Broadwaybabyto<p>In my twenties, I was denied a medically necessary hysterectomy because I “might meet a man who wants kids” </p><p>I fought for years to get the surgery, spending weeks out of every month stuck in a hospital bed needing iron and blood transfusions. Too disabled to work. Fainting almost daily. In constant pain. </p><p>No matter how sick I got, the hypothetical future husband and baby came before my health. What these imaginary beings might want was more important than what I needed. </p><p>When I finally had the surgery, I had a severe post operative complication. The surgeon didn’t believe me. She sent me home. </p><p>I had to go to the ER four times before they found the life threatening internal bleed. Each time dismissing me as “attention seeking” or accusing me of not understanding some pain was to be expected. </p><p>My then boyfriend saved my life. He got loud and refused to take me home, saying he was convinced I would die. </p><p>It turns out, he was right. I had a giant bleed in my belly and an infected abscess that had been growing for weeks while they gaslit and ignored me. </p><p>It was a hell of a crash course in medical misogyny, as well as the need to always have an advocate in healthcare settings:</p><p><a href="https://medium.com/@thedisabledginger/what-my-hysterectomy-taught-me-about-medical-misogyny-and-advocacy-e7d6e7294af8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">medium.com/@thedisabledginger/</span><span class="invisible">what-my-hysterectomy-taught-me-about-medical-misogyny-and-advocacy-e7d6e7294af8</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/misogyny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>misogyny</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disability</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/chronicillness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chronicillness</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/patriarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>patriarchy</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/womenshealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenshealth</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disability</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/obgyn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>obgyn</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/hysterectomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hysterectomy</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/childfree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>childfree</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/medicalmisogyny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medicalmisogyny</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/disabilityjustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disabilityjustice</span></a></p>
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Broadwaybabyto<p>When you’re chronically ill, your baseline means everything. </p><p>Non disabled people struggle to understand how easily we can lose function, as well as how hard it is to gain it back. </p><p>It’s one of the reasons many chronically ill people are still masking. We don’t have the luxury of denial. We know we won’t be “fine” if we get covid. We know what we’re risking. </p><p>My latest is all about how to maintain a baseline, as well as tips and tricks for family & friends to help us save precious energy:</p><p><a href="https://www.disabledginger.com/p/maintaining-a-baseline-means-everything" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">disabledginger.com/p/maintaini</span><span class="invisible">ng-a-baseline-means-everything</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/chronicillness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chronicillness</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disability</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/longcovid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>longcovid</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/mecfs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mecfs</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ableism</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/disabilityjustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disabilityjustice</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/wearamask" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wearamask</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/covidisairborne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>covidisairborne</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/covidisnotover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>covidisnotover</span></a></p>
Michelle<p>Hey Ottawa,</p><p>Is there a directory of Covid-Safe healthcare? I have asked in the Still-Coviding group. I have checked on Covid Meetups. Are there any patient resources that I could contact? Is there an advocacy group? How do I find providers for specific procedures that will mask? </p><p>Thanks!</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Ottawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ottawa</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Covid19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Covid19</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/DisabilityJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityJustice</span></a></p>
Michelle<p>I'm so sick of having to negotiate Covid-19 precautions with health care providers so that I can access healthcare safely. </p><p>Baggy blue procedural masks don't protect me from getting Covid-19 from you. I am not risking my health so you can cosplay 2019.</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Covid19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Covid19</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Healthcare</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/DisabilityJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityJustice</span></a></p>
Broadwaybabyto<p>If you participated in any one of the mass protests across the US today… Thank you for rising up & fighting back. </p><p>Please also make sure you’re including disabled people. Wear masks, make events accessible, provide bathrooms & transportation. Plan for accessibility and inclusion. </p><p>There can be no social justice without disability justice.</p><p><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/handsoff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>handsoff</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/teslatakedown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>teslatakedown</span></a> #501010 <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/uspoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspoli</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disability</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/disabilityjustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disabilityjustice</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eugenics</span></a></p>
