Queers with Disabilities

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[queerswithdisabilities]

Hello, hello!

This page has been pretty inactive lately but we're working on creating more content. Feel free to send in any submissions.

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http://www.robertandycoombs.com

[queerswithdisabilities]

Hey everyone! My name is Makumbu Lumbu and I’m lesbian and disabled. I want to start an activism group, within the Toronto area, to raise awareness for people with disabilities and identify with the LGBTQ community. These communities are extremely marginalized and as someone who identify with both groups I know the stigma behind it. I’m reaching out to you, if you want to know more information please message me or email me at: [email protected]. Thank you!

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Packing as a wheelchair user

I was asked to write a post about how I pack as a wheelchair user! It’s a little long so I’m adding a cut here. There are no pictures or anything so it’s SFW, but links to packers are NSFW. Also some of the links use the term “FTM”, so be aware of that before you click links if that makes you uncomfortable. 

Please let me know how I can expand this to be more inclusive of different experiences! This is mostly based on my own experiences because I don’t know many other trans wheelchair users who pack, so let me know how I can improve it!

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[queerswithdisabilities]

Wasn’t completely sure what to title this. I also considered posting the buzzfeed article that’s posted in the AMA but it’s messy. So warnings for ableism, transphobia, and binarism. There’s likely other warnings that can go here (will edit to include later). Proceed with caution.

[bi-trans-alliance]

Bi Health Month: Bi+ Youth with Disabilities #BHAM

From @biresourcecenter:

Resources: If you are a bi+ youth with a disability, know that there are several organizations, resources, and networks available to support you:

Blind LGBT Pride International

Queerability

National Disability Rights Network

Planet Deaf Queer

Sins Invalid

Bisexual & Disability Themed Books

Featured blog post: Aud Traher (@nooffswitch)  writes “On Being a Disabled Bi Trans Person and the Idea of Passing.”

(read more on BRC’s blog)

Our addition to the resource list: Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN)

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Stevie Wonder on accessibility for people with all kinds of bodies and abilities.

Gifs: The Grammys on CBS

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description: a set of 4 gifs showing Stevie Wonder, holding a piece of paper and standing at a microphone flanked by several people. The gifs are captioned with Stevie’s commentary.

gif 1: [displaying sheet of paper] You all can’t read this, huh

gif 2: you can’t read braille, nah nah nah nah nah

gif 3: i just want to say before saying the winner

gif 4: we need to make every single thing accessible to every single person with a disability [end description]

[queerswithdisabilities]

I saw this survey on Facebook and thought some people on here might be interested in participating.

[queerswithdisabilities]

Image description: The left shoulder of a dark blue T-shirt, a white-skinned half-visible bicep and fully visible forearm (belonging to a pansexual/queer trans man) shows a tattoo just below the inner elbow joint. The tattoo is black ink, a little over 2 inches long by 2 inches wide, the silhouette of the typical wheelchair user seen on a US handicap placard or bathroom sign, but in his hand is a saber pointing upward with the blade length to just above his head. Tattoo was done May 2014 in Cambridge, MA.]

I grew up in a really dis/ableist environment that never allowed me to accept or embrace that I have cerebral palsy (spastic diplegia, for those curious). So a significant chunk of my adulthood so far has been devoted to reclaiming this important aspect of my identity and unlearning the crap I’ve internalized, and a part of that required this tattoo.

I found it as a Livejournal icon several years ago and decided that it needed to be somewhere on my body. After about five years of sitting on the idea and working out the logistics, some very dear friends came together to give me the money to make it happen. So it’s a reminder of how amazing and wonderful my friends and community are, and also serves to remind myself and others that there’s nothing wrong with being disabled. I’ve grown up seeing and hearing a lot of terrible things about disabilities, but I think the worst directed at me was a stranger referring to my CP/using forearm crutches as something he wouldn’t want to wish on his worst enemy.

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Since I haven’t seen any posts about it on Tumblr, I figured I’d make the post myself! #heardwhilstdisabled is a trending hashtag on twitter, has been on-and-off for awhile obviously, and it’s about the common, casual microagressions the disabled of all stripes have to deal with. It’s UK- and AU-based primarily from the looks of it but I would think it applies to most disabled people - I certainly know I’ve heard my share of this kind of ableism. Here’s more tweets (source is The Indepedant):

@DamonLord #heardwhilstdisabled “that’s so sad. That baby will grow up with a blind father. We should call Social Services on them” About me and my son

@Quinonostante #HeardWhilstDisabled: “mental illness could be eradicated though right?” Me: “how’d you mean?” The reply: “By sterilising people”

@Imbecillis #heardwhilstdisabled Person: “You don’t look disabled…” Me: “I’m sorry I didn’t realise the neon sign was compulsory these days.”

@RedRubyGem #heardwhilstdisabled My housebound daughter was told if she didn’t attend interview at job centre her benefits would be stopped

@lauraevans311 Learning about DMD [muscular dystrophy] – fellow med student: “If they’re only going to live that long, what’s the point in educating them?”#heardwhiledisabled

@major___tom ‘I don’t want to vaccinate my kids in case they end up autistic like you’ #heardwhiledisabled

@TwinsMa #Heardwhiledisabled “If you’d stop coddling him, he’d quit being so clingy.“– says a former pediatrician to me about my autistic son

@claireOT told I’m “a bloody disabled” by a taxi driver when refusing to pay an extra £2 to carry my scooter #heardwhiledisabled

@thebeardlessone “You won’t make any friends if you keep making noises” #heardwhiledisabled (Actually, he’s the only person to diss my tourettes to my face)

@latentexistence #HeardWhileDisabled While visiting psychiatrist for suicidal thoughts, in a wheelchair: “You just need to exercise more.”

