February 2012
85 posts
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“I am a non-white person with light colouring, and I am physically disabled, but...”
– Invisible Identities, Part 1: Invisible to Whom? by Chally
This is just more amazing stuff.
(via stogucheme)
*ALL THE APPLAUSE*
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Please Understand...
paradoxxed:
Please understand that being disabled/sick doesn’t mean I’m not still a human being. I have to spend most of my day being very careful what I do, and if you visit I might not seem like much fun to be with, but I’m still me stuck inside this body. I still worry about school and work and my family and friends, and most of the time I’d still like to hear you talk about yours too.
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Things that may make you an asshole (TW: ableist...
fairy1234:
- Saying that “derp” and “herp derp” isn’t ableist in anyway despite there being evidence that it fucking is.
- Mocking the use of trigger warnings and telling us to stop being so “sensitive” on the Internet.
- Telling people with disabilities what and what not to be offended by.
- Saying that there is no such thing as ableism and calling people “retarded” for knowing it is real.
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yesterday i went to get a haircut. i DROVE myself...
girl-in-a-wheelchair:
holycripitsacrapple:
same-old-converse:
sorry for the rant guys
No need to be sorry. I would have run the lady over then demand my money back.
What is it about people and doors with wheelchairs?
The doors you can get, they fall over themselves, and you, rushing to open. The ones that you can’t get, they just stand there and gawp at you struggling or ignore you.
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The pro-choice campaign:
stogucheme:
Abortion is a woman’s CAF’s choice! They should be able to abort any baby!
-is good (aside from the trans issues)
Prenatal screening should be free!
-is good
Doctor: The prenatal screening test is back. Your child will be disabled.
Pro-choice movement: Abort! Abort!
-is bad
Let’s remember that pro-choice means giving women a choice and not pressuring them to abort, please.
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(TW: Ableist slur) Being racist is not being...
stogucheme:
secretsofthedisabled:
thetaylordetroye:
iamabutchsolo:
In class today we were talking about all of these cases of race-infused violence in the south during the Civil Rights Movement, and Emmett Till came up. And of course we talked about how brutal his murder was - he was beaten, shot in the head, drowned, one of his eyes was gouged out. There was a quiet in the room as we all...
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“I’m writing because I have things to say about disability, ableism, and my...”
– On writing about disability by Chally
So happy to find a feminist who is POC and disabled!
(via stogucheme)
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“Damn it man, I’m a doctor, not a physicist!”
– Dr. Leonard McCoy (via ravensfair)
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Help Buy Wheels for Pixie Fairy Triplets and Big... →
Guys. I usually don’t ask you to donate to causes. But this one is really, really important to me. These are very close family friends of ours and I consider all four of the girls, especially big sis Samalie, my little sisters. Please, please, help raise money for a van so that Evienne can finally come home and the family can be together. It has been three long, hard years, and my...
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Dear James Cameron, I like my characters crippled
girl-in-a-wheelchair:
fuckthedisabled:
I am disappointed by the tentative crippling of characters in popular culture.
I want my characters crippled without apology. I want my characters to be broken and twisted with a permanence. I don’t want my charcters ailments or dysfunctions reversed, erased, and forgotten; I want them thrown in your audiences’ faces like a scalding pot of revelation and...
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Call for video clips
littlemissmutant:
theloudhandsproject:
Call for video clips
The Loud Hands Project, an initiative of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, is planning a video which looks at the impact of passing and the demand to pass on Autistics who can or are forced to attempt to mask their autistic traits. We are also interested in exploring the impact on autistic people of being told that they don’t...
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Ableist language alternatives (TW: Ableism,...
secretsofthedisabled:
kittiesnbabies:
August 11, 2008 — virtualjess
General Non-bigoted Slurs
Jerk Waste of space Asshole Asshat Assclown Asswipe Shithead Ponce Plonker Git Skeeve Mook
Instead of “Nuts”, “Psycho”, “Insane”, etc. Out there Over the top A bit much Absurd Illogical Nonsensical Preposterous Unreasonable
Instead of “Retarded” Ignorant Numbskull Nincompoop Bozo Uninformed
...
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Racism just makes me uncomfortable okay
flutter-sassy:
I am white but I’m allowed to feel really uncomfortable with racism okay.
Help.
Racism on tracked tags.
