#black disabled people

[peachyblkdemonslayer]

BHM Fact #9

[inkskinned]

you have to go to work so you can pay for your doctor, who is not taking your insurance right now, and if you say i can't afford the doctor's you are told - get a better job. it is very sad that you are unwell, yes, but maybe you should have thought about that before not having a better job.

(where is the better job? who is giving out these better jobs? you are sick, you are hurting - how the hell are you supposed to be well enough for this better job?)

but you go to the doctor because you had the nerve to be hurt or sick or whatever else. and they tell you that it is because you have anxiety. you try your best. you are a self-advocate. you've done the reading (which sometimes pisses them off worse, honestly). you say it is actually adding to my anxiety, it is effecting my quality of life. so they say that you are fat. they say that all young people have this happen to them, isn't it a medical marvel! they say that you should eat more vegetables. they say that you probably just need to lose a little more weight, and that you are faking it for attention.

(what attention could this doctor possibly give? what validation? that's their fucking job, isn't it?)

there is always a hypochondriac, right. someone always tells you about a hypochondriac. or someone who is unnecessarily aggressive during the worst days of their life. or someone looking "for a quick fix". or some idiot who wasn't educated about how to properly care for themselves who just abandons their treatment. and again, the hypochondriac, the overly-cautious hysteric. these people don't deserve to be treated like humans (right), and since you might be one of these people, you also don't get treated like a human. because those people can really fuck with the system, you now have to pay for it. and besides. you're actually probably faking it.

(more often than not, you find a 2:1 ratio of these stories. for every "hypochondriac", there are 2 people who knew something was wrong, and yet nobody could fucking find it. the story often ends with pointless suffering. the story often ends with and now it's too late, and it's going to kill me.)

you are actually just making excuses. someone else got that procedure or that diagnosis and he's fine, you should be fine too. someone else said they watched a documentary about other inspirational people with your exact same condition, maybe you should be inspirational, too. you're just too morbid. your pain and your experience is probably just not statistically concerning. it is all self-reported anyway, and you're just being a baby.

(once, while sitting down in the middle of making coffee, you had the sudden, horrible thought - i could kill myself to make the pain stop. you had to call your best friend after that. had to pet your dog. had to cry about it in the shower. you won't, but that moment - god, fuck. the pain just goes on and on.)

you know someone who went in for routine surgery and said i still feel everything. they told her to just relax. it took her kicking and screaming before they figured out she wasn't lying - the anesthetic drip hadn't been working. you know someone who went in for severe migraines who was told drink water and lose weight. you know someone who was actively bleeding out and throwing up in the ER and was told you're just having a bad period.

in the ER there are always these little posters saying things like "don't wait! get checked today!" and you think about how often you do wait. how often the days spool out. you once waited a full week before seeing the doctor for what you thought was a sprained wrist. it had actually been broken - they had to rebreak it to set it.

but you go into the doctor. the problem you're having is immediate. the person behind the counter frowns and says we're not taking your insurance. you will be paying for this out-of-pocket.

they send you home with tylenol and a little health packet about weight loss or anxiety or attention deficit. on the front it has your birthday and diagnosis. you think about crying, and the words swim. it might as well say go fuck yourself. it might as well say you're a fucking idiot. it might as well say light your money on fire and lie down in it. and the entire fucking time - the problem persists.

it's okay. it's okay, it's just another thing, you think. it's just another thing i have to learn to live with.

[afriblaq]

Black history facts - Kenneth Brown

[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)

[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!

[mueritos]

not that i believe chappell roan is the spokesperson for palestine or leftist politics around voting/election year, but using her recent words being twisted in bad faith is prolly the best example i have about liberals' cognitive dissonance about genocide and their inability to not take other people's (specifically so called celebrities') decisions/thoughts personally.

anyway. really didn't enjoy d'angelo wallace's recent video about her but this one really ties up all the loose ends he refused to acknowledge (explicitly his refusal to talk openly about palestine and why Chappell is actually pro palestine)

but anyway, Dr. Devon Price has also spoken about this phenomenon on his substack/instagram and I recommend checking his page out. some of y'all project your morals onto people you absolutely don't know and have no right to know as intimately as you think you should, and it's fucking weird. the cognitive dissonance lies in the reality of our power: there is no power for us in democracy. if there was, perhaps world leader's would have stopped the genocide in Palestine considering an overwhelming majority of the world's citizens are against so called Israel committing it. But the truth is, we have very little power democratically, and I don't want any liberal to convince me otherwise. Do we have power in other ways? Yes, we so fucking do. But liberals keep trying to convince us our power ONLY lies in voting, and I refuse to conform my reality to that.

chappell roan was right, and some of you care too much about whether or not people will cast their vote in a month. Maybe listen to the people that chappell clearly listened to (marginalized, BIPOC, Palestinian, Arab, Jewish, etc) and you'll understand WHY people are so conflicted about voting instead of shaming them into voting.

[finally-got-a-diagnosis]

I can't believe that I didn't do this already but,

Happy Black History Month to disabled, chronically ill and/or neurodivergent black people

We don't get enough appreciation.

[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?

[peachyblkdemonslayer]

BHM Fact #8

Cacsmy Brutus aka Mama Cax was a American-Haitian model and disability rights activist. She was diagnosed with lung cancer and ostersarcoma when she was 14, the doctor gave her 3 weeks to live. She later lose her leg due to a hip replacement that failed. She earned her bachelor and master degrees in international relations. Some of her most iconic model gigs includes of 2016 fashion show at the White House hosted by Barack and Michelle Obama. Along with Fenty Beauty, Chromat, Tommy Hilfiger, Sephora along with her first commercial with JAG models in New York, which she was later signed too.

She walked at New York Fashion Week in 2018, parading in a swimsuit designed by Becca McCharen. That year, she made the cover of Teen Vogue with Jillian Mercado and Chelsea Werner.In 2019, Cax became the face of the Olay brand for their sunscreen marketing campaign. In October 2019, Cax announced she would be participating in the New York Marathon in a wheelchair. She would later pass on December 16, 2019 from severe abdominal pains and blood clots of the lungs.

[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.

[icedb1ackcoffee]

to my fellow creatives: never stop making art. art is an act of protest.

[manyminded]

”im a queer freak, the kind of person your parents warned you about” okay. how to react to queer poc. or disabled queers. or fat queers. hell even scratch the queer bit, how do you react to other minorities? just in general? or even other queer people who just aren’t like you? I’m not saying I’m immune to being bigoted towards these people, too - it’s ingrained in us from birth - but it’s worth it to try and unlearn this.

p.s. if anyone from minorities that aren’t the queer community want to comment on how to be less bigoted towards them I’d genuinely love to see it. We all need to learn.

[rareblackcat]

Im on tiktok and seeing the reaction from trump supporters towards people sacred for their rights and their lives proves that it wasn't about money and everything about erasing minorities.

They are thriving on the fear of minorities because that is what this was actually all about. Trump being in office has allowed these people to show us how evil and unempathetic they are. They are just bigots who wanted someone in office who will kill off all the 'undesirables'

[hussyknee]

Whenever the white left screams about "purity politics getting in the way of leftist progress/ class consciousness" it usually means that either Black or brown or disabled people objected to being thrown under the bus and told to suck it up. When pressed they will then invoke "two things can be true at once", like we don't know they're using the truth they like to actively erase and suppress the one inconvenient to them.

Your class system is built on colonization and eugenics. Prioritize race and disability in your leftism or die in a ditch for all we care. You are and have always been unnecessary and obstructive to our liberation.