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Having a marginalized identity/experience is not an excuse, shield, or justification for being an asshole or being abusive - especially to other marginalized people. I've run into this attitude so

These surveillance tools are also incredibly ableist - think about autistic, blind, and other disabled people whose eye movements are atypical and will be flagged as suspicious; or people with

Over the last 6 or 7 years since I first posted the original Ableist Language Glossary on my blog, I've received literally thousands of comments on it in every form.Fan

Understand this: The US has LONG targeted Black, Native, Chicanx, Boricua, and other negatively racialized people - and especially disabled BIPOC - for forced sterilizations. Justifying eugenic sterilization based on

This decision just came from a US district court and it's INCREDIBLE. Basically, a psych disabled lawyer sued after being put through a metric fuckton of ableism before being allowed

I'm autistic and a Chinese transracial, transnational adoptee. This fucking disgusts me. It also lays bare what many of us already know - the adoption industry is fueled by global

Our society has normalized patterns for grief, anger, other reactions to losing a romantic or sexual relationship/partner (e.g. breakup, divorce, escape, etc.) We have not done the same for losing

#DJGrounding conversation on #DisabilityJustice and #DisabilitySolidarity livestreaming with ASL interpretation, captioning at http://bit.ly/djgrounding https://twitter.com/autistichoya/status/1253464854763114505 .@Azza_Alt naming ableist and a

Privacy/security tip:Never use accurate/truthful information as answers to security questions. The system doesn't know that "I like butts" or "I hate the Dodgers" is a nonsense answer to the question

But, if Zoom is what you have and are using (and it's something I personally continue to use), here are some basic safety measures you can take: 1. For events:

For others planning Zoom events: More and more have been taken over by violent abuse and harassment, including trolls showing their penises, yelling the n-word and other slurs, other similar