#disability rights

[beany10123]

copy-paste this link (https:// gofund.me/85a1b400)

6-year-old Joan Al-Habil is has been repeatedly hospitalized due to severe gastrointestinal problems and overwhelming fatigue. This poor girl has been to multiple facilities and seen multiple doctors, undergone extensive testing (as extensive as is possible in Gaza's collapsed medical system), even having to endure an unsedated endoscopy.

She has now been diagnosed with severe gastritis due to starvation and hazardous living conditions. Remember, she and her family are living on the streets, which are cold and wet due to winter rain. Homelessness, stress, exposure to the elements, her previous injury when the lOF firebombed her tent, and malnutrition all conspire to sap little Joan of her strength.

Her condition is so serious that she even had to undergo surgery. Gastritis very rarely requires surgery to treat, so this is an indication of how dire her condition is. The surgery was successful to a degree, but she is going to need ongoing treatment to manage her symptoms.

The treatments are administered weekly and cost $500 USD (just under €500 EUR). Her family has no income and cannot afford this. If Joan goes more than a few days without treatment, her symptoms worsen rapidly, and she sometimes has to be hospitalized. It is vital that we help her family procure her treatments so that her condition does not worsen!

You can help Joan get her surgery and treatment by

reblogging this post

copy-pasting this link (https:// gofund.me/85a1b400) in your own Tumblr posts and all across your social media accounts to share her family’s story

boosting posts from her parents @mahafamily1 and @ahmed-family-1

donating to her family’s GFM campaign below

Current: €22,271 EUR

New temporary goal: €22,771 EUR

Need to raise: about €500 EUR ($500 USD)

[bitchesgetriches]

Hey I just wanted to send in some context re: resellers in your latest article. I know some and they are all severely disabled people for whom this is the only way they can make money. One has a severe migraine disorder that stops them from using computers (they trigger the migraines) as well as gastropresis that stops them from standing or sitting for extended periods of time.

Disability isn't even an option because it won't pay enough to cover the gasteoparesis medicine that has to be imported from out of the country and paid for out-of-pocket, and the only way they can make money is reselling used goods that they buy online and refurbish. Just for anyone that judges.

Thank you so much for this context, my dear!

For background, this is the article where Lauren criticized resellers. And to be fair, she had gotten burnt and was kind of sensitive about it! But we can now definitely see the value in reselling as one of the few sources of income that disabled folks have access to, and that's something that in our typically abled privilege, we simply didn't consider. So we appreciate you educating us and holding us accountable.

We will continue to research the rights and needs of disabled folks, and I encourage everyone else to do the same. It's a blindspot for so many, as we learned when writing these articles:

Why There’s So Little (Good) Personal Finance for Disabled People 

The Social Safety Net for Disabled People Is Broken

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[icarusinfreefall]

reminder that adhd medication isn't a luxury or preference, but a lifesaving medication. a 10 year long study in the usa showed that, when properly medicated, the rate of car crashes people with adhd get into goes down significantly--men's rate drops by 38%, and women's by 42%. the med shortage, denial of meds by doctors, rising prices, and the "war on drugs" has killed--with such a car dependent society, not driving frequently isn't an option, which means we need better healthcare and need it now.

https://shorturl.at/8VD8B

edit because i forgot to explain: short link is to an article by the washington post, it should be free to read

[atlinmerrick]

Micah Leroy is stronger than any of the humans raging against him. Those people have no skin in the game at all. None. They speak from privilege and comfort and ease. They are weak.

He's stronger than they will ever be not because he's disabled or trans, but because along with being those things publicly, he's speaking for others, to help them find their way.

from @.mprnews on Instagram.

Not sure how many of y'all saw this, but the combined misogyny-ableism-transphobia was off the charts. I am glad that he did get his top surgery, has support, and that its pursuing it's goals to advocate for other disabled + trans people.

[sayruq]

10 children a day lose their limbs in Gaza. All hospitals in Gaza are basically barely functioning and the amputations are done in unsanitary conditions and without anesthesia

[whereserpentswalk]

The nazis that you see in movies are as much a historical fantasy as vikings with horned helmets and samurai cutting people in half.

The nazis were not some vague evil that wanted to hurt people for the sake of hurting them. They had specific goals which furthered a far right agenda, and they wanted to do harm to very specific groups, (largely slavs, jews, Romani, queer people, communists/leftists, and disabled people.)

The nazis didn't use soldiers in creepy gas masks as their main imagery that they sold to the german people, they used blond haired blue eyed families. Nor did they stand up on podiums saying that would wage an endless and brutal war, they gave speeches about protecting white Christian society from degenerates just like how conservatives do today.

Nazis weren't atheists or pagans. They were deeply Christian and Christianity was part of their ideology just like it is for modern conservatives. They spoke at lengths about defending their Christian nation from godless leftism. The ones who hated the catholic church hated it for protestant reasons. Nazi occultism was fringe within the party and never expected to become mainstream, and those occultists were still Christian, none of them ever claimed to be Satanists or Asatru.

Nazis were also not queer or disabled. They killed those groups, before they had a chance to kill almost anyone else actually. Despite the amount of disabled nazis or queer/queer coded nazis you'll see in movies and on TV, in reality they were very cishet and very able bodied. There was one high ranking nazi early on who was gay and the other nazis killed him for that. Saying the nazis were gay or disabled makes about as much sense as saying they were Jewish.

The nazis weren't mentally ill. As previously mentioned they hated disabled people, and this unquestionably included anyone neurodivergent. When the surviving nazi war criminals were given psychological tests after the war, they were shown to be some of the most neurotypical people out there.

