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.
replace the engagement ring with an engagement sword
Fun fact: The Vikings literally exchanged swords at a wedding. The man was supposed to BREAK INTO HIS FATHER’S/GRANDFATHER’S CRYPT, STEAL HIS SWORD, AND GIVE IT TO HIS WIFE WHEN THEY GOT MARRIED. The woman gave her husband a brand-new sword. And like, the woman was apparently supposed to hang onto this ancient sword and make sure that it was buried with her husband when he died.
So yeah. Engagement swords or at least wedding swords should definitely be a thing.
so wait, were viking men not allowed to get married until their father died? Or did everyone just build a crypt as soon as they had a son and put a sword in it? Or if your dad was still alive, were you just supposed to break into his room and steal it from him while he slept? I NEED ANSWERS
Seconded.
Factoid and fanciful, but a bit too pat to be fact, at least in any sweeping “this is how it ALWAYS happened” way.
Viking-era swords were indeed recycled, but usually by being handed down not dug up, even though in “Grettis Saga” the protagonist
Grettir Ásmundarson
carries a
short sword or long knife
(a saex or seax or scramasax or sax but not AFAIK a sex) called Kársnautr
–
“Kárr’s gift” – which he took from
Kárr’s burial mound.
This one, similar to No. 13, is the “seax of Beagnoth”, held by the British Museum…
…and this repro shows one of the simplest hilt-types it might have had when new.
, including several
ending in “-nautr”. The giver of the gift might be a king or jarl although, given the cynical Viking sense of humour, the donor might equally be a
defeated enemy
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Fact: bisexuals make up a majority of the LGBT population.
Fact: the majority of bisexuals are closeted.
Theory: If all bisexual people came out, straight people would no longer be the majority.
Do we really make up a majority? Cause the way we’re erased i had no idea. Like really. I thought we were in minority…
The Human Rights Commission of San Francisco released a groundbreaking report on Bisexual Invisibility in 2010 which revealed that, even though only 28% of bisexuals are out (compared to 71% of lesbians and 77% of gay men.) bisexuals out-number gays and lesbians combined, Many studies have followed which verify this data.
will someone please tell straight people that killing off the lesbian character is not “shocking” or “original” it’s predictable and fucking homophobic lol
same with lgbt people being abused and rejected by society. how many of those films do we need?
You realize basically all LGBT films showcase bigotry from a sort of “third party perspective” in which this rejection can be understood from a cishet audience but doesn’t showcase at all what it feels like to experience this rejection.
You see the characters have nasty things thrown at them, you see casual homophobia/transphobia, you may see violence even, all things that non-LGBT people perceive, but you almost never see a character staying in the closet because they think the world should be shielded from them or because they think they really ARE just going through a phaze, etc. There’s almost never any of the psychological effects of living in a prejudiced society. Things you need to be LGBT for in order to understand.
Off the top of my head, the only films I can think of where the characters show how rejection can cause personal problems are Saving Face where a character is closeted and her behavior alienates her partner, Cloudburst (Everyone should watch Cloudburst btw) where a character keeps her sexuality hidden to “protect her family” and Tokyo Godfathers where the character experiences emotional pain over not being able to bear children. Thaaat’s it. Three movies.
Source: I make an effort to watch every single “LGBT movie” out there. There’s so few that I can do that.
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