#DisabilityJustice
Justice for Elijah McClain – Testimony Resumed on Tuesday.
The murder trial for two of the officers charged in the death of Elijah McClain continued on Tuesday. Security footage from the Shell gas station where McClain purchased iced tea moments before being confronted by police, was shown in court. McClain is shown completing his transaction and bowing in respect to the customer in line behind him. The owner of the gas station was questioned by the defense about McClain wearing a mask and coat on the warm summer night. The defense attorney asked "... you are telling me that it wouldn't give you pause for concern?", to which the witness responded, "No, it all depends on the persons, demeanor." Elisha wore those garments for medical reasons.
The defense also argued that Maclean's "resistance" to officers, could have contributed to his death by making it harder for him to breathe. They have repeatedly attempted to shift blame to the paramedics that administered ketamine despite the body camera footage that documents officers requesting the drugging of Elijah. The 911 call that reported a "sketchy" individual wearing a mask was also played in the courtroom.
McClain was a 23-year-old autistic black man whose death generated public outcry across the world. The trial will continue today.
Click here 🧠 for more on what they did to Elijah McClain.
#Justice4Elijah #BLM #DisabilityJustice #SocialJustice #NoJusticeNoPeace #StopKillingUs #ICantBreathe #InvisibleDisabilityRights #PoliceViolence #JusticeForElijahMcClain
Dr Aparna Nair, “When museums hoard the remains of disabled and non-disabled people (https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/04/museums-human-remains-ethics-nagpra-colonialism/) from all over the world like some kind of treasure, and present them in a manner that contributes to the public enfreakment of disability, those of us who are committed to intersectional, decolonial disability justice should be rightfully critical of them.” #AbledSupremacy #colonialism #DisabilityJustice
using perceived intelligence as a deciding factor of which animals deserve to live and die is rooted in ableism. #DisabilityJustice and #AnimalLiberation go hand in hand.
The first Disabled & Deaf Trans People’s Survey (DTPS) just launched! The DTPS amplifies #disabled #Deaf #trans knowledge to advocate & transform movement spaces by gathering collective stories: dtpsurvey.org
#DisabledDeafTransPeoplesSurvey #DisabilityProject #DisabilityJustice
#Queensland security boss says more industry training needed so staff can see #InvisibleDisabilities https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-03/security-boss-training-invisible-disabilities-idpwd/101721480
Guard assumed inebriation of a #woman with #CerebralPalsy
#DisabilityPolicy #WomenWithDisabilities #DisabilityJustice
#Queensland security boss says more industry training needed so staff can see #InvisibleDisabilities https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-03/security-boss-training-invisible-disabilities-idpwd/101721480
Guard assumed inebriation of a #woman with #CerebralPalsy
#DisabilityPolicy #WomenWithDisabilities #DisabilityJustice
JUSTICE FOR ELIJAH MCCLAIN TRIAL UPDATE:
FRIDAY– DAY 3
Elijah McClain's mother left the courtroom in tears on Friday after body cam footage of his final moments were shown. Aurora Colorado PD has a long history showing a "pattern and practice" of victimizing and harming POC and people with invisible disabilities.
Elijah's "behavior" during the encounter was not that of a criminal in defiance but, a harmless person with invisible disabilities.
Lawyers for the officers accused of murder have attempted to shift blame to the paramedics had injected him with ketamine.
Click here 🧠 to read Elijah McClain's full story.
#Justice4Elijah #BLM #DisabilityJustice #SocialJustice #NoJusticeNoPeace #StopKillingUs #ICantBreathe #InvisibleDisabilityRights #PoliceViolence #acab #JusticeForElijahMcClain
https://www.chron.com/news/article/video-of-elijah-mcclain-s-stop-by-police-shown-as-18383356.php
@disabilityjustice @disability @actuallyautistics
https://www.chron.com/news/article/video-of-elijah-mcclain-s-stop-by-police-shown-as-18383356.php
JUSTICE FOR ELIJAH MCCLAIN – FIRST TRIAL BEGINS:
The trial of two of the five accused murderers of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old autistic black man, is finally underway four years after his death. Opening statements began yesterday in the trial of former officers Randy Roedema and Jason Rosenblatt. The two are facing felony charges of criminally negligent homicide, manslaughter and assault.
