Cryptid Queen

A blog about whatever I feel like hi! you can use my blog name to refer to me for now my pronouns are she/her I'm disabled audhd and trans

[thecryptidqueen28]

Hey bitches (positive) this is a pinned post and might be out of date but I will try to keep it up to date.

pronouns she/her

hii I'm a transfem disabled lady. also have AuDHD

I'm a punk/cripplepunk and an anarchist.

I'm a bitch with a ton of special interests and hyperfixations that change all the time. so this Tumblr will be filled with whatever random shit I want.

a lot related to disability and my disabilities as well as my politics and all the stupid little things I like

I am no longer self diagnosed but that's valid. the diagnosis most often comes after the disability and especially if you're in a place without standardized healthcare (and even if you do have standardized healthcare) you have so many barriers to diagnosis

Also fuck off assholes. I'm not here to fight I'm here to be myself. if you believe capitalism is good or voted for trump you're automatically an asshole.

if you're a Zionist then you're worse. you're a piece of actual shit disguised as a human being.

[northern-punk-lad]

‘The biggest rollback of disability rights in a generation’ – Charities respond to Supreme Court ruling

The uk Supreme Court has just done a major rollback on disability rights and is putting more disabled people in danger

[roboticutie]

Under this new ruling, multiple vulnerable groups will be impacted across social care and healthcare sectors. If an autistic person with high support needs, someone with a serious mental illness, or a person with a severe learning disability is locked in a care setting and sedated, but does not actively protest, they will no longer be considered "confined" by the state. They will lose their automatic right to independent reviews, a legal advocate, and protection from closed care cultures.

This ruling states if someone is sedated and does not instigate a complaint regarding their circumstances while ACTIVELY SEDATED, then they have no right to legal checks and balances to preserve their wellbeing??? Is this correct??? The UK is falling apart.

[theconcealedweapon]

TW: Rape

A boy or young man raped someone. You don't want him to go to prison because it will ruin his life.

Even if you believe that the evilest of the evil people deserve a chance at redemption, and even if that belief were accepted as an undeniable fact, this is still a massive pile of bullshit.

When you say that you don't want him in prison, do you want no one in prison? Or do you want people to be in prison but just not him? If it's the former, then you need to be loud about your opposition to the prison system at all times. And you need to prioritize those who are much less deserving of prison than he is. There are people in prison for nonviolent actions like drug use. There are people in prison for stealing to survive. There are people in prison for defending themselves against rapists. There are people in prison for protesting against injustices. There are people in prison for resisting arrest and nothing else. Start with them. And if it's the latter, then you don't actually have any objection to ruining people's lives. You just want him to be the exception.

If you're arguing that otherwise good people can be manipulated by propaganda into doing evil things, then you need to destroy that propaganda. And what exactly are you doing to destroy that propaganda?

If you're worried about him being unable to financially support himself in the future because no one wants to hire him, does it bother you when anyone struggles financially? Or just him? Where's your outrage in response to everyone else who's discriminated against in hiring? Where's your angry protest demanding that everyone have a basic standard of living provided to them?

And if you're arguing that eternal punishment is not the solution, he still needs to be afraid. Where's your proposal of what should be done to people like him instead of prison that would make others afraid to come close to doing what he did? Or do you not have one?

What's actually happening is that you don't even think he did anything wrong. You think that what he did is something that women should just accept as a fact of life.

[socialmaya]

Occasionally forget people genuinely think capitalism is thousands of years old

[sylestial]

One time I was talking about Robin Hood with some coworkers and one guy was like “he was bad because the people he helped learned to expect handouts” and I wanted to be like… okay can you explain how that flawed capitalist propaganda applies to feudalism

[scallioncreamcheesebagel]

reminder that capitalism was literally invented in the 16th century

[tayefeth]

That’s an exaggeration. What was invented in the 16th century was mercantilism. Capitalism really dates for the beginning of the nineteenth century, with the rise of industry and cash crops over artisans and merchants. Vulture capitalism, with the notion that companies have no duties other than generating profit, is even younger.

[antique-scarecrow]

Capitalism is only 200 years old and I have to say, they have not been an impressive 200 years

[downtroddendeity]

I think a lot of this comes from the fact that most people don’t know the formal definition of capitalism. We all know the word, we’ve all seen the jokes, but very few people bother to actually define it unless they’re talking about political theory and philosophy, so it’s easy to end up with the impression that Capitalism = Money Can Be Exchanged For Goods And Services.

