More ideological cruelty from the state and the DWP:

‘Fitness for work’ test changes are ‘horrendously dangerous’, activists warn – Disability News Service

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/fitness-for-work-test-changes-are-horrendously-dangerous-activists-warn/

#Disability #DisabilityJustice #DWP #AbolishTheState #DPAC #ChronicIllness

Mein Redebeitrag zu #Klimagerechtigkeit und #Behindertengerechtigkeit #DisabilityJustice von Samstag 09.09.23 auf der behindert, verrückt Pride Parade in Berlin ist auf meinem blog online, mit ein paar Links unten zu weiteren Infos zum Thema des Beitrags.
@PrideParade https://blog.eichhoernchen.fr/post/redebeitrag-zu-klimagerechtigkeit-und-behindertengerechtigkeit/

Je rediffuse ce texte important d'Harriet de Gouge, écrivaine militante handie parmi les plus importantes dernièrement en France. Notamment: de plus en plus de militant-es handi-es 'express' se mettent à galvauder la culture #crip, en américanisant vite fait un concept pour le rendre cool, 'bankable'. Là où la culture #crip a pour pivot la #DisabilityJustice, un croisement de conscience de plusieurs oppressions. Harriet rend compte que nous en sommes loin en France.
https://www.harrietdegouge.fr/post/700367339562106880/pourquoi-jai-quitt%C3%A9-le-collectif-les-d%C3%A9valideuses

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1809835/sickness-benefits-work-home-bill
J'ai pas les mots, là
C'est immonde.
Et ne vous inquiétez pas on va avoir la même chose bientôt, en France, à base de "il faut faire la chasse aux faux handicapés" "les contribuables en ont marre de payer pour les improductifs" "plein de handis peuvent faire du télétravail parce que la modernité"
Et bien sûr, aucun lien avec une pandémie en cours qui fait que de plus en plus de gens sont invalides. Aucun.

#DisabilityJustice
#DisabilityRights
#LongCovid

Just a quick toot to say #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder (#OCD) is not an adjective. It is a very debilitating illness that makes every day tasks and life so much harder. Stop saying "I am so OCD" if you don't actually have OCD (tbh, I don't think I've ever heard someone with OCD say that). It trivialises an illness that is incredibly difficult to live with, that requires you to get up every day to fight against ongoing intense anxiety, triggers and avoid compulsions and compulsion loops. Instead of saying it, please read more about OCD and learn more about what it involves and what we battle with on a daily basis.

#ChronicIllness #Disability #MentalHealth #DisabilityJustice

@trekhausen
Am I being too cynical to suggest this is a trial balloon to test possible official responses to a looming disability crisis?

#LongCovid #PEM #pacing #MECFS #Covid #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #SpoonTheory #Spoons #Disability #DisabilityJustice #LongCovidJustice

Just had one of my worst experiences since having #LongCovid - I felt so poorly this morning too after a bad night sleep, but dragged myself to an online video group chat with the NHS Long-Covid Hub. Basically the facilitators said a load of shit about how the symptoms aren't often based on anything actually being physically wrong and there is often no lasting damage (yeah, they said that with confidence) and that it is about "reframming" the brain and its response to symptoms when doing various activities. They tied this into Somatic tracking etc. I was the only one in the group that spoke out on this by saying that I was concerned they were suggesting the symptoms are in our mind rather than being the physical reality they are - for instance, they were citing that tests often say we are fine or the fact symptoms fluctuate as evidence for what they were saying. They responded by coopting terms like #PEM and #pacing but the message was for the majority of people with Long-Covid there is nothing to really worry about as it's not physically harmful and rather about retraining the brain.

I was so mad and angry and felt so isolated. Then the facilitators spent the rest of the session periodically saying things that seemed directly related to me challenging them, for instance this included: "[to the group] I am so glad you have taken it on board and seen it for what it is." "It is neuroscience" "Not going to resonate with everybody" "we are providing evidence based options". Sadly noone else spoke out and backed me up and actually people in the group backed them if anything about how useful it was (I know this will sadly include people that are new to this shit and won't know the history of this well documented by the ME/CFS community). It just added to the sense of isolation I felt. Horrible experience.

