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Every person need to be taught disability history

Not the “oh Einstein was probably autistic” or the sanitized Helen Keller story. but this history disabled people have made and has been made for us.

Teach them about Carrie Buck, who was sterilized against her will, sued in 1927, and lost because “Three generations of imbeciles [were] enough.”

Teach them about Judith Heumann and her associates, who in 1977, held the longest sit in a government building for the enactment of 504 protection passed three years earlier.

Teach them about all the Baby Does, newborns in 1980s who were born disabled and who doctors left to die without treatment, who’s deaths lead to the passing of The Baby Doe amendment to the child abuse law in 1984.

Teach them about the deaf students at Gallaudet University, a liberal arts school for the deaf, who in 1988, protested the appointment of yet another hearing president and successfully elected I. King Jordan as their first deaf president.

Teach them about Jim Sinclair, who at the 1993 international Autism Conference stood and said “don’t mourn for us. We are alive. We are real. And we’re here waiting for you.”

Teach about the disability activists who laid down in front of buses for accessible transit in 1978, crawled up the steps of congress in 1990 for the ADA, and fight against police brutality, poverty, restricted access to medical care, and abuse today.

Teach about us.

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It can be somewhat disheartening when you the artisans and craftsman of yesteryear who created miracles out of limited technology go forgotten. Always nice to see someone somewhere making tributes to them.

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"Don't use your autism / disability / mental illness as an excuse" is supposed to refer to people who use their condition as a shield for abusive behavior. It's not a sentence you say in response to every single thing a disabled, autistic, or mentally ill person does that is annoying or inconveniencing to you.

YES PLEASE

LIKE TO CHARGE, REBLOG TO CAST

Doing research for a thing everyone reblog or reply and tell me what you would do with your time if you didn’t have to work. Like if you suddenly got enough passive income to live a comfortable middle class life and you didn’t have to do a single thing to get it, what would you do all day? 

If you think your answer is embaraseing anon it to me.

I would want to start my own radio station. I want to specifically start a station where it's mostly female, black, and/or LGBT+ radio DJs because a lot of the radio landscape right now is mostly cishet white men unless it's a smaller local station, and we need more stations with marginalized voices at the helm. I'd also want people on the station to have full creative freedoms with their shows, too. They can play any music they want, talk about any topic they want, make any characters they want. As long as they're not like... Hateful or fucked up or something, then go for it. I'd probably run old episodes of TGDHS on it while working on new projects, too (although I'd do occasional new specials for TGDHS 'cause I do still love the characters).

Sharing this one. AGAIN.

(Image description: four color blocks with centered black text, the text says “Abortion on demand without apology”, “Respect bodily autonomy”, “My body my choice”, “Reproductive justice now”.)

Standing with all of the folks over in Ireland who are fighting for the right to reproductive choice. #Repealthe8th

Charter schools have never had a 'best practice' or innovation they could share becuase they do nothing better than other schools.

Senpai says you’re welcome

Reblogging again because I just realized that if I had this advice in high school I would’ve never made a tumblr account.

Also works for most of those news sites like WSJ or NYT that only let you read a little bit, or block adblockers. Also some disable the scroll bar but if you go to the right side of the console after hitting F12 and look for the CSS element “overflow” and change it from “hidden” to “visible” then you can continue scrolling for free. Might have to click around on different parts of the page to find it, but it should work.

“should autism exist in my fantasy story?” yes. “should psychosis exist in my fantasy story?” yes. “should personality disorders exist in my fantasy story?” yes. “should ADHD exist in my fantasy story? should intellectual disabilities exist in my fantasy story? should dissociative disorders exist in my fantasy story? should trauma disorders exist in my fantasy story? should anxiety disorders exist in my fantasy story? should mood disorders exist in my fantasy story? should–”

yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

you don’t have to include their real actual names and you don’t have to have main characters with every single one of these things. But neurodivergent and mentally ill people should EXIST in fantasy stories and fantasy societies, because we exist in real life. We deserve to be acknowledged.

Gentle reminder that this phrase was originally targeted at the rich who were hoarding wealth, not people just trying to survive. The phrase has unfortunately been turned to be weaponized against people who just want a living wage by said rich people.

Gay people that you think resemble stereotypes are living, breathing human beings who are, generally, living in a way that feels authentic and meaningful to them. The fact is that a lot of stereotypes about gay people come out of the real behaviors and tendencies of real, living gay people- a lot of lesbians are in fact hairy feminists, a lot of gay men do in fact hold their wrists limply, a lot of gay and bisexual and transgender people are very visibly gender nonconforming in ways you maybe find embarrassing because it makes them stick out, but if you're embarrassed by these people that's really your own problem and your own cross to bear, not the responsibility of every single other LGBT person in the world to recognize and organize their lives around, potentially at the cost of being able to live a life that feels meaningful and healthy for them. Every single time you want to complain about a total queen you saw at pride or how everyone thinks lesbians are all manly, take a second to remember that those stereotypes come out of the lives of men and women who were physically assaulted in the streets and fired from their employment and who lost custody of their children and who were beaten for not owning and wearing enough items of properly gendered clothing and instead be grateful that some people, the queens you find embarrassing, chose to be out when they could have chosen to die in silence and would have spread themselves a lot of pain by doing so. I'm so fucking sick of watching gay people apologize for each other, and I am so so grateful for all the women who came before me who paved the way for me to be someone who owns literally no women's clothing and does not have to fear for my safety every time I leave the house and who can be open in public about the fact that I am partnered with a woman that I love.

