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#Thread Why we prefer the terms “disabled" or "person with a disability” by @Srishhhh_tea & @ananay__ Terms such as "specially/differently-abled" or "divyaang" actually do less good and more harm. We
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El Gibbs
bluntshovels
[CN for entire thread. No details, but mentions of abuse, violence, neglect]These last few weeks have seen a rising tide of violence against us being made public. Disabled people dying
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G Peters ♿️ It's still a pandemic btw.
mssinenomine
There are some important things in this story - or missing from it. 1. Look at the number of people they estimate will receive some support: 1.67 millionThere are 6,246,640
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Disabled Academic Collective
DisabledAcadem
Other TAs have asked me how to handle profs who refuse to give accommodations. Obviously report them to your dept head and disability services. But by denying accommodations the prof
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@DisMHMatters
dismhmatters
Has this past 4 years been hard on you as a disabled person? I know for me, @nolan_syreeta, living as a Black, Disabled, bisexual woman in the midst of a
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David M. Perry
Lollardfish
Good morning! I am reading @JulianCastro's "people first disability plan" this morning. You can read along here:https://issues.juliancastro.com/equality-for-people-with-disabilities/ First impressions are that it's excellent and swe
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Lux 🧠 Alptraum
LuxAlptraum
It is genuinely wild that I have a disability that I regularly see a specialist for and yet I have never considered myself disabled because my accessibility device is considered
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Rebecca Cokley
RebeccaCokley
Someone said to me “It’s more important that Biden be responding to COVID-19 than release a disability plan. I’m going to push back on that. A disability plan is a KEY
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Daniel Vassallo
dvassallo
If you feel you’re about to lose your job soon (involuntarily or voluntarily), here are some things I did just before I left mine.(US examples, but likely applicable everywhere.) 1.
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Molly 💄♻️🐕🦺
mollyemakeup
I'm probably gonna regret tweeting this if d*ctor Twitter finds it but I'm sorry if you follow procedures that tell you to save abled patients over disabled ones, rather than
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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
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lizzy grace, fairy godmother 🧚🏻♀️
bubblycatholic
reminder: it’s okay that I call myself a disabled woman.it’s not your place to decide whether I should use person-first or identity-first language. I don’t have to meet your criteria
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G Peters ♿️ It's still a pandemic btw.
mssinenomine
Well...since you asked. For federal govt Covid-19 crisis disability advisory committee I'd prioritize a few actual disabled people with specific current lived experience and identities that put them at the
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Senator Jordon Steele-John 🌏🔥
Jordonsteele
*** CONTENT WARNING ***This thread has descriptions of the abuse, neglect and death of a disabled woman.Disability royal commission expert witness left woman lying on the ground for 30 hours
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Sparrow/Liz (semi-hiatus)
UntoNuggan
Today I'm thinking about how getting disability benefits is so much harder if you don't have access to financial resources and/or good insurance. I'm currently filling out a short questionnaire
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Caleb Luna
chairbreaker_
Walking my puppy just now, a man shouts at me from his balcony if I want his workout DVDs. He said, “I guarantee in two months you’ll be slimmer than
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