This is something I haven't experienced at the Long-Covid Hub before and seems to clearly tie into the government's agenda around Long-Covid and how they want people with Long-Covid to get back into work, as they argue being out of work for longer makes it worse etc. Retrain and reframe those symptoms at work to see the "benefits" of being a "productive" part of the system kind of BS. Oh and of course, the main facilitator has had Long-Covid and they said they used these techniques/approach to recover from it.

In sum, it was all about promoting individualistic approaches and psychologizing Long-Covid. It's the exact same thing many have been doing to people with #MECFS for years; for instance, see here I found from a quick search: https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2019/11/11/somatization-myth-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/

I am glad I said something but sad I was the only one. I also feel gaslighted. And the Hub is the main source of support I get as someone who has had Long-Covid for 3+ years. Thankfully, but also sadly, I know that there are a lot of people here on Mastodon that understand how I feel and why I feel this way.

#Covid #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #SpoonTheory #Spoons #Disability #DisabilityJustice #LongCovidJustice

C'est du Harriet de Gouge, à moins humble avis c'est actuellement France l'écrivaine militante handie la plus pertinente. Qui ne cesse de creuser la réflexion tout en rebondissant sur les écueils encore très inavoués au sein même des politisations handies.
https://www.harrietdegouge.fr/post/722038795988582400/caramels

#handicap
#DisabilityJustice
#validisme

If you live in Seattle District 5 and/ or care about the future of Seattle, now is the time to donate and volunteer and endorse and support ChrisTiana ObeySumner for Seattle City Council, District 5! Support is needed now through Election Day!

And it’s also ChrisTiana ObeySumner birthday season!

#seattle #elections #donate #gotv #seaelex #DisabilityJustice #TenantRights

https://www.votechristiana.com/endorsements?mibextid=Zxz2cZ

Ricardo Levins Morales poster catalog, p700: "Nothing About Us, Without Us, Is For Us"

This powerful slogan arose from the struggle of people with disabilities in #SouthAfrica. It could be the basic operating principle of peoples’ struggles all over the world. One of our most popular images, it's a poster, card, button and shirt: https://www.rlmartstudio.com/product/nothing-about-us-2

Today (9/5/23) is the last day of our Labor Day sale - 25% off with code EDUCATE

#DisabilityJustice #SocialJustice #MastoArt #FediGiftShop

C'est ce samedi à Paris (malheureusement à Paris…) et l'intervention de la pote Harriet de Gouge promet de bons uppercuts de pertinence & justesse. Nous en discutions hier autour d'une pizza sous un arbre, je ne peux que vous recommander d'aller écouter cela publiquement !
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#handicap
#DisabilityJustice
#validisme
#CripTime
#DisabilityLife

…/… Ici une chronique de Mike Ervin qui me fait rire, tout en parvenant à pointer la justesse politisée. Là concernant les clichés validistes qui inondent les moindres spots publicitaires pour le métier d'assistant-e de vie pour adulte handi-e.
👉 http://smartasscripple.blogspot.com/2023/05/updating-my-pit-crew-want-ad.html

#AuxiliaireDeVie
#handicap
#DisabilityJustice
#validisme

…/… Beaucoup d'ADV (assistant-es de vie) travaillant avec moi me disent ne plus en pouvoir quand à une soirée iels évoquent être assistant-es de vie on les compare illico au personnage d'Omar Sy dans le film "Intouchables", aux antipodes d'une éthique professionnelle autonomiste & anti-validiste.

#AuxiliaireDeVie
#handicap
#DisabilityJustice
#validisme

Two waves (1950s & 1970s) of systemic deinstitutionalisation and there are more “beds” than before; they just look different.

