I can't believe this even had to happen :skellyduck:

Good on the guys for advocating for #accessibility to be honoured.

Wheelchair spaces are not for the convenience of the general public! They are necessary spaces for those in wheelchairs and their carers to participate fully in the world.

👩‍🦼

Also, if the booking system to get accessible seats is too difficult to navigate then there is still work to be done

#DisabledRights

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-25/vic-wheelchair-access-win-after-meeting-with-afl/102138568

Redoing my intro because it's been a minute...

Hi! My name is Sarah, and I'm a queer neurodivergent poet, musician, and AuDHD/OCD advocate.

The words queer and neurodivergent are doing a lot of heavy lifting in that first sentence, though! The longhand is "bisexual nonbinary genderfluid demigirl who is autistic, PDA, ADHD, OCD, GAD, CPTSD, and bipolar", but that doesn't fit on a business card. 😅

I'm Australian, but I live in San Francisco. ostensibly working on a novel but mostly just sucking up life like I'm a vacuum cleaner and it's lint.

Special interests and hyperfixations: #Creativity, #Writing, #Poetry, #SFF/#SpecFic, #Drag, #ClassicalMusic, #ChoralMusic and #Musicals, #ContemporaryArt, #History (especially #QueerHistory and #DisabledHistory), #Biology and #Zoology, #Food, #FiberArts, #MBMBAM and #TheAdventureZone, #TerryPratchett, #AceAttorney, #AnimalCrossing, #StevenUniverse, #OurFlagMeansDeath, #RuPaulsDragRace, #Psychology, #Neurodivergence, #Autism and #OCD, #DisabledRights, #SocialJustice, #Ducks.

Current projects: the NOCD Autism/OCD support group, "The 17%" support Discord for autistic folk with OCD (link in bio!), Tabitha and the Nightingale (YA queer/neurodivergent/disabled fantasy novel), and OCD: The Musical. 🧡

We have lost a tireless advocate and a true real-life hero. Judy Heumann, wheelchair warrior woman, thank you and rest in peace.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/05/obituaries/judy-heumann-dead.html

#JudyHeumann #Section504 #CripCamp #CenterForIndependentLiving
#DisabledRights

On dignity

"After the basics of food & shelter, everyone needs and deserves this.

Dignity is something you get from other people. It's in their eyes. It's a kind of regard.

And if you don't get it, the anger rises in you."

________________

From 'The Ministry for the Future" by Kim Stanley Robinson.

I've just finished it now and it's a great novel!

#ClimateJustice
#WomensRightsAreHumanRights
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #BlackLivesMatter
#AutismAcceptance #DisabledRights

Walked all the way to the pharmacy, forgot my mask so I just stood at the door shouting and waving my stick till she came out #disabledrights

My experience with social care and housing in a nutshell.

Meme with two panels - first - the course structure of a degree in social work, the second - the popular boss meme from the movie Office Space, with the text "Yeah, if you could be less disabled, that'd be great" #disability #disabled #disabledrights #socialworkreform

Here we are, everybody, at the end of 2022. Tomorrow is a new day, a new month, and a new year full of new challenges and new things to work up towards.

Happy New Year and a prosperous 2023.

#MyWayAccess #Disabled #DisabilityAwareness #DisabledPride #DisabledLife #DisabledRights #NewYearsEve

https://youtu.be/_Jpt1QCDi9g

This sounds very much like intentional withholding of aid by a bureaucracy. From the Washington Post: "Social Security denies disability benefits based on list with jobs from 1977"

#socialsecurity #discrimination #DisabledRights

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/27/social-security-job-titles-disabled-applicants-obsolete/

Today is International Days of Persons with Disabilities.

I want to give thanks to all the DPOs, advocacy groups and individuals, who engage on different issues online and in person.

We’re all working towards a more inclusive, disabled friendly society.

#IDPwD #IDPwD2022 #MyWayAccess #DisabilityAwareness #DisabledRights #Disability #Disabled

I was reading about the symbol of an inverted #blacktriangle that's used in new drugs still being monitored, & also adopted by some #DisabledRights groups. But I'm ashamed I didn't know it was a symbol used by the Nazis to mark #Romani people, in the same way that #Jewish people were forced to wear a yellow star.

Putting a message out for help: I'm looking for diversity/inclusion consultants based in Kjipuktuk/Halifax. Specifically for the Black, Mi'kmaq, disabled and LGBTQ2IA+ communities. Hoping to do better advocation for these groups in a video game project I'm helping to design.

Any pointers? #Black #BlackRights #Mikmaq #MikmaqRights #Disabled #DisabledRights #LGBTQ2IA #LGBTQ2IARights #diversityandinclusion #diversityintech #DiversityConsultancy #VideoGames

A former Twitter employee filed a class-action suit, claiming Musk violated his rights under the ADA by ending remote work. GOOD! Remote work is such a vital & reasonable accommodation under normal circumstances, but during a pandemic?! Even moreso. I’ll be watching this one closely! #disability #disabledrights
Here’s the article: https://www.aol.com/disabled-employee-sues-twitter-over-musks-ban-on-remote-work-152422387.html?fbclid=IwAR0qku7PWeQ9cDa-3GTgsQdaH-X9DxuoKk1s9beD7EXZKPcVItHEFJTmfk8

#Introduction

#Queer #Neurodivergent #Disabled #ADHD #Autism #AuDHD #ProtectTransKids #Science #DisabledRights #Disability #DisabilityRights #DisabilityActivism #AntiRacistInTraining #Learning #Politics #BlackLivesMatter #BLM #Decolonization #Scientist #HumanRights #Activism #CripTheVote #WearAMask #MaskUp #LongCOVID (don't currently have it)

Here to learn, educate, boost, share information, find community.

Ex-tweeter.

Reside in the US, so I'm more in tune with US politics and issues.

A nice post on #BodilyAutonomy, #SelfID, and the parallels between the struggles for #TransRights and #DisabledRights in the face of a common threat

CW: includes examples of transphobia and ableism

https://jojostoday.blogspot.com/2021/01/self-id-nature-of-knowledge.html

The whole thing with people saying that disabled people shouldn't self ID, reeks of the kind of bigotry that TERFS use about trans people.

The Venn Diagram of both these groups of bigots, is a circle.

#DisabledRights #TransRights