#black disabled people

[afriblaq]

Black history facts - Kenneth Brown

[gryficowa]

I love how black women talk about "white feminism" and as an example of these people choose neurodivergent people

Congratulations, you choose less privileged from yourself, i.e. people with disabilities, it does not destroy all your argument when you attack people less privileged from each other to "dominate"

"But this person has achieved something", neurodivegent people achieve less than black people, that is, according to your logic, black people are privileged and should not say anything about discrimination, because they have successes more often than people from ASD, Bordeline, ADHD, etc.…

Many neurodivegent people cannot work or do not get a job by prejudice (people with ASD are a frequent case of such people)

Many people neurodivegent live on benefits and are a margin of society

So you can stop promoting ableys under the pretext of fighting "white feminism"? Because you say "people with disabilities do not have so bad and their problems are not important," neurodivegent people have to put more effort than you, they have to deal with problems that you will never experience and believe me, even your black experiences will not prepare you for it

You do not know what it is like to have sensitive senses, how to struggle with the excess of stimuli, how your social battery works shorter than others, and then hear that you "exaggerate" or how others underestimate your progress, because they are "insufficient" for them and you always do "too little in their eyes"

Every time I see a video/post about "white feminism", he must give one or several people who are neurodivegent and it is literally promoting disgusting discrimination under the guise of "fighting racism", fuck out with ableism

If you think that no one will notice what you do because you choose people with invisible disability, you are wrong, you are a disgusting person how you use a person who is more vulnerable than you and have a more difficult life than your privileged able-bodied ass

We have to stop allowing ableism under the mask "Black Right" because it is sick that nobody sees this problem in it

This is not a struggle for the laws of black, it is an opportunity to feel "power" over the weaker

I am fed up with seeing people who "fight for black rights and criticize white feminism" choose people with invisible disability as their argument

[junkiepunkie]

okay can we all agree that everyone finds Remus so so SO hot…. And then he speaks and only Sirius continues to care. Cause like, Remus is intelligent as fuck, charmingly witty at all times, and a great friend, but he is also a teenager in constant pain and with mood swings that would be studied by muggles as certifiably bonkers (not like any mood swings you’re thinking of. MUCH worse)

[punkeropercyjackson]

'Percy Jackson dosen't have the vibe he'd listen to Mcr,that seems more like a Nico di Angelo and Hazel Levesque thing'1.You're only saying that because you've literally only listened to Welcome To The Black Parade so you think of Mcr as The Emo Band™️,2.Mcr isn't emo and The Black Parade was their death rock era,3.Nico and Hazel aren't emo either,they're goths,4.Percy isn't grunge,5.Mcr is punk and 5.Percy Jackson is literally New York flavored Gerard Way and whenever he's drawn like a white boy he looks like Mike Milligram without the hair dye please just fucking use google

[queerasfact]

Today is International Day of People with Disability!

This is Audre Lorde - Audre was legally blind and described herself as “crazy and queer”. She focussed her activism on fighting for women who, like her, were excluded from mainstream feminism, whether because of class, race, sexuality, or disability.

Celebrate today by learning more about Audre with our podcast.

[accidental-apocalypse]

Psst. Hey. Hey, Arcane fandom. I just want to reassure you that you're allowed to write Jayce taking care of Viktor. Don't listen to people who say there's only one way you should interact with / write disabled people.

You're allowed to write Viktor pushing himself too far and having a flare-up. You're allowed to write Viktor enjoying Jayce picking him up or being protective. You're allowed to write him getting pissed off about that or about being treated differently, >and< you're allowed to write both of these scenarios in the same fic — because, in case we forgot, humans are fickle and unique and will react to the same action in different ways sometimes.

And to my fellow disabled folks, however you want to be treated is valid and should be respected.

If you want to be treated no differently than able-bodied people, that's valid and doesn't make you any less part of the disabled community. If you want to be taken care of and enjoy someone being considerate of your disability, that is valid and doesn't make you any less strong. And if you're somewhere in between or if your preferences change, guess what? Also valid!

