#kayla smith

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“First the world says not to let autism ‘define you.’ Now, all of [a] sudden, when I need help, I have to prove to people that I am autistic.”

Kayla Smith

“I Wish I Wasn’t So Hard On Myself Back Then”

Published in Sincerly, Your Autistic Child

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Breathe - Alex (Ryan Destiny) & Olivia (Kayla Smith)

Star 3x4 | “All Falls Down”

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❕ Announcement!! ❕

Our favourite travel blogger, Kayla Smith, documents yet another of her travels- this time in Shwersbire, England!

Another thing I noticed, mostly from my second week onwards, is that this town does not, in fact, have much of a nightlife. All the shops are closed and vacated by sundown, and now I even believe I can recall odd looks from locals when I would sit still watching the sunset while everyone else was readying to go home, if not already there.

- Excerpt from the Where Ya At? section on the nightlife of the town, Report 004, Shwersbire, England

Read the full post on Kayla’s Blog (link to post)!

Kayla’s Travels, (link to blog, www.AussieTravelsWithKayla.blogspot.com)

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

While most pregnant women return home from the hospital with a newborn baby, Kayla Smith and her husband, James, returned home with a white memory box, a painful reminder of what could have been. "We obviously would rather have our baby than this box," Kayla said, "and it's really sad to leave the hospital without your baby." The couple found out they were pregnant on Mother's Day last year, automatically growing their family to four. Their daughter, Addison, is 2.5 years old. Kayla said everything was going well up until her 20-week anatomy scan. James said the ultrasound sonographer kept going over the baby's heart, and in their own hearts, they knew something was wrong. The baby, who the couple named Brooks, had several fetal anomalies, including serious heart defects. The couple met with a maternal-fetal medicine doctor and pediatric cardiologists. Unfortunately, all of the prognoses were the same. Kayla said Brooks had Critical Aortic Stenosis (CAS) and Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS). "Based on what they were saying, it wasn't going to be operable," James said. "So, when we're told it's not operable, no choice is easy going forward." Kayla and James were also worried about preeclampsia, which Kayla developed with Addison. Preeclampsia is a pregnancy complication that can cause high blood pressure and other dangerous complications. The couple said they were faced with a "crap buffet of choices." "We didn't want our son to suffer, and also, I felt like there I was putting myself at risk [since] getting preeclampsia was very likely towards the end of my pregnancy," Kayla said. At 21 weeks, the couple traveled to Washington state to get an early induction of labor. Under Idaho's abortion laws, Kayla could not get that care in state. As of last year, abortions are only legal in cases of rape or incest with a police report or if the pregnant person will die. Kayla isn't the only woman dealing with an impossible situation. Dr. Stacy Seyb, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist, said doctors around Idaho are referring people out of state. He said the lack of reproductive options in Idaho hit low-income families the hardest. "Not everybody has the money to pick up and go to another state, spend a few days, maybe even pay cash or money … some places want it upfront," Seyb said.

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First, Kayla Smith argues that white autistic people "dominate the conversation" about autism, often with no awareness of their privilege, thus violating or denying the experiences of nonwhite autistic people so that "Black autistics don't feel safe" speaking about their particular racialized experiences of disability. Dustin Gibson similarly contends "that white supremacy has done a good job at allowing certain folks to be able to identify as disabled and helping to shape a disabled identity" that does not resonate with Black people. He elaborates by saying, "I think the process of disablement is so different for people that are marginalized that the language also has to be different ... [because] disability lives differently in the bodies of Black folks." Vilissa Thompson echoes this sentiment, stating:

I just really feel that [the] disabled community is not doing enough to address racism, is not doing enough to address race... Your disability does not nullify your white privilege, you know, and, honestly, this is why, when it comes to certain disabilities, white folks get diagnosed more often than people of color. This is why, when it comes to treatment, white folks get things, get better quality of care.... We live in a very white supremacist society. Race plays a very big role in disability [with] who could get support and services, who doesn't and why, who gets mistreated and why. And for the [disability rights] community to not be willing to just understand that on a basic level, it's asinine... and it's harmful because it helps to perpetuate the white supremacy that exists.

Finally, TL Lewis contends that "you don't have to call it disability for it to be considered disability. And I think that is important because a lot of white disabled folks are out here demanding that everyone Say the word disability! Shouting at people. It's like, yo, relax. Everybody doesn't have to speak how you speak, identify how you identify, or invoke the things that you invoke. You still need to give us credence and respect and our just due because we out here and we've been holding disability down since before a word existed for it."

Sami Schalk, Black Disability Politics

[TL] Lewis makes immensely clear that white people, disabled and nondisabled alike, have socially, medically, and legally defined disability in a way that frequently leaves Black, racialized, poor, and other multiply marginalized experiences of disability unaccounted for and excluded from disability rights political work. This exclusion endangers Black disabled people and makes identification with disability more difficult. This exclusion is similarly reflected in the work of (white) disability studies, which has historically prioritized and theorized from white experiences of disability and lacked substantive engagement with the chronic illnesses and disabilities more common in racialized and poor communities, such as diabetes, HIV/AIDS, and asthma. For Black disabled cultural workers today, it is clear that historicizing and contextualizing Black experiences of and engagement with disability is a necessary practice for understanding how we got to where we are so that we may move forward toward collective liberation in ways that attend to existing failures and harms rather than ignore or exacerbate them. This historicizing and contextualizing of the Black disability consciousness gap also allows us to develop a more robust approach to disability identity in Black communities now and into the future.

Sami Schalk, Black Disability Politics

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one more ❄️⚡️🏀 #lynxrecognize

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Napheesa Collier

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Front Page of Shreppand'e Newspaper, Week 4 April 2019 Issue (#SE0190426) dicsussing the recently ever popular snake inspired body modyfications. For better quality check out the pdf version.

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nina :

"so far in Feb"

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When Calls the Heart

Season 11, Episode 12 'nothing for Love' - photo preview 2 of 2

(photos 2, 17, and 22 are from parade.com)

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Kayla Brianna Smith

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

No, I'm advocating for people to not be forced to carry a pregnancy to term. You're advocating to force your will on everyone's bodies.

You support the laws that have forced children to give birth, forced women to go into sepsis, forced people to give birth to headless babies or give birth to babies that suffocated after a few excrutiating hours of because they lacked the organs necessary to survive. And you call all of this good and say you are "for" the people you can't be bothered to even know about.

So every single forced birther, every one of the sick sadistic fucks who touch themselves when they hear about a 10 year old forced to give birth, should get a taste of their own medicine. Why not? They wanted it

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KMac joins the 3pt GOAT club

[bookaddict24-7]

New Young Adult Releases! (April 25th, 2023)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Standalones/First in a Series:

The Other Side of Infinity by Joan F. Smith

The Lake House by Sarah Beth Durst

Hungry Ghost by Victoria Ying

Becoming A Queen by Dan Clay

No Boy Summer by Amy Spalding

When We Had Summer by Jennifer Castle

An Improbable Season by Rosalyn Eves

That Self-Same Metal by Brittany N. Williams

This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham

Star Splitter by Matthew J. Kirby

Robin & Her Misfits by Kelly Ann Jacobson

Vape by Cynthia Kadohata

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Happy reading!

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almost that time