Yoshi's Island

Charlie | 28 | they/them | part time artist, full time Yoshi

[bogleech]

"you only deserve food and shelter if you contribute to society" says people living in countries where nobody's labor actually feeds or benefits their neighbors anymore but exclusively benefits the companies keeping the food and shelter behind the artificial paywalls

You're not nomads relying on each other to hunt and gather anymore, you're talking about stocking shelves for fucking wal marts

And even the oldest societies on earth all took care of the elderly or sick anyway

[caroline-vibecheck]

dudes will be like "if you don't Contribute To Society you don't get to live, that's the simple facts" meanwhile their job is like Marketing and Brand Development Specialist

[sunanthrope]

"But what if people will pretend to need this accessibility option so they can be lazy! People who don't need it will use it!!" I don't actually care

I dont care if 9/10 of the people who use the wheelchair ramp arent actually in wheelchairs. As long as the 1 person who needs it has access to it.

I dont care if 9/10 people who use the automatic push button on the library door can actually push the door open themselves. As long as the 1 person who the door is too heavy for gets to use it.

I dont care if 9/10 people who buy the can tab opener, or the little guitar clamp that holds the chords for you, or the hand grip that helps you hold chop sticks, don't need any of it and just get it to "be lazy". As long as the one disabled person who needs it gets access to it.

I do not care. Oh my GOD I do not care. As long as there's a disabled person on this planet who the accessibility device will benefit, the accessibility device is necessary.

Also, if you're so worried about people being "lazy" by using accessibility devices, MORE worried than you are about disabled (visibly or not) people not having access to them, you have unchecked ableism you need to work through.

[dailyquests]

Escort a Dumbass through the Instant Death Lands (Mission will fail if target dies).

[t4timekeeper]

[snailychan]

Reflecting

[abz-j-harding]

Drew the unicorn.

(Spinosaurus mirabilis)

[abz-j-harding]

decided to give it a little more umph-

[novelistparty]

Baby Globe, Wikipedia’s 25th birthday mascot

[mtndewpitchblack]

[geeyallo]

[4rk-in-the-road]

I think the reason a lot of leftists struggle with disability justice is that they haven't moved past the concept that discrimination isn't bad because it's objectively "wrong." yes, sexists are objectively wrong when they try to claim women are dumber than men. yes, antisemites are objectively wrong that jewish people are inherently greedy and run the state. yes, racists are wrong when they try to claim that white people are the superior race. and so on.

but then with disabled people, there are a lot of objective truths to the discrimination we face. people with IDs/LDs do fall behind and struggle with certain concepts. physically disabled people are often weaker and less capable of performing demanding tasks than able bodied people. many of us with mental illnesses are more reckless and less responsible. a lot of us are dependent on others and do not contribute much "worth".

and guess what? disabled people still deserve a place in the world. disabled people still deserve the supports they need. because they are people, and that should be enough to support them and believe they deserve a place at the table.

if your only rebuttal against discrimination is its objective inaccuracies, you are meeting bigots where they are at. you are validating the very concept that if and when people are truly incapable of being equal to the majority, that means they are worth less. this causes some leftists to then try to deny the objective realities of disabled people and/or become ableist themselves.

your rallying behind marginalized groups should start and end with the fact that people are completely worthy of life and equity, because they are fellow human beings and that should, frankly, be enough.

[pythonpastel]

Herons

[horrorhare]

would you let it stare at you with its special eyes

[silwar]

raaawr

[paleo-bug]

Marsh guardian 🍃🌱

sort of a redraw of my ‘Spinosaurus marshland’, but again just very inspired by the GSL and I love drawing spinos ❤️❤️

[stas-j-fox]

✨Girls✨

[satanfemme]

being disabled under capitalism will have you thinking things like "because I can't make phone calls for 8 hours every day, I don't deserve to eat. I'm a deeply selfish and greedy person, because I can't dedicate my life to phone calls." and the craziest part is if you said that out loud to the average person they'd agree with you.

[depsidase]

[saintsatellite-deactivated20240]

this is the winter of our dissed cunt tent

[micro-usb-deactivated20230625]

[justclownin]

[byjove]

Maybe you should take it out on your boss who is exploiting you and not OF models. I dunno. Just a thought. This is such a common refrain/meme among people working blue collar labor and it’s like, the sex workers making more money than you are not your enemy, they are also working hard for their money, your boss’s boss however…..