in Deedee's Laboratory

If you dare come at me about banning straws, I will throw you into the sun cannon. I’m disabled, I’m crippled, I need disposable plastic straws, and all those pricey ridiculous alternatives aren’t working as well. Plastic straws were invented for the disabled.

Way to shit all over a vital access need because you think straws are worse than corporate greed.

We all care about the turtles, the seals, the oceans, obviously. Notice how the easiest thing to yell about was something that would barely affect anything but appealed heavily to emotional discourse.

The disabled community is huge, and it can be joined by anyone. Most of those As Seen On TV products were invented for us. Society still mocks us and ignores us, and often outright harms us in multiple ways.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/great-pacific-garbage-patch-plastics-environment/

Great explanation on why plastic straws are vital for the disabled community

Yes there’s corn and hemp straws. But we can’t ignore all the folks allergic and intolerant of corn and hemp. Stop bringing it up. Stop proudly declaring how well silicone works for you or your family. That’s not the point. You’re not advocating if you’re making it more about you than the whole situation.

“We were really told ‘she slept her way to the top’ instead of ‘men in power abused their power by withholding promotions and threatening demotions if they did not receive sex from their workers’”

TW: Rape, Sexual Assault 

Represent! #4 - “Believe You” (2021)

ABLED PERSON: Do it anyway. It will be fine.

Where is it

Description from Goodreads:

“Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society―she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. She’s also queer and Asian, a Vietnamese adoptee treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, while the most important doors remain closed to her.

But the world is full of wonders: infernal pacts and dazzling illusions, lost ghosts and elemental mysteries. In all paper is fire, and Jordan can burn the cut paper heart out of a man. She just has to learn how.”

Author Nghi Vo has also written the novellas Empress of Salt and Fortune and When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain, both of which feature excellent storytelling and finely-drawn queer characters (plus Tiger is sapphic as hell).