Andrew Gurza
@andrewgurza.bsky.social
Disability Awareness Consultant, author of NOTES FROM A QUEER CRIPPLE (2025), podcaster, talking about disability, queerness and all that.
Website: www.andrewgurza.com
Here's my Mastodon https://mastodon.social/@andrewgurza
Website: www.andrewgurza.com
Here's my Mastodon https://mastodon.social/@andrewgurza
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let me re-introduce myself
* severely disabled, power wheelchair user
* former canadian tv celeb (rip 1G5G)
* author / public speaker / podcaster
* queer / non-binary
* fights for sexuality and disability
* nerdy as fuck
* disability justice for all
* hot
* severely disabled, power wheelchair user
* former canadian tv celeb (rip 1G5G)
* author / public speaker / podcaster
* queer / non-binary
* fights for sexuality and disability
* nerdy as fuck
* disability justice for all
* hot
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Disabled isn't a dirty word, and it's fine to work through internalized ableism if you were raised thinking so. We live in an ableist world.
December 4, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Disabled isn't a dirty word, and it's fine to work through internalized ableism if you were raised thinking so. We live in an ableist world.
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Embracing a label of "disabled" made me more confident in asking for accommodations. I can't get through a full work day in person without suffering in pain.
If you're a chronically ill person, I welcome you to join this identity.
If you're a chronically ill person, I welcome you to join this identity.
December 4, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Embracing a label of "disabled" made me more confident in asking for accommodations. I can't get through a full work day in person without suffering in pain.
If you're a chronically ill person, I welcome you to join this identity.
If you're a chronically ill person, I welcome you to join this identity.
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You know how this became utterly predictable and inevitable? When absolutely none of the people responsible for the previous thousand family separations were punished in any way
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 2:59 AM
You know how this became utterly predictable and inevitable? When absolutely none of the people responsible for the previous thousand family separations were punished in any way
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Everybody needs that disabled friend they can’t take to a serious event. I’m that friend.
December 2, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Everybody needs that disabled friend they can’t take to a serious event. I’m that friend.
Everybody needs that disabled friend they can’t take to a serious event. I’m that friend.
December 2, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Everybody needs that disabled friend they can’t take to a serious event. I’m that friend.
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🔥 BREAKING: A spokesperson for Kids Can Press, the publisher of the Franklin the Turtle books, messaged me today about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth using the likeness and image from the books to make light of killings in the Caribbean in his post yesterday on X.
December 2, 2025 at 12:16 AM
🔥 BREAKING: A spokesperson for Kids Can Press, the publisher of the Franklin the Turtle books, messaged me today about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth using the likeness and image from the books to make light of killings in the Caribbean in his post yesterday on X.
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This video was labeled VIOLENT EXTREMISM and removed by TikTok.
December 1, 2025 at 11:47 PM
This video was labeled VIOLENT EXTREMISM and removed by TikTok.
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we don’t talk enough about the feeling when you’re disabled like “I have to accept this help or I won’t get what I need, even though I don’t want this help right now”
December 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
we don’t talk enough about the feeling when you’re disabled like “I have to accept this help or I won’t get what I need, even though I don’t want this help right now”
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Ms. Rachel, the extremely popular children's YouTube host, is not an antisemite. She loves kids. She has dedicated her life to children. She doesn't like seeing children murdered, maimed, and starved in Gaza or anywhere else. Slandering her as an antisemite over that is pathetic.
December 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Ms. Rachel, the extremely popular children's YouTube host, is not an antisemite. She loves kids. She has dedicated her life to children. She doesn't like seeing children murdered, maimed, and starved in Gaza or anywhere else. Slandering her as an antisemite over that is pathetic.
we don’t talk enough about the feeling when you’re disabled like “I have to accept this help or I won’t get what I need, even though I don’t want this help right now”
December 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
we don’t talk enough about the feeling when you’re disabled like “I have to accept this help or I won’t get what I need, even though I don’t want this help right now”
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I am afraid of what my life might look like as I get older, not because I am scared of disability itself, but because I know that many of us with severe disabilities, live in tenuous systems that do not know how to care for us. I just needed to put that somewhere.
November 30, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I am afraid of what my life might look like as I get older, not because I am scared of disability itself, but because I know that many of us with severe disabilities, live in tenuous systems that do not know how to care for us. I just needed to put that somewhere.
I am afraid of what my life might look like as I get older, not because I am scared of disability itself, but because I know that many of us with severe disabilities, live in tenuous systems that do not know how to care for us. I just needed to put that somewhere.
