How To Don't Walk

I'm a dude with cerebral palsy. I take photos. I live in New York City. I have been hobbling my way through this world for 26 years. I write articles for Life is far too important a thing to talk seriously about. Photography

[catchymemes]

[rejectingrepublicans]

[belovedgoofball]

[queenstravelingdarling]

He…damn son.

[bust-down-memeiana]

You know you ain’t shit if your dead cousin drag you 😩

[wildlyunlikelybabe]

AND WAS RIGHT

[hectatess]

[dancinbutterfly]

We were warned. Isn’t it interesting the way the biggest monsters have family who end up trying so damn hard to do good? For example, there are literally dozens of reports that Herman Goering’s little brother Albert used his position to help Jews and political dissidents escape the Holocaust. It’s almost like they can SEE what their family members are doing and are trying to get something done but can’t get anyone to listen to them and instead do everything they can to strike back.

[howtodontwalk]

This, unfortunately is false as per Snopes

[mental-ch-illness]

me, as my laptop fan suddenly becomes louder: what is it?? what program?? who is doing this to you????

[sarahsoph]

*opening task manager* Who do I need to kill?

[just-shower-thoughts]

Comedy Central shows more history in a half hour of Drunk History than the fucking History Channel does all week.

[howtodontwalk]

So true.

[so-over-ableism]

Me: *gets out of bed*

My body: now i shall seranade you with the sounds of joints cracking

[howtodontwalk]

Today in casual ablism and truly epic tone deafness.

[chronicallyanactivist]

Thought I would share these photos of myself, I also took the pictures using a timer.

You can find my other work on Instagram @presleynassisephotography

(DISCLAIMER: Before anybody gets all upset, yes I am disabled! Yes I use a wheelchair and actually need it. Yes, I can walk sometimes. This post is about body positivity and disabled femininity, please be nice.)

Please don’t remove my caption

[kittysmashh]

Breathtaking oh my gosh 😍😍😍

[howtodontwalk]

Yowza

[jaiology-deactivated20181217]

Tbh drunk me is just regular me but 2x as honest and 10x as horny

[howtodontwalk]

Cripple Problems: Too Sore For Sex

Don't you just hate it when being crippled gets in the way of a good fuck? Like when you can't seem to get your body to move correctly or get your angle right? Or you're too tired from the day to do anything? Or (like me right now) you are so sore from just walking around running errands that you are afraid to jerk off because the resulting muscular tension might be incredibly painful?

[bluevvegas-deactivated20230701]

do you ever learn a new fact and it fucks you over really badly even though it has no effect on your life but it still feels like your whole life was a lie anyways hey did you know barcode scanners scan the white spaces in between and not actually the black bars

[paperstorm]

THEY FUCKING WHAT

[lesbianblush-deactivated2018053]

[novellearts]

oh my goddd. I thought it was great from the beginning but it only gets better

[paper-mario-wiki]

𝕒𝕕𝕧𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖𝕕 𝕔𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕣𝕪

[a-single-lemon]

This is quite possibly the biggest mood imaginable

[howtodontwalk]

I Made A Thing! Taking Preorders for the Kink1000 Pin!!

I made an original pin in collaboration with @c0neb0ne !

For all you perverted models and photographers out there. Or if you just like kinky shit! They arrive from the factory and ship in early October, so until then I’m taking discounted preorders for $8 (final retail price $10) plus $3 shipping.

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[theinturnetexplorer]

I can honestly say i’ve never seen a more entertaining ladle.

[wordsandroads]

These, for me, are the two most depressing paintings in western history. They were painted by post-impressionist Henry de Toulouse-Lautrec, a man who, due to inbreeding, was born with a genetic disorder that prevented his legs from growing after they were broken. After being so thoroughly mocked for is appearance, he became an alcoholic, which is what eventually caused his institutionalization and death. His only known romantic relations were with prostitutes. And then he paints something like this which is so beautiful and tender and sentimental. It seems like the couple in bed really loves each other–cares about each other. Wakes up happy to look at each other. And I see that love and passion and I wonder how lonely he must have been. I wonder how he could paint something like this without it breaking his heart.  Maybe they say artists should create what they know, not because its unbelievable when they extend themselves beyond their experiences, but because when they pull it off with such elegance, it’s so damn unbearable to look at. I hate thinking of Lautrec, wondering about the lovers he created and knowing it was beyond his experience. Creating something that he knows is beautiful and knows he’ll never really understand. 

