welcome to This Is About Disabilities! we post things submitted to us relating to disabilities, things (posts, ideas, things u have experienced irl) that refuse to mention how what theyre talking about effects disabled people, or things in media that are read as non-disabled — even when they are! generally, this is an archive about anything to do with unacknowledged disabilities!
this sideblog is heavily inspired by many other this-is blogs (like @this-is-saneism , @this-is-ableism , @this-is-pluralphobia — used your layout for this post!! sorry!! also sorry for the tags — let me know if you want to be untagged!)
WE ARE ENDO SAFE! while this blog isnt focused on plurality, the mod is plural and pro endo. all people can submit things!
— how do we work?
( pt: — how do we work? )
put your experiences with disabilities being ignored in the ask box! you can also ask questions, (e.g: "is this [insert movie with abstract themes of disabilities] about disabilities?" , "is [insert thing] supposed to be about disabilities?" , "will disabilities be affected by [insert thing]?") sometimes we wont know the answer, but we'll try our best! if we really dont know the answer, we'll reply to the ask and let the community decide!
we dont do callout posts. if you send in a post from a user because theyre excluding disabilities from something, we ask you send a ss of it with their username blurred, or just summarise the post.
— dictionary:
( pt: — dictionary: )
ableism — the discrimination against people with disabilities
saneism — the discrimination against people who have mental disorders or cognitive impairment
intersectionality — different aspects of a person's identity (e.g. race, gender, class, sexuality, disability) overlap to create a UNIQUE experience of discrimination/privilege. its NOT their marginalised identities adding up, and is instead related to how having different marginalised identities can lead to separate types of discrimination. (e.g. the way that black trans women experience different kinds of discrimination relating to their transgender identity than to white trans women due to their race) sorry if this one was explained weird, its hard to summarise ;-;
feel free to ask for any definitions to be added here!
— about the blog's mod !
im a multiply disabled, transgender, queer, plural, mentally ill man! its just me running this blog, so please be patient with asks and whatnot. i use it/he pronouns (heavy it/its pref) only and do not like being referred to with they/them, thank you!