Today, the prosecution called their first witnesses and presented body cam footage. Two versions of the videos were submitted into evidence, the original, and one that had been enhanced for sound clarity and brightness.
After the defense argued that the videos had been "manipulated", the judge ruled that the enhanced video would be allowed but, instructed jurors to "disregard anything seen or heard in the enhanced video if they could not see or hear it in the original".
Click here 🧠 to read Elijah McClain's full story.
Body cam footage presented in court today:
https://sentinelcolorado.com/metro/bodycam-footage-of-elijah-mcclains-death-presented-in-trial-of-2-officers-charged-with-homicide/
Opening statements yesterday:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/20/us/elijah-mcclain-death-trial/index.html
#Justice4Elijah #BLM #DisabilityJustice #SocialJustice #NoJusticeNoPeace #StopKillingUs #ICantBreathe #InvisibleDisabilityRights #JusticeForElijahMcClain
@disabilityjustice @disability @actuallyautistics
Post from Chimére L. Smith (@chiluvs1 on twitter)
"The Black Long Covid Experience"
"Plan + Strategize how to get an actual Long Covid diagnosis;
Engage with politicians;
Find support while applying for disability + SSDI benefits.
Black women, let’s go!!"
More information here:
https://www.chimereladawn.com/
#Covid #DisabilityJustice #LongCovid #BlackWomen #BIPOC #USPol
New Post: Top 10 Reasons to Click the Button: Limitless Champions Adventures: DnD 5e + Disability Representation https://wyrmworkspublishing.com/top-10-reasons-to-click-the-button-limitless-champions-adventures-dnd-5e-disability-representation?utm_source=buffer Here are the top 10 reasons why you should click the “Notify Me” button right away. #DnD #TTRPG #DisabilityJustice #ttrpg
Sanism is normalized in relationships with institutions.
It’s not talked about.
It’s woven tightly into unquestioned assumptions (common sense knowledge)
It’s a tool for power and control.
#MadLiterature
The Wildflower Alliance
Grassroots Peer Support, Advocacy, and Training organization with a focus on harm reduction and human rights.
https://wildfloweralliance.org/
Thank you @leftvu 😍
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#LivedExperience #PsychSurvivor #ChronicPain
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Institutions often treat #disability and #MentalHealth not with care but #violence https://truthout.org/articles/institutions-often-treat-disability-and-mental-health-not-with-care-but-violence/
We need to extend our understanding of carceral spaces to what are commonly considered to be sites of “care,” such as #disability “treatment” facilities, #NursingHomes and group homes.
#DisabilityJustice #WomenWithDisabilities #WomensMentalHealth #WomensMentalHealth #GenderViolence #GenderBasedViolence #WomensHealth
Institutions often treat #disability and #MentalHealth not with care but #violence https://truthout.org/articles/institutions-often-treat-disability-and-mental-health-not-with-care-but-violence/
We need to extend our understanding of carceral spaces to what are commonly considered to be sites of “care,” such as #disability “treatment” facilities, #NursingHomes and group homes.
#DisabilityJustice #WomenWithDisabilities #WomensMentalHealth #WomensMentalHealth #GenderViolence #GenderBasedViolence #WomensHealth
How is it we are 3+ years into a pandemic which can cause long term disability and increased medical risk and public health figures are so callous in talking about disability and medical vulnerability?! “Oh don’t worry it’s just the folks we’ve treated poorly like the disabled and immunocompromised who are at risk right now!”
https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/09/14/adventures-in-public-speaking/ #DisabilityJustice #FuckYouAnythonyFauci
On Tuesday, September 12, the SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act was introduced by Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Representatives Brian Higgins (D-NY) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA).
This bill makes long-overdue reforms to the SSI program that would empower millions of people with disabilities to earn and save more money for their futures.
