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Sade Olutola
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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
Origami Around
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Fai_Ryy
oozey mess
Sweet Seals For You, Always
noise dept.
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let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Cosmic Funnies
Love Begins
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@disabledbutch
here's a link to a carrd compiling ways you can support the black lives matter movement (made by twt user @dehyedration)
other than listing petitions, places to donate, and where to call/text, it also compiles resources such as threads debunking misinfo, education on black history, and information for protestors. it's being updated regularly
What "weaponised incompetence" is not:
- Trying hard to do something but still not doing it up to "standard"
- Running out of energy and not being able to do the chores at that moment
- Needing transition time to get around to doing the chores
- Needing help and clear explaination
And don't let anyone tell you otherwise
#thank you #in my experience people are not as good at infering the intent from the visible result as they think the are #so they recognise the incompetence and can't tell whether it's 'weaponised' but think they can #and then proceed to punish people for incompetence claiming thinking they are punishing the weaponising #which in turn means that those punished are less likely to get better or even try to do the task again #which people then take as proof they were right in their assessment in the first place #turning the whole thing into a vicious circle #this is even true (again in my experience) for people who should be able to tell the difference between real and weaponised incompetence #e.g. members of the same household/close family or teachers or adults in general when interacting with children or young teenagers (via @cakeeatingwingedcat
[ID: a tweet by @FoggyParent that says: "If you think it’s frustrating having to make accomodations for Disabled people, just imagine how frustrating it is to be the person who needs those accomodations in order to do things others take for granted and then abled folks being mad about it." /end ID]
fyi things like insulin, hearing aids, wheelchairs, glasses costing money at all is a form of structural ableism
disabled people should not have to pay to live their lives like everyone else. and in the case of insulin, disabled people should not have to pay to Not Fucking Die
migrane experiencer emotion when you
[Image description: a meme showing a post by user soapulp. It says, "no head ache anymore i want to have fun now." The reblogged addition says, "head ache again." End description.]
All of our information should now be readable from the link in our bio!
I wish able-bodied LGBT people thought more about the way disability informs the experience of gender and how we aren't considered in discourses of embodiments that are sutured to our respective communities. I'm disabled. I'll never be a "strong muscular butch." I've been made to feel lesser, failed, and impotent in my expression of gender non-conformity because I can't do physical things/labor for a femme. The abled/physical capabilities of one's body don't undermine the way *we* understand our own gender but it seems to wrt to the way everyone else sees us. I'm just tired.
Vintage pins from the LHA button collection
[ID: A set of 9 pins with text reading:
"It's a bitch being butch!"
"The Butchies!"
"Macha"
"Hi, I'm Butch! This is not a nametag"
"TOMBOY CLUB"
"baby butch"
"Lez Studs"
"I'm the butch"
"Born Again Butch"
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Hi everyone! Just a quick reminder that gradient text is not screen reader accessible!
In case you’re confused, here’s some more detail:
What’s a screen reader? It’s a software used mainly by blind and visually impaired people. It reads the text on a screen aloud, so you don’t have to see it.
What’s gradient text? Gradient text is when people use the customization options on Tumblr to turn every letter in a word a different color. This option is currently not available to all users, so I can’t show you myself, but here are two screenshots I took:
[ID: The words “ghibli + spring” in a green to red gradient. /end ID]
[ID: The words “happy lesbian visibility day” in the colors of the lesbian pride flag. Red, orange, and pink. Next to that, it says “Derry Girls (2018-)” in regular black font. /end ID]
How is it inaccessible? Instead of reading the words or sentences normally, my screen reader spells everything letter by letter when it’s gradient text. This makes it very hard to understand.
Does this apply to all websites and screen readers? I’m not sure, but at the least it applies to Tumblr and my screen reader. I haven’t run into gradient text on other websites.
I really like gradient text. What should I do? I would suggest adding a plain text version after the gradient, like this: Example [Example]
By the way, this is not an attack on anyone! I used the two examples above not to shame anyone, but just to illustrate my point. I purposely only took a screenshot of the gradient part and not the rest of the post or username.
It’s fine if you didn’t know about this before. There is no shame in not knowing.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask!
congrats on the diagnosis, mod e! hope the tilt table wasn't too terrible for you. i'm also a butch w pots (and me/cfs + mcas lol), and wanted to say feel free to ask/message me if you have any questions about navigating your new diagnosis or just wanna chat! :)
Thank you! I actually live in a pretty remote place and don't have access to a lot of specialist equipment, so I was actually diagnosed using orthostatic pulse measurement (which I'm aware is less accurate but was apparently good enough for my doctor) and that wasn't a lot of fun either 😅. But anyways I really appreciate the support!!
A little late to post, but I finally got my POTS diagnosis from my doctor! 🥳🎉🎊
Just a reminder that if you're disabled, neurodivergent, mentally ill or otherwise "othered" by society it's okay to just be average. You don't have to have a hidden talent or be a savant to be worthy of love and acceptance. Just being you is more than enough, you're absolutely perfect and wonderful the way you are
disability advocacy went wrong when it became about inspiration porn and “differently abled” and savants. its incredible that that guy with no legs did a triathlon but your sister with no legs will not and she doesnt need prosthetics or five hour training days to deserve respect and compassion and accommodations. its incredible that that autistic guy can look at a city from a helicopter for an hour and then draw the entire detailed skyline from memory when he lands but your autistic friend cannot and they dont need to have a special Autism Power to deserve respect and compassion and accommodations.
activism framed around “we are just as CAPABLE” means that when people genuinely are less capable they are left behind. activism framed around “we are just as WORTHY” is fundamental to radical compassion.
