#disabledpoc

Our Inspiration for the day is @JillianMercado ! She is a professional disabled model of colour who has modeled for names such as Beyonce. She is also a member of the lgbt+community, as well as the creator of @BlackDisabledCreative Thank you so much for including us on your website! ⁠

COMPLICATING NO CONTACT WITH CULTURE. If anyone else in my life refused to accept that I am sick and disabled, insisted I act as if I am not, was consistently dismissive of me, and was controlling to the point of making decisions on my behalf, I would cut them out. But I don’t want to cut out my family. I love my family, I love the raucous parties and the hoards of screaming children. I love having lumpia and roast beef on the same plate, with vinegar chili sauce on the side. I love the short hand I have with my cousins, the understanding that comes with having shared our childhoods. I hate our toxic family culture: the lack of communication, the strict hierarchy of the generations, the way we can name abuse as it happens but strip it from our minds immediately after. While I brace myself for our interactions, I also find that other parts of myself relax. In our white dominated society, I take on the role of #ModelMinority or the Exotic Ethnic. I find myself explaining my otherness constantly, if not tucking it away to be more approachable. Among other Filipinx people, I question whether or not I am Filipino enough. With my family, I am exactly the kind of Filipino I need to be. If I give up my family, I give up nearly all of my connections with my culture and my childhood. I’m in an interracial relationship! My only family culture would be one I do not share. I value my family, even if they only value a certain version of me. Maybe that’ll change in the future, (I suspect it will) but for now, I’m holding on. #Asian #AsianDiaspora #AsianMentalHealth #Filipinx #Filipino #ChronicIllness #InvisibleIllness #Sick #SickGirlsClub #Spoonie #POCwME #Disabled #DisabledPOC #InvisibleDisability #DisabilityAdvocate #MedicalAbuse #Ableism #Crip #Trauma #ToxicPeople #ToxicFamily #IntergenerationalTrauma #ComplexPTSD #FamilyTrauma #Queer https://www.instagram.com/p/B7oU0ZyAqQN/?igshid=18o9ero8y70zo

Our inspo of the day is @bossbeautyyy She is a youtuber, makeup artist and gorgeous paraplegic of colour. ⁠

#Repost @mia.mingus (@get_repost) ・・・ that’s right. and we are not going anywhere. disability is part of every community and every freedom fight—and yes, that means yours. ableism is bound up with all oppression and violence. (what do you think happens to bodyminds living through war, surveillance, colonization, domestic and sexual violence?) though we are often treated as after thoughts when it comes to social justice and movement building work, disabled people (of color) comprise one of the largest oppressed groups on. the. planet. . PS: thank you to the Disability Visibility Project (aka @alicatsamurai) for this shirt! 💘💘💘 for those who have asked, you can get the shirt at disabilityvisibilityproject.com. ✨✨✨ . [photo of me wearing a shirt that reads, “unapologetically disabled.” at the bottom it reads, “disabilityvisibilityproject.com.”] . #disability #DVP #disabilityvisibilityproject #alicewong #miamingus #disabled #ableism #unapologeticallydisabled #disabledwoc #disabledpoc #disabledqueer #queer #korean #KAD #disabledadoptee #nooneisfreeuntileveryoneisfree

I wrote this back in February when the ACA repeal was first being debated. @wp4rj shared it again last night in light of that bs the GOP had the nerve to put disabled and chronically ill POC through, and yeah, I'm singling out POC here. Read the full essay here: https://philadelphia-printworks.myshopify.com/blogs/news/threshold-of-revelation-a-disabled-queer-killjoy-on-national-themes #saveaca #skinnyrepeal #savemedicaid #adaptandresist #disabled #disability #chronicillness #disabilitytoowhite #disabledpoc #poc #fdt #Repost @wp4rj (@get_repost) ・・・ A win tonight but barely. Keep fighting. Inspiration from @baniamor. "...It takes from ten minutes to several hours for a human’s eyes to adjust to the dark but for some, it’s been centuries. This couldn’t be more evident in Angels in America, whose only non-white and most femme character, Belize, seems to hold all the answers to the problems of the fledgling white gay men orbiting him... . "In the play, the TV adaptation and in the United States at large, the face of HIV/AIDS is a white middle-class gay man. Watching it, I - a low-income disabled queer gender-nonconforming person of color - have so many questions, like how Prior can afford his endless stream of meds, how he can afford not to work and live alone in the West Village; how he avoids being discriminated against within the medical complex. While we collectively watch the dismembering of the Affordable Care Act, a piece of legislation that was insufficient in a healthcare system that’s world-renowned for its lack of humanity, in 2017, the face of disability is white. The face of “the LGBT community” is white. But how can the face of HIV/AIDS possibly remain white, over three decades after its outbreak in the US, despite all evidence to the contrary? . "...I wonder if the white disabled and “LGBT” communities see Black southerners, women and queer people in particular, as the face, or even a part, of their movements; of their work to save ACA. "It did not take a Trump presidency for me to realize that my enemy sees me more than my purported ally ever will." (at Montreal, Quebec)

What started out as a bit of light-hearted fun about wanting pizza, wings and a double mocha cappuccino at 6:33am turned into a teachable moment for many of my followers. Here is how they learned about some of my daily struggles as a #disabledWOC.

Another day ending in y where I tackle ableism. Plus, my perspective as a Housebound #disabledWOC on the latest round of 'Hashtag Activism" bashing.