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Today is Disability Day of Mourning. Please take a moment to remember those who have been lost at the hands of family and caregivers. We are also mourning those lost to COVID. Many disabled people are afraid for their lives right now, reasonably so. Please, just a moment, just remember them.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Disabled people are not a waste. Disabled people are not parasites. Disabled people are not a burden. The ultimate waste is the devaluation and dehumanization of 25% of the population.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Exactly this. Don’t believe that mourning makes you weak. It means you are powerful and terrifying. ACT-UP knew this. Maime Till knew.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Disabled people have been sounding the alarm about fascism for five years now. Pandemics lead to fascism. They excuse the deaths of the most vulnerable first. How do you not become vulnerable like us? Wear a mask! If you become disabled from Covid, they’ll excuse your death too.

submitted 17 days ago • 11 comments

Ableism is blaming disabled people on how their needs are a burden on the system rather than blaming the system on how inaccessible things are for disabled people.

submitted 23 days ago • 9 comments

This is probably not a surprise to people in the disability community, and I apologize for my ignorance about it, but I have been genuinely surprised how much immediate government wrath is going towards people in the disability community

submitted 26 days ago • 392 comments

@mskellymhayes.bsky.social is brilliant. A rebellious culture of care in defiance of a death-making culture of greed. Amen to that.

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

Aw man! Wish I was back home to see this.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

submitted 30 days ago • 4415 comments

I've said it before and I'll say it again: If disabled people aren't included in your revolution, it's not a true revolution.

submitted 30 days ago • 16 comments

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍🌈

submitted 35 days ago • 397 comments

You want to be more involved in community care? Wear a mask. You want to be an ally for the most vulnerable like disabled people and people of color? Wear a mask. You talk about revolution but it means nothing if you’re not masking. By masking, you’re preventing death and disability.

submitted 37 days ago • 11 comments

Something disability justice activists have been screaming about for the last five years and some of you may just now be realizing: eugenicists believe disease is good. They believe themselves part of the “superior” race and that disease clears out the poor and unworthy. 1/

submitted 38 days ago • 32 comments

This times a centillion.

submitted 39 days ago • 163 comments

Don’t underestimate the impact you’re making when you choose to wear a mask. You’re protecting your health & the health of your community. You’re helping ease the burden on our healthcare system. You’re standing in solidarity with disabled people & telling the government that no one is expendable

submitted 39 days ago • 252 comments

Disability rights are human rights! ♿️

submitted 40 days ago • 13 comments

reading books that keep getting upset about modernity breaking up communities. but 'community' being presented as an unalloyed good is always a red flag to me. many communities are bad! community can mean family, love, friendship but it can also mean insularity, clannishness, spite, shaming.

submitted 40 days ago • 73 comments

“I'm not a mess but a deeply feeling person in a messy world. I explain that now, when someone asks me why I cry so often, I say, 'For the same reason I laugh so often--because I'm paying attention." -Glennon Doyle Melton

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

To my able bodied comrades: It’s time to stand with disabled people and be in solidarity with us. Wear a mask and practice compassion and community care. To my disabled comrades: I love you. ❤️

submitted 41 days ago • 10 comments

Tomorrow will be a dark day for many. For disabled, marginalized, LGBTQ+ folks & women. For anyone who still cares about others The disability community saw this coming. It’s important we listen & understand that labelling people as expendable for 5 years leads nowhere good 🧵

submitted 41 days ago • 11 comments

How switching to an N95 mask gives a 75x boost in COVID protection “N95s are up to 75 times more effective at preventing infection with COVID-19 than surgical masks, according to a study” www.axios.com/2022/01/11/n...

submitted 42 days ago • 47 comments

Good book.

submitted 42 days ago • 25 comments

For all those in the "uncommitted" movement or who couldn't otherwise bring themselves to vote for Kamala Harris, this is what you got We told you so!

submitted 46 days ago • 341 comments

the tea is that many social justice folks don't even have a disability justice praxis. this attack on ASL is gonna be another hurdle.

submitted 48 days ago • 5 comments

The Contrarian masthead already the strongest pro-democracy group in the country, probably stronger than all of legacy media combined. Check it out (and it’s already growing beyond this): Contributors include: Allegra Lawrence-Hardy, Andrew Weissmann, Andy Borowitz, Asha Rangappa, Barb McQuade,

submitted 48 days ago • 316 comments

I posted this some time ago but I think it needs reposting

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submitted 48 days ago • 12 comments