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From: Janis Irwin
"Pink Shirt Day is about more than being kind.
It’s about speaking out against bullying.
It’s about standing up to homophobia, transphobia, sexism, ableism, racism, and all hate.
It’s about demanding better from yourself and others."
“It’s your choice to feel hurt or not.”
“Take back your power!”
A thread. 
Telling people they ‘have the choice’ and to ‘take back their power’ can, at times, be a bit less helpful than one might think.
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I've been reading "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan recently. One of the things that has stood out to me is the early American lamentation that women's intellectual potential is wasted in their subjugation. If 19th century aristocrats could see that about women, why can't their modern heirs see it about the working class?
They are so desperate to build machines that possess human intellect so that they might have more pliable slaves, yet they would squander the massive, efficient computing power of a billion unique human spirits in order to avoid sharing a fraction of a percent of their hoarded wealth.
What's more, these people are perverting large parts of mathematics and computer science in pursuit of their agenda, poisoning a new generation against the serious study of human reasoning and its relation to logic.
A ruling class that casually dismisses its people as "intellectually disabled" in order insult and suppress them is asking to be removed from power.
Thank you so much for drawing attention to and sharing your experience of this.
I can appreciate that it is all the more hurtful to know that the checks in the system that exist to uphold values and correct unconscious bias and systemic abelism in language failed so utterly in a speech by the Prime Minister that was intended as an apology for historic abuses. I can only imagine how it was to experience this first hand.
#Disability #Abelism #AbelistLanguage
#AccesssibleCanada #CharterOfRights #HumanRights #Blind #Canada
So, I cleaned up, sourced, and expanded out my post about fascist lawmakers using the anti-trans pogrom to go after disability rights a little bit and published it on my website; extra paragraph and a half, cleaned up some wording, nothing major changed but it has source links now.
https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2024/10/20/nina-bytes-a-gateway-to-eliminationism/
Nina-Bytes: A Gateway to Eliminationism
"The short story here is that, lead by noted transphobic crook fascist Ken Paxton, seventeen GOP-controlled states (fifteen of which have recently passed anti-trans legislation) are asking federal courts to strike down a recent US Department of Health and Human Services rules update that helps to protect trans people from government discrimination, arguing that gender dysphoria shouldn’t be covered by disability rights legislation. The kicker however is that these states are asking for the entire rule to be removed, even though the majority of the 130 page federal rule has nothing to do with trans care or gender dysphoria, including provisions to prevent discrimination against disabled medical patients, the rights of disabled parents in child welfare cases, and folks who’ve become disabled as a result of contracting Long Covid. In other words, fascist lawmakers are now using the anti-trans moral panic they’ve spent years drumming up, to prosecute a eugenicist agenda against the rights of disabled Americans in real time."
Some people here know my backstory of 20 years of #abuse and #neglect.
For those who don’t, see story: https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2024/05/03/me-cfs-anna-australia/
I have barely been surviving last few months so that’s where I went if you wondered.
Now my sister is coming back for the 4th time this year and she makes my life even more hellish. Nobody masks here. They’ve brought me #Covid every time and every time I get worse. My stuff is being thrown away. I can’t survive here. This is beyond anything my body can take. I keep getting worse and worse; health in free fall. Government will not help. Nowhere to go. Isolated by abusers so couldn’t make connections. They are blocking care and so many more.
These people are monsters.
Know anyone with a spare room?
Anywhere safe and quiet. I need to get out before I die of this.
I can’t do this anymore.Someone get me out to a safe place please help 
I’ve tried all the DV orgs and none help disabled people. The best one offered was counselling and that’s it. I tied contacting the Minister for Prevention of Family Violence Vicki Ward and got nothing. Just an acknowledgment that she got my email. The government won’t help me I need at least one kind person out there.
I think I deserve better than abuse, neglect and life in bed in the dark with no end in sight.
In #Melbourne, #Australia.
#LongCovid #PWLC #MECFS #PwME #CommunityCare #ChronicIllness #Abelism
#DomesticViolence #Housing
@longcovid
@mecfs
@communitycare
@socialwork
@chronicillness
@melbourne
@neisvoid
This me. I am slowly dying. 
Quite seriously, you genuinely seem to misunderstand my point.
The fact that you view my comments as those of others as a ‘complaint to file with the management’ is indicative of the misunderstanding.
The deficiencies in the new Mastodon UI that kicked off this discussion arises from the lack of a pre consultation within the Mastodon. Given the large presence of visually limited persons on this platform, and the commitment in the community to their inclusion, the introduction of new barriers with the new UI is a genuine failure in the development process.
The concern is that a new UI was put into place in the update that brings with it features that are of value to some users, such as notification bundling valued by journalists without ensuring that these new features were not creating new barriers.
Somehow, in the development process there was quite evidently insufficient polling or engagement with the disability community, and a broader scope of users who relied of the way the old UI is set up without necessarily seeing themselves as having significant vision impairments (e.g. people with astigmatism which is very common.)
Persons with visual limitations already, on a mostly voluntary basis, provide extensive contributions of time to assist developers making better UIs and reducing barriers that are imperceptible to them. You should assume that we’re already doing this in our work, school or whatever other environments whether or not they involve the digital/IT community.
Telling us to invest more of our resources to address deficits in the development process, that could and should have been averted with an engagement and inclusion plan as workflow mapping of the development processes from the start, by ‘sending a complaint to the management’ seems to miss that point entirely.
Telling users to provide feedback via a second platform with its own diverse barriers is doubling down on the implicit abelism (which is the point I was making about GitHub and Discord).