If you are a decent human being, you SHOULD feel really uncomfortable with racism. Or ableism. Or sexism. Or heterosexism. Or ANYTHING ELSE.
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Someone needs to invent something where it's the...
Because I can never talk to my friends in other places without one of us staying up really late. And that makes me sad.
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Dear everyone who calls me, or anyone with a...
neeeenaaaah:
First off, thanks… I guess? I understand you have the best intentions and say it with a full heart, but come on…
I get on the city bus .. I get called an inspiration. I get an A in school.. I get called an inspiration. I have friends and go out into the world, I am an inspiration. I live, I’m an inspiration. I roll out side of my house, and I am some heaven-sent creature to come...
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I'll make a man out of you.
girl-in-a-wheelchair:
It’s easy to scroll on by. I couldn’t though. Can you?
radicalqueery:
Culturally, socially, and physically, we assign humans a gender based on appearance. Popular culture has very rigid definitions of ‘male’ and ‘female’ and imposes them on today’s youth at any costs. Seventeen, Teen Beat, the list goes on. How to make the cute boy in homeroom notice you with this...
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“I think we can all recognize that the “it’s a joke excuse” is the most...”
– Loose Talk: You can take your “just joking” and shove it. (via shitkrieg)
I will always reblog this when I can.
(via racemash)
It’s a joke. It’s also offensive and often upsetting.
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Secret #7 My Thoughts on Transableism
secretsofthedisabled:
I get it. I really do. You feel like you were born into the wrong body, like you should be [disability]. That’s fine. Go around in a wheelchair or crutches or whatever.
But don’t pretend you know what the lifestyle is like. What the ableism is like. You haven’t grown up with it, haven’t had your choices taken away, haven’t been totally screwed over.
You live in an...
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(Ableism, Ableist slurs) You know, you don't have...
agirlcalledhome:
It’s insulting to people with real disabilities, who have been targeted as “stupid”, “idiotic”, and “retarded” all their lives. It perpetuates the idea that intelligence is a marker of social awareness. And if that isn’t enough to convince you (in which case you’re a pretty insensitive individual), those words don’t do anything to get your point across. They make you seem...
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“In building his case, Singer makes many assertions that he does not support,...”
– Fact Sheet on Peter Singer (via disabilityrightsstuff)
Thank you for writing this! (cpmatters)
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itscandidlycara:
Because apparently I need to spell this out for people:
priv·i·lege/ˈpriv(ə)lij/
Noun:
A special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to one person or group of people.
If you are a white heterosexual male you have an advantage over everyone who is not white, heterosexual, or male. Can you control this? NO. Does this make you a bad person? NO. But to...
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To people who say "look past disabilities".
cpmatters:
For example: “Forde can’t wait to get to Ottawa to speak, hopefully helping others learn to look past disabilities.” Johanna Weidner
Do you mean that the existence of my disability is not worth being recognized and accepted?
Should I wear a mask next time you see me? I’m sure that will hide my disabilities and no effort from you is required.
But no, I won’t wear a mask to live in...
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Deaf Aspie: Why doesn't anyone get it? →
summersaysso:
deaf-aspie:
summersaysso:
deaf-aspie:
If you aren’t deaf, DON’T WRITE THINGS ABOUT BEING DEAF FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF DEAF PEOPLE.
If you aren’t autistic, DON’T WRITE ABOUT THINGS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF AUTISTICS.
If you aren’t blind, DON’T WRITE ABOUT BEING BLIND FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF BLIND PEOPLE.
If you aren’t in a…
I’m kind of thinking this may have been aimed at...
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When Your 7-Year-Old Son Announces, 'I'm Gay' →
itscandidlycara:
Huffington Post:
Considering that my son has a longstanding crush on Glee’s Blaine and regularly refers to him as “my boyfriend,” I thought there was a fair chance that he would someday say, “I’m gay.” But my kid is only 7 years old. I figured I had a few years before we crossed that threshold (if we ever did), probably when he was 14 or 15. I never thought it would happen...
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some assembly required: if only they knew →
to try to explain this to someone one has just met, a stranger with no idea of what living with debilitating and unapparent disabilities is like, is like trying to explain the concept of physics to a stuffed bear. the worlds are just so far apart that there’s little room for leeway in one direction or another.
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“When one speaks of disability, one always associates it with a story, places it...”