Broadwaybabyto<p>“When you’re chronically ill, you become incredibly skilled at hiding the pain. You learn to deliver a convincing “I’m fine” and smile through things that would make a non-disabled person crumble to the floor.</p><p>You learn to push your body and your mind way past any reasonable limits.”</p><p><a href="https://www.disabledginger.com/p/why-are-chronically-ill-people-forced" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">disabledginger.com/p/why-are-c</span><span class="invisible">hronically-ill-people-forced</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/chronicillness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chronicillness</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ableism</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disability</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/disabilityjustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disabilityjustice</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/longcovid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>longcovid</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/mecfs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mecfs</span></a></p>
Broadwaybabyto<p>Panda Express becomes the latest business to ban masks for employees, insisting that being able to see facial expressions is necessary for team building. </p><p>This is ableist & discriminatory. Employees have to apply to be allowed to mask, putting an undue burden on disabled staff.</p><p>Not to mention these are minimum wage paying jobs and many staff may not be able to afford a doctors note or whatever arbitrary “proof” the company will require to allow staff to mask. </p><p><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/uglylaws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uglylaws</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ableism</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eugenics</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disability</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/disabilityjustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disabilityjustice</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/maskbans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maskbans</span></a></p>
Broadwaybabyto<p>Dr Oz: “It is the patriotic duty of all Americans to take care of themselves. It’s important for serving in the military, but it’s also important because healthy people don’t consume healthcare resources.”</p><p>They’re all eugenicists. They only care about if you can pay taxes & serve in military. </p><p>If you “consume resources”? You’re expendable. Unwanted. Useless eater. </p><p>Eugenics and fascism always go hand in hand. </p><p><a href="https://deadline.com/2025/04/dr-oz-trump-oval-office-1236371948/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">deadline.com/2025/04/dr-oz-tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-oval-office-1236371948/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/uspoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspoli</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eugenics</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ableism</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/disabilityjustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disabilityjustice</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/droz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>droz</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/rfkjr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rfkjr</span></a></p>
TomKrajci 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️<p>I'm searching for groups that advocate for the mobility challenged – for neighborhood infrastructure improvements.</p><p>A friend and I have been discussing neighborhood sidewalks and the challenges some face in places in our city.</p><p>Are there organizations that advocate for the mobility challenged so that they can receive neighborhood improvements? Maybe they can give us advice as to legal precedents, tell us about positive trends of municipal action that led to improving things in older neighborhoods that tend to have poorer sidewalks?</p><p>Our neighborhood group can engage with City Hall and elected officials better if we have more knowledge and advice.</p><p>Are there organizations that offer matching grants for municipalities if they make infrastructure improvements? Are there organizations that conduct surveys and studies to identify recommended actions?</p><p>Thanks in advance, and greetings from southern New Mexico.</p><p>Tom</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disability</span></a><br><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/DisabilityRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityRights</span></a><br><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Accessibility</span></a><br><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ableism</span></a><br><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/DisabilityJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityJustice</span></a></p>
The Bird<p>I wrote my Disability Manifesto by thinking of all the Disabled people who have shaped my life. All the brilliant books I've read by Disabled people. All the art we've done, all the organizing we've done. Where we found ways to pace, work with our limitations, and where we won battles not despite our disability but of our Disabled selves. </p><p><a href="https://reshapingreality.org/2025/04/15/birds-disabled-manifesto/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">reshapingreality.org/2025/04/1</span><span class="invisible">5/birds-disabled-manifesto/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://disabled.social/tags/Disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disability</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/Disabled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disabled</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/NEISvoid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NEISvoid</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/Manifesto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Manifesto</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/DisabledJoy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabledJoy</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/DisabledGrief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabledGrief</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/Justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Justice</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/DisabilityJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityJustice</span></a></p>