[zforzelma]

I’ve reblogged this before to say this, and I’ll do it any time it crosses my dashboard:

You think because he was disabled no one ever loved him???

And what do you think sex workers are? Emotionless, personality-less automatons who get memory wiped every day? You think “his only known romantic relations were with prostitutes” means that he never knew love? What the fuck are you talking about?

These paintings are of those very sex workers.

These women cared about him, and trusted him, and maybe even loved him. They would never have let him experience these moments of unguarded intimacy if they didn’t. They wouldn’t let any old client in their sleeping bedroom. No way. These paintings are as much an expression of love as anything. Don’t you dare say that he could never really understand that.

[studiosaraeileen]

Oh good, I was working myself all up into a fury but Zelma’s already crushed it.

[just-shower-thoughts]

A ramp is just a set of stairs with higher resolution.

[roofbeams-deactivated20180202]

heres a cool idea: what if in 2017 tumblr commie kids gave up the creepy romanticization of the soviet union thing in favor of the aesthetics of american labor history–the haymarket riot, the pullman strike, the great railroad strike, emma goldman & yiddish socialism, woody guthrie, pete seeger, paul robeson, the iww and the 1912 textile workers’ strike, the ladies’ garment workers’ union, wpa murals, the american communist party, bread and roses, the union maid. that’s the Good Shit if yr looking for historical leftist culture imo

[violent-darts]

Seriously tho, kids. 

The USSR was a blood-soaked mess. A racist, anti-semitic, sexist blood-soaked mess at that. Do not repeat the sins of the Left of the 60s/etc by ignoring that. (Same goes for Maoist China, etc.) To ignore that is to literally piss on a truly appalling number of graves As an allegory, Animal Farm’s inaccuracies were that it’s not grim and horrific enough. The most conservative and hesitant and “well we don’t want to be hysterical about this” count of Stalin’s death toll, not including famine-victims, is 4 million; the one which, after various amounts of research, I find most convincing is about 20 million. Mao’s Great Leap Forward killed anywhere from 18 to 50 million, and we have literal footage of Tienamen, guys. 

This is not the good example you are looking for. Do not romanticise them. 

100% go back, as OP says, to the things that actually had good results (like a 40 hour work-week and basic human worker’s rights and shite) and did not do them over mountains of corpses. We have lots! They even included (gosh!) women! and queers! and people of colour/different ethnicities! They do all the things you want. 

These are your models. Not those bloody handed bastards over there. 

[wondersmith-and-sons]

honestly, now is more important than ever to remember the historical contributions that the working class has made for social movements, given how much the media have taken blaming them for the rise of fascism. 

From Trump to Brexit, the narrative being spun has been that of “the working class were too poor and too dumb to know better” and how both Brexit and Trump spoke for them or to them, even though a majority of that demographic are non-white/immigrant/minorities who are severely affected by the political outcome. It’s a false narrative and it is both classist and racist and erases the fact that labour rights and worker’s rights and social rights in West Europe and Americas have come from and were heavily supported by the socialist left and working classes. 

Just to start off, I was reading the other day about The 1936 Battle of Cable Street, which was a stand organised by the local working class comprising of Jewish locals, the Irish locals, Labour and Communist party members in a demonstration against a Nazi march that lead to confrontation with the police (Discworld fans, read the fuck up about this because you will find a lot of what Pratchett was referencing in Night Watch). 

I’m sure there’s probably a lot more examples, and what OP mentioned definitely deserves more historical context and background. But the fact is that those historical contexts are either forgotten or ignored by the tumblr social justice commie kids scene because clueless privileged teenagers are more willing to worship dead genocidal dictators for cheap aesthetics than do actual fucking research. 

There’s a difference between celebrating bloody totalitarian regimes and celebrating actual socialist and leftist movements that had a positive outcome, in all their complexities, struggles and conflicts. And that difference means research and looking at the contexts of historical and social political landscapes of the time, the sum of which unfortunately can’t be reduced to sickle-and-hammer on a pastel colour palette.  

[dazzledfirestar]

Also please be aware that the horrors that were brought down on people in the USSR and other regimes are within living memory. There are witnesses, victims and perpetrators STILL ALIVE, and potentially on tumblr. This is not some far off thing that happened hundreds of years ago. PLEASE understand how the trivializing and romanticizing of these regimes and their imagery can be very triggering.