Listening to this fabulous Radio Lab episode discussing why people with disabilities are uniquely qualified to be astronauts while auditing the (coming soon) @NASA website for accessibility. 🚀 ♿️ I couldn't ask for a better background.

Definitely worth listening to. #accessibility #a11y #DisabilityPrideMonth #disabledpeople

https://radiolab.org/podcast/right-stuff-2307

@gemelliz or places for people to actually sit without having hostile architecture forcing them to suffer.

The #LightRail stations in #Seattle have #hostilearchitecture which hurts #DisabledPeople or people who just want to sit while waiting for the train.

I can't stand for long periods and just having space to sit and exist is essential for my well being.

I really hate hostile architecture. It's inhumane.

House #GOP releases budget that would 'destroy #SocialSecurity as we know it'

Also, "would force #disability beneficiaries to wait five long years (instead of the current two, which is already too long) before becoming eligible for #Medicare benefits," turn Medicare into a voucher-like system.

I guess they hope #DisabledPeople would die off or something. Who knows what their mindset is.

https://www.alternet.org/economy/house-gop-2661360729/

j'ai deux mots à dire en tant que personne désactivée

#disabledPeople #passionTraduction

Rightwing and CPAC, & Turning Point USA influencer Candace Owens complains about disabled people in commercials

#Disabled #DisabledPeople #DisabledPeopleExsist #disabilityawareness #DisabilityRights #DisabilityToots #disabilityinclusion

https://www.rawstory.com/candace-owens-2659833919/

Help! We need to hire a car in France for 4 ppl, cases and a foldable wheelchair from Montpellier to Angoulême 19th to 24th June.
My head is about to explode..

Avis Hertz Europcar don't seem to offer anything that looks like a station wagon that could take 4 cases + wheelchair (folded)

Only these mock SUVs that look roomy but are actually all padding on seats and a boot the size of a budgie cage.

Est-ce qu'il y a qqn qui peut nous conseiller en ce qui concerne location de voitures de Montpellier à Angoulême le 19 - 24 juin?

Il n'y a rien à louer chez Avis Hertz Europcar avec un grand coffre pour 4 valises et un fauteuil roulant (plié)

Nous n'avons trouvé que ces SUV/monospaces à 4 places super confortables, mais un tout petit coffre aussi grand qu'un cage à oiseau... au secours!
#disabledpeople #disabledsocial #wheelchairconversations #wheelchairtraveller #touristes #handicapés #franceinfo

Help! We need to hire a car in France for 4 ppl, cases and a foldable wheelchair from Montpellier to Angoulême 19th to 24th June.
My head is about to explode..

Avis Hertz Europcar don't seem to offer anything that looks like a station wagon that could take 4 cases + wheelchair (folded)

Only these mock SUVs that look roomy but are actually all padding on seats and a boot the size of a budgie cage.

Est-ce qu'il y a qqn qui peut nous conseiller en ce qui concerne location de voitures de Montpellier à Angoulême le 19 - 24 juin?

Il n'y a rien à louer chez Avis Hertz Europcar avec un grand coffre pour 4 valises et un fauteuil roulant (plié)

Nous n'avons trouvé que ces SUV/monospaces à 4 places super confortables, mais un tout petit coffre aussi grand qu'un cage à oiseau... au secours!
#disabledpeople #disabledsocial #wheelchairconversations #wheelchairtraveller #touristes #handicapés #conseilcafe

She's got 2 pigtails, wears a yellow jacket, is q
cheeky & uses a #wheelchair - #SesameStreet has a new resident. The #doll is called Elin & is seven years old. #FirstRime a #character w/a #disability has #strengthened the #German #puppet ensemble.

https://www.indonewyork.com/m/breaking/new-character-elin-sesame-street-gets-a-resident-with-a-h77813.html

#GoodNews #diversity #inclusion #DisabledCommunity #DisabledPeople #DisabledKids #Progress #MinorityRepresentation #Overdue

#CommonThread of #vulnerability , #victimization & #stigmatization run through #disability & #CasteBased #discrimination that makes out a #StrongCase for #intersectional & #interrelational #engagement with both these forms of discriminations. Viewing these two types of discriminations through #DistinctAxis provides for #empathy & #comradery for #concerns of one another.

https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/disability-and-caste-bias-a-shared-struggle-8505522/lite

#India #DisabilityRights #HumanRights #Ableism #Classist #Humanity #DisabledPeople #AsianMastodon

Andrew Thorne will be #ShowingOff his #CookingSkills to the world at the 2023 #Abilympics next week.
He's one of five #NovaScotians who will be taking part at the #quadrennial #vocational #SkillsCompetition for #PeopleWithDisabilities being held this year in #Metz #France from March 23-25. 
The 2023 #competition will be the 10th #international Abilympics. The first was first held in Japan in 1981.
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6782244

#DisabilityEmpowerment #DisabledPeople #GoodNews #BeyondLimits #Disability

Look, we need to put aside all the petty bullshit and unite all the marginalized folks together to form an army.

And by petty bullshit, I mean the crap you used to do on Twitter.

We actually need to build an underground army for #LGBTQ #Black #POC #disabledpeople and anybody I might be missing.

The question: “How long did it take you to not be embarrassed by your hearing aids?” . Tells me EVERYTHING I need to know about you views on #DisabledPeople #SelfEsteem and a litany of other things. #HardOfHearing

#AI #Computers #DisabledPeople #Futurology

Brain implant startup backed by Bezos and Gates is testing mind-controlled computing on humans.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/18/synchron-backed-by-bezos-and-gates-tests-brain-computer-interface.html

U.S. schools secretly use a series of tactics, known as informal removals, to remove challenging disabled students from class. The tactics are “off-the-book” suspensions often in violation of federal civil rights protections.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/us/students-disabilities-informal-removal.html

#CivilRights #disabledPeople

U.S. schools secretly use a series of tactics, known as informal removals, to remove challenging disabled students from class. The tactics are “off-the-book” suspensions often in violation of federal civil rights protections.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/us/students-disabilities-informal-removal.html

#CivilRights #disabledPeople

The Justice Department is reportedly scrutinizing a controversial family-screening tool over concerns that its algorithm may be violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by allegedly discriminating against families with disabilities.

https://trib.al/TehSzPl

#AI #DisabledPeople #CripTheVote

The Justice Department is reportedly scrutinizing a controversial family-screening tool over concerns that its algorithm may be violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by allegedly discriminating against families with disabilities.

https://trib.al/TehSzPl

#AI #DisabledPeople #CripTheVote

Movie Review: “I Used to Be Famous” (2022), Netflix. Will be on my YouTube channel soon!

The movie is truly a masterpiece! It’s an an amazing thing to see real #disabledpeople in movies and TV playing disabled characters, which doesn’t happen often enough because of #ableism. It does a wonderful job of making sure that Stevie, who like Leo, is #Autistic, feel included.

I truly hope that there are many more films and shows like this made in this year and beyond!

10/10 would recommend!

I’m reading, as I have probably already mentioned, Unmasking Autism by Devon Price. It is continuing my slow but real process in seeing #ableism as it is perpetrated not only against #AutisticPeople but also against #DisabledPeople in general. I’m getting a wee bit radicalized, y’all.

#AmReading #Autism #Disabilities

On the bright side, if there's anything the left and the right are united on, it's your ceaseless hatred for #DisabledPeople.

🙏🎲