November 30, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I am afraid of what my life might look like as I get older, not because I am scared of disability itself, but because I know that many of us with severe disabilities, live in tenuous systems that do not know how to care for us. I just needed to put that somewhere.
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watching disabled people across the globe have to deal with insurance companies denying life-saving treatments and procedures is heartbreaking.
November 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
watching disabled people across the globe have to deal with insurance companies denying life-saving treatments and procedures is heartbreaking.
watching disabled people across the globe have to deal with insurance companies denying life-saving treatments and procedures is heartbreaking.
November 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
watching disabled people across the globe have to deal with insurance companies denying life-saving treatments and procedures is heartbreaking.
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Daily goal of $50 today for gas to get to work and food for tonight. We’re a queer, disabled couple with no support, and my wife is trans & can’t work. I’m also trying to cover our $219 overdue energy bill.
Please help if you can.
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/alex0671/goa...
CA: cash.app/$nagemenna
💕💸🏳️⚧️♿
Please help if you can.
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/alex0671/goa...
CA: cash.app/$nagemenna
💕💸🏳️⚧️♿
November 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Daily goal of $50 today for gas to get to work and food for tonight. We’re a queer, disabled couple with no support, and my wife is trans & can’t work. I’m also trying to cover our $219 overdue energy bill.
Please help if you can.
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/alex0671/goa...
CA: cash.app/$nagemenna
💕💸🏳️⚧️♿
Please help if you can.
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/alex0671/goa...
CA: cash.app/$nagemenna
💕💸🏳️⚧️♿
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Alt Text isn't the space for seo, secret notes, or inside jokes. It's for people to access media and any context or information that that media has.
If we gon make things right, we gotta find ways to make things right that don't leave us behind.
If we gon make things right, we gotta find ways to make things right that don't leave us behind.
Some are suggesting you deliberately write inaccurate or confusing alt text, because they say this confuses AI scrapers that are analyzing images.
The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.
The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.
November 27, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Alt Text isn't the space for seo, secret notes, or inside jokes. It's for people to access media and any context or information that that media has.
If we gon make things right, we gotta find ways to make things right that don't leave us behind.
If we gon make things right, we gotta find ways to make things right that don't leave us behind.
think the Canadian healthcare system is "better"? Yes, it's free, but people die waiting in ERs for care, and disabled people are not treated with any agency or given any access. Last time I was in hospital (Aug 2025) they wanted me to pay for a transport home bc they wouldn't bring my wheelchair
November 29, 2025 at 9:50 PM
think the Canadian healthcare system is "better"? Yes, it's free, but people die waiting in ERs for care, and disabled people are not treated with any agency or given any access. Last time I was in hospital (Aug 2025) they wanted me to pay for a transport home bc they wouldn't bring my wheelchair
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"Fed is best" also applies to disabled people who live on benefits. Whatever a disabled person is able to consume is okay. We live on so little money, and your critiques of our eating habits are kinda gross. Thanks.
November 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Fed is best" also applies to disabled people who live on benefits. Whatever a disabled person is able to consume is okay. We live on so little money, and your critiques of our eating habits are kinda gross. Thanks.
"Fed is best" also applies to disabled people who live on benefits. Whatever a disabled person is able to consume is okay. We live on so little money, and your critiques of our eating habits are kinda gross. Thanks.
November 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Fed is best" also applies to disabled people who live on benefits. Whatever a disabled person is able to consume is okay. We live on so little money, and your critiques of our eating habits are kinda gross. Thanks.
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ICE is using Uber stickers in order to disguise themselves and kidnap people. Spread this for awareness!
November 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
ICE is using Uber stickers in order to disguise themselves and kidnap people. Spread this for awareness!
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I refuse to trust people who are anti-porn. Anti-porn is anti-queer.
The porn industry is full of queer people, even if you don't know that they're queer. The porn industry is what many queer people turn to for work when normal jobs reject us.
You're not a LGBTQIA+ ally if you're anti-porn.
The porn industry is full of queer people, even if you don't know that they're queer. The porn industry is what many queer people turn to for work when normal jobs reject us.
You're not a LGBTQIA+ ally if you're anti-porn.
November 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I refuse to trust people who are anti-porn. Anti-porn is anti-queer.
The porn industry is full of queer people, even if you don't know that they're queer. The porn industry is what many queer people turn to for work when normal jobs reject us.
You're not a LGBTQIA+ ally if you're anti-porn.
The porn industry is full of queer people, even if you don't know that they're queer. The porn industry is what many queer people turn to for work when normal jobs reject us.
You're not a LGBTQIA+ ally if you're anti-porn.