Capitalism is the economic system where most of the means of production (i.e. everything people need to have to make the stuff that everyone wants) are owned by private individuals or corporations, who then hire people to provide the labor necessary to produce things, with the intent of selling the output at a profit. It’s the difference between “you’re a carpenter and you make a chair and you sell it” and “you’re Richard Q. Richington who owns a chair factory, and you pay people to sell the chairs you paid other people to make and then all the excess money goes back to you.” There have been Richard Q. Richingtons on and off throughout history, but that being the norm for every single industry is a pretty recent development.

[antiterfbutch]

An alarming amount of people seem to think capitalism = all trade, and I don’t think that’s a coincidence.

[homunculus-argument]

You ever think about how old people have no idea what “survivor bias” is, and take full credit for being excellent out of things where they lucked out?

“Back in my day we didn’t have any of these childhood protective things, we were smart enough not to do stupid shit on our own!” Except your little neighbour, who got the funniest idea at the age of seven, and got his skull pierced when he slipped?

“Back in my day nobody got divorced, we stuck together and fixed our problems!” What about your cousin, who was slowly killed by her husband because she had nowhere to escape him?

“Back in my day nobody had ‘mental problems’, we didn’t whine, we just toughed it out and endured life!” Hey remember that guy you used to work with, who seemed really friendly and normal, and then suddenly hanged himself ‘for no reason’?

“Back in my day we didn’t have any of this ‘gay’ or ‘transgender’ thing.” You did, but your family cut all ties with her before you were born.

 You kinda start seeing it in everything they think, if you start looking for it.

[thegrimzuera]

“When we were kids nobody whined about car seats or bike helmets. We didn’t use them, and we all survived!”

Yeah, except for the ones who didn’t.

[sparklingbog]

You need to respect the intellectually disabled and delayed I'm not fucking asking

[theconcealedweapon]

My path to becoming a social justice warrior consisted of many steps of "notice something is unjust, look for allies, realize that other things are unjust too".

When I started college, I didn't know much about politics. And I treated most forms of oppression the way the school system wanted me to, which is to assume that it's a thing of the past and to just be happy that it's not happening now.

Because I didn't know enough about what issues existed, the drinking age is what I cared about the most.

In an attempt to find allies, I joined Students for Sensible Drug Policy. I then realized that if I'm going to argue that it's an injustice to deny someone the right to choose what to put in their own body, I should argue that about all drugs, not just alcohol and including drugs that I have no plans on using, especially since other drugs are punished much more harshly.

Then, since SSDP were allies with the feminist clubs, I was also exposed to feminist issues, and I realized that sexism was far from a thing of the past.

After I graduated, I still wanted to be involved in social justice, so I started my Tumblr blog. Then, I learned how to be an actually good ally to oppressed people instead of a Dunning Kruger ally who thinks they know everything there is to know right off the bat.

[fairycosmos]

i really wish we could all just stop this weird facade that mental health is taken seriously just because there might be more conversation about depression than there was 20 years ago. as soon as you’re unable to work or maintain relationships or mask effectively enough you might as well be a joke. even to people who say they understand it

[differentlylimbed]

really don't enjoy the genre of post that's like "it's hard to accept that being physically disabled just inherently means never being able to do any of the activities you want to do or achieve any of your dreams and spending your entire life suffering. but that's how it is and that's okay 💕" like have you guys considered the possibility you are depressed

[differentlylimbed]

more thoughts on this... i've noticed these posts are often made by people newly struggling with chronic pain conditions and are often also struggling with the diagnostic process. and like i get it. pain makes you angry and bitter and terrified and makes everything feel like it'll last forever. and if doctors are telling you they can't find the answer or there's nothing wrong with you it can be easy to feel like this is your new reality. maybe posts like that provide some sense of control or comfort. but in saying this is just the inherent experience of being disabled you are 1. excluding a huge part of your community whose disabilities are a different way of experiencing the world and do not involve chronic pain (blindness, d/Deafness, limb difference), 2. telling those who've lived with high needs or chronic pain their entire lives, and in that time have learnt to live around it, that they're doomed to a life of misery, and 3. enforcing a horrible narrative upon others with a similar experience of new chronic pain and diagnostic frustration - that it doesn't get better, that their symptoms will always run their life and that they'd be better off just accepting that. if you're frustrated and want to vent then do your thing, but calling it "positivity" is so so harmful. people with all manner of disabilities lead fulfilling lives and achieve what they want to achieve. if you don't feel like that's possible for you then that's not "okay 💕". fucking fight for it

[wutheringheightsfilm]

every day it just concerns me how little compassion people have. no compassion for those living in the global south. no compassion for immigrants. no compassion for disabled ppl. no compassion for addicts. no compassion for prisoners. no compassion for children. like holy shit ...

