Here it is! My declaration of intent to form a cooperative that promotes technology at the intersection of inclusivity, privacy, security, and sustainability: https://www.mediaactivist.com/whats-irl-really/ #cooperatives #IRL #ableism #Disability #Covid #CovidIsNotOver #RemoteWork #elementaryOS @thepeoplestech

PhD Fellowship in Urban Morphology, Accessibility and Mobility Cultures

A PhD where I really think someone with disabilities that affect their mobility should apply. Unfortunately, bullshit like "ability to...handle a heavy workload" means it'll probably be abled urbanists doing things disabled people should be doing.

https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/288466/phd-fellowship-in-urban-morphology-accessibility-and-mobility-cultures #PhD #AcademicAbleism #Urbanism #Ableism #Norway

I'd consider it a bit of a plus if folks would stop using "special needs" to describe needs that people have. Talk about access needs (which everyone has and they all differ from each other) and talk about accessibility, but please don't play along with systemic ableism's constant rhetoric of setting disabled people apart as lesser or "more expensive" than people who are not yet disabled. #Ableism #Disability #Accessibility #a11y

Another QUACK (Queers Undoing Ableism Kommunity) hangout next sunday: https://radar.squat.net/en/event/amsterdam/quack-queers-undoing-ableism-care-kollective/2025-12-07/community-hang-out-quack

#queer #ableism #amsterdam

Most people, including most leftists, think "disabled people" is a contradiction, we need to build our own spaces in opposition to theirs.

#meme #anarchism #anarchyMeme #actuallyAutistic #ableism

PhD Fellowship in Urban Morphology, Accessibility and Mobility Cultures

A PhD where I really think someone with disabilities that affect their mobility should apply. Unfortunately, bullshit like "ability to...handle a heavy workload" means it'll probably be abled urbanists doing things disabled people should be doing.

https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/288466/phd-fellowship-in-urban-morphology-accessibility-and-mobility-cultures #PhD #AcademicAbleism #Urbanism #Ableism #Norway

I'd consider it a bit of a plus if folks would stop using "special needs" to describe needs that people have. Talk about access needs (which everyone has and they all differ from each other) and talk about accessibility, but please don't play along with systemic ableism's constant rhetoric of setting disabled people apart as lesser or "more expensive" than people who are not yet disabled. #Ableism #Disability #Accessibility #a11y

A Maine woman retired early to be a caregiver for her terminally ill mother.

Now she’s facing cancer herself, and because ACA subsidies won’t be extended, she is losing her healthcare.

Her costs are going up for $49,000 a year.

$49,000 is more than many people make in a year.

People will die because this government doesn’t have a healthcare plan.

Medicare for all.

#medicare #aca #affordablecareact #MedicareForAll #disability #ableism #uspol #eugenics

Here it is! My declaration of intent to form a cooperative that promotes technology at the intersection of inclusivity, privacy, security, and sustainability: https://www.mediaactivist.com/whats-irl-really/ #cooperatives #IRL #ableism #Disability #Covid #CovidIsNotOver #RemoteWork #elementaryOS @thepeoplestech

@sundogplanets Not to mention ableist AF not to. Botanical Society of America has even made their disability group at conferences only an in-person thing, FFS.

#Ableism #AcademicChatter #ClimateChange

Another QUACK (Queers Undoing Ableism Kommunity) hangout next sunday: https://radar.squat.net/en/event/amsterdam/quack-queers-undoing-ableism-care-kollective/2025-12-07/community-hang-out-quack

#queer #ableism #amsterdam

Most people, including most leftists, think "disabled people" is a contradiction, we need to build our own spaces in opposition to theirs.

#meme #anarchism #anarchyMeme #actuallyAutistic #ableism

A Maine woman retired early to be a caregiver for her terminally ill mother.

Now she’s facing cancer herself, and because ACA subsidies won’t be extended, she is losing her healthcare.

Her costs are going up for $49,000 a year.

$49,000 is more than many people make in a year.

People will die because this government doesn’t have a healthcare plan.

Medicare for all.

#medicare #aca #affordablecareact #MedicareForAll #disability #ableism #uspol #eugenics

I've touched on this before, but I really hate how much "mental health awareness" just boils down to neurotypicals excusing each other for their roles in the struggles of neurodivergent people.