The nazis weren't socialists. Full stop. They hated socialists. They got elected on hating socialists. They killed socialists. Hating all forms of lefitsm was a big part of their ideology, and especially a big part of how they sold themselves.

The nazis were not the supervillians you see on screen, not because they didn't do horrible things in real life, they most certainly did, but because they weren't that vague apolitical evil that exists for white American action heros to fight. They did horrible things because they had a right wing authoritarian political ideology, an ideology that is fundamentally the same as what most of the modern right wing believes.

[forsapphics]

Happy Disability Pride Month! 🩶💚❤️🤍💛💙🩶🌈 (x)

[ramenheim]

Plus our public transit is dogshit & he might not've even saved any money "taking the bus" instead. He's in the moral right regardless of what '''legality''' cop-lovers harp on about— it's extortion of ppl in need.

Here's HSC's site on current rates:

https://hsc.mb.ca/patients-and-visitors/parking/

& Here's WPT's site on their rates (transfers expire after less than 1½hrs & need a new fare paid):

https://info.winnipegtransit.com/en/fares/transit-fares/

May 31 2016 - Collin Kennedy, who is a cancer patient, used expanding spray foam to disable a parking meter at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg where he gets his treatment. He says the fees are a tax on the sick. [video]

[northgazaupdates]

CRITICAL EMERGENCY!!! 15 y/o girl needs heart surgery!!!!

Earlier this month, we made a post asking for your support in attaining 15 year-old Nour’s monthly treatment for her congenital heart condition. Unfortunately, the funds raised came too late. Nour’s health took a dramatic downturn yesterday, and the doctor said that because she had gone so long between monthly treatments, several of Nour’s heart valves have closed up. She now requires an urgent operation to save her heart.

NOUR WILL DIE WITHOUT THIS SURGERY!! She is dying right now because her heart is struggling to function! She needs this surgery IMMEDIATELY to save her young life!!

The doctor said the surgery will cost $8000 USD. Nour’s family’s GFM is in Canadian dollars, or CAD, of which the conversion rate to USD is $1 USD=$1.41 CAD. This means we need $11,300 CAD in donations in order to pay the equivalent of $8000 USD for her surgery.

We NEED to raise the funds ASAP so Nour has a chance at survival!! We are breaking this sum up into 2 smaller goals to be more attainable. Our first goal to save Nour’s life is to raise $4000 USD/$5656 CAD.

**Progress: $43,187 CAD out of $49,000 CAD**

(or $30,554 USD out of $34,670 USD)

PLEASE HELP SAVE NOUR’S LIFE!!!

@90-ghost @nabulsi @ibtisams @socalgal @vague-humanoid @neptunerings @chilewithcarnage @frigidwife @diasdelasombra @annevbonny @tamarrud @stuckinapril @king-b0mbastic @dykesbat @lesbianmaxevans @qattdraws @irhabiya @sar-soor @sayruq @gazagfmboost @dlxxv-vetted-donations @vetted-gaza-funds @butchniqabi @butchfeygele @butchfeygela @self-hating-zionist @antizionisttranslations @antifainternational @antizionistprincess @gothhabiba @khanger @userpeggycarter @zamanassad @palhelp @resourcesforradicals @watermotif @rhubarbspring @anneemay @pcketknife @appsa @malcriada @wellwaterhysteria @queernigga @lesbiancalliope @lesbianholster @lesbiannova @queerstudiesnatural @feluka @kordeliiius

[sparklefartstheunicorn]

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[majaurukalo]

Disability benefits shouldn’t be tied to the income of a disabled person’s partner/spouse/parent.

Do you hear me?

DISABILITY BENEFITS SHOULDN’T BE TIED TO THE INCOME OF A DISABLED PERSON’S PARTNER/SPOUSE/PARENT.

This is the straight forward way to deprive a disabled person of their financial freedom and independence and trap them into possible abusive relationships.

[stubbornlystudying]

This site has two scripts so far! I’ve been looking for something like these.

I’m [my name] and I live in zip code [mine]. I’m calling because I’m actively worried about the safety of air travel in, from, and around the United States. No, I’m more than worried: I’m scared. I’m terrified. And my fears are made worse by news that Elon Musk’s Space X — a private company with no track record in the field — is set to take over the FAA after Trump has already fired hundreds of essential workers during an ongoing staffing crisis and multiple crashes since Trump’s inauguration. Nobody elected Elon Musk, and nobody, you included, has confirmed Musk’s unconstitutional appointment or even been asked to do so. Musk’s companies’ safety record is awful, for both employees and consumers, whether we’re talking rockets or cars. I don’t care about the price of eggs if I’m not alive to cook them. If you don’t stop Musk’s takeover, more people using air travel will die — and those of us who don’t will be watching and voting.

“But my senator is a Republican”

Gamergate was like 200 people. And now look where we are. “A lot of emails” on a topic to congressional staffers is like, 20. Are politicians spineless idiots? Yes. Use that to your advantage! Is this the only thing you can be doing? No! But it can be the first.

The internet has completely short circuited our sense of scale. The number of people required to move almost any needle is remarkably low. Your involvement in local causes, political pressure WILL have an impact.

Ok, get out there.

[alvie-pines]

disability rights involves the right to do fuck all. the right to be a useless member of society and STILL be loved and cared for and have a fair standard of living. human beings are not defined by the capital we produce.

[crippledpunks]

i wanna say fuck you to anyone who shame disabled, chronically ill & neurodivergent people, especially homebound folks, for "spending too much time on their phone/on the internet/etc." when it's the only (Somewhat) accessible way for them to experience the world. many people don't get to get out much even if they want to because of their disabilities. shaming someone for trying to connect with the world, make friends and engage with hobbies in ways that are accessible to them is beyond cruel and unnecessary