[wutheringheightsfilm]

i made a separate post about this but actually there are plenty of people cough white people who care about animals more than they ever do human people . not what i'm talking about make your own post

[not-a-jackalope]

the fucking irony though? if we be a bit more normal about this tag and extend some compassion to the person who made it, we may consider that they had a “yes and” thought process when making the tag, such as:

i agree with this!! i see this and it pains me too! i also think this sentiment extends to animals!

how does jumping immediately to anger and making an accusation that “well actually white people care about animals more than people, so stay off my post” bring humanity closer to achieving compassion? there is nothing more infuriating than being lectured by someone who does not practice what they preach.

[wutheringheightsfilm]

because every single time me or someone else tries to talk about the fact that there is not enough compassion for people who aren't cishet white and rich and from the global north it gets "and what about animals" "but what about animals" "animals too" . it's endlessly frustrating because as a latin american there are hundreds and hundreds of people out there who would rather see my people shot and dead but are like "oh but what about the poor animals :( what about animals :(" . why when i say no one has any compassion for those in the global south does everyone jump to "wow animals too!" what about this conversation requires animals to be brought into it

but of course no i don't practice what i preach and i'm just a big meanie right :( i hurt white peoples feelings and i'm not compassionate towards them so i'm not helping humanity :(

[vilethot]

Something that always revolves in my mind was a segment on the “we rate dogs” podcast where the host spoke about how there was a man from Gaza who had a dog and there was an organization who got in touch with him and created all these ways to get that dog out of Gaza safe and sound but never extended it towards him. I think about the fact that people would save a homeless persons dog rather than homeless person. I think about the fact that people have more compassion for a wild animal compared to a black and brown body. I think about the fact that we’ve seen people ready and willing and leaping to an animals gofundme but have get wary with a human beings. In naming HUMAN BEINGS I see no reason to name an animal you’re moving the goalpost and moving it away from the fact that my people are deemed LESS than a fucking animal so no I’m not going to extend that compassion.

[snow-nose]

ID: the screenshotted tag says, in all caps, "no compassion for animals" end ID

[angelnumber27]

I’m 100% the type of person who will always compliment you if I have something nice to say bc I understand how powerful a few kind words can be for somebody who’s having a hard time and bc there’s literally no reason not to. I have horrible anxiety but I push through it and go up to strangers all the time bc I know I’d want to hear something kind someone had to say to me

[anarchblr]

in case y'all ain't seen this yet, it has resources on:

Prison Abolition

Police Abolition

Abolitionist Toolkits

Abolition and Coronavirus

Origin Stories

Criminalizing Blackness

Sexual Violence and Anti-Carceral Feminism

Restorative and Transformative Justice

Disability Justice

The Perils of Reform

Prison Organizing, Past and Present

Private Prisons and Prison Labor

Mutual Aid and/as Abolition

Child Welfare and Family Regulation

The Nonprofit Industrial Complex

Climate (In)Justice and Prisons

Crimmigration

LGBTQ Criminalization

Christianity and Prison Abolition

Abolition for Parents and Young People

Abolition, Surveillance, and “(Counter)Terrorism”

Should Killer Cops Go To Prison?

Abolition and Gun Violence/Control

“Sex Offenses” and Civil Commitment

Sex Work Decriminalization

Hate Crimes and White Supremacist Violence

Abolition and Universities

🏴ACAB WORLDWIDE BABEY🏴

Prison Abolition Resource Guide

This guide contains resources on the abolition of policing, prisons, and punishment. You can find another resource hub, created by Mariame K

[flowercrowncrip]

The one thing I can articulate is that no amount of being disabled can prevent you from being ableist. Especially towards people with different impairment types or more severe disability.

[thecimmerissystem]

abled people need to get comfortable with disabled people not having the energy to "dress up"

the amount of backhanded comments I'd heard from my irl friends about how they really like the times where I wear things other than sweatpants and hoodies and I should really work on creating my own style is insane

there are some days where I have enough energy to wear the things I want to wear, but those are rare. they need to get used to that.

[penny-anna]

endlessly frustrating that whenever anyone is like 'i wish i could complain about X without people trying to give me unsolicited advice' swarms of people are always like 'clearly you have not heard *my* unsolicited advice!' and it's always like yes I have. Didn't help.

[penny-anna]

Bringing this back to say if you see a post where someone is explicitly like 'i am just venting and not seeking advice' and you respond 'i know you don't want advice but-' I am blasting you with my orbital laser.

[depsidase]

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

"Clearly I wasn't talking about disabled people-" yeah part of the problem is that the existence of disabled people just isn't considered in your worldview like that's the problem we're criticizing not a get out of jail free card

[la-vie-en-lys]

No, that's not the problem. Not everything is relevant to disabled people, nor does it have to be.

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Disabled people are the world's biggest minority group and a part of every other marginalized community. Thinking that you can do progressive activism without ever engaging with the subject of disability is in fact a problem