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TRAILER FOR MY SHOW, “ALLAH EARTH: THE CYCLE OF LIFE” coming to New York City next month!

My show has sign language, dance, mime, music, and poetry. Open to all ages.

Buy tickets through New York Fringe (tickets are sold through Eventbrite)

FACEBOOK EVENT (so you can stay updated, it includes all 4 dates)

Any reblogs would really help me. Please send this to your family or friends in New York City! thanks!!!

HEY GUYS!!! My 1st show on October 20 is almost sold out– GET YOUR TICKETS BEFORE THEY’RE GONE!!!

OCT 20 (OPENING NIGHT)

Oct 21, Sunday at 7:00pm
Oct 23, Tuesday at 4:45pm
Oct 27, Saturday at 1:15pm

Please reblog and share with your contacts in New York City!!! ANY WORD OF MOUTH HELPS!

Less than 2 weeks before my show opens!!! I’m so nervous and excited!!! Please REBLOG and share my shows with your friends!!!

Booooost!!!!! COME TO MY SHOW, SEE ME PERFORM, AND MEET ME IN PERSON AND GET A PHOTO!!!! You’re gonna love me, I promise :’) 

alarajrogers:

candidlyautistic:

ladyautie:

socialjusticewargames:

I saw a post the other day where a disabled person wrote about some sci-fi story where technology had eradicated disabilities. And the OP wrote “So in this utopia, I’m not supposed to exist!?” I couldn’t think of a way to explain to that kind of person that wanting somebody to be able to walk is not the same as wanting that person to stop existing.

It’s more complicated than that. 

I’m autistic. Let’s say that, in the future, every disability was erased. Either I would have been aborted, so that my disabled ass wouldn’t have tainted this “utopia”, or I just wouldn’t have been autistic, which mean that I wouldn’t have been “me”. 

My autism shapes the person that I am. Without it, I would have no idea what kind of person I would be. It wouldn’t be me. I wouldn’t “exist”, yeah.

Also, you can create a cool sci-fi story with great and helpful technology for disabled people. No need to erase disability and to be ableist.

Unless the story is explicitly about undermining that utopia (apres The Giver), any author that removes disabled people from a story about a “perfect” world or society is showing their biases. A flawless utopia without diversity says a lot about a person.

I think it would be fair to say no current disabilities both exist and are still defined as disabilities, but there’s new disabilities caused by the technology or culture of the future.

For example, if we have the ability to regrow nerve tissue, then no one would have a spinal fracture that leaves them having to use a wheelchair. But what if the ability to regrow nerve tissue comes with side effects that can be disabling?

And then there’s neurodivergences, like autism and ADHD. What if a combination of assistive technologies and social change causes those things to no longer be defined as disabilities, where the parts that directly impact our ability to do stuff – such as executive dysfunction or being non-verbal – are aided with assistive technologies implanted in the brain, and the parts that don’t – such as stimming – are socially accepted and no one has a problem with it? That isn’t the same thing as “autism doesn’t exist” but it might not be considered a thing people care about enough to point out “some people are autistic” any more than we feel the need to say “some people like spicy food” or “some people are introverts”.

I can’t remember if it was fanfic or professionally published, but I recall a Star Trek story where a Cardassian who had been stunned too many times had suffered nerve damage as a result, and had a disability that doesn’t exist in the real world because we don’t have phasers with stun settings. Not that Star Trek has ever pretended to be a world without disabilities – Christopher Pike and Geordi LaForge both come to mind – but there’s obviously less disability in Star Trek than in the real world, because they can fix a lot more problems than we can. In the Marvel universe, they keep giving Charles Xavier back the ability to walk because it doesn’t make any sense that in a universe where new bodies can be cloned for people he should continue to be unable to walk, so as soon as “new clone body” became a plot point they eliminated their ability to keep someone long-term disabled by spine or leg damage. But they have mutants with disabilites caused by the inability to control their powers, such as Cyclops and Rogue, and those can’t be fixed by cloning someone. 

