Disability Awareness, Access, and Positivity

I love her, she's great. Her recipes are friendly for both physical and/or intellectual disabilities. And her 5-year-old helps her cook. 🥰

Link to her YouTube channel:

The image is a textpost that reads:

This #WorldDownSyndromeDay, we've joined forces with @‌coordown and other international Down syndrome organizations to spread the powerful message: No Decision Without Us. [flexed biceps emoji] People with disabilities deserve a seat at the table where decisions are made about their lives, their futures, and their rights. Let's work together toward a world where every voice is valued. #NoDecisionWithoutUs #WDSD25

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The text accompanies a video posted by @ ndssorg on TikTok.

The video shows people with various disabilities forcefully requesting that they not be left out of the decision-making process when the decisions affect them directly. The persons with disabilities shown include:

Sophia, a young teen with Down's Syndrome protesting at not being consulted over what dress she should wear to someone's wedding

A smart-suited young man in a wheelchair, protesting at not being consulted regarding the design of a train station, taking his place at the meeting table and planting a figurine of a person in a wheelchair in front of the flight of steps leading up to the train platform in the architectural model

A little person in medical scrubs, protesting that the shelves of medical supplies that she needs for her work are beyond her reach, even with her arm stretched as far as she can vertically

A deaf person protesting at a student assembly that a fire alarm is of little use to the hard-of-hearing community if it is only sound-based

A person with visual disability pointing out that an airport touch screen is of little use to the visually-challenged community if all your fingertips can sense is flatness

A smart-suited young woman with a prosthetic leg and a smart-suited young man (possibly with Down's Syndrome) forcefully requesting a legislative assembly to give them seats at the lawmaking table as well, if the laws that are being made will have an impact on them too

The video draws to a close with Sophia storming into the room at the start of the video wearing an outfit of her own choice: a leather jacket, a black bustier top, a choker necklace and a purple tutu. The whole sequence ends with the cast raising their fists in the air in a show of united strength.

Today, the BBC World Service aired an interview with one of the ADAPT activists who participated in the Capital Crawl. (Unfortunately, and supremely ironically, there is no transcript at the site where this interview streams, but if you can, and want to, you can listen to the interview here):

Rideshare, taxi, and private drivers

Delivery drivers

Postal carriers

Children

Tourists

Trump accidentally does a good thing.

Though I'm not sure if this will actually do anything. Sometimes I feel like his EOs are like Michael Scott declaring bankruptcy. He doesn't seem to understand what he actually has power over.

And I wonder if he knew "woke" disability activists were asking for this if he would have changed his view to spite them.

In any case, banning straws will not save the world. A tiny drop in a vast bucket of plastic waste. Fishing nets cause orders of magnitude more damage to sea life. This was mostly a PR move that some thought would be an "easy win" because they had a photo of a turtle with a straw up its nose.

Salutations all! Just letting everyone know that I've gone through all my posts and updated everything with alt text to make it more accessible. ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚

Also I now have everything up on my AO3 and will be posting on there alongside this blog. So if you prefer to read on there, thats also an option! о( ˶^▾^˶ )о

Please let me know if there is any tweaks, things I can do, or keep in mind to make this blog easier for you to use. I have a family member and close friend with dyslexia, so I've been trying to use emphasis and colors in my posts to assist with that.

In case anyone is interested, here are some references for blog, website, and graphic designing in a disability friendly way~

-> A visual guide

[ID: a graphic with simple figures. on the left is a column of 3 identical images of a wheelchair user sitting in front of a pedestrian. on the right are examples of do's and don'ts. the first don't is a person attempting to step over the wheelchair user. the second don't shows a person attempting to push the wheelchair user. the final image is a do with a person saying "excuse me" to the wheelchair user]

❌ stepping over wheelchair users

❌ pushing wheelchair users