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Beware the Dog

@beware-the-dog

· filled with wanderlust · insane crippled fucking freak ·

i feel like disability advocacy and homeless advocacy go hand in hand. like overlap aside, if you can't be normal about homeless people then you probably can't be normal about disabled people either

i know there's an overlap in these demographics btw but like. both groups:

- difficulty getting healthcare (if not denied all together)

- treated like shit when visibly disabled/homeless

- may have the police called on them for being in public

- ignored + not looked at + not talked to. as if ppl are afraid to acknowledge these ppl as ppl.

- difficulty accessing public spaces for various reasons

- treated like they have no value to society as living breathing people

- often thought of as inherently drug seeking

etc etc. and being disabled can make you homeless and being homeless can make you disabled and society is a pit for people who are considered to be at the bottom of it

references of my werewolf oc, nikita. cast out from a militant pack of prisonyard dogs for disobedience, nowadays he’s mainly unpleasant and aimless and addicted to painkillers

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i want to masturbate but i cant afford the name brand stuff so im always jakeing off and busting a rut and shit

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such base indulgences are beneath me

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now if youll excuse me. back to meating off.

Quick reminder since apparently it bears reminding in both directions: if bigoted people, closed-minded people overall, or your own internalized insecurities misinterpret a queer person’s message in a way that hurts/endangers you, yeah, it sucks, but it’s not the fault of the queer person in question, nor should it be a reason for them to silence themselves. They’re probably as hurt/pissed as you are that someone misinterpreted and misused their message to do harm.

Of course sadly there’ll still be queer people that actually DO mean harm and dismissal to other queer people – I ain’t speaking for those and it’s not the best way to ensure their and others’ wellbeing imo. I’m just saying – not all people will be like that. That’s what I want to believe. So hopefully let’s not put everyone in the same bag, keep supporting each other, WHILE allowing each other to advocate for our own visibility, without having to self-erase or self-censor to accomodate to what haters might say.

It’ll be tougher this way, maybe, because humans seem to like to draw extreme conclusions very quick, but I don’t believe there’s any better way for us all to be alright and stay alright on the long run.

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"When people talk about gender-affirming surgery using words like “mutilation,” that's not very nice. Is that how you think about people who've had surgery for other things? It's a disgust reaction, and I do not take disgust into account as a legitimate point of discourse. I don't have to entertain it and I'm not going to. It's a waste of everybody's time, it's knee-jerk, it's not grounded in reality, and it's not useful. And it's a squeamishness about medical intervention. I think the idea of making legislative or cultural decisions in and around [that] is laughable. Your squeamishness is not what the world turns on; it doesn't matter."

Liv Hewson in Teen Vogue (italics added by me for emphasis)