Encourage your representatives to pass this bill at the following link:
https://action.thearc.org/nh5jqpz?p2asource=email-2023-0914
"On Monday 28 August Deaf and Disabled people’s organisations (DDPOs) from across the UK descended on the UN building in Geneva to give evidence on the state of Disabled people's human rights in the UK... [In 2016] the UN found 'grave and systemic violations' of the rights of Disabled people in the UK." https://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/uk-violations-international-disability-treaty-slammed-ddpos #DRUK #DDPO #Disability #DisabilityRights #DisabilityJustice
Olivia Alperstein on The Rights of Disabled Workers
Mein Redebeitrag zu #Klimagerechtigkeit und #Behindertengerechtigkeit #DisabilityJustice von Samstag 09.09.23 auf der behindert, verrückt Pride Parade in Berlin ist auf meinem blog online, mit ein paar Links unten zu weiteren Infos zum Thema des Beitrags.
@PrideParade https://blog.eichhoernchen.fr/post/redebeitrag-zu-klimagerechtigkeit-und-behindertengerechtigkeit/
Je rediffuse ce texte important d'Harriet de Gouge, écrivaine militante handie parmi les plus importantes dernièrement en France. Notamment: de plus en plus de militant-es handi-es 'express' se mettent à galvauder la culture #crip, en américanisant vite fait un concept pour le rendre cool, 'bankable'. Là où la culture #crip a pour pivot la #DisabilityJustice, un croisement de conscience de plusieurs oppressions. Harriet rend compte que nous en sommes loin en France.
https://www.harrietdegouge.fr/post/700367339562106880/pourquoi-jai-quitt%C3%A9-le-collectif-les-d%C3%A9valideuses
Therapists of all sorts assume the chronically ill, poor, and disadvantaged need to improve their sense of self worth to improve their condition. Why do very few analysts, policy makers and society in general realize that it is they who need to see the worth of the “unproductive”? We know we’re worthy. We wish others thought so too. #disability #chronicpain #chronicillness #disabilityjustice #socialsecurity #votingmatters
So lemme get this straight, Jared on #BB25 can say the R-Slur and won't be kicked off the show despite their zero tolerance policy?
If that's the case, Julie Chen Moonves should say that word on the next live episode. It's acceptable, it's not a slur, right?
Just proves the production on a garbage reality TV show prefers to defend ableism over ruining a "twist." It's disgusting. #Disability #DisabilityJustice
We take all the history seriously, but logistics matter too.
This month, we're reformatting the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour to improve bathroom access, reduce the amount of walking, make transit access easier, end closer to the start point, and make better use of amplification.
As the #DisabilityJustice community reminds us, access is love.
🔥Behindert und verrückt auf die Straße zurück! - Pride Parade Berlin!📷 Info & Aufruf: https://pride-parade.de
#b0909 #PrideMonth #Behindeung #FightAbleism
ich werde ein Redebeitrag halten, wir sehen uns! #ClimateJustice #DisabilityJustice
@PrideParade
@trekhausen
Am I being too cynical to suggest this is a trial balloon to test possible official responses to a looming disability crisis?
#LongCovid #PEM #pacing #MECFS #Covid #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #SpoonTheory #Spoons #Disability #DisabilityJustice #LongCovidJustice
Eighteen leading #DisabilityAdvocacy organizations have filed an amicus brief in US #SupremeCourt case emphasizes importance of testers to #ADA enforcement https://dredf.org/2023/08/10/laufer-v-acheson-amicus-brief-press-release/
#DisabilityJustice #DisabilityPolicy #WomenWithDisabilities #DisabilityActivists
Eighteen leading #DisabilityAdvocacy organizations have filed an amicus brief in US #SupremeCourt case emphasizes importance of testers to #ADA enforcement https://dredf.org/2023/08/10/laufer-v-acheson-amicus-brief-press-release/
#DisabilityJustice #DisabilityPolicy #WomenWithDisabilities #DisabilityActivists
C'est du Harriet de Gouge, à moins humble avis c'est actuellement France l'écrivaine militante handie la plus pertinente. Qui ne cesse de creuser la réflexion tout en rebondissant sur les écueils encore très inavoués au sein même des politisations handies.
https://www.harrietdegouge.fr/post/722038795988582400/caramels
If you live in Seattle District 5 and/ or care about the future of Seattle, now is the time to donate and volunteer and endorse and support ChrisTiana ObeySumner for Seattle City Council, District 5! Support is needed now through Election Day!