Reshaping Reality<p><strong>Bird’s Disabled Manifesto</strong></p><p>I write this truth so all may understand the reality of Disability.</p><p>Disability is the one category, the one group, the one community that anyone can join at any time in their life for any reason. Disability is defined by people.</p><p>People can be born disabled. People may become disabled due to an infinite set of possible factors: Illness, injuries, accidents, disasters, work, play, and so on.</p><p>Disability is inclusive by default. People are of any skin color, any gender, any sexuality, any class, any nationality, any ethnicity, any religion, any disease, any illness.</p><p>Because anyone can enter into disability, it is inherently intersectional. All Disabled people have multiple identities that describe them and inform how they navigate the world. Thus we have to be intersectional so we can understand the multitude of oppressive systems that overlap and attack from multiple sides.</p><p>Disability is creative. Our survival in a world hellbent on making our lives miserable, impoverished, and painful requires us to create our own forms of joy and resistance. We build up mutual aids, underground communities, and organizing using the tools we have and create.</p><p>Disability intertwines with technology in that many of us must use the Internet, our phones, our computers to interact with others. Where we may need devices to breath, to sleep, to eat. Where we may need mobility aids to navigate the physical realm. Where we must use what we have and transform it into what we need. Many of us become cyborgs through our leverage of technology to ease our symptoms, pain, and to help foster our independence and connections. We require collective access, cross-movement solidarity, and a recognition of our wholeness outside of productivity or other measures.</p><p>Our needs are diverse, unique to each of us, and thus we burst forth with imaginative and creative ways to exist in spite of the world’s ableism. We lead with the most impacted, we pace ourselves, we balance our symptoms with our healthcare with our other work.</p><p>Celebrating Disabled means I am recognizing that Disability, the group in which I exist currently, the truth that I am Disabled does not mean I am less-than, but that I am whole even if society refuses to recognize that. My limitations may make navigating our society harder, but it pushes me to declare and demand a more equitable, just, sustainable, accessible society. The creativity of Disabled activists, our ways of surviving despite our limitations, our talents and skills, our personhood is all to be celebrated.</p><p>To become disabled is to enter into a world of diversity and creativity.</p><p>To become disabled is to enter into the resistance against oppressive systems that harm and disable and kill.</p><p>To become disabled requires us to reckon with society’s health supremacy lies. To realize bodies are diverse and unique in needs; to realize that everyone is deserving of love, of care, of support; to understand how everyone deserves to have their needs met. Holding onto bigotry harms and potentially kills us, and so that must be exorcised.</p><p>To become disabled is to enter into a journey of realization, of truth, of rediscovering who we truly are. We can’t hide from the limitations of our bodies and minds anymore. We must bravely face those limitations and find a balance so we can live another day.</p><p>Our body/minds are rich and brilliant as they are. As the Disabled, we discover how body and mind are interdependent. How we cannot separate them. We are our bodies, we are our minds, we are both/and.</p><p>Disability isn’t a cure. It cannot erase bigotry from our minds and bodies. It only redirects our gaze, intensifies the truth of our relations with one another, and whether we walk through that fire more compassionate and loving depends on our willingness to accept the uniqueness of one another, to let go of what no longer serves us. To grieve that former self, to exorcise the harmful socializations society instilled in us, and to open up one’s mind and body to one another’s truths.</p><p>Disabled and newly disabled and formerly disabled all have this chance to explore an alternate view of our reality. To see what has lain hidden under the oppressive systems that alienate, isolate, and exploit us. Some may bunker down within the bigotry society instilled in us, but others break free from that cage and be reborn into a fiery phoenix of relentless hope and compassion.</p><p>Our world is changeable. Nothing is set in impervious stone. It all can be broken down and repurposed.</p><p>Capitalism, cisgender-hetero-patriarchy, colonialism, imperialism — these are all disabling systems. They eat up people and spit them out, and only a privileged few escape the jaws of exploitation. Those privileged few fall prey to the greed and power that turns them into monstrous beasts that devour yet more of us in their quest for more wealth, more power, more prestige. They can no longer see us and them as human beings equal in body and mind, and instead see themselves as beyond-human.</p><p>They cannot be reasoned with. They can only be stopped. Violence and fear is their language.</p><p>For the Disabled, it is not fear and violence by which we live. It is not our suffering that defines all that we are. Our suffering is but one piece of our stories.</p><p>Disability is defined by our rich history, our unique stories, our creative will to live, to find a way to survive, to help one another survive, to speak our truths no matter how vicious others become. To call out the harm perpetuated against us, to demand the healthcare we need to live, to speak truth to our pain and our small joys.</p><p>We have persisted throughout history. It is our community, our compassion, our love, our fierce struggle to live that gives us a power the oligarchs and capitalists will never have.</p><p>We can defeat the monstrous beasts that exploit, devour, destroy, disable, kill. We can win through the bonds of our diversity, through the truth of our body/minds, through our interdependence on each other, through our support and our demand for justice.</p><p>We have won before: won rights, laws, building of technology that aids us.</p><p>We can win again.</p><p>Not in spite of our disability but because of our Disabled selves.