I'd just like to add that on top of these stereotypes coming from people trying to live their authentic lives, these very people likely grew up with everybody around them telling them NOT to act like that, no matter how authentic it is for them. The number of times I was bullied in school and at home for my limp wrist was more than enough for me to actively suppress limping it. It was exactly enough that as a well-educated, fairly confident, outspoke 26yo queer person, I still occasionally catch myself suppressing it even around people who are accepting because I've done the calculations and, since I said Fabulous 10 minutes ago, I need to keep my wrists firm or else I'll OfFeNd SoCiEtY. Which isn't something I should have to consider, much less be so engrained that I'm still unlearning these tendencies 10 years later.

I am tired of doing this, and always calculating exactly how "gay" I can act before people start to look at me weird, because in the Georgia Bible belt, you can't really tell who is a suppressed queer who's consumed too much of the Straight KoolAid and who might be ready to commit a hate crime. There has been an incredible amount of work done to get us where we are, and there's plenty of work left to be done, but y'all out here acting like you're above it all need to do some heavy reevaluation because you're pulling us backwards.

I don't think employers should be legally allowed to ask anyone to dress up for interviews. I should be able to walk in off the street in jeans, sneakers, and a T-shirt and interview for jobs because employers are supposed to be interviewing me and my skills, training, education, and experience, not the nicest clothes in my closet.

It's discriminatory towards poor people to ask otherwise.

It's also just fucking audacious to demand that the people you need to provide the labor to keep your workplace going put on a suit and dance around like a trained monkey before you've even hired them.

I also think starting work clothes need to be added to the list of necessary things that employers should be paying their employees for, along with their commutes.

If you need me to work your job and you need me to wear scrubs and nonslip shoes to work your job then you should be buying me scrubs and nonslip shoes so I have something to wear to work your job.

In summary clothing should not be a barrier to employment and jobs should not have the right to make demands of your wardrobe and wallet.

Literally nothing should come out of an employee's pocket. Jobs should have to give a gas or public transport allowance as well.

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This Biology Teacher Disproved Transphobia With Science 

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Sex redefined

“The idea of two sexes is simplistic. Biologists now think there is a wider spectrum than that.”

More on anti-trans arguments as bad science

As a biologist I am reblogging this so hard.

Biological sex is not and has never been a binary. The complexity of the natural world cannot be contained in neat little societal boxes. Stop using science to justify your bigotry.

like there’ll be a vid where a horse steps funny and breaks its leg and everyone in the commentsi s like NOO the horse omg no the horse the poor horse why would you post this whats wrong with you is the horse ok and then there will be a video where a woman is walking down the street and an air conditioning unit falls off the building and crushes her and the comments will be like haha fucking idiot shouldnt have been waljking there omg fucking dumb bitch idiiot deserved to die. its really something

How many of y'all ofmd-wwdits-etc fans can actually be assed to pronounce Taika Waititi's name properly

Hello, lovely listeners. You may have noticed that we haven't done an episode of That Gosh Darn Hippie Show for a long time. A very long time. Maybe even too long without any kind of update. And also that I've been largely absent from any kind of social media, even my private ones. Well, there's a few reasons for that, but.. There's kinda one major big reason that I've been kinda beating around the bush even admitting even to the close friends in my day-to-day life, and mostly because I've been scared to even say it out loud. I need a change. I'm not entirely sure what that change is. I don't know if that change is changing the show, changing the characters, or stopping all together, but there needs to be some kind of change. This also unfortunately isn't something that I can have others make input on, either, because it's related to something that's been deeply personal, but I can't make a decision until that personal thing is resolved. I've been living entirely on my own for the past two years in lockdown because of the pandemic, away from outside influence, with a lot of time to myself to just... think. Meditate. Focus on myself. And.. I think DJ Hippie, much like the character Oracle when he made his coming-of-age journey, might need that journey themself. Only, rather than traveling around the globe, this is more a journey of figuring out who they are. Or, rather who I am. Truth be told, while DJ Hippie is indeed a character, they're still very based on me when I first started radio, and who I was (or thought I was) at the time. I've been able to brush them off as just a character separate from myself for a while, but.. Every year it just kinda felt worse and worse to play them. Even when I tried bringing in little hints of who I was growing into, it still stopped feeling right a while ago. But I ignored it, and I kept going on, until I just couldn't stand doing it anymore. I love radio, and I love the characters that we've created, and I love all of the wacky adventures they've been on. I'm not saying I don't. But.. Maybe Hippie is a little more feminine than I actually am.. And maybe I'm a little more masculine than I thought initially. I've kinda just slapped labels on this feeling like "nonbinary" and "genderqueer" and didn't give it much thought after that, mostly because I've never had a chance to sit down and take the time to figure out who I actually am (And for people who want to say "There are only two genders" or "these extra labels are dumb" or whatever, they aren't. They're important for many people and many people are nonbinary/genderqueer/ect. I'm.. Just not 100% sure if I am right now). But yeah.. I kinda want to just.. Have a moment to explore who I am, and what I want to do about it. What exactly I am, I'm not going to worry about tossing a label at it for now, but.. I just know I may not entirely be a woman. And this isn't a journey that I want to broadcast on the air or show step-by-step on social media because I want to take this journey on my own and figure out what works for me without worrying about what other people think during the whole process, which is the reason why I've been avoiding this conversation with myself and others for this long. I know it sounds cliche, but I truly do feel like I've been living a lie, and I want to take the time to figure out my truth.Thank you so much to everyone for your patience, understanding, and hopefully tolerance. And most of all, thank you for the music. Thank you for the laughter. Thank you for the seven beautiful years of this chaos. -(Possibly formerly) Kiki Willows,Voice of DJ Hippie, director, head writer, and disk jockey of That Gosh Darn Hippie Show