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July is Disability Pride Month!Ā
To participate I will be posting only relevant content this month.Ā
Why Disability Pride Matters:
1. ādisabledā is often treated as a bad word
2. invisibly disabled people are harassed due to narrow mindsets of what disability looks like.Ā [ID: There are hand drawn pictures of a stick figure yelling at another stick figure standing by a wheel chair. end ID]
3. US disability financial aid forces disabled people into povertyāand all aid is stripped if you get married. [ID: drawn image of a dollar crossed out and a set of interlocked rings crossed out. end ID]
4. Ignorance is rampant around both physical and mental disabilities.
5. disability is regarded as a fate worse than death.
6. The world is largely still inaccessible. [ID: a drawn image of a stair case. end ID] ā¦ and more
Why Disability Pride and BLM Coincide:
1. Doctors deny adequate treatment and pain management to black people [ID: a drawn image of a medicine bottle crossed out. end ID]Ā
2. police disproportionately target, arrest, brutalize, and murder black disabled people. [ID: a drawn shield with the letters ACAB inside it]
3. black people are disproportionately disabled due to systematic racism in healthcare.Ā
4. any discrimination a disabled person faces? double it if they are also black
The Black Panthers Joined The Fight For The ADA
But I canāt speak for black people; I can only recite the facts. Read black disabled peopleās experiences. [ID: a drawn raised and clenched fist, a symbol of black pride and power. End ID.]Ā
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