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⭐️ Please leave any questions you have relating to disability or intersex topic in my ask box! ⭐️

I want to make some TikToks about intersex topics and disability topics but I need some starter questions! 🤍 You can ask educational questions (even ones you think may be insensitive, I don’t mind), but you can also ask about my personal opinion or personal experiences relating to my intersex & disabled identity.

Even if you don’t personally have a question that you want answered, leaving prompts is still helpful! :) I’ll be posting those videos on here as well.

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Even though no one is talking about it, disabled people will be the group that sufferers tremendously (if not the most) compared to other marginalized groups due to this US election outcome.

If Trump repeals the ACA, insurance won’t cover our medical treatments, aids, or procedures. It’s likely that SSDI (many people’s only source of income) will be taken away, other benefits will have a work requirement that is impossible for most disabled people to meet, educational protections will be removed for disabled students, prices of medication (that we need to live) will go up, the list goes on.

Many of us will die, become extremely ill, and/or become homeless due to even just the repeal of the ACA and removal of some SS/SSDI (many people’s only form of income). It’s uncertain what exactly is going to happen and when, but disabled Americans are going to suffer. Please be aware of what’s happening to us these next 4 years, try to advocate as much as you can, and support your disabled and chronically ill community members (since the federal government obviously will not).

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bad guy: *lowering me into a pit of piranhas*

me: just so you know that pool is not big enough for them at all and they also don't have any foliage to hide within in order to feel safe and by the way you obviously haven't been feeding them enough if they're ready to rend the flesh from my bone, the water looks scummy, and your pulley system looks extremely unsafe and none of your goons are wearing PPE despite the jagged spikes and open leaky pipes and-

bad guy: *frantically lowering the crank faster* please just die

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Please stop saying “TERF” when you just mean a generally transphobic person. It meant a specific thing and it’s now becoming a completely unhelpful term at this point because people cannot stop misusing it.

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I’m planning on making some videos/posts addressing ableist rhetoric that most able-bodied people may not recognize immediately as ableism.

Helen Keller denialism is a big one I’ll be covering, but I’m also interested in covering rhetorical sayings that may not be always wrong in all contexts but often lack nuance and are used mainly by ableists (such as “you are responsible for your triggers”) and extremely nuanced discussions that are simplified to push ableism (such as “disabled people shouldn’t pass their painful disability on to their children”).

My question to you is: what ableist rhetoric would you like to see more people educated on? This can be topics, concepts, or common sayings. 

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ARTFIGHT FOSSILS VS CRYSTALS

Dividers, Banners and such! Credit me and you are free to use! ;) I am Neska-was-taken on Artfight! Happy fighting!

FOSSILS DIVIDER

CRYSTAL DIVIDER

FOSSILS BANNERS

CRYSTALS BANNER

FOSSILS & CRYSTALS BANNERS SMOL

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If you have disabled characters and are participating in ArtFight this year, show them to me!

Reblog with pictures of them and/or link them. Either team is fine! :)

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Poll for LGBTQ folks:

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Same with "This character is intersex because they are a fusion of two separate people"

"This character is intersex because they're a shapeshifter" gives the same vibe as "this character is asexual because they're a robot"

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“A pop can tab opener? Who needs that?”

It’s not for you.

“Why would anyone get a hairdryer holder, just use your hands to hold it.”

It’s not for you.

“Portable collapsible stools are proof of how lazy this generation is getting.”

It’s not for you.

“A chord assist for a guitar? Why don’t people just use their fingers like everyone else?”

IT’S NOT FOR YOU.

Fun fact! Not everything is about or for you!

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The way that we learn about Helen Keller in school is an absolute outrage. We read “The Miracle Worker”- the miracle worker referring to her teacher; she’s not even the title character in her own story. The narrative about disabled people that we are comfortable with follows this format- “overcoming” disability. Disabled people as children. Helen Keller as an adult, though? She was a radical socialist, a fierce disability advocate, and a suffragette. There’s no reason she should not be considered a feminist icon, btw, and the fact that she isn’t is pure ableism- while other white feminists of that time were blatent racists, she was speaking out against Woodrew Wilson because of his vehement racism. She supported woman’s suffrage and birth control. She was an anti-war speaker. She was an initial donor to the NAACP. She spoke out about the causes of blindness- often disease caused by poverty and poor working conditions. She was so brave and outspoken that the FBI had a file on her because of all the trouble she caused.

Yet when we talk about her, it’s either the boring, inspiration porn story of her as a child and her heroic teacher, or as the punchline of ableist, misogynistic jokes. It’s not just offensive, it’s downright disgusting.

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I wish an extra happy pride month to intersex people who are often forgotten in LGBTQ spaces 💛

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It's so incredibly frustrating to see someone post online about being class conscious and in support of queer, trans, disabled, and poc acceptance when you know them in real life and they are actually incredibly bigoted.

It's worse when you've had to face more of their bigotry than anyone else while growing up only to see them cosplaying as marginalized groups for attention online (and frequently asking for money based on their "marginalization" despite having an income and a well-off family who pays for a lot), all while continuing to be hateful and bigoted in real life.

Their bigotry may still come through online, such as the person who inspired this post. Since I've distanced myself from them and their abuse a long time ago now, they've regularly posted about me and how they hope I die in horrible ways, slandered my business, misgendered me, and more.

If you're following someone, I'm not saying you should openly doubt their identity or beliefs without reason, but if they are constantly bashing specific marginalized people, you may want to be aware of what rhetoric they are actually sharing when talking about social issues and politics.

The person who inspired this post frequently spreads small bits of misinformation and lets their bigotry show in very subtle ways, and that can unfortunately shift your perspective on certain topics and identities over time. It's so frustrating when I see their posts being shared (sometimes even by my mutuals) when there are actual marginalized people who come from a place of real experience and do not share misinformation. Their voices are not being heard in favor of someone who is actually against them and their well-being.

Like I said, I don't think you should be openly posting about doubting someone's identity or anything, but be aware of what you're gleaning from posts that may be sharing verifiable misinformation or asking for money, even if that person is claiming to be progressive or marginalized themselves. Your mind is both consciously and subconsciously changed by what you read online, so just be careful out there. Make sure to verify information through reputable sources!

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Recently I realized how easy it was to worship God. Prayer isn't always a woman in her knees, arms lifted into the sky and crying out her love. It can be that, yes, but it doesn't have to be that. Going hiking. A parent kissing their child. Staring at the ocean. A hug from a friend. Watching lighting strike during a thunderstorm. Baking bread. God makes miracles, yes, but you can also find Them just as often in the mundane.