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This could get really bad. If you are a neurodivergent American and don't have a passport, apply for one TODAY!
Fascism demands a level of conformity that is impossible for most of us.
#GetYourPassport
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#AutismResearch
#AutismResearcher
#AutismResearchers
#ActuallyAutistic
#prejudice
#DisabilityRights
"Eugenics isn't just about eradicating the lesser people like myself, like people with disabilities, it's about attaching disability to marginalized communities in order to slate them for eradication."
Fantastic crash course in eugenics, ableism & anti blackness by the indomitable Imani Barbarin.
I am hosting a race and documentary to spread awareness against ABA in November.
https://www.facebook.com/share/1AMm2J8A49/
#AntiABA #EndABA #ABAReform #StopABA #Neurodiversity #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticVoices #ListenToAutistics #DisabilityRights #AutismAdvocacy #SayNoToABA #AutismAcceptance #ABAisAbuse
#AutisticJustice #AutisticRights #AutismEducation #AutismAwareness #HumanRights #AutismRevolution #StopTheHarm #BanABA #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #AutisticCommunity #Neurodivergent #DisabilityJustice
Amnesty International has delivered a damning verdict: the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is "consciously cruel".
Their new report lays bare a welfare system designed to humiliate, punish, and drive vulnerable people into deeper poverty — and with planned cuts looming, the suffering is set to get even worse.
Claimants report panic attacks met with sanction threats, missed assessments leading to homelessness, and constant, grinding suspicion instead of compassion.
The DWP isn’t failing by accident — it’s cruelty by design. And unless the system is fully overhauled, millions more will be condemned to fear and destitution.
Read the full story from Mike Sivier by clicking the link.
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2025/04/27/consciously-cruel-and-the-dwp-is-about-to-get-even-worse/
Vox Political · 'Consciously cruel' - and the DWP is about to get even worse - Vox Political'Consciously cruel' - and the DWP is about to get even worse, according to a damning Amnesty International report
"Disability protection groups in two states pause services after missing federal funds"
“We are fighting for our very survival ...
We’re at a crossroads as an American society.”
https://www.europesays.com/uk/53254/ ‘Doctors told me to tell my deaf dad he’s got cancer’ #Disability #DisabilityEquality #DisabilityRights #Health #Healthcare #InvisibleDisability #ManchesterFamily #Merseyside #NHS #NorthWales #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.europesays.com/uk/52014/ Mum ‘really upset’ after Manchester theatre calls her as she headed to show #Britain #Disability #DisabilityRights #England #GreatBritain #Manchester #PalaceTheatre #UK #UnitedKingdom
Artwork for trans visibility day! To all the fellow transgender people out there, I see you, you matter, you are valid.
The Trump administration’s blitzkrieg assault against public health and safety has featured particularly cruel attacks against people with disabilities, targeting those with cognitive challenges, the Deaf community, autistic people and others. As broad sectors of the working class organize to fight the onslaught, we can learn from a powerful, ultimately successful battle in the long ongoing struggle for justice.
Liberation News · 48 years ago a militant sit-in redefined the fight for disability...From April 5-28,1977, more than 100 people with disabilities sat-in at the Department of Health Education and Welfare in San Francisco demanding that the government enforce Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and significantly improve access to basic services for... #disabilityjustice
(21 Apr) HHS Plans to Cut Funds Used to Investigate Abuse at Group Homes https://s.faithcollapsing.com/2otax Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/9lmeb #disability-rights #health #health-care #politics #robert-f.-kennedy-jr.
Disabled Women Ireland is back!
Check out our latest members newsletter for info on our May 10 Welcome Back event, our work on CEDAW & CRPD, what we’ve been working on in the background, and how you can get involved!