And it’s also ChrisTiana ObeySumner birthday season!
#seattle #elections #donate #gotv #seaelex #DisabilityJustice #TenantRights
Ricardo Levins Morales poster catalog, p700: "Nothing About Us, Without Us, Is For Us"
This powerful slogan arose from the struggle of people with disabilities in #SouthAfrica. It could be the basic operating principle of peoples’ struggles all over the world. One of our most popular images, it's a poster, card, button and shirt: https://www.rlmartstudio.com/product/nothing-about-us-2
Today (9/5/23) is the last day of our Labor Day sale - 25% off with code EDUCATE
C'est ce samedi à Paris (malheureusement à Paris…) et l'intervention de la pote Harriet de Gouge promet de bons uppercuts de pertinence & justesse. Nous en discutions hier autour d'une pizza sous un arbre, je ne peux que vous recommander d'aller écouter cela publiquement !
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#handicap
#DisabilityJustice
#validisme
#CripTime
#DisabilityLife
‘The Future Is Disabled’ Imagines a World Oriented Around Care and Safety
“Disabled wisdom is the key to our survival and expansion.”
I'm so glad this has taken off! So I want to ask anyone here a question: Why doesn't Mastodon simply require #alttext on every post?
It is implied the "convenience" of abled people is more important because the product needs to grow than it is for disabled people to be able to have their accessibility needs met.
Hell, even TikTok has the option to not see any uncaptioned videos! We can expect Mastodon to do better. Perhaps we can all get @Gargron to consider implementing required alt-text for the entire platform to fix this issue. #Disability #DisabilityJustice
Edit: Yep, gotta not post so early in the morning because you forget obvious things! We would need to figure out a way for folks who are unable to create alt-text on photos themselves to be included in this process.
I've seen folks also suggesting the idea of allowing folks to generate alt-text for others, which would be cool. I'd love to see any suggestions people have because otherwise, people will keep being "annoyed" by folks who simply want to enjoy Mastodon to add alt-text!
I see people on my timeline now and then grumpy that people are trying to encourage others to use alt-text, sometimes saying people are "too pushy" or they "deserve to be able to post in peace."
So folks actively work together for once to advocate for accessibility for disabled people and your primary complaint is that it's annoying so stop? I hope folks wake up and realize how fucked up that is.
ESPECIALLY when tons of people refuse to wear masks leaving us stuck in our homes where social media is a godsend for having community.
I'd have loved to see these folks' reactions when people in wheelchairs were using sledge hammers to put in curb cuts back in the day. Maybe we gotta bring that kind of energy back. #Disablity #DisabilityJustice
…/… Donc nous sommes un petit groupe de taf qui cogitons à faire mieux connaître le métier d'auxiliaire / assistant-e de vie avec éthique autonomiste & anti-validiste. Une des personnes du groupe nous a fait découvrir en début d'année cette pépite des pires écueils, clichés lourds, idées reçues XL :
…/… Beaucoup d'ADV (assistant-es de vie) travaillant avec moi me disent ne plus en pouvoir quand à une soirée iels évoquent être assistant-es de vie on les compare illico au personnage d'Omar Sy dans le film "Intouchables", aux antipodes d'une éthique professionnelle autonomiste & anti-validiste.
Haben Girma: Because I'm #blind, #AzoresAirlines is saying I have to sit alone, separating me from my friend booked in the next seat – and they want to charge me for the empty seat. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ythaPKTaL6Q
#WomenWithDisabilities #DisabilityJustice #DisabilityPolicy #WomensHumanRights
Two waves (1950s & 1970s) of systemic deinstitutionalisation and there are more “beds” than before; they just look different.
Busting the Deinstitutionalization Myth: We Actually Have More Beds Than Ever Before
New data upends common beliefs about asylum closures, deinstitutionalization, and rates of psychiatric coercion.
