There needs to be light, for there to be a shadow.

Luke Charles a.k.a T'Challa  ~ He/They  ~ Master of the Mystic Arts ~ Legally Blind ~ header description: A screenshot of a text from me saying "I am Slut. I know."

[master-luke-charles]

~ A B O U T ~

Dr. Luke 'Lucky' Charles

[not my pic]

26, Blind, Amputee, He/They

Sorcerer and protector, Kamar Taj- (2014-16)

Shadow Witch, allied Clans of the Shadow - (2016 - present (part time))

Vice Cheer Captain, Jean-Babylon University and High School

Professor, Jean-Babylon University, Berkley

Teacher, Sophia Selah High, LA

Exotic dancer, Tvrn , LA

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I post socio-political, queer and sexually explicit stuff on here, btw.

FILTER TAGS:

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[bread-and-roses-too]

oh my GOD sex work isn't fucking "violent". What's violent is that we have to work to survive.

In an ideal world, women would be able to do sex work freely to earn a little extra cash for luxuries like a nicer computer or fancy clothes. There would be brothels where potential clients would be searched and rid of anything they could use to harm sex workers and there would be an emergency system to call in a security guard if things got out of hand. Sex work sites would have identity confirmation and facial recognition to catch and liberate minors who were trafficked. Bots would scan the internet for stolen media so sex workers would have full agency to take down images and videos they no longer wanted to be available. People who find sex work arousing and fun could do it safely and leave as soon as they no longer enjoyed it.

Until then, sex work has to be decriminalized. There's no other way. A few more things need to happen too:

- Trafficked women need to be able to go to the authorities and be immediately taken to safety without questions about their legality or whether they're telling the truth. It's been proven time and time again that people, especially cis men, are willing to go out of their way to traffic women, with or without legal approval. The only way to prevent trafficking is to make it safe to report.

- ICE has to be abolished so trafficked illegal immigrants can report without being threatened with deportation, separation from their families, or criminal charges.

- Brothels and strip clubs have to be monitored and regulated, and the workers checked in on regularly to ensure no coercion or trafficking is taking place.

- Orgs need to be set up to help consenting sex workers who wish to retire transition to other jobs.

- Sex work sites that host rape and child porn need to be shut down.

- Sex work sites that want to continue to exist need to require proof of identification to post and have report features for suspected rape or child porn.

- Report sites need to be set up to report porn featuring children or where rape might be or is taking place.

- Police need to be held accountable for ignoring the pleas of raped and sexually assaulted women.

- The justice system needs to be held accountable for giving cis men who are sex criminals slaps on the wrist for their vile treatment of women.

- Disability payments need to be made more accessible so disabled people don't need to do sex work to survive.

- Any bills involving free necessities like healthcare and housing need to be religiously and intensely supported.

You'll notice this plan isn't as simple as "just make it illegal!" That's because simple solutions to complex issues don't fucking work and people who think they do are naive and need to take time off to consider how their naivety could be hurting people. There's no arguing against the fact that there are sex workers, trafficked or not, who are struggling financially. Putting every sex worker out of a job and basically saying "have fun dealing with that!" isn't the solution. This will result in thousands of women being made homeless or dying from lack of health care. Moreover, it isn't necessary because there are women who legitimately enjoy sex work who aren't in any real danger. The only logical solution is to allow women who enjoy it to enjoy it and allow women who don't (or don't anymore) a safe exit path. That requires a lot more work, a lot more laws, and a lot more time. Until we can get everything working as intended, the best we can do is what we do for any other marginalized group, offer compassion, support, and willingness to act.

[solstice-snakes]

feelin funky about my place in the world.

5x7 in. oil pastels and acrylic paint on paper.

Aaron Taylor Art provides original paintings, art prints, pins, tshirts, hoodies, and 3D work made by independent artist Aaron Hutts.

[ID: a multi media art piece that reads "disabled people are worth loving" in black text with black squiggles surrounding the text. the background is blue, pink, orange, red, purple, and yellow squiggles in random repeating order. end ID]

[closet-keys]

anti-psychiatry discussion that addresses racial capitalism & the history of the eugenic movement as origins for the current models of disability and our models for treatment; understanding much of disability treatment exists to suppress atypical behavior and symptoms that inhibit selling labor to capitalists; the widespread racialized violence of homelessness, police brutality, and incarceration (in prisons and hospitals) that is inherently intertwined with disability of all kinds but especially addiction, mental illnesses, & cognitive disability; centered in principled assertion of bodily autonomy:🙏✊👍⭐️❤️‼️💯🔥

anti-psychiatry discussion that tries to fundamentally separate and distinguish physical disability (as “real”) from mental illness (as “fake”); has no relationship to disability studies and therefore looks at things like “cases cured by x drug” as evidence drugs are not effective or helping anyone because they don’t understand the concept of chronic illnesses or disability of any kind and therefore don’t consider ‘relief’ to be a relevant factor if it’s not A Cure(TM); broadly promotes restricting access to drugs (instead of decriminalization coupled with education and support/care infrastructure): 😒👎🤦🏼❌🚮

[autisticspirit]

Hate have say this but

NOT TOUCH OTHER PEOPLE DISABILITY THING PLEASE

Should not even have be please, should be good and know but somehow not.

