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These unbelievable vintage postcards from the early 1900s were used as propaganda by men to stop women from having more rights. Although The Suffragettes campaigned tirelessly to change the status quo of the day, many men found the idea of women’s rights not only disagreeable but even downright dangerous.

Because of this, propaganda postcards like the ones below were produced. They come from the archive of Catherine H. Palczewski, a professor of women’s and gender studies at the University of Northern Iowa who’s been collecting them for the last 15 years. The postcards portrayed the idea of change as something to be feared, not embraced, and they promoted women’s rights as an attack against family values as well as an infringement upon man’s place in society. (Source)

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saying “you are a burden on society” is just such a weird framing of priorities It’s like saying “wow, think how much better gas mileage your car would get if you weren’t sitting in it” or “think how dry that umbrella would be if you weren’t holding it in between you and the rainstorm”. the things we create? they’re for us. they are meant to carry us. they are meant to protect us. we are meant to hold them up to keep us dry. 

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When I just wish I could sleep through the pain

[Gif of Justin Long sitting on the edge of a bed and crying.]

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One of the most frustrating things is that nobody teaches you how to be disabled.

Everybody teaches you how to try to get better, how to blend in, how to be as normal as possible and “lead a fulfilling life.”

But nobody says the important shit.

There is no “Hey, fuck, you’re in a wheelchair and that just sucks balls, but you know what? You gotta fucking do it so here’s some things to make life easier.”

Or “Here’s your new cane! Congrats! Here’s how you use it. Stairs might fuck you up at first but let me show you how to make it easier.”

Or “Hey, you’re autistic, that’s cool. Let me know how I can help as your friend/family. I care.”

No one teaches you, actually TEACHES you about how to deal with daily life moving forward. Once you’re disabled, once people know or once you’re injured or sick or diagnosed or whatever, it’s all about pushing to get out of the chair, to stop using the cane, to blend in. There is no help to accept your disability and move on with life WORKING WITH IT. It’s always a push to work against it in every way possible and that makes it even more exhausting.

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Does it ever occur to you out of the blue how bad your condition has gotten? Like you’re just sipping coffee thinking about turtles and then you realize that just a couple years ago you could do so many more things. You realize that you’ve acclimated so well to this life that you can’t even imagine how it was before.

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PSA

There is a really, shitty hoax going around now that if you email Nintendo proof of your disability they will unlock “secret” disabled permissions for Pokemon Go. 

Please stop sharing this rumor and shut it down when you are able to.  And if you have reblogged this rumor, please take the time to reblog a correction.

It’s an extremely mean-spirited response to disabled people’s disappointment that they can’t play the game due to mobility (and other) issues.

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Trying to keep up with my healthy friends like

[Gif of someone in a t-rex suit running down the street after a car painted like the Jurassic Park cars.]

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Disabled skill #56

Being able to hold your bladder through almost anything until you can make it home to use your own bathroom.

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As David Cameron steps down, it’s time to celebrate his legacy.  Photo by #WheelchairAccessible

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Man same for in the wheelchair. People will literally not even pay attention to me in the slightest. I’ve had people practically sit on my lap before because they weren’t paying attention and fell into my chair, people cut me off, people run into me… it’s so fucking annoying.

I thought maybe it was because I’m sitting and low to the ground but in a walker you’re standing so it’s just that people don’t give a fuck about us :)

When I’m out in public with my walker, I try to keep out of the way as much as possible. I keep to the side of the walk way, if I have to stop I move as far to the side as I can get, and I try to stay hyper-aware of the people around me.

But abled people do none of this. I’ll have to stop becaus an abled person didn’t notice me until they’re nearly walking into my walker. They cut in front of me and I nearly hit them. They stop in the middle of the walkway. One woman was headed for the disabled toilet until she saw I was heading for it, then she went to one of the many open abled toilets.

Us disabled folks do the most we can to keep out of the way, but abled people don’t give us half that consideration.

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Shout out to the disabled Pokémon fans who don't have access to Go

Shout out to the fans in wheelchairs who can’t get the Pokémon in inaccessible areas

Shout out to the fans who can’t walk more than a block to get a Pokémon right down the street

Shout out to the fans who are homebound the vast majority of the time and can only get Pokémon a couple times a month

Shout out to the fans who can’t drive themselves and can’t just ask their carers to drive them around random places for a silly game

Shout out to the fans who can’t drive themselves and can’t keep up with processing the interactive environment on loud, noisy, smelly, shaky public transportation without getting sensory overload

Shout out to all the disabled Pokémon fans who are really tired of hearing everyone all over social media talk about how great the game is and how great they’re doing. Your feelings are valid and you don’t need to feel guilty about them. You deserve access to all the Pokémon content out there as much as any abled fan, and it’s not fair that you don’t have it.

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being chronically ill is so fucking hard. it’s so hard to fight my own body. it’s so hard to wake up and want to have a good day but not be able to. it’s so hard to feel like I’m wasting so many days laying in bed trying to heal. it’s so hard not knowing when this pain will end. it’s so hard to take medicine to feel better but then get sick from the side effects. it’s so hard to feel guilty all the time about how my illness affects the people I love. it’s so hard waiting to have my life back. it’s so hard not knowing if it’ll ever happen.

to anyone else in this battle: I see you. I hear you. you are such a warrior.

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if i had a dollar for every time an abled person gave me unwanted and uneducated medical advice I still wouldn’t have enough money to pay off my medical debt

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13 Reasons Why "You Don't Look Sick/Disabled!" Is Not A Compliment

I am ill and I am disabled, and this is what I look like.

What do you THINK disabled or ill people look like?

It makes it sound like you think disabled people “should” look a bit gross or a bit wierd.

It makes it sound like I have to prove my illness to you.

It creates a hierarchy of what one ableist acquaintence called, “Like, you know. Disabled-disabled and normal people disabled. Like, you’re disabled but you’re also normal. You’re disabled but you’re also not really disabled because you’re also like us.” That is not okay.

It makes it sound like if I did “look disabled” then you’d either think less of me or you’d believe me more.

For the same reasons you shouldn’t say to someone, “You don’t look Jewish!”

For the same reasons you shouldn’t say to someone, “You don’t sound black!”

It often sets the conversation up in a way where you are the judge and you can either validate or invalidate my disability and how much it affects me.

Neither my illnesses nor my disabilities are totally invisible if you took the time to learn about them and decided to pay attention.

It makes you sound untrustworthy. It makes me think you’re going to be the kind of person that will jump to conclusions about my health if I don’t look or act in certain stereotypical ways. Can I laugh and have a good time around you without you implying I’m cured or dismissing my conditions? (Because it really sucks when you do that.)

It feels really dismissive and discouraging.

It is dehumanizing. 15% of the world’s population is disabled. We come in more shapes and sizes than able-bodied people do. Whatever a disabled or ill person looks like, that is what disabled and ill people look like regardless of your preconceptions.