Since your profile indicates that you work in the field and are seeking to be principled, I have continued to engage. I’m not assuming that you’re not genuinely trying to be helpful.
At this point though, I would suggest that you spend some time following some disability advocates who are more articulate than I in articulating the impact of systemic abelism. @broadwaybabyto, @meganL & @Looping speak to movement and other barriers rather than focusing on the visual. They may nonetheless be better able to help you understand why you are I are talking past one another and what a principled commitment to inclusion might involve.
#Diasability #VisionLoss #Blind #LowVision #Mastodon #Accessibility #a11y #AccessibilitySolutions #Abelism #Validiste #Abelist #AccessibleUI
I find advertising to be abusive to people and I'll never be convinced otherwise. But I find it to be especially abusive to neurodiverse people.
I have AuADHD (Autism and ADHD for people not in the know). And having something constantly attacking my focus makes doing anything extremely difficult.
I think this most certainly also falls under abelism.
I know I keep repeating the same point quite a few times, but I encounter this #abelism almost every week.
Treatment for #obesity and treatment for #ADHD is met with abelist comments that people getting other treatment seem to be spared from. You need to make "extra effort!", the "medication is just part of a tool to help, the main responsibility is on YOU!"
I experienced part of the the same shit with "wegovy needs to be given as part of a complete lifestyle change!" when getting my #ADHD diagnosis.
"In addition to medication, you should see psycologist that can help you work on your organization skills and other things that is important for a person with ADHD to learn in order to cope better with life"
The meds stopped 100 voices from demanding my attention all the time. I think I spent ten times more energy being organized than most people do. I don't need more help. I know how to organize. Just needed the meds to quiet the voices.
Why toss abelist comments, you don't understand the struggles.
Imagine if you tell someone that a friend has started cancer treatment. "This is good", they say "but only if they stop smoking and eat more vegetables".
You never told them if your friend smoke, or what their diet is like. In this scenario, as a norm, anyone that get cancer treatment is told how they have stop smoking and eat more vegetables, even from complete, random strangers. No matter. Not? No meds.
This is not not acceptable, right? Anyone can get cancer, and even if they smoke, treatment is given. What else is important is between them and their Dr.
"But this cancer medication is ALSO an MS medication! They smoked! It is NOT right that they take this med away from people with MS, making their treatment more expensive!" would also NEVER be acceptable.
This is what people using #Wegovy face continuously. #Obesity is mostly caused by medical conditions. Wegovy is a treatment.
Don't toss "they also need to exercise and eat better!" at people.
They don't steal it from diabetics.
Stop #abelism.
Just encountered some pretty bad #abelism in my wife's dog tracking training course.
We're both #ActuallyAutistic , and her trainer knows this. We're also dealing with some pretty stressful situations at home which she also knows.
So on her last training day of the course, my wife calls the trainer if it's ok if she only comes for her training routes and then leaves, because she's close to melting down.
The trainer then proceeds to berate her for asking for accomodations "all the time"
Dear front desk lady. When I tell you I don't need help getting to where I'm going, because of my recent O&M appointment, you then do not clap 
for me and congratulate me. Also dear history professor, you then do not, when I'm 3 minutes llate direct me to my assigned seat that I have been going to for eight weeks nearly. Jesus I've never felt more disabled. 
#disabled #abelism
@CultureDesk "Time Bandits" will need a lot of work to take it into this century. I mean, where do you start? I hope the cringeworthy #abelism is high on Taika's list of things to improve.
For decades, the right has been trying to manipulate culture which allows them to manipulate laws. They amped up the #misogyny, #whitesupremacy, #homophobia, #transphobia, #abelism, and #xenophobia already present in our culture.
Their attempts to herd us over a cliff like lemmings, by using social media, support their goal of rolling back of rights to something like the early 1800s. If we let them, #democracy dies.
Here’s how we fight back.
- #Embrace and #support each other.
- Think critically about their claims of various groups.
- Talk back against #othering.
- Hold onto #hope
- Remember you are not alone, for we are more than they are in numbers and creativity.
Speak up, Shine, be all you, be loud, be large, be kind, and let your freak flag fly.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/df15a22a-5255-491c-8b31-55c8898c9d84
An ex coworker was in a wheelchair. She commented about the abelist nature of the term "daily standup" and how it irked her every time she heard it (because she couldn't "stand up"). She had a suggested replacement, but i've forgotten it. :(
Scrum calls this "a scrum" but i don't think that's widely adopted / understood.
What non-abelist term would you suggest for replacing "standup"?
Ne ratez cette vidéo de @ARTEfr 
Cofondatrice de l'association @LesDevalideuses, @Celinextenso parle de #féminisme, d'#inclusion et la double peine que les femmes handicapées subissent à cause du #validisme et du #sexisme.
#handicap #abelism #accessibilité
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RT @27_ARTE
Cofondatrice de l'association @LesDevalideuses, collectif "qui démonte les idées reçues sur le handicap", @Celinextenso conjugue féminisme et lutte pour les droits des…
https://twitter.com/27_ARTE/status/1641111724836417536
Mal in eigener Sache:
Gibt es hier auf Mastodon auch #Menschen mit #Querschnittslähmung aus dem Raum #Berlin(!!) die sich über #Handbiking, 'Behindertenpolitik'( #barrierefreiheit , #Abelism, etc.), 'Hilfsmittel'-Versorgung bzw. Selbstorganisation austauschen?
Schreibt mal, teilt mal.....Danke euch 
Lauren 
