#disabled people in stem

[evergreen-pumpkin]

A snapshot of one morning, on a relaxed day with mild weather. Now imagine this when it's crowded or when it's raining or snowing.

Video description: POV from the lap of a wheelchair user. Very shaky. OP is going downhill on a fall day. Lots of trees and fallen leaves around. There are construction trucks to the left in the very beginning. Every now and then, you can see a German Shepherd on the left. Second obstacle shows a food robot crossing the sidewalk to drive in front of OP, but it stops suddenly and OP crashes into it. OP continues down the hill until she reaches another food robot, which is obstacle 3. This robot sits in the middle of the sidewalk while OP navigates around it. Then OP comes to a concrete ramp with iron railings, which is obstacle 3.5. It is very steep. After the ramp, OP goes to cross the street, where a black SUV blows through the crosswalk. Obstacle 4 is a ramp with red brick. OP struggles to move up and pauses at one point before continuing again to obstacle 5, where there is a big concrete building and manual doors. The German Shepherd service dog goes up to push the accessibility button multiple times to no avail. A student comes and opens the door, OP enters through two sets of doors into a hallway. Clip change to obstacle 6, OP is wheeling down a hallway and approaches a white elevator with out of order signs.

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[mythicalcoolkid]

"Disabled people understand their disability better than those who don't have it" does not equal "every disabled person has a thorough and accurate knowledge of their condition and can consequently tell others this information flawlessly" and I genuinely can't believe that has to be said

[ironwoodcollective]

🌳 For any spoonies for whom trauma and/or abuse are a contributing factor in your physical disability or physical chronic illness, we see you and we love you.

[cruelsister-moved2]

that thread i rbed like ages ago about men's urge to disagree/object to/obstruct women for no reason has seriously reset my brain its so crazy but i think actually one of the rare things that actually might represent a way forward for how men engage with women. like there's always going to be the rightwing ardent misogynists who don't care that they're doing this but for all the men in the middle that do on some level want to be better it represents 1. fairly confronting evidence that your position in the patriarchy actually affects how you relate to women much more than you realise it does even if you think of yourself as self-aware and 2. a genuine example of something that makes us all suffer because the fact you niggle on every single issue like what flavour of ice cream to buy is unhealthy for relationships (of any kind) AND introduces unnecessary amount of background strain to your life for no real gain. maybe im being an idealist but i love the idea of a man experiencing a certain amount of horror upon recognition of this as a catalyst to other more meaningful recognitions and changes both in how he evaluates the competence of women but also in recognition of the subjectivity of he perceives things i.e i think one of the biggest barriers to confronting the housework gap is often that men don't SEE how much women are doing and also don't SEE things that need to be done, to the extent that ive seen men argue that the solution is just for women to not care about being surrounded by mess. anyway no conclusion but i cant stop thinking about that thread both super horrifyingand also kind of hopeful

[datastate]

always hurts when people casually drop how little they care abt disabled people idk why i'm still letting myself be surprised 😭

[venice-1987]

Call me radical, but I think marginalized men (trans men, men of color, disabled men, etc) should have language to describe how their identity as men and as marginalized people intersect. 

I say this because identification of oppression is the first step in combating it, and becoming educated about it. Having language better equips everyone to fight oppression.

A common argument I’ve heard against this is that its just validating the idea of misandry, but I have to disagree. Misandry is usually a term used to describe the oppression of cis, straight, white, able bodied, etc. men. However, this doesn’t exist. This hypothetical person is not oppressed, that we can agree on. But if we replace a word, say cis with trans, we suddenly get a person that is oppressed for being trans, that we can agree on, right? The oppression of one man does not mean that the other man is the same. Just like the language. We aren’t trying to argue that here.

