Month: June 2017

appalachian-ace:

acedialectic:

acedialectic:

I’m on a lunch break at work and I would know better than to look at Tumblr but AERF has appeared as an acronym, like, overnight, and I want to know what’s going on.

TERFs have shown a tendency toward antagonizing aces for a while but I don’t know what’s happened to make people feel they have to highlight that right now and in this way.

The post that used it and made all this blow up was not made by ‘people’, it was made by memelovingbot.

The ace continuity is currently being held morally responsible for the actions of *software*.

iamthethunder:

iamthethunder:

lathrine:

iamthethunder:

rosslynpaladin:

iamthethunder:

Medicaid cuts are so scary that an office of The Arc (the old, moderate U.S. disability rights group) is calling for the kind of social media raiding we used to do against Autism Speaks. Let’s oblige them. Facebook and/or Twitter. Your senators. 10:30 PM your time. If you can make phone calls, make the phones ring tomorrow. Suggested talking points: family values, how Medicaid keeps people employed.

Cuts mean less healthcare, less personal care, more and worse institutions, early deaths, and families impoverished. I don’t know if there’s hope, but I know there are lots of us. We’ve done this before. Maybe our actions matter. Maybe you can save our disabled siblings’ lives and liberty, shape our grandchildren’s history books. If you’re willing to pick up the wonderful, terrible possibility that what you do might mean something and see where it takes you, let’s try.

Look we can email them! Those of you who don’t do phone calls, let’s do this!

If you can, please do. If not, please signal boost. if not either of those but you wish you could, just send us your strength as best you can and we’ll do this together.

Yes! Also, you can participate in ASAN’s phone bank on June 27. If you can’t call, get someone else to call on your behalf. If you can call, you can volunteer to call on behalf of someone who can’t.

This is also a prime time to use tools like Resistbot, and Stance!

Yes! Please do all of these things. Medicaid policy is painfully dense and complex, but the TLDR of it is that less Medicaid = more institutions. Higher-support Autistics with intellectual disabilities would be terribly affected by cuts, as would lots of other people with physical or intellectual disabilities. Don’t let the loss of personal care aides put people in nursing homes and other awful places!!!

The @autisticadvocacy phone bank is TODAY, June 27, 2017. You can get help making a phone call if you need it. If you can make phone calls, please take a minute to help someone who can’t.

indigenous-maya:

indigenous-maya:

“YOU DON’T LOOK NATIVE” – is something that bothers me greatly. I see it happen all the time, especially to Natives in the US & Canada.

Telling any Native person that they aren’t Native because they don’t fit your superficial stereotype is RACIST! Every single person pictured above is a NATIVE.

This is something that all non-Natives need to understand, there is no “Native look”.

– Not all Native women look like Disney’s “Pocahontas”.
– Not all Native men look like a Plains NDN with long flowing hair.
– Not all Natives have high cheekbones.
– Not all Natives have black straight hair. Some have brown hair, some have curly hair, some have light hair and so on.
– Yes Native men CAN grow beards and have facial hair.
– Not all Natives have brown eyes. Some have blue eyes, some have grey eyes, some have green eyes and some have hazel eyes.
– There are tall Natives and there are short Natives.
– There are dark skinned Natives, light skinned Natives and pale skinned Natives.

Happy Aboriginal Day

Source: indigenous-maya

We’re autistic, we’re human, get used to it

realsocialskills:

Some dehumanizing descriptions of autism are negative. For example, some people believe that we are incapable of love, or incapable of imagination, or incapable of understanding anything of importance.

Some dehumanizing descriptions of autism are positive. For instance, some people believe that we are incapable of lying, incapable of being manipulative, and that we always say exactly what we mean.

Autism doesn’t work that way. We are fully human, for better and for worse. We are fallible. We make communication mistakes. We don’t always know what we mean, and we don’t always express ourselves clearly. For instance, sometimes we say things that feel direct but that are actually very confusing. That’s human.

We are capable of treating others well, and we are capable of treating others badly. We are capable of caring about others, and we are capable of indifference. We are capable of being kind, and we are capable of being cruel.

Autism means having disabilities that can affect how we communicate, how we move, and how we understand things. Autism doesn’t make us better than other people, and it doesn’t make us worse. We’re not subhuman, and we’re not superhuman. We’re just people.