– Lennerd J. Davis, Enforcing Normalcy (via queerbody)
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“When someone stares at you, you wonder what’s wrong. You wonder if there’s...”
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via Gimp ‘Tude, “The Man in the Parking Lot.”
I don’t usually post quotes this long, but this blog is kind-of amazing, and you should go read it.
Thanks to the Yahoo! Accessibility blog for reposting this article, as well!
(via kfell)
this is kinda amazing.
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Totally Important Star Trek Question
kiddywonkus:
I’m going to be writing a post about Tom Paris’ holopimpin’ (and to some extent Bashir’s) in contrast to Barclay’s on my scifi blog, and I’d love to hear some of your opinions.
Why? Well, I think I have legitimate question here… Why is it holodeck addiction with Barclay but for not Bashir and Paris? Does it come down to what makes a person cool? Or is there a societal distinction...
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“But then, the truth was never really the point. Thin women don’t tell their fat...”
– Kate Harding (via rhiannon-random)
another example of thin privilege, your body type doesn’t carry these negative synonyms
(via fatcatsandcurls)
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“feminism is not about burning bras or man hating. Men can be feminists too, it...”
– (via getin2myhead21)
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inflateablefilth:
lemonpie42:
My Beef With The Word ‘Female’ | The NYC Shitlist
face-down-asgard-up:
alsoyesalso:
wut4:
Let’s be honest here. The word ‘female’ is used when someone, maybe subconsciously, wants to distance themselves from the person in question. It makes any sentence more about the difference between genders. Just look at the general context of the word- I have never...
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An Open Letter to People Who Want to "Help"...
As a disabled person, I don’t want your “help”. I want your respect and your acknowledgment that I am a whole and complete human being just the way I am. I don’t want or need your charity. Until you can recognize that I am your equal, someone who deserves to live in the world with dignity, without hearing constantly that she needs to be cured or fixed, that I am a burden...
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The Top Ten (13) Star Trek Blogs ...
deeply-spaced:
… according to Blogs.com.
My Star Trek Scrapbook
Star Trek - Sci Fi Blog
Star Trek and Media Science Fiction Blog
The Boy That Time Forgot
The Soul of Star Trek
The Star Trek Prop, Costume, and Auction Blog
The Website At the End of the Universe
TrekCheck
TrekMovie.com
TrekWeb
And I would like to add three more to this list (according to deeply_spaced):
Trekcore.com
...
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Why I am against Autism Speaks (made rebloggable...
uctdgirl:
goldenheartedrose:
Autism Speaks is probably the most well-known charity out there when it comes to autism. Just because they have the most media coverage and celebrity support does not mean they are a good organization.
Autism Speaks does not have a single autistic member on their board.
Autism Speaks only spends 4% of their budget on “family services”.
The majority of Autism...
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Secrets of the Disabled: (TW: Ableism, Sexual... →
neurodivergentsexuality:
by Devyn
An autistic woman and sexual abuse survivor was just declared to be “incapable of consent” in the UK. Let me repeat that: someone who has experienced and survived genuine sexual assault was just banned, against her wishes, from having consensual…
I was just talking about this type of thing with a friend of mine last night……
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A Social Justice Poem
I wanna
whoop and holler
pump my spastic arms
and fling my crippled body
into a furious frenzy
of pride and passion
I wanna dance
rip my limbs into the air
in celebration of the life
the current
in this room
And I can’t understand
you all
in this room
sittin’ pretty with your
polite applause
and your bland smiles
and I wanna shout
“don’t you know...
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Why you shouldn't support Autism Speaks. →
littlemissmutant:
theowlhouse:
1. Autism Speaks talks about us without us. Not a single Autistic person is on Autism Speaks’ Board of Directors or in their leadership. Autism Speaks is one of an increasingly few number of major disability advocacy organizations that refuse to include any individual with the disability they purport to serve on their board of directors or at any point in their...
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TW: Talk of rape/rape apology
sazquatch:
If you are a rape-apologist, please unfollow me now. Let me elaborate on that:
If you think that any victim of sexual assault ever ‘asked for it’ by being drunk/flirty/dressed provocatively/having said yes before/being in a relationship with the person who violates them.
If you think rape or sexual assault is ever partially the survivor’s fault.
If you ever privilege the rights of...