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daftpatience:

daftpatience:

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slow down for your disabled friends. thats like a bare minimum kindness that we shouldnt have to ask for. i love that youre so quirky and walking fast is a cool personality trait to you and all that but i bet you can count your physically disabled friends on less than one hand

ALT

ohhh this one resonated didnt it

I can understand (though definitely not agree with) how a lot of the Queer Community want to distance themselves from the abstract concept of “Disability” (thanks to how long, and how deeply, Queer Identities have been medicalized and pathologized, as a tool of oppression).

But maybe, instead of being disablist about it, we should:

1. Remove the stigma around disability, so that it can’t be used as a weapon against us, anymore.
2. Recognize that your actual, living, disabled, acquaintances are not abstract concepts, and
3. Maybe put your Identity as a Decent Friend ahead of your identity as a Gay Meme Play-Actor.

Just a thought…

Some time after reblogging this, I saw a discussion on one of OneTopic’s (YouTube channel) gay meme compilation videos (that I can’t find, now 😤), about the “Fast Gay” meme – that it stems from dressing for the Queer-Friendly Event you’re going to, but you’re scared to linger in the open where the “General Public” is, for fear of getting attacked. So you move super fast.

Which is really infuriating, on the fighting-for-our-right-to-exist front. And yet another reason for Queer/Disabled Solidarity.

Psst: Real Pride is not being intimidated from taking up space.

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oceanic-vampire:

oh and especially happy disability pride month to black disabled people diagnosed or not we’re a whole different level of neglected and its fuckin hard out here man

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dostoyevsky-official:

The [George W. Bush] aide said that guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. “That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

October 17, 2004

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distressed-devilsitter:

Seeing as how the Big Beautiful Bill just passed, here’s are some websites that offer discounts on medications:

- GoodRx

- SingleCare

- Pharmacy Checker

- WellRx - this one compares prices across different pharmacies

- Cost Plus - thanks to @thedamnqueenofhell for suggesting!

-NeedyMeds - a nonprofit that helps pay for prescriptions. Thank you to @allitdoesispause for the suggestion! They also suggested checking the manufacturers website for a paitent assistance program, which can give you a coupon for free or cheaper meds.

-Ask for a discount card - thank you to @cccshutdown for the reminder!

Stay safe, everyone. Things are about to get much, much worse in the US.

EDIT: if you’re worried about doctor/therapy appointments, see if there’s a sliding scale clinic near you (and ask your therapist if they offer sliding scale prices)

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Pet Peeve: Sea shanties are not “Pirate songs”

When I was 5-turning-6, my mother joined the New York State-based environmental organization The Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, founded by Pete Seeger, with a working replica of a 1700s Dutch sailing vessel as its centerpiece, to entice people to come down to the river’s edge, see how beautiful it really is, and fight to protect it.

By the time I was a teenager, she’d been elected president of Clearwater’s board. For me, sea shanties (which I learned while sitting on deck, as Clearwater’s sails were raised) were my lullabies, nursery rhymes, and party songs.

So part of me loved it when sea shanties became that big trend around 2021. But I hate that so many people refer to them as “pirate songs,” shrinking down an entire historical legacy of working people to a Disney movie franchise, and a variety of video games.

And then, the other day, I remembered a storybook from when I was even younger than 5, that is even more explicit in its message that there are better things than pirates, that’s probably an even deeper influence.

Last night, I found a video of a Quaker woman reading the story book aloud. There’s some eye contact at the beginning, when she talks about the author, but the story proper begins at 1:24, and the camera is focused on the book’s pages.

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heretherebewolves:

blumineck:

Turning your back can be a very effective technique!

Patreon - everything else

THE HOPPING WITH THE HORSE I CAN’T

I know! I LOL’d.

Also, this TierZoo video makes the point that a horse’s strongest attack can be made at the same time as fleeing: Are Horses OP? (content warning for predator/prey violence)

And did you know that Hobby Horse equestrian sports are actually becoming official?

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forestlich:

capricorn-0mnikorn:

Oops! I failed… Help?

I got the idea in December/January (the most recent Resolution-making season, at any rate) that I wanted to write and self-publish a second book in time for this year’s Disability Pride Month.

I settled on the idea using the Grimm Brothers’ story “The Frog King, or Iron Heinrich” as a jumping-off point to explain disablism, both internal and external, and then to finish the book with my own expanded, reimagined, version of the story where the princess has more agency and emotional maturity, and the titular king’s disability has lingering effects in his human form.

I’m not even finished writing it, much less ready to publish.

I’ve finished my retelling of the original story (~1.6K words), and my reimagined version (~10.2K words), but my anxiety (and probably some executive dysfunction) has ganged up on me and kicked me in the jaw with massive writer’s block on the nonfiction parts of the book, especially since I want to aim this at a “general audience” (or at least, normate friends and family of disabled people) who’ve never thought much about this.

And I keep getting stuck on where to even start.

When I started, I thought I could just rework blog posts I’ve written here and elsewhere over the last 13 years, but then I realized that most of those were written for people already active in the Disability Community, and so we all shared at least some form of common foundation.

I was hoping to write this on my own. But I need to bounce ideas off other brains, and clarify my own thoughts by asking specific questions.

So: Halp? Talk to me? Please?

In the meantime, here’s a link to my other, and so far only, self-published book. (every time I hit a minimum of $5 in royalties, it’s enough to get transferred to my PayPal account):

The Monsters’ Rhapsody

1. What foundations do you need the reader to know?

2. If you don’t like writing a part, there’s a chance your readers won’t like reading it either. Have a thunk over whether you are subconsciously clinging to some form of structure that blocks your creative process.

A neat trick I’ve seen writers do when they’re writing an action scene that would just be pew-pew-pew, take too much time to draw for comic books or just *drag*: They just skip to the aftermath. Can add a real sense of mystery to the scene.

What would be the equivalent be for your Frog King?

Would love to discuss everything you want to discuss. You helped me a lot yourself a few years back.

Oh, I’m completely happy with the fictional story that will come at the end of the book; I think the ebb and flow of tension is as close to ideal as the real can come (every first shoe that is dropped at the beginning has its partner dropped by the end).

It’s the nonfiction parts (explaining how the monster motifs in “The Frog King” are connected to monster motifs in French medieval literature, how I came to see how disabled people have been treated like monsters in modern society, and how the disablist prejudices that are used to segregate actually disabled people are also used as the justification for a wide range of other bigotries: racism, sexism, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, etc.).

What foundations do you need the reader to know?

Ah. See, Now that’s the $64,000 question.

1. That Disability is more than a “modern issue”
2. That there’s a difference between Impairment and Disability
3. That various ’-isms’ are not simply thinking untrue, negative, things about [insert group here]
4. That codifying rights from the top down, in the form of laws, does not always lead to equality, and instead can some things worse (giving institutions a letter of the law to follow, so they can ignore the spirit)

But the thing is, I don’t know what I need to explain so that the reader can understand the points, above. So I don’t know where to even start.

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