences. We must embrace them if we are to ever reach a just world where all of our lives are valued and meaningful. A world where we are loved and embraced for all that we are." – @JenDeerinwater #CombatingAbleism
"The idea of perfectionism, is a falsity stemming from a white supremacist heteropatriarchy framing that IS ableist.
" 1/2 – @kuttinkandi
"It is ableist because perfectionism buys into an idea of a false 'norm' and a standard that does not exist and should not exist. A false norm, a false belief that creates a condition in which others are more desirable while others are not." 2/2 – @kuttinkandi #CombatingAbleism
"I was able to really forge into Disability Justice in not just my understandings, but in my values, in my practice, in my constant learning, and how I live in truth."- @kuttinkandi
"I think about these questions that @naomiishisaka wrote...'What if every job asked every person if they had access needs and helped to meet them? What if every school asked every student? What if it were just a normal part of our daily processes?'" @kuttinkandi #CombatingAbleism
"Disability Justice is a practice that has challenged me to face a very painful reality, which is that each one of our individual choices
have a meaningful impact on all our communities. That none of us exists in a vacuum, that no can survive alone."-Elliot Fukui of @fireweedHJ
"But this moment is about more than just survival,
it is about transforming the culture that enabled us to arrive at the current context and conditions we are facing." 1/2 -Elliot Fukui of @fireweedHJ #CombatingAbleism
"It’s about unlearning a lot of lies, feeling a lot of grief, and making new and different and better choices.
We need Abled people to show up and do better. We need Abled people to listen to us."-Elliot Fukui of @fireweedHJ #CombatingAbleism
"If you are Disabled or Neurodivergent, you are not alone,
and your survival and wellbeing make all our collective survival and wellbeing possible.
So please speak your truth and demand what you need"-Elliot Fukui of @fireweedHJ #CombatingAbleism
. @writersdelite says fat antagonism is "so taboo even in social justice spaces." There's an "inextricable link between fat antagonism and ableism...it's all related to this idea that our bodies are supposed to look or function in a certain way." #CombatingAbleism
"These ideas about what our bodies should do, what they should look like
are inherently rooted in white supremacy and colonialism" @writersdelite before recommending Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fatphobia by @SaStrings #CombatingAbleism
"We talk about white supremacy, we don't talk about it enough, but we talk about it.
We talk about disability particularly in these times, not enough, but we do talk about it.
But we do not talk about enough is fat antagonism."- @writersdelite #CombatingAbleism
"There are gatekeepers defending white disabled people...All the orgs that do outreach to our communities, can you imagine if they did the work within Black and brown orgs?
" - @kriphopnation
"They are using [DJ] in all the wrong ways, and it's so sad to see the erasure of Patty Berne's [also of @sinsinvalid] voice because her voices should be everywhere."- @kriphopnation Couldn't agree more! Patty Berne's principles and working draft are a #mustread! #CombatingAbleism
[signing] We have had quite amazing activists and organizations within our [Deaf, DeafBlind, DeafDisabled, and Hard of Hearing] community, yet they're often unheard of in larger spaces [then lists: @behearddc, Najma Johnson @dragonsani, Roberto Cabrera] - @pursuitofreroot
[signing] Ableism is still the most acceptable form of -ism nowadays,
which is why we’re often an afterthought for many organizing movements. 1/3 - @pursuitofreroot @CombatingAbleism
[signing] I’d like to also discuss the other forms of -ism under the umbrella of ableism: audism, the discrimination based on the auditory status, phonocentricism, the discrimination based on the hearing/speaking ability, 2/3 - @pursuitofreroot #CombatingAbleism
[signing] vidism, discrimination based on vision status, and distantism, the privileging of the distance senses of hearing and visions, how this affects DeafBling folx. 3/3 - @pursuitofreroot #CombatingAbleism
[signing] Overall, ableism is why able-bodied folks choose to silence disabled communities. We have never been voiceless.
So it is important that you are here to learn from us. – @pursuitofreroot #CombatingAbleism
"I think the most important thing a co-conspirator can do is work on their own community
, work on racism and ableism in their own community." - @kriphopnation #CombatingAbleism
[signing] We need to have a paradigm shift
...Asking society to dismantle what it has always been designed for: hearing, white, straight, able-bodied, wealthy people.
We are asking to redesign it for ALL of us. LGBTQ, BIPOC, etc
1/2 @pursuitofreroot #CombatingAbleism
[signing] We’re asking for the basic human rights (our basic human rights look different:
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how we access the every day information, how we transport, how we do our work, how we do school work, how we eat, how we go to bathroom, etc) 2/2 @pursuitofreroot #CombatingAbleism
how we access the every day information, how we transport, how we do our work, how we do school work, how we eat, how we go to bathroom, etc) 2/2 @pursuitofreroot #CombatingAbleism
[signing] How can I decolonize and self actualize in my own cultural identity and join in this movement?
But how can I do that if you're excluding me?
- @pursuitofreroot #CombatingAbleism
[signing] Capitalism doesn't see the VALUE of accommodation unless it yields profit
. In the Deaf community, capitalism sees profit and value in a cochlear implant...And this is how a white supremacist system continues to be wealthy 1/2 - @pursuitofreroot #CombatingAbleism
[signing] Things we need like ASL interpreters or closed captions turn no profit...Because disabled people were not considered when these systems were first designed, so our inclusion becomes an extra burden. That is the paradigm that needs to change." 2/2 @pursuitofreroot