#jessica kellgren fozard

[phoenixyfriend]

Every time one of my favorite vintage and/or costume historian YouTubers does a collab with American Duchess I am SO tempted...

(Karolina Zebrowska, Bernadette Banner, and now Jessica Kellgren-Fozard? If only these shoes were on sale more often...)

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Why I use the word "Disablism" in some contexts

Like most Americans, I used to assume that "Ableism" and "Disablism" were perfect synonyms, and that one was just the American version, and one was the UK version (like the different ways we pronounce "herb").

But in this video (premiered 16 November, 2022), Disability-and-Queer Lifestyle YouTuber Jessica Kellgren-Fozard distinguished between the two this way (quotes taken from the closed captions transcript):

"Ableist assumptions are . . . often unconscious, or at least not ill-intentioned, and most likely come from a place of thoughtlessness or negligence."

But

"[Disablism] . . . encompasses a much uglier kind of discrimination – one that stems from the belief that disabled people are truly inferior to others."

After that distinction was clear to me, I realized that when I, and other Americans, have made the claim: "Ableism is the Root of all Bigotry" (As I did with this graphic and post I made back in 2017), what we're really talking about is Disablism, because the whole point of bigotry is enforcing the belief that some people are "truly inferior" to others, on the basis of presumed disability.

And I think the distinction is important, not because the harms caused by negligence and thoughtlessness are any less severe, but they require different tactics than that of deliberate hostility to combat them.

So I made a new graphic:

(Also, in my previous graphic, I depicted bigotry flowing upward from the bedrock to the canopy, where in actuality, various bigotries are enforced from the top down, to benefit those at the top of the social and economic hierarchies)

[deanwasalwaysbi]

Queer baiting originally referred to essentially catfishing entrapment to 'catch' gay people and prosecute them as criminals. In the modern era we've been using it to refer to a marketing tactic of teasing queer relationships or characters that are never actually portrayed.

What it does NOT refer to, is the free expression of real life individuals who do not owe anyone a public announcement of their sexual orientation or gender identity nor conformity with compulsory heterosexuality.

Remember - The number one rule to never drag irl people out of the closet. But beyond that, by claiming that real people are capable of 'queerbaiting', or that 'straight' people are 'not allowed' to do anything but conform, we would also be demanding that people never experiment with their clothing, never experiment with their sexuality, and never work out or evolve how they identify.

Don't force people to stay in the closet in the name of gay rights.

[twinkdrama]

i know that sounds like im flirting with you but thats because i am

[usernamesarehard1]

JK Rowling is at it again

[05lynh-priv]

okay this is about yesterday but to be fair, it was really late when i got home last night.

so uh... ya know that i’m in 12th grade? and i take fucking korean csats in like 9 months?

yeah my brain seems to have not registered that clearly cause i absolutely wasted yesterday afternoon.

i started off by watching 4 faline san videos cause for some reason, i remembered that i love their channel and that they’re hella funny.

proceeded to watch 3 videos on adhd and click off on the 4th video because i wanted to see what reddit had to say about adhd symptoms and stuff.

got bored again, came back to youtube, saw jessica on my recommended and watched 3 and a half videos of jessica and claudia being cute and motherly together,

felt like i wanted to watch something sPiCY and went back to faline and watched their crush video, a bit of their baking gingerbread cookies video,

watched a wlw tiktok complation for about 7 minutes till i got kinda bored,

moved on to a hour long video essay ‘why queer tv is getting worse’

and there were also some kpop and sign language shorts mixed up here and there too.

oh i love my brain/s

[transgendz]

The disabled community should ratio her for this. Her follower should drop massively. The royal family declared their disabled cousins dead and didn't visit them literally ever again after insituatuonalizing them. Do a history video on that.

[gaasubap]

My Youtube playlist Disability and (Dis)Ableism (systems, vocabulary, voices) I'm still not fully happy with it. It's still cluttered at the end and there's some longer videos I still need to rewatch. But it's the last day of Disability Pride month! I'm not gonna let perfection come before progress!

[sab-cat]

Coming out… again

Jessica Kellgren-Fozard talks about, recently, being diagnosed with ADHD.

Something I learned, apparently hyper mobility and ADHD are a pretty common pairing.

[mywitchcultblr]

37. Do you have any LGBT+ idols? :3

A lot of them! Let me just make a MOODBOARD of it at this point lol 🤣 okay so i see Idols as someone that I look up to and they don't have to be mega celebrity from Holywood

[unwhitewashthebadbatch]

The Disability SuperPower Trope!

by Jessica Kellgren-Fozard

[theonefairygodmother]

God, it's me again...

[missmitchieg]

So... Does getting a mobility aid mean you’ve ‘given up’?

The answer is no.