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#Repost @whalar with @use.repost ・・・ The Queens have arrived! Tomorrow is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities and to celebrate we’re sharing a few words of wisdom from our #BeyondDisability Queens - @c_talent_ creators @crutches_and_spice @imtiffanyyu @shelbykinsxo @theheumannperspective & @immarollwithit ! 👑 Link in bio to watch our Beyond Disability podcast series on YouTube! #Whalar #CreatorEconomy #DisabilityAdvocate #DisablityAwareness #InclusionMatters Images: 1. Photo of 5 disabled people and the text “celebrating IDPD with our #BeyondDisability Queens. 2. Clapback Queen [mani Barbarin o @crutches_and_spice "Disabled people account for about 25% to 26% of the population at any given time. So when you don't make things accessible, you're not reaching as many people as you could be. 3. Advocacy Queen Tiffany Yu [ @imtiffanyyu "As a disability community, we have spent a long time not being paid attention to, but now we're starting to realize that we have power and influence as our social media channels grow." 4. Fashion Queen Shelby [ @shelbykinsxo "Working with Disabled people, having them within your business to check [that it's accessible], and paying them for their time - that's what needs to happen." 5. Legendary Queen Judy Heumann [ @theheumannperspective "I think it's important for us as Disabled individuals to think about what you want the world you live in to look like and the role you can play to really continue to transform our societies." 6. Dancing Queen Mya Pol [ @immarollwithit 000 "Having a diverse experience of different disabilities, and people with those disabilities to give their input, is really important. They'll help address access barriers and make the space far more inclusive.” https://www.instagram.com/p/Clt1RDZua5t/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Posted @withregram • @pacingpixie When we call a disability (not symptom or illness) 'mild' or 'severe', it ranks Disabled people by their proximity to an 'abled' standard. Those that deviate most significantly are labelled 'severely' Disabled. This standard is informed by a Capitalist system that values being 'productive' above all else. But we all know that your productivity is not your worth. So can we break this ableist yard stick already? ID: it says, "Disability is often conceptualised like this:" There is a picture of a scale with "Severely Disabled" on one end and "non-Disabled" on the other". When it really looks more like this:" There is a picture of a network in the shape of a heart where every node is a different colour. "It's a network, a web, a matrix" "and a beautiful one at that" #disability #disabilityawareness #disabilityadvocate #ableismistrash #ableism #capitalismsucks #disabilitypride #thefutureisaccessible #accessislove #disabledandproud #disabilityisdiversity #diversity #diversityandinclusion #cripple #cripplepunk #intellectualdisabilities #inclusionrevolution #diversityisbeautiful #differentnotless #babewithamobilityaid #wheelchairdontcare #diversityispower #disabilitycommunity #grateful #community #disabilityjustice #disabilitysupport #capitalismkills #anticapitalism #ableismexists https://www.instagram.com/p/CPYy1xHDomvbh4yLgArwexMBcUp7ynEE5iWBdk0/?utm_medium=tumblr

Long Cane Life 🦯 . . . As many of you know since my beloved guide dog @unityguidedog retired I’ve had to resort back to using the long cane until I’m partnered with my new guide dog. I’ll be entirely honest with you, I’ve never really been a lover of the cane. I’m a guide dog person through and through. I had a very turbulent start using it in my early years. People didn’t think I was sight impaired to need one. This was partly because my sight loss was misdiagnosed when I was 2. So people isn’t realise the extent of how badly my vision was impacted. So when I was eventually introduced to it, I was really self conscious using it. I then had an accident at school when I was using it which involved falling down a flight of stairs during a fire drill which involved me going to hospital for a major adrenal collapse. So it’s fair to say my journey with my cane hasn’t been an easy one. But I’m trying to build up my skills and confidence. I’ve had counselling to deal with my past traumas and anxieties. I’m currently on the waiting list to receive more long cane training and I’m trying to use it where I can as much as possible. Although going back to using one after years with a guide dog during a pandemic is very hard. But I’m proud of my journey so far, my skills have improved and my mental attitude towards using it has totally changed. I now see it as my mobility and I see the merit of working on my skills now until I get my next guide dog. Sometimes in life you have to push yourself out of your comfort zone. Because in doing that that’s how we reap the rewards. . . . Photo Description: a photo of Emily wearing an orange print dress and tan wedged shoes. She is holding a gold long cane and standing in her garden. . . . #Disability #DisabilityAdvocate #DisabilityAwareness #DisabilityPride #DisabilityLife #DisabilityInclusion #DisabilityBlogger #DisabilitySupport #DisabledFashion #DisabledLife #DisabledandProud #DisabledWomen #Blind #SightLoss #CottageCore #CottageCoreFashion #CottageCoreAsthetic #CottageCoreStyle #SummerStyles #OutfitofTheDay #InspiredByNature #SeasonalLiving #SeasonalFashion #OrangeDress #OrangeAsthetic (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSOvTUNqIu_/?utm_medium=tumblr

YOU DESERVE A SPACE TO FEEL RAGE. 🌿I’ve been trying to write about the rage and despair I’ve been feeling for weeks, but I haven’t been able to find the words. I’m new to anger. For decades, it wasn’t safe for me to be angry, so I’m just now rediscovering the feeling. I can’t quite grasp my rage, but I feel strongly that we need a place to express it. If you’re sick/disabled and pissed as hell, please share your feelings below! I will delete comments that invalidate the feelings of sick and disabled people. 🌿It’s okay to be angry that now when they can see how lonely, how left out we have been, they turn away. To rage now that they’ve shown their hand: they were capable of providing access the entire time. They just didn’t care to, until it affected them. Until it was their lives shoved into boxes and tucked away, until they too couldn’t see friends, until it was their relatable suffering. Not the shame of illness, but the virtue of preventative wellness. 🌿I think my feelings boil down to being left behind. To having able people come so close to understanding how small and lonely our lives have been, and choose to look away. To have our governments declare they are prioritizing the vulnerable, and then ignore sick, disabled, and elderly people. To be reminded that our lives are considered collateral damage. I don’t know how to live with this, but I know step one is talking about it with our communities. 🌿#ChronicIllness #InvisibleIllness #ContestedIllness #MECFS #PwME#POCwME #DysautonomiaAwareness #Undiagnosed #InvisibleDisabilities #disability #DisabilityStudies #DisabilityRights #DisabledAndProud #DisabilityAdvocate #Ableism #crip #SocialWork #resistance #feminism #sociology #biopolitics #sick #SickGirlsClub #illness #spoonie #SpoonieLife 🌿ID: A solid orange background with a pink and purple watercolour splotch in the center. Over the splotch is the text, “You deserve a space to feel rage” in small caps. (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-mvCScj7iu/?igshid=1fjhehitx4cxl