Person in Aiden class before today *grab* Aiden laptop with AAC and Aiden had *physical* grab back because person start press random button on Aiden AAC.

Then! Person get *mad* because Aiden not want person play with Aiden *voice* like *toy*

This not good, and wish person know more good but guess Aiden have say too.

[love--poisoned-deactivated20240]

i remember a couple years ago, i saw on reddit a post where a person had made 3D-printed spikes they could put on their wheelchair and take off as needed.

in the comments, people were complaining about how that was illegal and the damage it could cause to someone.

Yeah, it's real damaging, you're the victim. Not the person who you just tried to push and pretty much physically assault. /sarc

Aids like AAC and mobility aids are often seen as an extension of a person, a part of their body for them. As Aiden said in their post, the computer they use for AAC is their voice. A cane might be one of your legs. Hearing aids are one's ears and glasses could be your eyes.

Fellow abled-bodied people, I am begging you, please respect the bodies of disabled people as we do other abled-bodied people.

[permanently-sprained-ankle]

All disabled people are disabled, but some disabled people are more disabled than other disabled people.

All disabled people face ableism, but some types of disability will be more subject to ableism than others.

We can accept both facts: there is unity among disabled people in the oppression that we face and the identity we share, and also that there is a wide range of experiences and privileges within the spectrum of disability.

[permanently-sprained-ankle]

Important tags from @rjalker

Being not physically disabled is a privilege even if you are neurodivergent! Yes, you face ableism because of your neurodivergent conditions but you still need to acknowledge your privilege as an able-bodied person in order to be a good ally to ALL disabled people.

[just-shower-thoughts]

Blind people must save a lot on electricity.

[cynopansy]

They do actually!

[mauve-moth]

I had a blind professor, last semester, and I swung through his office to make up an exam. It was a while before I knew he was in there because he was sitting with the lights off. I finally went in, apologized, and took the exam by the light of a nearby window (which was fine). Forty-five minutes into dead silence he panicked and yelled in this booming voiced, “WAIT, YOU CAN SEE!!!” before diving across his desk to turn on the lights. I’m sure he was embarrassed but I thought it was endearing and it highlighted a large aspect of disabled life that I hadn’t previously considered.

[hotmolasses]

Sort of relatedly I once had professor who was deaf, but she had learned to read lips and speak so she could communicate easily with hearing people who didn’t know sign language. One day she had gotten off topic and was talking a little about her personal life, so that one of the students said “Oh, I know, I grew up in Brooklyn too.” 

She stared at him for a long time and then said “How do you know I’m from Brooklyn?”

And he said “You have a Brooklyn accent.”

She said “I do?” and the whole class nodded, and then she burst out laughing and said “I had no idea!  The school where I learned to speak was in Brooklyn.  I learned by moving my mouth and tongue the way my teachers did.  So I guess it makes sense that I have their accent, I just never thought about it.”

[wrote-my-own-deliverance]

My moms a sign language interpreter, and she’s signed with people from all over the US. According to her, when she signs with people from the south they sign with a “drawl.” They have slower hand movements and exaggerate certain parts of the sign. People from the Midwest sign very fast and people from the south sign very slow.

So we were at a restaurant once and my mom started interpreting for someone who was trying to order and she was like “oh you’re from the south!”

And they were like “how did you know that?”

And she said “you sign with a drawl.” And they were really surprised that it came through that much.

It’s really interesting that even when not speaking verbally accents and heritage come through.

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

Humans are so fucking fascinating

[lycanthology]

if u consider yourself a horror fan you like NEED to be aware and educated on the ableism thats been put at the heart of so much horror. like... is that character actually scary or do they just have a limp/scars/disfigurement that real normal people have irl and have to see depicted as horrifying and dehumanizing? if you think any of those things or things like it are scary in ANY context you need to step away from the horror genre and familiarize yourself with the fact that people can and do look like that and they do not deserve to be an object of fear

[alwaysbewoke]

How Black people deal and dealt with racism and white supremacy within sign language

[petitesilhouette]

@alwaysbewoke would you have her name or link to full video if there's one?

[alwaysbewoke]

my bad here you go

[blindbeta]

What We Raised in 2022:

These are donations given in exchange for betaing. Thanks everyone and happy writing!

American Foundation For the Blind - $120

Razom- $49.36

European Roma Rights Center-

$10

Guide Dogs of America - $51.75

Abortion Funds: $10

Total For 2022- $241.11

[metalheadsagainstfascism]

"But only 2% of the population is intersex. It's not that common. Why should we reframe or perception of gender for intersex people?"

Completely ignoring the fact that empathy exists. You do realize that 2% of the population in the medical field is considered very common, yes?

