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[wappyblog]

hey fellow photosensitive phuckers,

people don't tag flashing properly. we know this. however. you can also stop all media from autoplaying.

just go into your settings until you find "media auto play" and toggle "never auto play".

and then bam. much safer to scroll through.

this will mess with stimboards and stuff but it's a small sacrifice imo

[wishful-seeker]

Whats Inspiration Porn and how do i avoid it?

I remember a few years ago i went to a pro choice rally, i was the only one in a wheelchair, many strangers came up to me telling me how strong i was, how i was a representation of how no one had an "excuse" not to be here, and they took photos with me to post online and gush about how much of an inspiration i was. This event made me weirdly uncomfortable and i couldn't figure out why for a long time. I felt dehumanized, like to them i was an object, a trophy, a representation of their ablist views. Then i learned about inspiration porn an realized what happened to me.

Inspiration porn is when someone, usually an abled person, objectivities a disabled person. Putting all of their achievements on a pedestal to motivate other people. In that moment we are not treated like people, to them we are just an excuse to tell others they aren't doing enough.

It has a tone of "the disabled person can do it, so why can't you?" Which is frankly an ablist mindset.

By making our lives about YOU you are putting down all other disabled people for not doing the same.

I hear the phrase "no excuses" a lot regarding inspiration porn, implying those who cannot achieve these high standards are experiencing a moral failing. And its not just putting down other disabled people, but also abled people who simply don't have the means to do what the inspiration porn expects of them. It's saying "if you cant do what this disabled person did then you are lazy and a worse person." Which is just ablist as fuck.

Some characteristics of inspiration porn online:

Using photos, videos, or stories of disabled people WITHOUT THE DISABLED PERSONS PERMISSION. Do you know how icky it feels to achieve an accomplishment as a disabled person and then run across photos of you online filled with comments treating you like a prized show dog? Its gross.

Lots of phrases like "this is the definition of "no excuses"." And "they have my respect for doing this DESPITE their weakness/disability" (im literally writing this post because i JUST saw someone literally say "weakness" this way.) And "not disabled! Differently abled!"

We are not stories and characters, we are real people with lives just like you. We are not trophies, or an inspiration, we are just regular ass people. If you see something like this online know that the disabled community doesn't respect them at all. Don't do this.

[wheelie-sick]

had an idea

[ID: two versions of the same image, the first with a transparent background the second with a white background. it shows the active access symbol with the wheel of the wheelchair being the antifascist action flag symbol. the top flag has been edited to be the disabled flag]

free to use for anyone

[ieatratsforbreakfast]

I need a hug from every disabled person ever right now.

I'm going through a really rough patch with my ME/CFS and chronic pain, and I'm still coming to terms with the fact that I'll most likely need to start using a wheelchair before 2025.

Can every disabled person hug me rn? Like virtually just have a little disabled moment.

[crippleswag]

mutual aid request

[pt: mutual aid request. end pt]

hi i am a physically disabled person who struggles with severe chronic pain and i have my MRI on monday but i dont really have money to get to it since they scheduled it at a hospital further away than my regular hospital which is significantly closer 🥲. this is a really important appointment and i really dont wanna cancel it..

i think i should be able to get there and back if i could get 500SEK (~50$) for gas, and if you are unable to give anything because you aren’t financially stable that’s is absolutely okay & please dont give anything if it’ll fuck up ur own economy!! but if you are unable to donate, please reblog this, every rb helps 🤍 every dollar helps and you don’t have to give anything huge amounts, it adds up, thank you!🤍

here’s the link to my paypal

0/50$

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[crystallized-anxiety]

If you're disabled/ chronically ill, the universe should make you immune to all the "normal" illnesses.

I'm sick every day and ON TOP OF THAT I have food poisoning? No thank you, you can fuck right off.

[extreme-dyke-syndrome]

A disabled woman fell on the bus I'm on and I'm literally the only one who listened to her and didn't try and pull her up when she said she wanted to sit for a second, or crowd her saying what she should do next.

Can we actually listen to disabled people maybe? This is exhausting.

[midnight-soulless-system]

I often forget that me dissapearing from social life for a few weeks because my disability got worse and thus needed a better mobility aid is shocking to most people, because when I go back out into the world all of my friends will be like "omg are you ok??" And I'm always so confused because I'm just chilling why wouldn't I be ok? And then I remember they haven't seen me in a wheelchair before and the last they saw me I could walk.

It's funny though because everyone in my life already knew my disability gets worse. Not sure why they were surprised when my disability got worse.

Also I must say that running into people's ankles when they won't move is so wonderful.

[ashthenerd]

Friendly reminder that even though I'm sure your decorations are lovely, please do not put them on a flashing setting. Photosensitive people should be allowed to enjoy Halloween and go outside their homes without worrying about their safety. Please be considerate and don't put flashing lights on display.

[thearrowteam]

Something I've learned since using a mobility aid is how much joy it brought back to my life. For the longest time I had a hard time standing and walking and since using the cane it has gone down greatly. Yeah I face judgement on the daily from people, especially since there's times I'm just walking with the cane dangling from my wrist, but it has improved my quality of life. I'm more energized, I like going on walks again, I can stand for longer periods of time, I can walk longer periods of time without the cane than I could before I started using it.

If you're thinking about using a mobility aid my best advice is do it. It makes life so much easier and enjoyable and I'm all for life being easy and enjoyable.