#MadLiterature

Busting the Deinstitutionalization Myth: We Actually Have More Beds Than Ever Before
New data upends common beliefs about asylum closures, deinstitutionalization, and rates of psychiatric coercion.

https://www.madinamerica.com/2023/08/busting-deinstitutionalization-myth/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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#MadMovement #MadStudies #Mad #Madodon #TransMad

#eugenics #asylum #CarceralAbleism
#AntiBlackSanism #instutionalization

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#PsychiatricSurvivor #AntiPsychiatry #DisabilityJustice
#LivedExperience #PsychSurvivor #ChronicPain
#DisabilityMastodon #Neurodivergent #RadicalMentalHealth
#CripCamp #DisabilityRights #NeuroDiversity
#Sanism #Disability #DisabilityStudies
#Stories #isolation

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@disability
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la maman d'élève dans le reportage de France culture qui explique que c'est pas normal que son fils autiste n'ait pas assez d'heures d'AESH (ok, entièrement d'accord), vu que son fils n'a pas de déficit intellectuel, LUI, et qu'il peut suivre, LUI : nique toi.

(journal de 8h, si vous avez envie d'écouter)

#DisabilityJustice
#ActuallyAutistic

Mad Crip doula: offering holistic and emotional spiritual bodymind care, mixed with practical and crisis support (and plant medicine). moving from a liberation-centered and anti-oppressive lens. a transition doula with skills in: abortion, death, grief, Madness, and Disability.

#MadLiterature

https://www.stefaniekaufman.com/madcripdoula

endorsing: non-carceral, peer-led mental health care systems that exist outside of the state, reimagining everything we’ve come to learn about madness, and intervening in systems that oppress, disappear, and kill Disabled and mad folks.

Please Note: I don’t know Them in any capacity and They sure look bad-ass

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#CarceralAbleism
#instutionalization

#Ablesim #DisabilityCommunity #InvisibleDisabilities
#PsychiatricSurvivor #AntiPsychiatry #DisabilityJustice
#LivedExperience #PsychSurvivor #ChronicPain
#DisabilityMastodon #Neurodivergent #RadicalMentalHealth
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#Sanism #Disability #DisabilityStudies
#Stories #isolation

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@disability
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@neurodivergence

Disability doula. Peer support. Social support. Physical support. Cultural roots.

#MadLiterature
Newly disabled people aren’t given a ‘how-to’ guide. Disability doulas are closing those gaps.
The community care practice, pioneered by queer women of color, reorients newly disabled people to a different life

https://19thnews.org/2023/07/disability-doulas-support-newly-disabled-people/

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#Ablesim #DisabilityCommunity #InvisibleDisabilities
#PsychiatricSurvivor #AntiPsychiatry #DisabilityJustice
#LivedExperience #PsychSurvivor #ChronicPain
#DisabilityMastodon #Neurodivergent #RadicalMentalHealth
#CripCamp #DisabilityRights #NeuroDiversity
#Sanism #Disability #DisabilityStudies
#Stories

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#ableism #AntiAbleism #mic #capitalism #anticapitalism #MaskUp #n95 #disabled #covid #COVID19 #DisabilityJustice #ada #cdc #hicpac #MasksSaveLives #antifascism #structuralableism #socialjustice

@toussaint
thanks for sharing this. these #LongCovid survey results are gut-wrenching. i was struck by some disparities among groups, including people with or without a disability.

for the most recent values (July 26-Aug 7)
Ever experienced Long Covid as a percentage of adults who ever had covid:
With disability: 45.7%
Without disability: 24.2%
Currently experiencing Long Covid as a percentage of adults who ever had covid:
With disability: 24.3%
Without disability: 13.7%

highlights one of the many ways that covid disproportionately harms marginalized communities.

#DisabilityJustice

Fuck Disability rights Oregon, Oregon Health Authority, and OHSU. They would rather disabled folx die then access safe medical care. I went through their ridiculous grievance processes. They continue to violate ADA law, and gaslight anyone who questions “their authority”. This is going to take mass movement building. This corrupt capitalist Medical Industrial Complex system must be dismantled and rebuilt. #maskup #covid #disabled #anticapitalism #oregon #DisabilityJustice #mic #ableism