2% of children and 0.5% of adults have a peanut allergy and that's so common that they have entire rules around in in public spaces.

0.24-1% of the population has Rheumatoid arthritis. That's an eighth to a half of the number of intersex people!

1-2% of people are estimated to have autism, and that's considered a common condition.

0.1%-2.6% of people will get melanoma in their life time, and that's considered common.

1.2% of people have epilepsy and that's considered common.

Completely ignoring statistics like 6% of women have PCOS (which is a condition that can fall under the intersex umbrella). 2% of the population in the medical field is considered a common condition, and ergo by medical terms intersex is in itself common.

I don't think you realize how big 2% is. That's 2 in 100 people. If you walk into 3 fully filled classrooms (when I was in school a full classroom was 40 students). Chances are you just saw 2 intersex kids and didn't even know it.

So yeah. I think intersex is common enough to include in our discussions around gender and how transphobic rules affects intersex people.

-fae

[metalheadsagainstfascism]

"Walkable city" is not "City where to have to walk everywhere."

"Walkable city" is.

Sidewalks big enough to fit you, your stroller, your wheelchair, your guide dog, or anything else you need when you're getting from one place to another.

Safe crosswalks frequent enough so you don't need to walk in traffic.

Bike lanes to keep bikes out of foot traffic and car traffic.

Accessible and affordable public transit.

Cities where the essentials are close enough you can travel on foot (or in wheelchair)

Cities where it's reasonable to be able to get from point a to point b without requiring you, yourself, to drive

People get so caught up in the "Walkable" part of the term and like to spout "Walkable cities are abelist because not everyone can walk".

Bitch. The modern city structure is abelist because not everyone can drive. And classist because not everyone can afford a car and it's pretty damn impossible to get a job if you don't have a car.

Walkable cities are cities where people can reasonably get from pointA to pointB without requiring a motor vehicle.

"But fae. Disabled people have issues using the paths in modern cities." Bitch abled people can barely use the paths in modern cities. That's kind of the fucking problem.

Also walkable cities have fucking benches. Not only for disabled people. But sometimes you just twist your ankle and need to sit for a moment.

"Put fae. If you have benches, homeless people will sleep on them."

Then get fucking housing for the homeless. Problem solved. They'll sleep in their nice warm homes instead of on the benches.

-fae

[internalizedkryptophobia]

Making adult content is not "easy money."

Respect sex workers. Sex work is real work.

[lezboid]

HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH TO:

-disabled black ppl

-black ppl with mental illness

-black ppl who don't feel "black enough"

-black ppl who feel "too black"

-ALTERNATIVE, GOTH, PUNK, EMO, SCENE, ETC BLACK PPL

-lgbt+ black ppl!!!!!!!!!!!

-black ppl who aren't deemed conventionally attractive by society

-black ppl in school

-black ppl not in school

-working black ppl

-BLACK PPL 💞💗💞💗💞💗

[batmanego]

mannnnn until we all get okay with the idea of people needing other people to get them water/food/etc like. idk we’re just never gonna make it

[batmanego]

yes you have autistic in your bio but are you rude to people who need carers and assistance with basic tasks? do you call me lazy for a text post where i ask my father to bring me water? yes you have adhd and post constantly about executive dysfunction but if a schizophrenic person who needs but doesn’t have have a carer hasn’t showered or worn clean clothes in months exists, how are you going to react to that?

[batmanego]

yeah yeah you’re all for disability rights but if someone is campaigning for adult changing tables in disabled stall bathrooms because they have incontinence and have to wear a diaper are you going to think they’re weird? if a person has a visible colostomy bag are you going to think it’s gross? what about feeding tubes? how does your opinion on these issues change if the person in question is fat, or homeless, or a person of color?

[accessfashion]

[Image description: Glamour UK magazine cover featuring Shelby Lynch, a model with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Shelby is a light-skinned black woman with brown eyes and multicolor (orange-red, black, and brown) box braids tied up in a half bun. Shelby is sitting in a bright pink powerchair with black trim. She breathes using a BIPAP ventilator attached to her nose. Shelby is wearing black lipstick, a gold necklace, black leggings, and a green knit shirt and skirt set. She looks directly at the camera.

Words on the cover read:

"Digital UK issue January 2023

Glamour Magazine (Glamour.com)

The Self Love Issue

'Fashion is something I can control' - Shelby Lynch.

End description.]

Shelby Lynch for Glamour UK Magazine January 2023 (The Self Love Issue)

Shelby has a TikTok and Instagram under the handle @shelbykinsxo!

[mobydyke]

we are in the kitchen together. I love you I want to give you everything. come stand in the kitchen while I cook for you. no you cannot help cook. this is an act of love. I am making you dinner. I am giving you food because I cannot give you my heart because I cannot give you the world. come sit at the counter and tell me stories while I chop vegetables. I care about you. I care I care. I am making us something to eat. food is love. it is special. deliberate. we are in my kitchen together and I love you