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#eugenics #asylum #CarceralAbleism
#AntiBlackSanism #instutionalization
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#PsychiatricSurvivor #AntiPsychiatry #DisabilityJustice
#LivedExperience #PsychSurvivor #ChronicPain
#DisabilityMastodon #Neurodivergent #RadicalMentalHealth
#CripCamp #DisabilityRights #NeuroDiversity
#Sanism #Disability #DisabilityStudies
#Stories #isolation
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Mad Crip doula: offering holistic and emotional spiritual bodymind care, mixed with practical and crisis support (and plant medicine). moving from a liberation-centered and anti-oppressive lens. a transition doula with skills in: abortion, death, grief, Madness, and Disability.
https://www.stefaniekaufman.com/madcripdoula
endorsing: non-carceral, peer-led mental health care systems that exist outside of the state, reimagining everything we’ve come to learn about madness, and intervening in systems that oppress, disappear, and kill Disabled and mad folks.
Please Note: I don’t know Them in any capacity and They sure look bad-ass
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#MadMovement #MadStudies #Mad #Madodon #TransMad
#CarceralAbleism
#instutionalization
#Ablesim #DisabilityCommunity #InvisibleDisabilities
#PsychiatricSurvivor #AntiPsychiatry #DisabilityJustice
#LivedExperience #PsychSurvivor #ChronicPain
#DisabilityMastodon #Neurodivergent #RadicalMentalHealth
#CripCamp #DisabilityRights #NeuroDiversity
#Sanism #Disability #DisabilityStudies
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Disability doula. Peer support. Social support. Physical support. Cultural roots.
#MadLiterature
Newly disabled people aren’t given a ‘how-to’ guide. Disability doulas are closing those gaps.
The community care practice, pioneered by queer women of color, reorients newly disabled people to a different life
https://19thnews.org/2023/07/disability-doulas-support-newly-disabled-people/
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#LivedExperience #PsychSurvivor #ChronicPain
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@neurodivergence
Updated #introduction
Hi I'm Essie! I am white, #agender, #NonBinary, #queer, #autistic, and #disabled. I am constantly learning about #neurodivergence, queerness, politics, nature, #abolition, #AntiRacism, #DisabilityJustice, and all of that mixed together.
I live on unceded Noongar country in #WesternAustralia. I am #StillMasking from covid and will be for the foreseeable future.
Follow my pixelfed account @essie.okay for some (mostly) nature photography.
“Our Fight for Disability Justice Must Also Confront War and Militarism. Within disability rights organizations, the presence of board members and corporate partners who have contributed to and profited from militarism can act as an obstacle to having intersectional discussions and actions around militarism and ableism.” https://truthout.org/articles/our-fight-for-disability-justice-must-also-confront-war-and-militarism/ #ableism #militarism #DisabilityJustice #intersectionality #anticapitalism
Adding more inclusivity to research and eliminating wrongful exclusions can be achieved by redesigning trial accommodations, eligibility criteria, and consent forms.
"The definition of clinical trial diversity must include disabled people"
https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/17/clinical-trials-diversity-disabled-people
#DisabilityJustice #disability #SocialJustice #research #inclusion #diversity #DiversityMatters
Being equitable doesn’t mean everyone gets the same; it means everyone gets everything they *need*
#DisabilityInclusion #DisabilityPolicy #disability #DisabilityJustice #InclustionMatters #inclustion #accessible
ich empfehle die Broschüre
"VeRRücktes Klima, BeHinderte Lösungen" Perpektiven auf Ableismus und Klimagerechtigkeit
Darin geht es um das #Klima, um #Ableismus, #Kapitalismus, #Criptime, #Barrierefreiheit, #DisabilityJustice, #intersektionalitat und viel mehr
zum PDF (auch auf papier bestellbar)
https://blog.bundjugend.de/produkt/sammelband-verruecktes-klima-behinderte-loesungen/
It makes me so mad how many people were like "Free Britney Spears!" and now that she's free and posting sexy videos they're like "This was a mistake, we should apologise to her dad."
It shows how most of the movement was never about real liberation, just about making sure the 'right' people lose their self determination.
Talks about freeing specific people (especially celebrities) from guardianship MUST be centred in a Disability Justice and Abolition framework. Or it means nothing.
NO ONE deserves guardianship. It is an inherently abusive framework.