It’s time y’all get it thru ur thick ass skulls that trans butches like me exist and we’re just as valid as tme butches. a trans woman is allowed to be as gnc as they want too, we’re allowed to use what pronouns we want to, we’re allowed to date and love who we want to, we’re allowed to love ourselves and our bodies and present how we want to. Trans butches deserve to feel beloved, stop treating us as lesser.
hearing mods please do not imply that Deafness is a disability
I’m seeing a lot of different points of view from different deaf people while looking into this some more but I understand that it isn’t my place as a hearing person to comment so I’m just going to listen.
I’m going to untag the video as disability and add the tag audism but I’m going to leave the tag ableism on it so that deaf people who consider themselves disabled and have the ableism tag blocked can view it at their own discretion.
If there’s anything else you want me to know or if this is insufficient you can send another ask, I’ll keep this in mind. Deaf/Hoh followers feel free to add input. Should we retag deaf content on this blog as deafness/deaf instead of disability?
speaking as a chronically ill, neurodivergent, and hoh disabled person: deafness/being hard of hearing is a disability. disability doesn’t mean “something wrong with you that should be corrected.” it means “when society isn’t accessible to certain bodies and brains, and so these people need accommodations and oftentimes access to disability support.”
the whole “deafness isn’t a disability and saying so is offensive” narrative is centered around thinking disability = something bad and wrong with with you. it’s ableist, and frankly i’m tired of seeing it in the d/Deaf community. it’s made it very hard for me as a multiply disabled person to associate with the d/Deaf & HoH community when the spaces are using that ableist perspective.
some people will be like “deafness is a natural part of human diversity - it’s something that makes you who you are, and is a big part of how you experience the world. society isn’t accessible to us, and so we need accommodations and a community, and also have our own culture. but it’s not something wrong with us and we shouldn’t be removed from the world, we should be accepted and accommodated” (which is true, and also EXACTLY what a disability is) and then turn around and say “but it’s not a disability bc it isn’t something bad or wrong with you that needs to be fixed!”
and that really, really bothers me. they need to be critical of this perspective on disability and it’s implications about disabled people. there is nothing wrong with disability or disabled people. disabled is not an insult and disability is not pathological, it is socially constructed through inaccessibility and ableism in the structure of society.
i’ve seen some people now using the argument that because d/Deafness has a significant Deaf culture, community, and identity, that it somehow separates it from other disabilities and makes it so different that it isn’t a disability at all. this is incredibly ignorant of other disability’s cultures, communities, and identities. every disabled community and culture i have been a part of has been just as significant as the Deaf community. so many disability identities and communities consider themselves culture groups. this is not exclusive to the Deaf community, and is not something that makes d/Deafness different from other disabilities. in fact, it is one of the shared experiences that Deaf people have in common with other disabled groups.
i would argue that considering yourself a culture group is central to the culture and communities of most disabled groups. this does not make any of them suddenly exempt from also being disabilities. because they need accessibility, accommodation, and cultural acceptance in society.
i suggest you educate yourself on other disability’s cultures, communities, and histories outside of your own, because every argument i have seen people use to say that d/Deafness is not a disability is something they very much have in common with other disabled groups.
hearing mods please do not imply that Deafness is a disability
I'm seeing a lot of different points of view from different deaf people while looking into this some more but I understand that it isn't my place as a hearing person to comment so I'm just going to listen.
I'm going to untag the video as disability and add the tag audism but I'm going to leave the tag ableism on it so that deaf people who consider themselves disabled and have the ableism tag blocked can view it at their own discretion.
If there's anything else you want me to know or if this is insufficient you can send another ask, I'll keep this in mind. Deaf/Hoh followers feel free to add input. Should we retag deaf content on this blog as deafness/deaf instead of disability?
speaking as a chronically ill, neurodivergent, and hard of hearing disabled person: deafness/being hard of hearing is a disability. disability doesn’t mean “something wrong with you that should be corrected.” it means “when society isn’t accessible to certain bodies and brains, and so these people need accommodations and oftentimes access to disability support.”
the whole “deafness isn’t a disability and saying so is offensive” narrative is centered around thinking disability = something bad and wrong with with you. it’s ableist, and frankly i’m tired of seeing it in the Deaf community. it’s made it very hard for me as a multiply disabled HoH person to associate with the Deaf/HoH community when the spaces have people with that ableist perspective.
some people will be like “deafness is a natural part of human diversity, and it’s something that makes you who you are & is a big part of how you experience the world. society isn’t accessible to us, and so we need accommodations and a community, and also have our own culture. but it’s not something wrong with us and we shouldn’t be removed from the world, we should be accepted and accommodated” (which is true, and also exactly what a disability is) and then turn around and say “but it’s not a disability bc it isn’t something bad or wrong with you that needs to be fixed!”
and that really, really bothers me. they need to be critical of this perspective on disability and it’s implications about disabled people. there is nothing wrong with disability or disabled people. disabled is not an insult and disability is not pathological, it is socially constructed through inaccessibility and ableism in the structure of society.
i also don’t understand why other people get their perspectives put on this blog, but my response gets ignored, when i am also speaking from a place of experience and want to be listened to as much as they do.
Hey I wanted to apologize that you are not feeling heard, but I promise that we were not ignoring you and were just driving. We answered all the related asks in our inbox before leaving and we recieved yours while we couldn't see them or attend to them.
Edit: I wanted to address that as a hearing person I'm perfectly willing to posts different opinions among deaf/hoh askers in our inbox and that I understand your frustration since we posted an ask directly addressing you but not the asks you sent in response yet. It was never our intention to upset you and I just wanted to clarify that I understand how it looked.
