AmberBrainz♿🏳️‍🌈🧠
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Just your average pan-demi, AuDHD, blind, disabled, former neuroscientist and glitter loud mouth. Making art and trying to survive. I'm a goth/punk riot grrrl who loves science and sci-fi. You've been warned. She/her 🏳️‍🌈♿ 🏳️‍⚧️ Mamma X 2
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Last time we lost so many people when they lost their doctors or got thrown out of practices.

And it didn't do a damn thing for people with addiction bc they just switched to fentanyl and there were even more deaths.

Just all around a horrific experience that I hope disability advocates help wit
Chronic pain and cancer patients have also been treated like criminals even when they are totally compliant and all the research supporting pain management for these patients. I would hope this time we would work harder at protecting these patients while also having more empathy towards addiction.
And we know you can do it because you stopped using all those other slurs and hurtful language.
Person: Uses ableist word/term

Disabled folk: “Please don’t use that word/term, it’s harmful”

Person: “Fuck you, why are you attacking ME… I’m on your side!!”

No… No you’re not an ally if unwilling to listen & learn.
Meanwhile myself and many I know will die if we lose Medicaid.
Another $20 billion. That is the face you make when you heist the US taxpayers for $40 billion two weeks before your midterm elections from the most corrupt America Last regime in history.
I also noticed that there were some YouTubers that also didn't redact the R slur. How many times do we have to ask for the same humanity as others when reporting on this stuff?

Again the disability community gets forgotten about again as if this kind of language isn't as dehumanizing as the rest.
You know the Politco article about the Young Republicans praising Hitler and spewing hate speech?

They redacted every slur except the R word.

That tells you everything you need to know about how pervasive ableism is.

No social justice without disability justice.
I noticed that and I also noticed that channels reporting on it did the same.

We are never even considered.
I have been in extreme burnout for a while but definitely this week.

This entire thread is fire btw.
All humans experience dysregulation and distress.

Many humans experience dysregulation and distress long enough that they reach a point of exhaustion and burnout...
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Focusing on needs means we can divvy up support so whoever needs it... gets it... and that we can make the world a much more peaceful place for everyone.
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Once you have called disabled people a burden, you have facilitated the devaluation, dehumanization and death of disabled people.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 5d
The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.
This entire thread is truths all the way down. It sure would be nice if people would listen to us.
Taps the “this administration is full of eugenicists so yes, they do want people to die” sign so hard it snaps and shards go scattering everywhere.

And yes, we saw it coming.
Do like we did with Elon and keep saying Miller is the shadow president pulling Trump's brain dead strings. He doesn't like being second fiddle. He's too much of a narcissist for that.
If you're like me and have been in this type of abusive relationship, you've probably been triggered for weeks, even months, without being able to put your finger on the reason. Take care of yourself. Take a break, talk to your therapist. Truly scary stuff.
Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.
I have definitely been feeling this lately.
It’s been a heck of a week.

The “flooding the zone” strategy is damaging to nervous systems. It’s ok if you’re exhausted, you have a right to be.

Many of us with chronic illness use social media as our main connection with the world.

We use it to combat the isolation.

But it can come at a cost:
Spoon Saving Social Media Tips and How to Resist Online
The current political landscape is having a devastating impact on the health of those within the disability community. A look at how we can save spoons and leverage our unique powers to resist.
www.disabledginger.com
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Rodney Taylor still needs our help!

He’s still locked in an ICE camp.

He’s still going without his new prosthetic legs.

He’s still facing deportation to Liberia.

He’s still having necessary disability accommodations ignored.

Please keep sharing his story. Public pressure works!
Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE
Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.
www.disabledginger.com
That's amazing! I'm going to have to show this to my daughter bc she loves Alien. Happy Halloween month!
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The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries.

He said this out loud.
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The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.

I don't know how to yell any louder.
Ta-neshi seemed to put him in his place during that interview the other day. Well at least when Ezra wasn't flat out manipulating the convo back to himself. Ezra thinks he's going to be some type of wht savior of our democracy when all he really is is an insufferable blowhard high on his own farts.
This sums it up excellently.
I’m going to make this a video at some point but I’m saying this here and being done because it’s honestly just angering and scaring and frustrating me.
Well said. Community building and everything you listed seems to be the last thing anyone does and I really want it to be the first. Especially as a disabled person with two trans daughters.

Can't wait for the video.
This. I fully believe that his article about "politics the right way" was seen as permission for every lib to dismiss the words of marginalized communities. And permission for the right to crack down because "look this Dem agrees with us".
Damn God now I believe in you. Make it so.
That peacock glass is quite adorable so it must be antifa. 😆
And we got to save Kyle Clark because his station is under threat if this deal goes through and it's one of the few progressive award winning news stations in the country.

If this merger goes through they would disband and we would only have Fox for our local news and investigation news.