[wishful-seeker]

Something that baffles me everytime is a non minority thinking they know more about a specific minority, than the people in that minority.

Trans people will know whats best for trans people, they have LIVED it, they will always know more about transness than cis people.

Disabled people will always know more about ablism, and what ablism is, more than an abled person.

People of color will always know more what its like to be a person of color more than any white person.

I hate it when a minority, like a disabled person for example, says "hey, this is ablist, heres why, please don't do it." And abled people scream "You're wrong! Its not ablist!" Like how the fuck would YOU know??

You DON'T fucking know! WE know more than ypu and ALWAYS will, you could study us for years and still know less than us because WE LIVE IT.

[wheelie-sick]

can I get some feedback on these before I share them to the group chat I'm in?

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did that frustrate you for a minute before realizing those were fake? was it annoying that you couldn't access this post?

ok now imagine if this was the case for every image on your dash. for many blind and visually impaired people this is what they experience all the time on this app. Tumblr is very inaccessible but it doesn't have to be. providing image descriptions (whether in text or alt text) creates a better experience on Tumblr for BVI folks

👏add image descriptions to your posts👏

...also the first line was fake I don't need feedback

[nondivisable]

I need to say something and I need y'all to be calm

if it isn't actively bad or harmful, no representation should be called "too simple" or "too surface level"

I have a whole argument for this about the barbie movie but today I wanna talk about a show called "the babysitters club" on Netflix

(obligatory disclaimer that I watched only two episodes of this show so if it's super problematic I'm sorry) (yes. I know it's based on a book, this is about the show)

this is a silly 8+ show that my 9 year old sister is watching and it manages to tackle so many complex topics in such an easy way. basic premise is these 13 year old girls have a babysitting agency.

in one episode, a girl babysits this transfem kid. the approach is super simple, with the kid saying stuff like "oh no, those are my old boy clothes, these are my girl clothes". they have to go to the doctor and everyone is calling the kid by her dead name and using he/him and this 13 year old snaps at like a group of doctors and they all listen to her. it's pure fantasy and any person versed in trans theory would point out a bunch of mistakes.

but after watching this episode, my little sister started switching to my name instead of my dead name and intercalating he/him pronouns when talking about me.

one of the 13 years old is a diabetic and sometimes her whole personality is taken over by that. but she has this episode where she pushes herself to her limit and passes out and talks about being in a coma for a while because of not recognizing the limits of her disability.

and this allowed my 9 year old sister to understand me better when I say "I really want to play with you but right now my body physically can't do that" (I'm disabled). she has even asked me why I'm pushing myself, why I'm not using my crutches when I complain about pain.

my mom is 50 years old and watching this show with my sister. she said the episode about the diabetic girl helped her understand me and my disability better. she grew up disabled as well, but she was taught to shut up and power through.

yes, silly simple representation can annoy you if you've read thousands of pages about queer liberation or disability radical thought, but sometimes things are not for you.

[thenervebible]

CONNIE PANZARINO at a pride march in Boston circa 1990

[ID: Connie is marching along in her sip 'n' puff (SNP) wheelchair. She is wearing a patterned poncho and sporting a green felt party crown on her head. She styles a pair of wire-rimmed glasses with her slicked back hair. She is smiling. Attached to the back of her wheelchair is a large green cardboard poster that reads "Trached Dykes Eat Pussy Without Comin' Up For Air!" followed by a pink upside-down triangle with a stick figure person in a wheelchair at the centre (a symbol for disabled women)].

the cyborg & the crip by Alison Kafer

[ID: “Trached dykes eat pussy without coming up for air.” Connie Panzarino, a longtime disability activist and out lesbian, would attach this sign to her wheelchair during Pride marches in Boston in the early 1990s. Shockingly explicit, her sign refuses to cast technology as cold, distancing, or disembodied/disembodying, presenting it instead as a source and site of embodied pleasure. “Trach” is an abbreviation of tracheotomy, a medical procedure in which a breathing tube is inserted directly into the trachea, bypassing the mouth and nose. Someone with a trach, then, can, in effect, breathe through her throat, freeing her mouth for other activities (another version of this sign is “Trached dykes french kiss without coming up for air”). From a cyborgian perspective, this sign is brilliantly provocative and productive. It draws on the pervasive idea that adaptive technologies grant superior abilities,not merely replacing a lost capacity but enhancing it, yet it does so in a highly subversive way. The message here isn’t about blending in, about passing as normal or hypernormal, but about publicly announcing the viability of a queer disabled location. It’s disnormalizing, adamantly refusing compulsory heterosexuality, compulsory able bodiedness, and homonormativity. As Corbett O’Toole argues, it challenges the perceived passivity of disabled women, presenting them as actively pleasuring their partners, thereby graphically refuting stereotypes linking physical disability with nonsexuality.]

[cripplerage]

As a wheelchair user I'm trying to reframe my language for "being in the way."

"I'm in the way," "I can't fit," and "I can't go there," is becoming "there's not enough space," "the walkway is too narrow," and "that place isn't accessible."

It's a small change, but to me it feels as if I'm redirecting blame from myself to the people that made these places inaccessible in the first place. I don't want people to just think that they're helping me, I want them to think that they're making up for someone else's wrongdoing. I want them to remember every time I've needed help as something someone else caused.