#DisabilityRights #DWI #CRPD #CEDAW
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This is an older article from February 2025, but I thought it might be worth sharing here in the wake of Trump's attempts to transform the civil rights section at the Department of Justice into a fascist attack dog that works only to further his authoritarian ideological goals. Within three weeks of Downmarket Mussolini's inauguration, the regime had already repurposed the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights towards prosecuting Trump's Christian Nationalist agenda, while actively sidelining investigations into racial abuse, disability access, and even sexual assault.
https://www.propublica.org/article/department-of-education-civil-rights-office-investigations
“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump
"In the three-and-a-half weeks since Donald Trump returned to the presidency, investigations by the agency that handles allegations of civil rights violations in the nation’s schools and colleges have ground to a halt.
At the same time, there’s been a dramatic drop in the number of new cases opened by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights — and the few that attorneys have been directed to investigate reflect some of Trump’s priorities: getting rid of gender-neutral bathrooms, banning transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports and alleged antisemitism or discrimination against white students."
I don't really think it's a coincidence that Trump and his Education Secretary Linda McMahon (a woman extremely active in the cause to privatize education and promote religious voucher schools) immediately prioritized the same winger bullshit at the DOE as the regime is now trying to force the DoJ's civil rights division to pursue; namely discrimination against white people, alleged antisemitism, and women's rights - but only in the extremely narrow context of keeping trans women out of women's sports and bathrooms. This is a Christian Nationalist government, actively working to install a Christian Nationalist political and social order on the United States by whatever means legal, or extralegal, it requires to do so.
ProPublica“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump
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Disability is not a moral failing. It’s not a punishment. It’s not karma.
It’s part of the human experience. Our bodies are frail, and given enough time most people will experience disability.
The idea that we’re lazy, choosing not to “try hard” or want to be sick is a fallacy born out of ableism.
Menschen mit #Behinderung sind bei #Extremwetter deutlich stärker gefährdet.
Doch im #Katastrophenschutz fehlen barrierefreie #Warnsysteme und inklusive #Evakuierungspläne.
#Inklusion muss als #Menschenrecht in #Krisenstrukturen mitgedacht werden. Der #Klimawandel verstärkt soziale Ungleichheiten – und inklusive Maßnahmen retten Leben.
TAZ Verlags- und Vertriebs GmbH · Inklusion in der Klimakrise: „Keiner spricht über die behinderten Klimatoten“Behinderte Menschen sind bei Extremwetter besonders gefährdet. Der Katastrophenschutz beachtet das kaum, kritisiert Expertin Maria-Victoria Trümper.
Someone should tell RFK Jr that Emily Dickinson is suspected to have been autistic & one of the most prolific poets of all time.
His mischaracterization of autistic people shows him to be hateful, ignorant & uninformed.
More than that, we ALL have value. Evaluating “worth” shouldn’t be a spectrum.
HHS plans to remove gender dysphoria from disability protections under Section 504—but 17 GOP AGs are still pushing a lawsuit that could gut all federal disability protections. Schools, hospitals, and workplaces could refuse accommodations.
Disability advocates warned the lawsuit could undo 50 years of hard-won protections. This isn’t just about gender identity—it’s about every disabled person’s right to access and equity.
The 19th · Federal government to remove gender dysphoria from protected disabilities list
I was interested in seeing this film until I asked #DRCNH what airborne virus mitigations are in place.
This pissed me off. I actually replied that of course I’m welcome to wear a mask because I have a [fucking] doctors note and I don’t believe in eugenics so I will always be wearing a mask. Then I asked her how hand sanitizer stops the spread of measles.
I’m sure she won’t answer me. This organization is trash. I won’t cry if they get defunded.
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Have you seen the documentary Crip Camp about the summer camp that gave rise to a generation of US disability rights activists?
It includes disability activist-led protest footage that reframes the concept of what protests can be & how they can work. It's a good resource for those who may not know how to answer what access in a protest can look like.
It's more relevant than ever. We warmly recommend it.
https://journeysinfilm.org/product/crip-camp-guides/
#Disability #DisabilityJustice #DisabilityRights #DisabilityAdvocacy #Education #Homschooling @disability @disabilityjustice @disabilityhistory @education @edutooters
Journeys in FilmCrip Camp | Journeys in FilmCrip Camp Curriculum Guide and Discussion Guide with Full Accessibility - resources are free as is the documentary through Youtube