what a gastly sight

I don’t know if this post has been made yet but I just want to warn everybody that if someone stops you in a parking lot and asks you if you’re interested in some perfume and hands you a paper to smell, PLEASE DON’T SMELL IT.

i repeat, DON’T SMELL IT.

So the story goes, I really liked this photo and when I saw my tampon string I was disappointed for a moment because I thought it took away the beauty of the photo. Then I laughed at myself and shook off that negative thinking because I think it makes the photo even more beautiful. Fuck the demonizing of menstruation. 

I am a woman. I bleed. I fight. I survive. 

Women should be creative, but men are artists

Women should know how to cook, but men are chefs

it is illegal for developmentally and intellectually disabled people to vote in 39 states 

at least 70% of polling sites nationwide are physically inaccessible and less than half of these sites offer curbside voting 

disabled people are about 20% less likely to vote than abled people

do you hold abled people, who are perfectly free to vote however they please, to the same standard? do you demand they know every scrap of information there is to know about a law/candidate, and prove to you that their knowledge is good enough for you?

what is your basis for believing that ID/DD people cannot understand these things? is it simply because you measure their value as a person by the standard of ‘intelligence’, which is rooted in eugenics, and think their thought process is inferior because it’s different than yours? are you simply basing your perception of their minds on the fact that they might be non-verbal, stim in ways that you don’t approve of, or cannot be forced to assimilate into ablenormativity?

if you’re so concerned for their “ability to understand”, why are you actively not working to make political issues accessible to everyone? why are you not working to ensure that people accommodate their rhetoric to all minds, use accessible language, always have interpreters, make their events mobility aid accessible, deliver pamphlets or videos with braille and audio interpretation, have sensory rooms at political events, &etc. so that disabled people can participate in our own society?

why do you find it acceptable to punish disabled people for the abuse we are subjected to by abled people? why do you find it necessary to ban disabled people - especially ID/DD people - from voting, rather than ban and/or prosecute abled people who are manipulating and abusing them, as well as committing voting fraud?

even if you “feel like a child” in your 20s you are still a legal adult with all the responsibility that comes with it. you are being creepy

Stop Killing My Husband!!! Free Mumia Nowww!!!

Visit with Mumia & Medical Update

Wadiya Jamal With Great Pride, April 11, 2015

(Note: 1st image is Mumia back in 2012; 2nd and 3rd photo are Mumia now - 2015. He is dying due to medical neglect aka prison torture…)

…you all stand on his shoulders. That meant that he is carrying you and all of US. It’s time for US to carry HIM. You understand?

Because my husband, he is dying. Don’t feel no way if I get emotional. I’m feeling the way I’m supposed to feel. I’m not coming at you all. But I want to tell you that I just left that man in a wheelchair, trembling.

Mumia had to bring himself down to the visiting room from the prison infirmary in an old wheelchair, not motorized. He had to use his arms that were weak and in pain; his breathing was labored.

I was in shock at how he looked. We embraced and kissed. When I saw him reading legal papers, his hands were shaking hard. I put my hands on his hands and tried to steady him so he could read the information. He was shivering so hard, my hands were shaking as well.

I put my arms around him and my head to his chest to hear his heart and to bring some warmth to his body because he said he was freezing. And then the guard comes and tells us “no hugging.” I was just trying to keep him warm. Other couples were sitting close and snuggling.

My husband is innocent. He killed no one. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: His only crime is he survived a severe gunshot to the chest and a serious ass-whipping by “Philly’s finest” and then they attempted to kill him in his hospital bed by stepping on his urine bag by flushing the poison back on him.

And now they are trying to do it again.

The way my husband looks today, it looks like they are going to succeed, unless we get some real doctors up there to take care of him. I mean for real: Mumia’s life is at risk.

It is execution by medical neglect and mistreatment. The only way I see that Mumia is going to survive this is if he is free, because I can’t trust any of them.

WHAT CAN YOU DO???

Sign this petition to stop the Medical Execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal
 by Neglect and Malpractice!

Write to:

Wadiya Jamal, P.O. Box 19404, Kingsessing Station, Philadelphia, PA, 19143-9998

Mumia Abu-Jamal, AM 8335, SCI Mahanoy, 301 Morea Rd., Frackville, PA 17932

Call and Demand: Let SCI Mahanoy Superintendent John Kerestes and Secretary of Corrections John Wetzel know we insist that Mumia have medical specialists of his own choosing examine and treat him.

SCI Mahanoy Superintendent John Kerestes, 570-773-2158

SCI Mahanoy Chief Health Care Administrator Steinhardt, 570-773-2158

Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Health Care Services Director Christopher Oppman, 717-728-5309

Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Secretary John Wetzel, 717-728-4109

Support and contribute to the Indiegogo online campaign to raise money to help pay from the legal and medical campaign for Mumia, including costs for Mumia’s family, friends and core organizers to travel to see Mumia.

Please also make a generous donation to the Mumia Abu Jamal Medical Crisis Fund specifically by and for the family.