Humans are complicated and unique and I love caring, overprotective Jayce fics, so you lovely writers better continued writing them!

[kismetconstellations]

@sockdooe, This is the full original image:

According to the Tumblr post I originally snagged it from, it's an early piece of promotional artwork, meant to depict Keith as the series's central character. Shiro is shoved into the background, presumably to illustrate that he was intended to fulfill a Doomed Mentor role.

[gryficowa]

So yes, black people who got pissed about this post only proved that their ableism is strong

No sorry, but if the story of what is able-bodied (like you) do nothing for years because "to you it is not as bad as what happened to black people" you are disgusting, we experienced a worse shit than you and your able-bodied privilege

You use people with disabilities and promote ableism, just because you are a black full-bodied ignorant

Don't you care about the rights of white people with disabilities? I have a lot of doubt that you also care about people with other complexions and their rights, because you already consider to be privileged at the whites, you do not care all people with disabilities (black, Asians, Latinos, LGBT+…), because you do not recognize our rights

Because shocking, ableism does not look at complexion and being LGBT+, looks at your disability, because yes, ableism, compared to other discrimination, has no division into discrimination "into a larger, medium and less disability", because of how different disability is different, there are no specific lists (there are things that combine like insults), but that's it

For example, a person in the autism spectrum will experience discrimination at other levels other than a person in a wheelchair or a blind person, but he will still experience ableism

People with invisible disability (related to the position of the brain) still experience discrimination against people's approach to their behavior (meltdowny or hyperactivity), because ableism consists of full-bodied privilege (which you use to sell the problem of an ableism)

"White feminism" used to antagonize people with disabilities and ignore their discrimination is a subconsciousboards, because there is a difference between the criticism of "white feminism" and the literal selection of people with disabilities to promote Ableism

Chappel Noan has a affective affective disease type two and the fact of how much is used in video about "white feminism" and even "attacked" by Democratic voters (because what if they have been actively supported by the Holocaust of Palestinians for a year? It can be ignored because they are not a Trump!) is disgusting

Name all anti-black but we will call you anti-disabled and pro-Holokust

[crippled-peeper]

“no American has experienced the true ramifications of climate change yet” and you go to their bio and they were born after 2005 . yep that makes sense

[pinkeoni]

So I’m gonna say something crazy… but have you ever considered that maybe, just maybe… and hear me out… the core four group in the show about “outcasts and wierdos” ISN’T supposed to have a straight-white-able-bodied-all-american male that people from that group can easily project on to? That maybe the straight-white-male audience might have to contend with the fact that they find relatability in characters who are black, disabled, or gay? That MAYBE there isn’t supposed to be this pov character that easily fits into these conventions that they’ve been so used to seeing in popular media but that’s also kind of the point?

[hippiedippieblondie]

Is It Time To Leave The US?

For many, leaving now may be the only way to stay safe. Please share this video with anyone considering leaving the US. I found it helpful and I’m sure others will too

[brw]

When you refer to Tyrone as having a learning disability, what specifically are you referring to? I remember at one point it's said he's struggling academically and doesn't "get" certain subjects the way she does, and I think there was at one point a scene in Power Pack where he's having trouble reading and, uh, the youngest Power kid has to help him (though I tried to find that scene later and couldn't, so I may be misremembering or misremembering the book). I fell off reading C & D somewhere in the first few issues of Mutant Misadventures, so there might be more stuff I'm missing.

To be honest though, the way this was written and presented always felt pretty racist to me, because it was /always/ in comparison to a white character and there were /never/ any other Black characters.

Well, his teacher says he has a disability, and specifically says it makes academic achivement difficult. She could easily just be talking about his stutter and does say he's succeeding alright at classes, but her specific description of it making academic achievement difficult does make me think it's more than that.

Later on, Ty is shown as struggling in classes, specifically seeming to struggle with maths and seems to think of himself as stupid and slow, and he ends up lashing out at Tandy because of his frustration with not being as smart as her.

