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teeny snuppy

[astro-aut-deactivated20241108]

a reminder to all the people with disability aids and medical devices. you look absolutely brilliant. and your medical devices and disability aids add to your brilliance. you look so handsome / pretty / cool. fuck what ableists say. your aids and devices are fucking great and do not take away from your appearance. they add to it. they look so fucking cool and so do you. <3 (heart)

[justbadpuns]

[makingqueerhistory]

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all. Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabled queer/people of color are doing to find each other and to build power and community, and a tool kit for everyone who wants to build radically resilient, sustainable communities of liberation where no one is left behind. Powerful and passionate, Care Work is a crucial and necessary call to arms.

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[gloams]

think of love when you remember me

[crpl-pnk]

“I don’t beg boiling water not to burn me anymore; you’ve disproven the idea that it’s only real if it hurts. Our love is black tea, light with milk and honey, at the exact right temperature, at the exact right time. You were there when the levees broke so when it came time for me to rebuild, who else but you could have been swept in? I am under your spell and you are under my skin.”

— lauren prairrie, ode to still waters from her book love in the time of celexa (pay what you want) https://gumroad.com/l/ksHKS

[proletariangothic]

I think it’s funny that able bodied people think disability prejudice is gonna be solved by cyborg parts, like those of us who will have them aren’t gonna be bugged with constant “Yeah, but you know, you still aren’t human in the strictest sense of the term, I mean whole human, natural and organic, you know what I mean…”

[snartphones-deactivated20170312]

And with capitalism still in existence getting implants or prosthesis will just be grafting planned obsolescence onto your actual body. People honestly think they won’t make limbs the same way they make other electronics?

[wasmnowf-deactivated20180327]

These never occurred to me but you are right. I can think of worse things. Government control over what parts can not do for parts paid for with government money. You got eye implants while on “welfare”. Then they better not be used for “immoral” things like strip clubs. Gps locks take care of that.

Government legs? You better use them for at least X number of steps a day to prove they were needed.

New arm but unemployed? Better have a job or it turns off.

[proletariangothic]

A big thing I’m also thinking about is cyborg parts that are so specialized for one job-related task that they get in the way of literally EVERYTHING else you might want to do, unless you buy more of them, especially in the early years:

An arm specialized for factory work that’s so heavy it causes spinal damage and chafing around the stump area(more so then even normal artificial limbs)

An mechanized  exoskeleton so you can walk in an outdoor-type job, but nobody considered you might want to remove it to bathe or have sex because why would the cripples want to do a silly thing like that

[sam-keeper]

This stuff is such a big deal and yet somehow a lot of transhumanists seem to have totally missed the fact that most cyberpunk authors are totally cognizant of what a nightmare hellscape future digital capitalism will be

[afrodesiaq-deactivated20250629]

And don’t forget the element of coercion/lack of bodily autonomy that will very absolutely come with having widespread mecha-upgrades that can “fix” us broken folks – because for sure, if disability can be solved with robot parts, do you think the able-bodied folk are going to trust us for long to make the decisions for ourselves as to whether or not we want those cyborg bits installed? They’ll be passing laws that say we have to get them or we don’t get accommodations we need anyway, jamming them into us as babies (whether they work fully well or not), using us to alpha test them, it’s going to be fun times.

[abbygine-blog]

I’m pretty sure we already do that last one with cochlear implants…

[afrodesiaq-deactivated20250629]

#like this is a thing i already see in the present? #when it comes to deafness and cochlear implants/hearing aids #and hearing people constantly sniping at us #like no i’m not getting a terp #why don’t you just put your hearing aids in #sorry it doesn’t work like that #i’d still need a terp even if i were wearing them #but even if i didn’t just seriously #wearing my hearing aids also aggravated my DEBILITATING MIGRAINES #to the point where i literally could not get through a day of work #without collapsing in pain #abled people just never trust us to make our own decisions about our health and our lives #like that is going to change in the least as technology advances #nope nope nope

Haha yeah that was my tags on that post. XD We are… already there with this on some of these things it’s just going to get moreso as technology progresses.

[trick-of-the-troubles]

hey, you're allowed to take up space and make noise

it's okay if your mobility aids click or squeak

it's okay if you need more space to pass because of your aids or the way you walk

it's okay if you need to ask more questions

it's okay if you need to ask for help with things, either for physical or mental limitations

it's okay if the way your body is means you need more room

it's okay to exist and to take up space

ily /p

[trick-of-the-troubles]

hey, you're allowed to take up space and make noise

it's okay if your mobility aids click or squeak

it's okay if you need more space to pass because of your aids or the way you walk

it's okay if you need to ask more questions

it's okay if you need to ask for help with things, either for physical or mental limitations

it's okay if the way your body is means you need more room

it's okay to exist and to take up space

ily /p

[muttren]

life is not an episode of grey’s anatomy. doctors will hear about your rare disease/ disability and be like “idk what that is ok good luck bye”

[j33persworld]

throws the medical system into the fucking sun. Ok I'm fine

[shieldmaideneowyn]

the fanfiction in my head is soooo good wish you guys could see this

[smoqueen-deactivated20251108]

everyones a fucking critic

[frankiensteinsmonster]

❗CRIPPLE TIPS❗

✨ Able bodied friends edition ✨

If you are in a group that includes anybody who is using a mobility aid, if you are out and about and a Stairs Situation arises, either ask them which they'd prefer, or opt for the elevator (given your group is small enough. If not, have a couple friends use the elevator with your disabled friend, after asking if this is what they prefer (they may enjoy a moment alone, everybody is an individual with their own preferences). This means they don't lose the emotional "high" of being part of a group, conversation can continue so they won't suddenly feel lonely and excluded on the solo elevator ride, which can creep in and ruin their mood especially if they're new to their disability, and there's less of a chance of confusion once you're at your destination. Nobody likes being lost, but the inherent exhaustion and physical exertion that comes with using and mobility aid is incredibly... Unfun. And distressing! This can be easily avoided and you have the chance to be an Excellent friend! We notice these things!

This post is about being Physically Disabled, Able bodied people are encouraged to reblog, but Do Not Derail-- make your own post if you need to say something not related to being physically disabled.

[fullvoidbird]

Things that should be banned as a wheelchair user:

-single steps

-Tables with the leg thingy in the middle

-slanted sidewalks

-unessissary stairs for aesthetic reasons

-accessible bathrooms with doors that open inward

-shelves in stores above 1.5 from the ground

-heavy doors for zero reason

-narrow doors

-hand driers and paper towels being far away from sinks

-loitering on crub cuts

-curb cuts in parking spaces

-high mirrors

-high Tables

-low Tables

-portable ramps that are dangerously steep being called accessible

-"come inside to front desk to get ramp"

-huge door lips

-broken automatic doors without signs

-labeling as wheelchair accessible online when absolutely not

-people inventing new 30+ thousand $ stair climbing chairs that no one will ever be able to actually use instead of ramps or lifts

-calling ahead to get accessibility

[wheelchairtetris]

All disabled people deserve safe, stable, accessible housing.

[j33persworld]

conversations about ability, disability, and pain (especially chronic pain) need to become less socially “taboo” because there’s so many people who don’t realize how much pain they’re actually in. n they don’t realize because they just assume everyone has these problems, bc no one talks about it.

i think it’s important to be open about what amount, level, etc. of pain is considered “normal” bc a lot of people don’t realize until it’s too late