</p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://reshapingreality.org/tag/accessibility/" target="_blank">#accessibility</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://reshapingreality.org/tag/disabilities/" target="_blank">#disabilities</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://reshapingreality.org/tag/disability/" target="_blank">#disability</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://reshapingreality.org/tag/disability-justice/" target="_blank">#disabilityJustice</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://reshapingreality.org/tag/disabled/" target="_blank">#disabled</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://reshapingreality.org/tag/disabled-manifesto/" target="_blank">#DisabledManifesto</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://reshapingreality.org/tag/inclusion/" target="_blank">#inclusion</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://reshapingreality.org/tag/intersectional/" target="_blank">#intersectional</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://reshapingreality.org/tag/justice/" target="_blank">#justice</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://reshapingreality.org/tag/manifesto/" target="_blank">#Manifesto</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://reshapingreality.org/tag/mental-health/" target="_blank">#mentalHealth</a></p>
TheBird<p>I write this truth so all may understand the reality of Disability.</p><p>Disability is the one category, the one group, the one community that anyone can join at any time in their life for any reason. Disability is defined by people.</p><p>People can be born disabled. People may become disabled due to an infinite set of possible factors: Illness, injuries, accidents, disasters, work, play, and so on. </p><p>Disability is inclusive by default. People are of any skin color, any gender, any sexuality, any class, any nationality, any ethnicity, any religion, any disease, any illness.</p><p>Because anyone can enter into disability, it is inherently intersectional. All Disabled people have multiple identities that describe them and inform how they navigate the world. Thus we have to be intersectional so we can understand the multitude of oppressive systems that overlap and attack from multiple sides.</p><p>Disability is creative. Our survival in a world hellbent on making our lives miserable, impoverished, and painful requires us to create our own forms of joy and resistance. We build up mutual aids, underground communities, and organizing using the tools we have. </p><p>Disability intertwines with technology in that many of us must use the Internet, our phones, our computers to interact with others. Where we may need devices to breath, to sleep, to eat. Where we may need mobility aids to navigate the physical realm. Where we must use what we have and transform it into what we need. Many of us become cyborgs through our leverage of technology to ease our symptoms, pain, and to help foster our independence and connections. We require collective access, cross-movement solidarity, and a recognition of our wholeness outside of productivity or other measures.</p><p>Our needs are diverse, unique to each of us, and thus we burst forth with imaginative and creative ways to exist in spite of the world's ableism. We lead with the most impacted, we pace ourselves, we balance our symptoms with our healthcare with our other work.</p><p>Celebrating Disabled means I am recognizing that Disability, the group in which I exist currently, the truth that I am Disabled does not mean I am less-than, but that I am whole even if society refuses to recognize that. My limitations may make navigating our society harder, but it pushes me to declare and demand a more equitable, just, sustainable, accessible society. The creativity of Disabled activists, our ways of surviving despite our limitations, our talents and skills, our personhood is all to be celebrated.</p><p>To become disabled is to enter into a world of diversity and creativity. </p><p>To become disabled is to enter into the resistance against oppressive systems that harm and disable and kill.</p><p>To become disabled requires us to reckon with society's health supremacy lies. To realize bodies are diverse and unique in needs; to realize that everyone is deserving of love, of care, of support; to understand how everyone deserves to have their needs met. Holding onto bigotry harms and potentially kills us, and so that must be exorcised.</p><p>To become disabled is to enter into a journey of realization, of truth, of rediscovering who we truly are. We can't hide from the limitations of our bodies and minds anymore. We must bravely face those limitations and find a balance so we can live another day.</p><p>Our body/minds are rich and brilliant as they are. As the Disabled, we discover how body and mind are interdependent. How we cannot separate them. We are our bodies, we are our minds, we are both/and.</p><p>Disability isn't a cure. It cannot erase bigotry from our minds and bodies. It only redirects our gaze, intensifies the truth of our relations with one another, and whether we walk through that fire more compassionate and loving depends on our willingness to accept the uniqueness of one another, to let go of what no longer serves us. To grieve that former self, to exorcise the harmful socializations society instilled in us, and to open up one's mind and body to one another's truths.</p><p>Disabled and newly disabled and formerly disabled all have this chance to explore an alternate view of our reality. To see what has lain hidden under the oppressive systems that alienate, isolate, and exploit us. Some may bunker down within the bigotry society instilled in us, but others break free from that cage and be reborn into a fiery phoenix of relentless hope and compassion. </p><p>Our world is changeable. Nothing is set in impervious stone. It all can be broken down and repurposed.</p><p>Capitalism, cisgender-hetero-patriarchy, colonialism, imperialism -- these are all disabling systems. They eat up people and spit them out, and only a privileged few escape the jaws of exploitation. Those privileged few fall prey to the greed and power that turns them into monstrous beasts that devour yet more of us in their quest for more wealth, more power, more prestige. They can no longer see us and them as human beings equal in body and mind, and instead see themselves as beyond-human.</p><p>They cannot be reasoned with. They can only be stopped. Violence and fear is their language.</p><p>For the Disabled, it is not fear and violence by which we live. It is not our suffering that defines all that we are. Our suffering is but one piece of our stories.</p><p>Disability is defined by our rich history, our unique stories, our creative will to live, to find a way to survive, to help one another survive, to speak our truths no matter how vicious others become. To call out the harm perpetuated against us, to demand the healthcare we need to live, to speak truth to our pain and our small joys.