There's less in the modern age but I'll also mention this moment in a dream sequence where the thing that makes Ty realise he's dreaming is that in his fantasy he gets an A, which in his head is so impossible it's the one thing that snapped him back to reality.

These are the more overt descriptions of Ty struggling academically and having some kind of learning disability, but without Cloak it is a heavy subtext to most of his early depictions. Bill Mantlo is also no stranger to writing characters with intellectual disabilities, namely Nuklo from Vision and the Scarlet Witch and Laura Dean from Alpha Flight who are both described as autistic and there are some not dissimilar threads with how he depicts Ty in my opinion. While Ty is never described as autistic on panel, I do think he has some kind of nebulous/unstated learning disability alongside his stutter, because his feelings around his struggling at maths feel less "I'm slow to grasp this subject" and a lot more "I cannot understand this no matter how hard I try and it's causing me distress that I can't understand it".

And yeah, it definitely is racist, but it's weird, because I also do think this depiction was done in an effort to humanise Ty rather than just to make him "worse" than Tandy. Like, it feels very different from say, Lemar Hoskins, who was depicted for a while as illiterate and a guy who barely made it in to high school who couldn't read or write, and that definitely was done in a mean spirited, racist (to be completely fair to Gruenwald, one of the other Bold Urban Commandos, either Hector or Jerome also was depicted as illiterate too, but it's still obviously Deeply Racist) "Look how uneducated this man is", and once Lemar transitioned into a hero that element of his character has just completely disappeared, which I think ultimately is for the best.

By contrast, Ty's disability and speech impediment is used to make him a more sympathetic character? Cloak is depicted as such a non-human, strange and often demonic entity, that Ty having a stutter and a learning disability contrasts him more with Cloak and makes him seem more like Just A Kid In A Bad Situation like Tandy, as opposed to a malevolent figure, which obviously is very racist too. They almost use it as a way to make him seem more innocent or more childlike, I think, which goes hand in hand with just how different Ty is drawn vs when he's Cloak. And this depiction has it's own very obvious problems but I DO think it is a complex choice that I have kind of mixed feelings about, because the depiction and the way it is another layer to his dynamic with Tandy is Odd at the best of times and deeply racist most others, but equally, it makes him feel very real and much more layered as a character and as a person, and I think it DOES make for some very interesting storytelling decisions, that Tandy being privileged is happy to be free of being Dagger, but Ty who is black and disabled and grew up in poverty does feel a certain amount of power and self-determination with being Cloak and misses it when it's gone.

It's complicated. I don't disagree, but as with all things disability in comic books I really wish the answer to this flawed depiction had been to try and treat it more sensitively by listening to more black disabled people in how they choose to depict this character rather than just removing any vestiges of him having a speech impediment and learning disability from most modern comics.

Also re: the Katie teaching Ty to read thing WAS really odd, but it happened very shortly after Terry Austin took over writing duties and I do think he genuinely just mistook Ty's stutter for being like, unable to read or something, because he clearly reads in various previous issues so?? I dunno, it was an incredibly weird moment that didn't really get brought up again so I'm grateful for that, but again, that moment was also clearly meant to make him seem less scary and threatening, and again try to humanise him a little. Wherever or not they succeeded is a difficult question, but I do think that's a very major element of the writer's decisions to show Ty as having a learning disability.

[nogooddeetz]

you know, i always loved and vibed with emma perkins, but since seeing tgwdlm for the first time (or first several times), i got myself a customer service job… a remote one, thank fucking god…. but let’s just say…. i get her. i really, really get her. i am also crabbier than i’ve ever been 24/7.

[themarauderer]

my favorite thing about the marauders fandom is we took something made by a bigoted terf and made it everything she absolutely hates. Queerness? Yes. Trans representation? Yes. People of Color? Yes. Disabled representation? Yes. Talks of bigotry and how much it affects people? Yes. I feel like we’re just here to make her life a living hell and I totally stand for it.

[tenpintsof-sundrop]

It's wild because anybody who is talking about the writers ruining the Malcolm In The Middle reboot by making it "woke" clearly haven't seen the show since they were too young to remember it

It was woke for it's time babe