#DisabilityRights #DisabilityJustice #BrittanySpears #FreeBritney
Being equitable doesn’t mean everyone gets the same; it means everyone gets everything they *need*
#DisabilityInclusion #DisabilityPolicy #disability #DisabilityJustice #InclustionMatters #inclustion #accessible
I truly find it abhorrent that we think the solution to people needing care is warehousing people in nursing homes. No one dreams of growing old and ending up in a nursing home. No one deserves this. Governments can do better, they just don't.
For a lot of people it's their worst nightmare, and yet no alternative is given.
“ADA 30: No Justice for Disabled Native People” https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/07/19/ada-30-no-justice-for-disabled-native-people/ #disabled #racism #colonialim “Justice and freedom won’t come for me or any other Native spoonies until this colonialist system is destroyed and our tribal sovereignty is respected and protected”. Jenn Deerinwater #settlercolonialism #antiracism #disabilityjustice #ada #landback
Elijah McClain - Always Remembered.
Click here 🧠 for his story.
#BLM #JusticeForElijahMcClain #DisabilityJustice #StopPoliceViolence
"Walia shows work and war to be twin methods of disabling a racialized working class, where people without property are deemed "available for injury" either as targets of war and incarceration or as low-wage workers (or both). When we and our organizations fail to make these connections, understanding disability instead as exceptional and apolitical, we limit the horizons of what we can demand."
https://www.midnightsunmag.ca/why-has-the-left-deprioritized-covid/
#covid #longcovid #SARSCoV2 #disabilityjustice #publichealth #USpol
When you see a disabled person just living their life
Instead of thinking/saying: You are such an inspiration!
Try: Wow. That's an ingenious solution to that problem. So cool!
#disabled #chronicallyill #DisabilityJustice #inspiring #equity #ablism
Quand l'APF (pourvoyeuse d'institutionnalisation depuis triste lurette) fait un film documentaire sur « l'histoire du handicap » en France, les principal-es intervenant-es - « 3 experts » 🤡 suivant l'APF - sont évidemment des vieilleux universitaires valides. Ça pourrait s'appeler : "l'histoire du #validisme en France".
Ce n'est pas notre histoire #disability d'handi-es autonomistes, désinstitutionnalistes, précaires et politisé-es. #DisabilityJustice
https://www.faire-face.fr/2023/07/05/histoire-handicap-docu/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=12-07-2023&utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter-faire-face-fr_25
Open letter to all people coordinating, facilitating, and hosting events in (and around) Portland, Oregon–
What people think #accessibility is and what it actually is.
#Accessible websites, services, buildings, #education, content/marketing, products, cultures, recruitment and communication.
#deaf #blind #WomenWithDisabilities #InclusionMatters #DisabilityJustice #DisabilityInclusion #DisabilityPolicy
@ImaniBarbarin Fabulous video! Thanks for posting it!
#Disabled #Disability #DisabilityInclusion #DisabilityJustice
@disability @disabilityhistory
Lois was an amazing self advocate and disability activist that put the voices of people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities at the forefront. A group that isnt't always respected in the wider disability community. she explemified the transformative power of Intellectually & Devopmental Disabled people.
@fractured_void Ok ok but it gets cooler! First it was designed with zigzagging bright colors but the creator LISTENED TO FEEDBACK about how it was causing some disabled people issues, so it was changed to subdued straight lines and the order of colors is to help people with Red-Green color blindness. And really, I think that's awesome. The flag itself is a product of #DisabilityJustice in action!
What are some good #accessibility or #disabilityJustice accounts to follow on here? In organizing (activism), tech, queer spaces, etc.
Three things employers can do better to help employees with #disabililtles thrive. https://www.ted.com/talks/tiffany_yu_how_to_help_employees_with_disabilities_thrive/comments
#workplace #DisabilityPolicy #DisabilityInclusion #DisabilityJustice
Feminist activist feature: Isabel Mavrides-Calderon
"Through advocating for myself, I realized that when I did have accessibility, my barriers suddenly weren’t nearly as big. For this reason, the goal of my activism is never to fix disabled bodies but instead to fix society by focusing on the laws & policies that protect disabled people's civil rights and the access around us."
https://www.feminists.co/discover/isabel-mavrides-calderon-uNBi5 #disability #DisabilityJustice #ACLU