Understanding in a Car Crash

Zac. He/Him. Music, Literature, Hockey, Magic: the Gathering. Voluntarily Habitual Insomniac. Buffalo, NY is home. Straightedge, but never judgmental. And though I walk through the shadow of the valley of death, I will fear no evil. Because I am the baddest motherfucker in the valley.

[ivebeenmadforfuckingyears]

I just wanna be happy

[peashooter85]

Ornate silver plated brass inlaid air rifle from France, third quarter of the 19th century.

from Czerny’s International Auction House

[wheelspiration]

[tigerwriter]

[Image ID: A screenshot of several Tweets by Styna Lane (@StynaLane), posted on July 3rd, 20202, that read:

“It’s disability pride month, and did you know disabled people in the US with Medicaid are not allowed to have more than $2,000 in money and assets combine, or else we’ll lose our often life-saving health insurance? 🙃 Don’t fucking tell me forced poverty isn’t A Thing TM.

“Did you know disabled people in many countries (including the US and UK) can’t get married or often even live with their partner because it causes a massive decrease (or removal entirely) of their disability benefits? Which should only make sense to you if you’re a eugenicist. 🙂

“Did you know it’s still 100% legal to pay workers with disabilities less than minimum wage? 🙂

“Did you know disabled people with Covid are dying because they’re being denied care to save resources? A disabled man in Texas was denied care (and food) in hospital for six. Days. Doc told his wife that, since he was disabled, he didn’t have a quality of life worth saving…

“Did you know that disabled people fought for ages to get accessible accommodations for work, school, medical care? Did you know we were told it was impossible to work from home, impossible to attend school from home, impossible to have telecom doctor appointments? …

”…Did you know these were all sorted and made available within a month of abled people needing them after the onset of the pandemic? Did you know now that states are opening back up, these accessibility accommodations are being revoked for many? 🙂

“Happy Disability Pride Month.”

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[b1rdonawire]

you do know that when jewish and romani people say “never forget” we mean “learn about the holocaust so you can recognize the warning signs of facism and genocide” not “repeatedly bring up the holocaust whenever anything bad happens and exploit our pain and trauma to make people care about your cause” and when we say “never again” we mean “take action to prevent any stage of genocide on any scale by any means, hold collaborators responsible and don’t be complicit” not “only care about genocide when it’s too late”, right? or did you think it was just a fun catchphrase?

[b1rdonawire]

anyways genocide watch has upgraded the situation in armenia to the 9th stage of genocide — extermination. if you reblogged this post, this is your chance to do something. make true to the promise of never again. 

links to explanations of what’s going on and how to help: 1, 2, 3

[thickthighs-andpumpkinpies]

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[micahulrichdraws]

Dayman, fighter of the Nightman, champion of the sun.

[glow-cloud--doodles]

It's not over, BLM is still going strong. Hold the police Accountable

[theluvvclub]

[mysharona1987]

[devilboyblues]

Is funny when doctors and other peeps act like my problem is that I’m obsessed w/ my disability. Um no. You have it backwards. The problem is I HAVE to be cuz it is a constant problem.

[andreashettle]

I’m deaf. About 25 years ago, I was working for a little while as a classroom aide at a program that worked with deaf children with multiple disabilities. All the teachers and other classroom aides were hearing, but they all could sign.  Not at native signing level, but enough to carry on a basic conversation.

So, one evening, all us adults bring all the kids to a special one-night camping trip. All the kids are put to sleep, which frees up the adults to get into a circle and have some fun to ourselves for a while. People start talking, except they were forgetting to sign.  So I reminded them to please sign so I could understand them.  One of them told me that, no, they weren’t going to sign because this was our night to have fun and not have to think about communication.

So no one signed all night. They talked, they laughed, they had fun. I sat, feeling lost and cut off and betrayed. I remember wishing I had had the nerve to say, “No, what you mean is, you want a night in which everyone EXCEPT ME gets to not think about communication.”

I think sometimes when non-disabled people insist that we are too obsessed with our disability, what they REALLY mean is, “I wish you would stop reminding me that I have a shared responsibility as a fellow member of society to proactively ensure that we all have an opportunity to be engaged in society.  I wish you would just pretend to not have a disability so I can pretend that I don’t have to do anything to enable you to do the same things the rest of us are doing.”

The luxury of not needing to think about disability in a society that is designed to lock us on the cold outside is a non-disabled privilege. 

[redleather-blueleather]

Can you believe how cute I am

[ivebeenmadforfuckingyears]

Okay, but can we talk about how hot my girlfriend is? Like, look at this shit!

[centuriespast]

Skull with case, Albert Jansz. Vinckenbrinck, c. 1650

rijksmuseum

[justsomeantifas]

A HOPEFUL ZINE IN A TIME OF CRISIS BY GREER X

[ex0skeletal-undead]

At the Gates of Dis (Oils) by Kim Jakobsson

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[arcusxx]

art by micah urlich