I do think it’s sloppy worldbuilding to try to say “there’s literally no disability whatsoever” (including in stories where they kill the disabled, because some people will slip through, particularly neurodivergent people who are good at faking normalcy.) Better to have some disabilities that have been cured, others that have much better treatment or assistive technology than today, and new ones we don’t have.

tuffdyke:

“I’ve made it very clear that even though i’m born female in this society that I don’t go to or perform in any space that is titled ‘women born women only.’ I am very happy to go to a space that says ‘all women welcome’ because then it is drawing like a magnet all those who self identify, who want to be in women’s spaces, and I feel like all people who are oppressed or discriminated against in this society have a right to get together y’know whether that be a third world caucus or it be a women’s dance, whatever it is. But, I think that when you begin to set a policy that defines who’s gonna be a women, and police the boundaries of it, then it’s not only a threat to everyone who doesn’t fit that, y’know ‘gee her feet are kind of big, her voice is kinda low, look at that beard growth, what do you think about that one’ it sets up a unhealthy atmosphere. Who’s pure enough to decide who’s woman enough? And I think also that it reverts back to a biological definition of women, which, biological determinism, it’s always been the club used against women! You can’t suddenly lift that up as a liberating weapon. I think that that kind of definition ‘women born women, that we’re all women, that we have identical experiences, it’s innate,’ is a setback to the women’s movement. I have always said that the only time I’d go into a space that had been ‘women born women only’ is when I could go together with my transexual sisters”

— Leslie Feinberg, when asked about Mich Fest in this interview

(racer anon) You’ve done so much for the pet pigeon community and I know how hard things can be sometimes.Oh, any tips for helping a racer get used to a life indoors? *Can* a racer be kept indoors? I opened a window earlier and she seemed so desperate to just fly out of it D: (dont worry she was caged) she’s gained so much energy over the past days and I’ll hopefully be able to befriend her soon. Thank you again ^-^

finn-just-chillin:

theramseyloft:

Thank you.

It makes it all worthwhile to know I’m making things easier for y’all who want a relationship with your pigeons.

Yes, a homer can be kept indoors (with LOTS of flight time!). It’s just a bit of a learning curve.

Ideally, there should be a room she has free run of, but I know that’s not always feasible.

If she needs to be caged, a modified dog kennel is most comfortable.

A lot like you would with a dove, making friends with her will mostly involve letting her come check you out at her own pace.

Feed and water her exclusively in her enclosure, with the exception of treats.

Not a pigeon on the planet seems to dislike safflower seeds, and visually interesting treats are really attention grabbing, so safflower seeds with a really varied finch or parakeet, or wild bird seed mix make a really eye catching treat for pigeons.

If she has never seen it before, sprinkle some beside her food dish the first time.

Her curiosity, once she gets comfortable with her surroundings, will be your best friend.

Things will stick better for her if she discovers them herself.

Most of making friends will be spending quiet time in the room with her while she explores it.
Tell her about things she’s looking at like you would a 5 year old who doesn’t know that word yet.

But let her decide when to interact with you at her own pace.

Eventually, she will get bold and explore you. Let her discover your hand, and let her be pleasantly surprised to find that there are treats and those are for her.

She may never be a cuddle bug, but there really isn’t a pigeon in the world that its impossible to be friends with.

You just have to let her define how close a friendship she’s comfortable with.

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Hey, it’s the anon who found the racing pigeon again :) we found a wound on her wing (it was well hidden between her flights) and are getting it treated with help from a local wildlife carer. called up the owners and they don’t want her back unless she comes back herself,and that’s obviously not happening. we also sexed her using the vent method (since it seems it’s been 100% for you so far) but yeah! I’ve been following for a year or two and just wanted to thank you for all of your hard work <3

finn-just-chillin:

theramseyloft:

I’m glad to be of service.

You have a pretty long road ahead with your new girl.
Performing racers tend to be high energy, flighty, skittish, and absolitely terrified of hands.

She will never be anything less than high energy, but she can be helped over her skittishness and fear of hands.

They are SMART!!!

The only pigeon smarter than a performing Racer is a Feral.

Start with getting her used to calm, quiet moments with you.
Talk to her. Explain everything like you would to a toddler.
You’ll notice her start to pick up words one at a time.

Start differentiating between want and need immediately.

If you have to pick her up, tell her you need to x because/to do/so that y.

If interacting with her is not necessary, watch her comfort level and withdraw when she gets anxious.
“I’m sorry.” is important for them to learn in reference to their discomfort being noticed and the cause being removed as soon as possible.

Ankhou has come to learn that “I’m sorry” means that I did not intentionally hurt/scare/make him uncomfortable, I noticed that he was hurt/scared/uncomfortable, I know what caused it, and will not to do that thing again on purpose.

Ankhou is a year old and I’ve had him since he fell out of his nest.

He’s had a long time to learn words, and has been taught since squeakerhood by some one who understands pigeon well enough to bridge the gap.

You posted anoyher ask, so I’ll go into more relationship building there.

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