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34. Wheelchair user. MSW. Poetry please.

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[perksofbeingdisabled]

Vintage on disability rights.

[littleredspaces]

Don’t let the black and white trick you. The Capitol Crawl was in 1990. This is not ancient history.

[madmoths]

This past March 12 marked the 30th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl. This protest occurred because passage of the ADA had stalled - it had already been passed by the Senate and needed approval from the House. There was a real fear that this important bill would not be passed, and thus the rights of thousands of Americans with disabilities would not be protected. This law is only 30 years old, and yet people with disabilities are threatened every day! It’s a real fight to get the accommodations one needs, even with these kinds of protections in place.

Further reading for context on this monumental protest!

The ADA Legacy Project: Moments in Disability History 27 (from Disability MN)

Crawling up steps to demand their rights (Share America aka sanitized government piece!)

Footage (from ADAPT ONLINE museum)

[karolynprg]

Overcompensating in my cutlery drawer.

(If you are able bodied, this joke is probably not for you.)

[thelvadamee-blog]

bringing this back.

[aspiritualwarrior]

“All you can do for another person is be an environment in which if they wanted to come up for air, they could.”

— Ram Dass

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Amanda Toy

[state-of-nature-blog]

me to me: you stress me out

[buumblegum]

what’s poppin i have a deep, empty loneliness i can feel in my bones and i don’t know how to function

[luthienne]

“This is our fate: to love too much—”

— Carole Maso, Ghost Dance

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Franz Kafka, from The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka; “In The Penal Colony,”

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ig: macapalacios.tattoo

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Michele Volpi

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“My only consolation in this despicable world is to know that you exist.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter to Galatea Kazantzaki c. February 1923

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Suffering, I do believe, is something of the mark of the soul.”

— Jeanette Winterson, from “Frankissstein,” originally published c. Mary 2019

[lifeinpoetry]

“Time opens up and something is wrong. The wind blows in the opposite direction. The sky is a strange color. Even my voice sounds like someone who hasn’t spoken in a long time.”

— Amina Cain, from “The Beating of My Heart,” Creature

[buttonpoetry]

“Give me a city where my body is not public property.”

— Blythe Baird, "Girl Code 101"

[dirbyagnesvarda]

remember when ocean vuong said “the most beautiful part of your body is where it’s headed & remember loneliness is still time spent with the world” and “to look at something is to fill your whole life with it” and “don’t we touch each other just to prove we’re still here” and “if only briefly, hunger is to give the body what it knows it cannot keep” and “i miss you more than i remember you” and “days i feel like a human being, while other days i feel more like a sound, i touch the world not as myself but as an echo of who i was” 

[inkipri]

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