divergent: when disability and feminism collide

Well said-

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Ableism has informed the US’s pandemic response since the beginning. Last week, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky cited the “encouraging” data that the majority of Covid deaths are in those with 4 or more pre-existing medical conditions. This statement and its phrasing lay bare what disabled people have seen clearly - that their/our lives are disposable to those who are guiding public health policy, that the deaths of disabled people are considered an acceptable loss.

Rather than protecting the most vulnerable, our leaders have asked us to carry the burden of survival alone, so everyone else can act as though things are “normal“.

Disabled people (and fat people, pregnant people, elders, and other vulnerable folks) are not expendable. People of color and poor people are not expendable. Our public health response is based on eugenicist logics, insisting that we normalize millions of preventable deaths.

A humane and coherent public health strategy would take a fraction of the money and energy our government spends on militarism, incarceration, and policing. The lack of action on Covid is an extension of this violence, an unacceptable - if predictable - response from a society that values white supremacy and profit for the wealthy over the survival and care of its people.

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Image: Linoleum block print of black and white sunflowers with yellow petals growing on either side of the words “Disabled people deserve to live” in dark green lettering.

This is such an iconic show, and the episode when Dorothy confronts the doctor who dismissed her chronic pain and fatigue was so powerful.




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30 Years Ago, “The Golden Girls” Treated Sick Women like We Matter Three decades later, “Sick and Tired” remains a cultural touchstone for people with chronic illnesses.

Thank you to Mia and for American Progress for shining a light on this important issue -

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Food insecurity rises among disabled people, but solutions exist In 2020, disabled adults were twice as likely to be food insecure as adults without disabilities.

100%, yes!

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✨⭐️ you shouldn’t have to worry about being weight shamed at the doctors. ⭐️✨

✨ Weight sigma can manifest in many different ways at the doctors office. It may be a disapproving look as you step off the scale or worse - blaming all of your symptoms on weight.

✨ weight alone is not a predictor of health. The focus many providers have on diet and exercise alone assumes that weight is always within a person’s control, when often it’s tied to a number of factors, including someone’s income, neighborhood, access to healthy food & so much more. You can also be healthy with a larger body.

💓 we deserve access to high quality healthcare without weight shame and stigma.

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Ableism is still so pervasive and we have a long way to go. Thanks to Disabled Feminist for sharing thus and for your caption here-

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Colorado's first lawmaker to use a wheelchair will finally get to wield the gavel State Rep. David Ortiz was paralyzed from the waist down while serving in Afghanistan. To give him access to the House podium, legislative staff say they have built the first lift of its kind.

A new blog post from Lei Wiley Autism Acceptance Lending library on “Caring for Community”.

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Caring For Community With the Neurodivergent Narwhals Vaccines, Covid and Neurodivergent Narwhals! Thank you so much to Tiffany Tuttle Collins, who provided image descriptions for this social story! The rainbow-colored Ed Wiley Autism Acceptance Lendi…