Bee

You can call me Bee. I like superheroes, sci-fi, and musicals.

[meme-theft]

Wut

[a-conversationn]

Why would you lie

[thathighguy]

I trusted you

[jungtaes]

where is the oscar for this video?

[perksofbeingdisabled]

The problems of conditioning disability to functionality.

I’m giving a lecture on this to national medical authorities on Friday.

Today I have been told that according to the parameters of the upcoming presidency in my country I won’t be medically acknowledged as a disabled person (even if I have very evident cerebral palsy , scholiosis, I walk with a cane and also have several mental illnesses) because i am functional: I have a job that gives me some money, a career, I can walk independently, “I am not as vulnerable as other people might be so I don’t deserve the potential benefits that come with the diagnosis because I am not that bad”. What they don’t know is that my salary is not enough to cover all the bills I would have if I didn’t live with my mother, that my functionality is intermittent and that i wouldn’t be this functional without the very few benefits (that are more like accommodations I deserve by right) that I’ve been given before.

I am angry at the system for marginalizing me even more by denying my disability and it’s limitations just because I’ve been lucky enough to get a job at the same government who wants to deny my vulnerability.

I have many things to say on Friday, I just don’t know how to say them. I know you can get me guys, what would you say to those medical authorities if it was you in that place instead of me?

[perksofbeingdisabled]

For real. Say what you’d wanna say. I’m listening and i might quote you irl

[beefemmely]

Just because I'm “functional” to a certain degree not mean I am not vulnerable. Compared to abled people I am disabled - I do not move the same as my coworkers. I am not treated the sameness as them. Yes, I work the same job, but I have to constantly navigate the building I work in and the requirements of my job in order to succeed. I'm a teacher, so I work with students and adults. My students know immediately when they see my cane that I am different from their other teachers. When we have fire drills (mandated for every month) I struggle to get out of the building and to my students. Sometimes I don’t. And no one has been able to help me with this issue. I have asked my supervisor to move me to a bigger classroom because mine is too small and makes it dangerous for me to navigate - specifically because of my mobility issues and my mobility aids. But I have not been given a new room because a lot of the time I can get around okay (or at least it looks like I do). My needs aren't seen as a priority, they are seen as a nitpick or whining. I have hurt myself multiple times due to the inaccessibility of my classroom. I've been evaluated poorly for not managing my classroom well because I couldn't get up and walk around the room and walk over to students on days whenever I am struggling. But no one is willing to help me because they see me as paradoxically “not that disabled” while also pitying me for being a broken cripple. 

[star-temeraire]

jfc i dont achieve shit despite my illness, i achieve it with my illness, its chronic, i will always have it and i can’t just shove it to the side, i can’t just force my way through the pain, i have to work with it

this is part of why i hate stuff like “focus on ability!” and “see beyond the disability”

you cannot separate my disability from any part of my life, no matter what, its just that pervasive

[repmarktakano]

Today I spoke on the House floor to honor Fred Korematsu Day and to warn my colleagues that silence and complicity in the face of discrimination is never acceptable. It was shameful in 1942 and it is shameful today. We must always uphold the American principle of liberty and justice for all.

Watch the video here.

[screaming-fan-girl]

Fuck this hurts…

[beefemmely]

Queer history

Historian: that historical figure isn't gay they are married with children

Me, internally: Prior to the 20th century marriage was a necessity to maintain social status and power. And due to the nature of things children were a condition of marriage. Rarely were marriages for love or representative of ones own personal attractions. Historians tend to deny sources that give accounts of homosexual behavior due to internalized homophobia. History is a lot easier to understand with only straight people involved, but the fact remains queer people didn't appear out of nowhere in the 20th century. They've been around forever and historians help absolutely no one by assisting in the denial of that fact.

Me, externally: Bi!!!!!💗💜💙

[bedabug]

Call these numbers today and help try to save the ACA

[mnkhsss]

Good to know! 

[duchessofdeviance]

surprised to see Corker’s name on this list

[maxofs2d]

Sorry about this being in Twitter format but it was too good not to share. (x)

[beefemmely]

I actually felt good today. I told my coworker, “wow, I don't feel like i’m dying today,” and she was shocked (because I feel like i’m dying normally?? Yes, yes I do) but also happy for me. I think my new treatment is working. It's expensive as heck, but if I keep improving like this it'll be worth it. 

[periegesisvoid-deactivated]

The Latin word for raisin is “uva passa” which literally means “a grape that has suffered,” and tell me that isn’t the best shit ever

[weaponized-androgyny]

Just thought I’d share some Twitter thoughts from yesterday.

[duckiethot-deactivated20170522]

Hidden Figures (2016) dir. Theodore Melfi 

[yesixicana]

this echoes what white women do today. 

[lifetimeinafist]

This was maybe my favorite thing about Hidden Figures. It did not let white women off the hook for one second.  Kirsten Dunst’s character was passive at best and openly racist at worst. There was another white woman who, while never openly racist, was deeply passive until the last moment.  The movie was, in many ways, an indictment of white feminism and I hope the white women who have seen it were paying attention.

[goldstar-goldfish-deactivated20]

I hate it when dudes are all “why can’t we go back to when women knew their place and were happy to be housewives?” like no, you fucking dumbass. Women have always had dreams and ambitions and thoughts and feelings and talents but the historical threat of being killed, cast out, or tossed into an insane asylum sure was a great silencing tactic. There were girls who wanted to be soldiers or craftspeople. Girls who wanted to be mathematicians and scientists. Girls who wanted to lead. Girls who wanted to go on grand adventures. Girls who wanted to do anything they could dream up but were shut down for being female. Women as a class have never been willingly docile and submissive, but thousands of years of threats have forced women both historical and modern into their cage.

[lazyscience]

Also, women DID do a lot of those things, and got written out of the historical record, because the ones keeping the records were male and didn’t think it was important to remember them.

[skunkbear]

[fukkce]

lmaoooo

[kittykat8311]

Not all boys have penises and not all girls have periods. Some boys have breasts and some girls have beards. Some people aren’t either one or other and some people are sometimes both. Absorb this message, take it on board.

[kittykat8311]

I thought it might be worth reminding people these facts in light of the many many signs at the various worldwide Womans Marches equating womanhood and femininity with a working functional vulva 

[khofnak]

if we’re being honest it was black lives matter that really paved the way for all of these recent protests like I hope people as a whole aren’t assuming otherwise

[fuckyeahwomen]

With millions of participants in all seven continents, the Women’s March has to be the largest coordinated global protest in history. Women did that! Specifically, Tamika D. Mallory, Carmen Perez, and Linda Sarsour–a black woman, a Latina woman, and a Palestinian Muslim woman–organized this and made it a huge success. Women of color DID THAT