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The way that we learn about Helen Keller in school is an absolute outrage. We read “The Miracle Worker”- the miracle worker referring to her teacher; she’s not even the title character in her own story. The narrative about disabled people that we are comfortable with follows this format- “overcoming” disability. Disabled people as children. Helen Keller as an adult, though? She was a radical socialist, a fierce disability advocate, and a suffragette. There’s no reason she should not be considered a feminist icon, btw, and the fact that she isn’t is pure ableism- while other white feminists of that time were blatent racists, she was speaking out against Woodrew Wilson because of his vehement racism. She supported woman’s suffrage and birth control. She was an anti-war speaker. She was an initial donor to the NAACP. She spoke out about the causes of blindness- often disease caused by poverty and poor working conditions. She was so brave and outspoken that the FBI had a file on her because of all the trouble she caused.

Yet when we talk about her, it’s either the boring, inspiration porn story of her as a child and her heroic teacher, or as the punchline of ableist, misogynistic jokes. It’s not just offensive, it’s downright disgusting.

the reason the story stops once hellen keller learns to talk is no one wanted to listen to what she had to say

how’s that for a fucking punchline

Another part of the story that is often conveniently omitted is that Anne Sullivan, the “miracle worker” in question, was also a visually impaired woman (and abolitionist) who faced her own struggles finding accessible education. That was why she was able to teach Helen Keller and connect her with resources that would allow her to flourish in academia. When Helen Keller was railing against poverty-induced diseases that caused blindness, she was talking about things like trachoma which was what had caused her friend’s vision loss.

The fact that Sullivan is often portrayed as able-bodied in retellings of their story is indicative of the narrative that is most comfortable for an ableist society: that accessibility and equality are gifts bestowed upon the disabled by able-bodied heroes. Disabled children are never taught that they have the power to lift each other up, and that’s a crying shame.

Hello, nerds! Welcome to Elmax week! 💜❤️

  • DATE: from the 28th of August to the 3rd of September but we’ll be accepting submissions up to 3 weeks after the event

RULES

  1. Every work you submit must be tagged as #elmaxweek2023 so that we can see it and reblog it!
  2. Any type of work can be part of the event! Submit everything and anything as long it has to do with our girls! Ofc
  3. This is a romantic Elmax week not platonic. Also try to avoid Elumax, please. Your works can have minor or background relationships but the main pair must be Elmax.
  4. Also please try to keep this SFW but if it isn’t, please tag the post as NSFW and hide it under the cut so that we know!
  5. Avoid smut but if there is, again tag the work as such!

FANFIC PROMPTS:

  1. Roomates AU
  2. Rink-O’-Mania fix it (Max goes to Cali instead of Mike or both go to Cali together)
  3. 1930s AU
  4. Hanahaki AU
  5. Post comatose Max
  6. Second Chances
  7. Self discovery journey and coming out

MOODBOARD AND FANART PROMPTS:

  1. Summer days
  2. Sleep overs and night time activities
  3. Shopping and Music
  4. Sports AU
  5. Flowers and nature
  6. Historical AU
  7. Vacation and First Date

PROMPTS FOR EDITS AND GIFS:

  1. First meeting
  2. Spiderman AU
  3. Girl In Red theme
  4. Mileven break up
  5. Will’s monologue played over Elmax scene
  6. Favorite Outfits
  7. Free day

We’ll be posting some moodboards to set the mood!

And remember, we make our own rules! 💜❤️

I love and support any type of queer Mike truthers. You think Mike's gay? Me too! You think he's bi? That seems plausible! You think he's unlabeled? Makes sense!

But if you think El is anything other than a raging lesbain you're dead wrong.

when will byers is “so many things that i wish you knew so many walls up i cant break through” and when mike wheeler is “id tell you i miss you but i dont know how ive never heard silence quite this loud” and when byler is “a simple complication, miscommunication leads to fallout”

reminders that trans people and queer people died in the holocaust. neo nazis hate us because the actual nazis hated us

I love being a trans Jew bc everyone's so nice abt it, and my synagogue even wants to do a re-naming ceremony where we announce my new english + Hebrew name

that’s lovely :3

Because I'm only seeing other Jews posting about this, non-Jews I need you to be aware that for the past month or two there has been a wave of bomb threats and swattings at synagogues all across the US. They usually do it when services are being livestreamed. I haven't seen a single non-Jew talking about this. High holidays are coming up in a few weeks, which is when most attacks happen against our communities. We're worried, and we need people to know what's happening to us.