</p><p>We have persisted throughout history. It is our community, our compassion, our love, our fierce struggle to live that gives us a power the oligarchs and capitalists will never have.</p><p>We can defeat the monstrous beasts that exploit, devour, destroy, disable, kill. We can win through the bonds of our diversity, through the truth of our body/minds, through our interdependence on each other, through our support and our demand for justice.</p><p>We have won before: won rights, laws, building of technology that aids us. </p><p>We can win again.</p><p>Not in spite of our disability but because of our Disabled selves.</p><p><a href="https://ni.hil.ist/tags/Disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disability</span></a> <a href="https://ni.hil.ist/tags/DisabilityJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityJustice</span></a> <a href="https://ni.hil.ist/tags/TheBirdDisabilityManifesto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheBirdDisabilityManifesto</span></a> <a href="https://ni.hil.ist/tags/Manifesto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Manifesto</span></a> <a href="https://ni.hil.ist/tags/Justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Justice</span></a> <a href="https://ni.hil.ist/tags/Organizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Organizing</span></a> <a href="https://ni.hil.ist/tags/Activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Activism</span></a></p>
The Neuro Duo<p>Another autistic child shot by police. We are heartbroken and angry. We know this situation ALL TOO WELL!! Our hearts go out to the teen’s family. This is why awareness isn’t enough - we need accountability and real change! Neurodivergent lives matter. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheNeuroDuo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheNeuroDuo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/justiceforvictor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>justiceforvictor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>actuallyautistic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/idaho" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>idaho</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/autismawareness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autismawareness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disabilityjustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disabilityjustice</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/policeviolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policeviolence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/autisticlivesmatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autisticlivesmatter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/idahonews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>idahonews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/saytheirnames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>saytheirnames</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pocatello" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pocatello</span></a></p>
Journeys In Film<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://disabled.social/@Aaidanbird" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Aaidanbird</span></a></span> </p><p>Have you seen the documentary Crip Camp about the summer camp that gave rise to a generation of US disability rights activists?</p><p>It includes disability activist-led protest footage that reframes the concept of what protests can be & how they can work. It's a good resource for those who may not know how to answer what access in a protest can look like.</p><p>It's more relevant than ever. We warmly recommend it.</p><p><a href="https://journeysinfilm.org/product/crip-camp-guides/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">journeysinfilm.org/product/cri</span><span class="invisible">p-camp-guides/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disability</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/DisabilityJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityJustice</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/DisabilityRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityRights</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/DisabilityAdvocacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityAdvocacy</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Homschooling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Homschooling</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/disability" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>disability</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/disabilityjustice" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>disabilityjustice</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/disabilityhistory" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>disabilityhistory</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/education" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>education</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/edutooters" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>edutooters</span></a></span></p>
re_elect_bonitazarrillo_mp<p>United in Port Moody–Coquitlam, we can stop Pierre Poilievre’s cruel clawbacks. Since 2021, we’ve pushed for real change—forcing action on the Canada Disability Benefit and introducing Bill C-422 to end clawbacks hurting people with disabilities. Let’s keep fighting for dignity and justice. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DisabilityJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityJustice</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StopTheCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopTheCuts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/election2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>election2025</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>election</span></a></p>
