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When the police refuse to deal with any report of transphobic hate crime, the stock reasons include “[trans people are] a currently contested issue” This is the state saying your existence is ‘currently contested’ therefore we will allow any form of harassment of you’

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"Katie Kiss, a Kaanju and Birri/Widi woman and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission, warned that Indigenous rights are facing a sustained and escalating assault." #auspol #indigenous #firstnations

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Radfem ideology is often bioessentialist purity-politics fundamentalism, which aligns well with .... certain other ideologies. Intersectional leftism needs to move beyond simply criticising ‘TERFs’ and ‘SWERFs’, and explicitly and continually reject radfem ideology more generally.

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More evidence that the EHRC is unfit for purpose. At this point its just a mountain of evidence the size of Olympus Mons.

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Here's a detailed discussion about the PACE Trial that influences the NDIS via Professor Lloyd: "The full PACE data led to over 40 scientists writing an open letter to the Lancet to raise serious concerns about the study, and asking for a new, independent analysis of results." #auspol #mecfs #ndis

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The NDIS is cutting supports for not being 'evidence-based', yet the advisor to the NDIS on ME/CFS, Professor Andrew Lloyd, claims that what's been called the "greatest medical scandal of the 21st century", the PACE Trial, was 'evidence-based'. #auspol #disability #mecfs

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Justice for Kumanjayi White: Snap Rally - Friday 6 June - 5:30pm - Victorian Parliament Steps, Spring Street, Melbourne Last week, Kumanjayi White was killed while being restrained by NT Police in a Coles supermarket in Mparntwe (Alice Springs).

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But remember it brought clarity……

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Certainly true for me. #kink #bdsm

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Autistic Burnout isn’t just “too much work.” It’s masking. Pain. Shame. Trying to care for everyone while no one cares for you. It’s rejection sensitivity, executive dysfunction, chronic illness, trauma. And still being told you’re “high functioning.” No wonder we break.

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i've continued to be in debilitating amounts of pain; have a telehealth appointment with my GP tomorrow about it. Haven't tried going to ER because experience has taught me that i can't trust them to not dismiss me as merely 'drug-seeking'.

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Disabled people are constantly told to “just try harder”. Everything that happens to us is our own fault. Yet during stay at home orders the ableds screamed about how hard it was. How unfair it was. How badly they needed to go back to normal. The hypocrisy is unrelenting.

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Imagine if instead of punching down on disabled people and insisting we can “try harder” our way out of chronic illness… the non disabled would try harder to accept us? They could stop expecting us to hide our suffering for their comfort. They could face the difficult realities of chronic illness.

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#firstnations #indigenous #ecology #biodiversity

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One thing i notice about Aus media coverage of the mental health crisis is demographics they don't mention. E.g. trans people are ~11 times more likely to attempt suicide than the general population. Which is surely unrelated to media platforming demonisation of trans people. #auspol #mentalhealth

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"These recommendations relate to crisis response, an area where consumers experience significant harm ... VMIAC has consistently raised concerns about the marginalisation of lived experience voices in the consultation process." #auspol #vicpol #mentalhealth

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Oxfam: "It is scandalous and unjust that property continues to be one of the biggest drivers of wealth across the decade while over 99% of rentals are unaffordable for people earning a full-time minimum wage." Especially in a country as wealthy as Australia @oxfaminternational.bsky.social #auspol

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#auspol #mentalhealth

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New research has found people are falling through the cracks of an over-burdened social housing sector. Demand for housing has grown while the number of people helped into homes has slowed around the country. #auspol @albomp.bsky.social @jimchalmers.bsky.social

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'Person-first' language (e.g. "Person with autism") often seems to assume (a) that it's _entirely_ the condition itself causing 'dis-abling', i.e. that negative social attitudes aren't involved; and (b) that stigma / prejudice is 'natural' and inevitable. #disability #actuallyautistic #actuallyadhd

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Unfriendly reminder: Please don’t dismiss someone’s pain, suffering, or disabilities because you can’t “see” them.

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Nothing like those of us in a marginalised group being told how we should refer to ourselves. i'm autistic, not a "person with autism", just as i'm queer, not a "person with queer". #disability #actuallyautistic #actuallyadhd

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All of this. #actuallyautistic #autism

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"ADHD symptomatology predicted orgasmic consistency [in the women studied], and most notably, that greater inattentive ADHD symptomatology was associated with lower consistency of orgasm". [paywalled] #sexuality #orgasm #adhd #research

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Shared identity does not necessarily imply shared lived experience and perspectives. Caitlyn Jenner is a trans woman, but her life and perspectives are very different from mine. Acts of #empathy and #solidarity are more important to me than shared identity.

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Disabilities don’t stop just because we are exhausted. We still have to spend hours each day managing things… even when we’re feeling like death. So it becomes a perpetual cycle, one we literally have no choice in.

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Not all disabled people have family or friends who can take care of them. Charities are woefully ill equipped to provide the level of care many of us need. Being abandoned for being sick is common, and it’s not our fault. Disability is not & has never been a moral failing.

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Today is #InternationalWhoresDay | On 2 June 1975, over 100 sex workers in Lyon, France, took over a church demanding justice, rights, and dignity. That act of resistance sparked a global movement — one rooted in pride, protest, and power.

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"The parade numbered around 1,000 LGBTIQ+ people and allies. "Colechin says they had a permit to march through Hyde Park, but when they got there, police wouldn't allow the demonstration to continue and started arresting and beating people." #auspol #queer #lgbtqi #transgender #genderqueer

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Literally don't care if "Bluesky is dying" I locked up and walked away from a 51k profile that I had invested 15 years on in the other place because I was so tired of being yelled at and shadowbanned. I'd much rather be here talking quietly to myself than being yelled at all day by angry trolls.

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#housing #auspol

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You're not ‘pro-queer’ / ‘pro-trans’ / ‘pro-genderqueer’ if you demand that we not be highly sexual or kinky. You're ‘pro people you deem worthy’. #bdsm #kink #queer #transgender #genderqueer #pride

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Too many people commenting on space exploration who apparently have no idea about gravity wells and required delta-vs.

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I liked Pride so much better when it was one day celebrated by grass-roots organizations than a whole month ballyhooed by major corporations with rainbow-hued consumer goods, and with hypocritical expressions of solidarity from politicians and cops.

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And the sort of people who buy into this often seem to be the same people that disparage the wearing of masks by people with chronic health conditions: "You're living in fear!"

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🧵 1/7 Last year I ended up in a psychiatric hospital. I had ECT and was prescribed Mirtazapine. It helped my mental health a lot. But something unexpected also happened…

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It's so great that when i see a random post that's talking about cuts to disability supports, i immediately wonder whether the context is Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, the UK or the US. #disability

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This is who you hurt when you give away all our money for free to fossil fuel companies such as Woodside. This poor family needs help now - having to set up a gofundme for their medical care?? Atrocious #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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#auspol #nswpol #mentalhealth

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I think I may be coming to the sad conclusion that autistic people are constantly misunderstood mainly because not enough people are interested in understanding us

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