reminder that it is okay to sit there and cry your heart out, that doesn’t mean you are weak, it just means you’ve been strong for too long and you need a break and that’s okay, take your time, you’ll get through it. I believe in you.
Disabled and chronically ill Americans protesting the repeal of the affordable care act today outside senate majority leader Mitch McConnell’s office, June 22nd. The response? Capitol police violently moving and arresting them as always. Fuck McConnell the police the state and our president for their vicious ableism
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Image one: twitter post by kristenwilsonkeppler (TheOtherKeppler) saying “protest outside @senateMajLdr office, chanting “dont touch medicaid, save our liberty!” with an image of a crouded hall, most people in wheelchairs or seated holding signs.
Image two: twitter post by Jordan (JordanUhl) saying “sickening. Protesters dragged from @SenateMajLdr’s office They rely on Medicaid. Many are disabled #NoCuteNoCaps The image under it shows 5 police officers all carrying a man
Image two: twitter post from jordan as well saying “Protester ripped from her wheelchair and carried off. #NoCutsNoCaps #StopTrumpcare” the picture under it shows a girl being pulled off by four police officers.
Image three: twitter post from Jordan again saying “Capitol police escorting a protester away. #NoCuteNoCaps” there is a police escorting a woman in an electric scooter and reporters surrounding the area behind them.
Image four: twitter post by John ARavosis (Aravosis) saying “this is the seminal image of our battle. She’s being arrested for protesting ACA repeal outside McConnell’s office.” image of a police escorting a girl with a mask over her face out of the area.
Image five: a screenshot to show the full image that was in image four. It shoes a girl with a breathing mask in her electric wheelchair holding a sign that says “Medicaid life + Liberty 4 disabled Americans”
Image six: twitter post by Jordan again saying “Capitol police Arresting Protesters Who rely on rely on wheelchairs. They dropped one. #noCuteNoCaps” there shows four images of the crowed room. There are four officers and a lot of people with electric scooters, one which has noone sitting in it, but the image isn’t focusing on any particular thing .
Image seven: twitter by Collen Flanagan (CollenFlanagan) saying “billinaires wotn protect disability rights #ADAPTandRESIST laid down in protest. Instead of listening, they arrested us.” the image shows three people lying down. One person beside their scooter and two others above them. One person is standing off to the side. Description end.]]
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My friend got annoyed at me yesterday that I included a disabled person in my D&D campaign because “magic could easily cure them!”
Seriously??? No. Not everything can be cured. Not everything SHOULD be cured. If I make a world with magic, you bet your ass there are going to be disabled people in it.
Am I going to have clerics that can cure all diseases and conditions, where everyone is able-bodied and neurotypical “because magic”? Hello no.
Am I going to have therapists who know the “calm emotions” spell to help people having panic attacks? Am I going to have people with mobility issues that have magical braces around their limbs to help alleviate chronic pain? Am I going to have an Autistic dragon that stims and collects objects related to its special interest? Am I going to give disabled people kick-ass accommodations “because magic”?
Hell yes.
Same goes for sci-fi. It’s really jarring when there are no people with any kind of disability in your setting “because they used technology to fix everything”. I don’t feel that’s realistic, nor is it good representation or interesting. It’s far better story telling to show us how they use the magic/technology to make their lives easier than just saying they eliminated all physical and mental limitations/differences.
Also, your setting having magic or advanced technology is no good reason for there to be no fat people. I see that one a lot too.
Might I commend the anthology DEFYING DOOMSDAY (from Aussie publisher Twelfth Planet Press) to you all…
(a) I definitely second the Defying Doomsday recommendation – it’s an anthology of short stories centering around disabled people in all kinds of apocalyptses. Specifically, disabled people surviving all kinds of apocalypses.
(I do have a story in there, full disclosure.)
(b) I’d also like to shamelessly suggest my own novel On the Edge of Gone, featuring an autistic girl in 2035 Amsterdam trying to survive a devastating comet impact.
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