@usherchic2 #heardwhiledisabled so do you just tell your guide dog the plan for the day in the morning & he sorts it all out? Me:……

@Geeketteuk “Hitler was wrong about the Jews but right about people like you” (thanks for not being anti-semitic !) #heardwhilstdisabled

@Fire_Rosa #heardwhilstdisabled At the Dentist with Husband and Carer, receptionist” What home do you come from?* my own?

@lizmcternan #heardwhilstdisabled at a buffet, me in wheelchair, helping blind friend choose: ‘You people take up so much room’

@PottsMcG #heardwhilstdisabled “Don’t stare at her, she’s not all there” as said about my 9 year old sister in law, who has down’s syndrome. Vile

@AvoidedDrowning Frequently been told off for using a walking stick because I’m “too young to need it” too #heardwhilstdisabled

@hypatia “you people shouldn’t use rush hour transport, it’s for people going to work”. (me in suit with backpack) #heardwhilstdisabled

@MatthewJFowler #heardwhilstdisabled. Your not albino you haven’t got red eyes

@sparklygoth #heardwhilstdisabled ‘You don’t look deaf.’ & that looks like what exactly?

@badfanfic “They’ll diagnose anyone with autism these days” – my doctor #heardwhilstdisabled

@CarrieBeckwith #heardwhilstdisabled “we don’t have a ramp cos we don’t get disabled customers” – prob cos they can’t get into our shop!

@Wheelchair_Dave #HeardWhilstDisabled Someone asked wife “Did you know when you married him 15 years ago, he may have an accident & become disabled”

@WTBDavidG #heardwhilstdisabled Office fire warden 3 “You’re so disabled we need you to wait before using stairs, but not so disabled u need an evac plan”

@Becca_Boot #heardwhilstdisabled bus driver lowering ramp “i don’t have to do this, im going out of my way to help you, you better behave on here”

@VictoriaMWright Man: “she.. (gestures at me) makes me wanna (makes vomitting sound)” #heardwhilstdisabled

@WelshWallace #HeardWhilstDisabled police officer to me after being mugged – your not going to be much help as your blind & not able to give a description

@MelG1804 When refused access to restaurant with guide dog, relative said they shouldn’t have to take dogs if they don’t want to. #heardwhilstdisabled

@touretteshero #heardwhilstdisabled I know what would cure you – an exorcism #Tourettes

@Beakboo #heardwhilstdisabled My Irish mother, when she saw an obviously disabled person, in a loud whisper “would you look at that poor creature”

@theeternal “I thought autism was only in children.”#heardwhilstdisabled

@ScottTweed #HeardWhilstDisabled my personal favourite was “if you’re mum had seen a medium when pregnant then you wouldn’t of been born disabled”

@cvonruhland #heardwhilstdisabled Elderly landlady: ‘Why do disabled people need ‘rights’? They’re disabled, aren’t they.’ Gobsmacked

@urbanhippie21 #HeardWhilstDisabled hubby, in a swanky Shoreditch bar – is there a disabled loo? Them – no. There’s no demand for one. Him – I’m demanding

@supermattachine #heardwhilstdisabled “Hahahaha it’s so funny when you freak out when I come up behind you”

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My mum’s got MS and uses a disability scooter, and in the queue for airport security a woman said “you shouldn’t complain, at least you’re sitting down!!”

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This one goes out to all the disabled trans folks who can’t present the way they want

To the trans feminine folks who can’t wear heels often or at all bc it hurts to walk for a long or any period of time, who don’t have the spoons to shave everyday esp in hard to reach places

To the trans masculine folks who can’t bind bc of the pain, who can’t pack bc it interferes with a colostomy bag, who can’t get the muscle mass you want to look more masculine bc exercise esp weight lifting exasperate symptoms

To all the trans folks who can’t get surgery bc it will create complications, who can’t take hormones for the same reasons, who can’t wear inexpensive makeup to frame your face the way you want bc of allergies

You are trans enough. Your gender is valid. You are not a failure. You are kickass as hell and deserve validation and respect

[kiriamaya]

♥ ♥ ♥

[brownroundboi]

[Description: a range of queer & trans black, indigenous, and/or people of color sit together in the sunlight. They range in gender, style, size, ability, & spirit.] from Chicago to Minneapolis, to Toronto to Jersey city! quick outdoor support & healing time with these ones! sunlight finally arrived and my, it was right. #amc2015 #qtpoc #qtbipoc #qpoc #femmesofcolor #gendernonconforming #sdqtpoc #qtpocsupremacy

[dynastylnoire]

GLORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRY

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Cripple Punk

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[queerswithdisabilities]

[Image description: a person with green hair cut short on the sides and long up top wearing an Alkaline Trio t shirt, black ripped skinny jeans, and Doc Martens. This person is in a wheelchair. First image pose: a "grr" expression with hands on the wheel rails as if they are about to move forward Second image pose: smiling with their chin on their hand leaning forward and to the side Third image: smiling sitting upright forming a v shape with their hands, wrists together, smiling and looking upward Fourth image: winking with their tongue sticking out, both middle fingers up at the camera]

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greg-walloch a gay and disabled stand up comic talks a bit about people with good intentions and “How to Receive”

CC isn’t available for the video unfortunately.

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Since there is a comment about CC not existing for the video, I went ahead and transcribed it. I know it’s not the same as CC, though. I apologize if I’ve made any spelling mistakes etc in the transcription. 

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Thanks

[queerswithdisabilities]

greg-walloch a gay and disabled stand up comic talks a bit about people with good intentions and "How to Receive"

CC isn't available for the video unfortunately.

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*rubs my gay trans disabled little hands all over your canon* does this upset you