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Consent is like a traffic light.

When they say ‘stop’, you stop.

When they say ‘maybe’, you get ready to stop.

When they say ‘go’, you go.

And like a traffic light, their signals are not optional.

For example, if they say ‘stop’ or ‘maybe’ and you decide to keep going, you will get hit by a truck.

MY truck.

I will run you over.

outforhealth

Good morning!

notalwaysright

alexandra-erin

[Photograph of a wheelchair user in a store, standing on the seat of their chair and hanging on to a shelf with their left hand for support, while reaching with their other arm for a bottle on a high shelf.

Image is captioned:

Alcohol

Makes miracles happen]

Bad form, Not Always Right.

Very bad form.

I am disappointed to see this ignorant piece of hatred from a blog I rely on for stories about difficult customers.

Who is this woman causing difficulties for? What is she doing that makes employees’ lives harder?

People use wheelchairs and other assistive technology for various reasons. Well, one reason: to assist them. Do you think the ability to stand is a binary switch with only two positions? A person who cannot stand and walk unassisted well enough and long enough to walk the aisles of a store is going to need a way to get around it instead. What are people supposed to do, if they’re not actually paralyzed from the waist down but can’t get around by walking… not go out? Not exist? Not pick up things off the top shelf?

A miracle isn’t when a wheelchair user stands up. A miracle is when they’re allowed to go about their lives without strangers interrogating the extent of their capabilities and whether they “need” and “deserve” the accommodations that are available to them.

dandelionofthanatos

Seriously.

Some people are capable of standing but cannot walk long distances without (a) damaging their bodies, (b) experiencing a great deal of pain, © faceplanting, or (d) all of the above.

There is a huge degree of variability in how much mobility someone has and how.

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ultrafacts

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WHOA!

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ayellowbirds

They are not some anonymous “a tribe in India”, they are the War-Khasi. Speaking as a former anthro student and as a reference librarian, I am beyond sick of posts (and articles, and emails, and museum displays) like this that present the work of a people without actually naming the people. It’s erasure, it’s reducing the great works of a culture to an Ozymandias-esque curiosity for foreigners to consume rather than an accomplishment that should help bring awareness of that culture’s existence.

They are the War-Khasi, a division of the Khasi, a people who call themselves Hynñiew Trep. They live in Meghalaya, and they have been building these bridges in the town of Cherrapunji for longer than anyone knows. They are not anonymous.

thatdiva

flo-rilege

Wow.

bossybussy

Female-assigned intersex kids’ vaginal canal size is also assessed by doctors, to ensure that it’s long enough to fit a penis inside of it. Doctors might surgically construct or re-construct vaginas, which can result in a host of health problems and necessitate multiple, multiple surgeries. This is especially the case since most intersex kids have these surgeries very young, and when their bodies grow into their adult forms, more surgeries are necessary to keep their vagina size in proportion. Non-surgical methods are also used to increase or maintain vaginal length by regularly using medical dildos to stretch the vagina over months and years. (It’s kind of like braces for your vagina, but much, much worse.) Just like there are no standards for how long a clitoris “can” be before it’s classified as a penis, there aren’t absolute standards as to how long a vagina is for it to be of “normal” length. I had a dilation procedure performed for almost every exam I had with intersex doctors from the time I was 8 until I was 16, so that they could check how long my vagina was as I grew. I absolutely hated these procedures. I mean, imagine a man as old as your father or your grandfather, who you don’t know, inserting a medical dildo into you each time you saw him, knowing that you can’t question the doctor’s orders and just accept that you have to undergo these uncomfortable procedures for your health. Imagine a decade or so later, realizing that these procedures did nothing to track your health, and had everything to do with grown men feeling good about the fact that you could fuck some dude someday like a “normal girl”. That all those traumatizing procedures weren’t actually medically relevant at all, and it actually was within my right to refuse those examinations. I didn’t know any of that at the time. I also had no idea that I wouldn’t want to ultimately have the kind of sex they assumed I’d be having, adding yet another layer of this-was-totally-unnecessary/messed-up to my history. Other kids shouldn’t have to go through this. Other adults shouldn’t have revelations some day far into the future that what was happening to them WASN’T okay, and their traumatic feelings ARE valid, and the whole system of how intersex people are conceptualized and “treated” IS entirely fucked. And it’s gotta change. We’ve gotta change it.

—-Claudia at Autostraddle

I just read this article and was reminded once again how invisible the intersex community often is… we need to signal boost this shit to let people know that this kind of “medical treatment” is NOT okay.

(via bossybussy)

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Legit.

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mysharona1987

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[Tweet by fawrz @farwzaz u always hear boys say “I respect women now bc I have a daughter” but women never say shit like “I hated men till my son” …interesting (link)]

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The Ruggie is a pressure-sensitive alarm clock that won’t shut off until you’re standing on it. Source

threefeline

best-of-memes

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maeril

Aujourd’hui, j’ai oublié mes écouteurs.

beesmygod

“chuffed doesnt mean what you think it means”

it means exactly what i think it means its just some stupid word that literally has two definitions that mean the opposite thing

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what the hell

ashwilliamsrighthand

This makes me really chuffed

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This post is quite egregious

cornflakepizza

Well I’m nonplussed by this whole post.

fixyourwritinghabits

goddamnit.

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conservative-libertarian-deacti

mattsunsthighs

all of you go to hell

divagonzo

And you wonder why i am boggled at times

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These are called contronyms! A word that is its own opposite.

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Why the fuck do these exist

mvgl

raisel-the-riveter

I love this because this is the argument every bioethicist makes about why people with disabilities shouldn’t exist.

“They won’t be Beethoven or Monet! They won’t write beautiful poetry! They won’t excel in a sport! Those things are not options for them!”

A) you’re wrong but also B) your argument is easily demolished with a two-word rebuttal delivered by a fictional robot

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the funny thing is that Beethoven was disabled

ghostofmoriarty

So was Monet, he was near-sighted and his eyesight continued to get worse, and he was basically blind by his death. He painted his Water Lilies paintings after he lost his eyesight almost completely.

butterflyinthewell

Mozart was either autistic or had Tourette’s, maybe both together. Henry Cavendish was definitely autistic, judging by what was written about him in Neurotribes. Disability runs all through human history.