Another argument I hear is that by men speaking on their own experiences, they are talking over women in the same group? but that’s not how speaking over people works. Speaking over someone is someone who is not marginalized, trying to explain the oppression of a specific marginalized group. For example, a cis person speaking on the experiences of trans people is speaking over them. If we take transandrophobia, its trans men speaking on the experiences of trans men. They are not outside their bounds, they are not trying to speak on experiences they don’t know (i.e. trans femmes). They are speaking on their own experiences, and that’s it. The existence and cries of one oppressed group is not silencing another oppressed group. That’s not how it works. If that was how it worked, then the world would only be able to have one human rights movement at a time. The only silencing that is going on here, is the silencing of marginalized men’s voices. 

We are not expendable. We are not privileged in the same way that white/cis/abled/straight/etc men are, and we should be able to speak on that without backlash. The idea that all men have the same power as privileged men has become pervasive in activist spaces. That’s not to say we don’t hold some privilege, or that misogyny within our communities is not an issue. We aren’t trying to say that, and we still do need to work to dismantle misogyny within our communities, within ourselves, and within the wider world. We are just trying to say that our liberation is unique to our experiences, and that we have a right to demand the justice that has not been given to us yet. 

[thebirdandhersong]

There's a lot that can be analysed in The Outlaws Scarlett & Browne about eugenics, actually

[moonshinemagpie]

I hate seeing this in job listings. I hate it so much. This is a job listing for an education curriculum developer requiring 2 years of experience. I have 7, but I can't walk on uneven ground or reliably lift 25 lb. It's true that when I email companies to tell them that they are essentially saying "disabled people need not apply," they often reword their future job listings. But this tells me that they weren't thinking about disabled people in the first place, or that if they were, then they really don't want them in the workplace. Either way, it doesn't promise to have an accommodating culture.

Saying on a warehouse job listing, for example, that you need to be reliably able to walk and lift heavy objects, makes sense. Saying that because of occasional public events involved in a mostly remote office-type job, you need to be physically abled, is ableist.

[ehlnofay]

still thinking about the upsetting npc I had the displeasure of meeting yesterday. fuck the shivering isles

[honey-stick]

every so often i realize how much racism has taken a toll on me mentally. i started reading the madame petit manga (no spoilers, im on ch 3) and the main love interest rn is an indian guy, and he's not drawn as disgusting, but as someone so handsome & desirable.

like! look at him!

he's so dreamy and hot! he looks just like me!

i just have so many feelings bubbling up. he's handsome and looks like me. i can really be seen as beautiful by others? i'm not disgusting for having brown skin? im desirable? my indian features are handsome? traditional clothing doesn't make me weird and ugly? white people have seen themselves as pretty and attractive and desirable all this time?

i've been missing this, i never knew i could be pretty & desired. i know there are many people who have told me im hot and have flirted with me. but it's different here. i havent fully realized im wanted & hot till seeing it reflected back at me.

[karmaphone]

hmm. that jokey post going around about an enemy missing ur vital organs & that being an insult to them bc of relative biomass and idk the wording is bothering me a little bc like. no single organ is Vital really. disabled ppl exist. lots of people don't have functioning intestines or pancreases. many people have one lung or kidney, or are on respirators or dialysis, people have pacemakers and artificial and pig hearts. I think all the time about that one woman who led a relatively 'normal' life until they discovered she just didn't have 70% of an adult human's brain mass and then she became another Scientist Test Subject

[stars-and-branches]

Another day another night spent wondering if I have undiagnosed autism

[kkujo]

I agree 100%. Along the same vein, there’s nothing wrong with calling someone “retarded”.

jaw drop

[unxpctedlygreat]

Modern AU where everyone lives and Lambert, Rodrigue and Matthias get Rufus out of his abusive relationship with Cornelia

[babylon5]

my hesitancy to use queer for myself stems from being a victim of a hate crime, mostly. but it also... like... yeah. i'm weird. i wear weird, mismatched clothing to make a statement. i talk weirdly and my interests are weird and i am weird. every part of me is weird.

except my gender and sexuality. i feel as if those are quite literally the only normal parts of me. my love for women is NATURAL and i don't feel comfortable being called a word that, for me, carries so much baggage and discomfort

[stairset]

I think “reclaiming” should be added to the list of words that Tumblr users should be banned from using until they learn to use it right