emeritrix<p>Race Matters in the Fight for Social Security<br>The present crisis in Social Security can only be understood as part of a larger narrative: the halting, uneven progress toward a multiracial democracy, and the current, accelerating efforts to erase that progress completely.<br>by Andrew Moss in the LAProgressive</p><p>"As millions of retirees, persons with disabilities, and other beneficiaries try to cope with DOGE cuts to Social Security (website outages, inordinate wait times on the phone or in person, complete non-service for many), one group stands particularly vulnerable.</p><p>"Because of long-standing wealth gaps stemming from discrimination in housing, mortgage lending, and employment, many retired African Americans rely on Social Security as their principal source of income. Their access to other assets in retirement (workplace retirement plans, job-based pensions, home ownership, inheritance) is significantly more limited than that of white Americans. As a result, hindrances to continuous coverage can have serious consequences for people struggling to meet basic needs in nutrition, housing, and health." </p><p>read it all at <br><a href="https://www.laprogressive.com/racism/fight-for-social-security" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">laprogressive.com/racism/fight</span><span class="invisible">-for-social-security</span></a></p><p>take action via <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/hands-off-social-security" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">actionnetwork.org/event_campai</span><span class="invisible">gns/hands-off-social-security</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveSocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaveSocialSecurity</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DisabilityJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityJustice</span></a></p>
emeritrix<p>The Critical Role of Elders in the Fight Against Authoritarianism <br>by Scot Nakagawa</p><p>"The fight against authoritarianism is often framed as a battle for the future, with young people leading the charge. But the elderly, of which I am one at 64 years of age—particularly those who rely on Social Security, Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), and Medicare—are not only among those most at risk but also among the most strategically powerful constituencies in the resistance."</p><p>one caveat: Nakagawa mentions AARP as part of organizing capacity of elders, but AARP shills for the insurance industry and promotes medicare DisAdvantage, so watch out for them. Otherwise, many good points here. Read it all at <br><a href="https://antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/the-critical-role-of-elders-in-the" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">antiauthoritarianplaybook.subs</span><span class="invisible">tack.com/p/the-critical-role-of-elders-in-the</span></a></p><p>see also Social Security Works:<br><a href="https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/hands-off-social-security" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">actionnetwork.org/event_campai</span><span class="invisible">gns/hands-off-social-security</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveSocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaveSocialSecurity</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DisabilityJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityJustice</span></a></p>
emeritrix<p>What is DOGE doing to Social Security? </p><p>From the Economic Policy Institute:</p><p>Social Security faces a long-term shortfall that would be easy to fix if Republican lawmakers listened to voters. Republican and Democratic voters alike support addressing the shortfall through revenue increases, not benefit cuts. Options for raising revenue include eliminating the cap on taxable earnings, so billionaires like Musk no longer contribute the same amount to Social Security as doctors and lawyers. Claims that Social Security is in crisis—and attempts to manufacture a crisis—serve to distract from this popular option.</p><p>The alleged rationale for putting an unelected billionaire and his team in charge of SSA and other government functions is rooting out waste. But Social Security’s administrative costs are tiny—less than 1% of spending—and improper payments are similarly inconsequential. Meanwhile, a top priority of the Trump Administration is extending tax cuts that overwhelmingly flow to wealthy people like Musk.</p><p>If it ain’t broke, DOGE will break it. As former Commissioner Martin O’Malley warned, “When they can break it, they can say, ‘Aha! We told you! This program never worked, and we were just ripping the band aid off.’” Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren told Frank Bisignano, the self-described “DOGE person” who Trump has nominated to run the agency, that the only way to significantly reduce Social Security spending without Congress instituting unpopular benefit cuts is to make it very hard for people to access them. If this makes people frustrated with the agency, that’s a plus for an administration that wants you to believe that government is broken. </p><p><a href="https://www.epi.org/blog/what-is-doge-doing-to-social-security/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">epi.org/blog/what-is-doge-doin</span><span class="invisible">g-to-social-security/</span></a></p><p>take action: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/hands-off-social-security" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">actionnetwork.org/event_campai</span><span class="invisible">gns/hands-off-social-security</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveSocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaveSocialSecurity</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DisabilityJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityJustice</span></a></p>
Caro S.<p>Ableism Is the Go-To Disguise for White Supremacy. Too Many People Are Falling for It. </p><p>Agents of white supremacy count on society’s existing behaviors toward the mentally ill—and all disabled people—to aid and abet their agenda without anyone taking a closer look.</p><p>By Imani Barbarin</p><p> <a href="https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2018/11/19/ableism-is-the-go-to-disguise-for-white-supremacy-too-many-people-are-falling-for-it/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">rewirenewsgroup.com/2018/11/19</span><span class="invisible">/ableism-is-the-go-to-disguise-for-white-supremacy-too-many-people-are-falling-for-it/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ableism</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/DisabilityJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityJustice</span></a></p>
Broadwaybabyto<p>Living with chronic illness is hard enough without letting guilt stop us from accessing what we need. </p><p>Capitalism & ableism have conditioned us to see rest as a failure. To feel bad for needing accommodations. </p><p>Accessibility IS resistance. Survival is a way of fighting back. </p><p>Rest. Get that mobility aid. Ask for help. </p><p><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resist</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/disabilityjustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disabilityjustice</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ableism</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disability</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/chronicillness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chronicillness</span></a></p>
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