Like, imagine if whenever you talked about experiencing transphobia, some helpful cis person would gently inform you that nobody owes you their emotional labor and gave you the number of the Trevor Project. Or if TDOV consisted of cis people talking about how evil a disease experiencing transphobia is and how it spontaneously ruins the lives of trans people, without even a mention of the people who actually inflict transphobia upon us. It'd be absurd.

But that is how we treat mentally ill people. Mental health awareness month doesn't platform mentally ill people. It instead platforms people who have been affected by people in their lives committing suicide or by mental illness in general so that they can talk about what a terrible disease mental illness is and about how *neurotypicals* can handle mentally ill people. The most we can hope for is seeing our feeds flooded with people posting, "there's hope! People care! (Just not me.) Call the suicide hotline!"

And I think one of the major reasons we aren't asked to speak for ourselves is that unspoken understanding that talking about mental illness is *dangerous*. That if mentally ill people are allowed to talk about their feelings honestly and openly, other people might do the same.

And more than that, I think we're just inconvenient. We, like homeless people, are inconvenient social outcasts who need to be swept aside and kept out of day to day life because nobody wants to be reminded that they live in a brutal, unforgiving capitalist shithole that grinds people down to their very bones. People want to be happy, and they want to see other people being happy, and they don't want to think about the world they live in - or worse, they themselves - making other people unhappy.

#mentalhealth #ableism #neurodivergent #suicide

I've touched on this before, but I really hate how much "mental health awareness" just boils down to neurotypicals excusing each other for their roles in the struggles of neurodivergent people.

Like, imagine if whenever you talked about experiencing transphobia, some helpful cis person would gently inform you that nobody owes you their emotional labor and gave you the number of the Trevor Project. Or if TDOV consisted of cis people talking about how evil a disease experiencing transphobia is and how it spontaneously ruins the lives of trans people, without even a mention of the people who actually inflict transphobia upon us. It'd be absurd.

But that is how we treat mentally ill people. Mental health awareness month doesn't platform mentally ill people. It instead platforms people who have been affected by people in their lives committing suicide or by mental illness in general so that they can talk about what a terrible disease mental illness is and about how *neurotypicals* can handle mentally ill people. The most we can hope for is seeing our feeds flooded with people posting, "there's hope! People care! (Just not me.) Call the suicide hotline!"

And I think one of the major reasons we aren't asked to speak for ourselves is that unspoken understanding that talking about mental illness is *dangerous*. That if mentally ill people are allowed to talk about their feelings honestly and openly, other people might do the same.

And more than that, I think we're just inconvenient. We, like homeless people, are inconvenient social outcasts who need to be swept aside and kept out of day to day life because nobody wants to be reminded that they live in a brutal, unforgiving capitalist shithole that grinds people down to their very bones. People want to be happy, and they want to see other people being happy, and they don't want to think about the world they live in - or worse, they themselves - making other people unhappy.

#mentalhealth #ableism #neurodivergent #suicide

RFK Jr has utterly destroyed the CDC and taken public health down with it.

Once again, vaccines do not cause autism.

Tylenol does not cause autism.

More importantly, autism isn’t a disease that needs to be “fixed”.

The way this regime speaks about autistic and disabled people is eerily reminiscent of the Nazi “useless eater” rhetoric.

They went after disabled people first because they knew no one would speak up for us.

Get your vaccines. Protect your health.

But also push back on the idea that there’s something “wrong” with us.

We aren’t useless. We aren’t expendable. We aren’t a problem to be “fixed”

#uspol #rfkjr #vaccines #autism #fascism #disability #ableism #cdc #publichealth

RFK Jr has utterly destroyed the CDC and taken public health down with it.

Once again, vaccines do not cause autism.

Tylenol does not cause autism.

More importantly, autism isn’t a disease that needs to be “fixed”.

The way this regime speaks about autistic and disabled people is eerily reminiscent of the Nazi “useless eater” rhetoric.

They went after disabled people first because they knew no one would speak up for us.

Get your vaccines. Protect your health.

But also push back on the idea that there’s something “wrong” with us.

We aren’t useless. We aren’t expendable. We aren’t a problem to be “fixed”

#uspol #rfkjr #vaccines #autism #fascism #disability #ableism #cdc #publichealth