Passionate abt disability rights & other social justice in developing countries & elsewhere. Seeking employment in international development field. She/her(s)

Joined July 2008
.@SimCityBuildIt I just learned that, in China, they have vertical forests! Meaning, buildings with 40,000 trees growing all over! These look amazing! Could we please get buildings like this in SimCity, in a season focused on China? facebook.com/permalink.php?s…
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BREAKING: MAGA world erupts in rage at legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma after it's announced that he will be avoiding the Trump-controlled Kennedy Center in favor of other venues. It turns out that our nation's best artists want nothing to do with this fascist president... According to The Washingtonian, the Washington Performing Arts booking organization are avoiding placing talent at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts for the foreseeable future. The Kennedy Center has seen an exodus of top talent in recent months as Donald Trump has fired roughly two dozen board members and stocked it with MAGA loyalists, including Richard Grenell as president. A spokesperson for the Washington Performing Arts stated that they "will not utilize The Kennedy Center" because they are aiming to "thoughtfully match artists and their work with venues that best serve the art, the audience, and the moment." They added that they "assessed the variety of artists and performances we have in this upcoming season and decided it was best to explore new spaces that offer fresh possibilities." With the departure of the Washington Performing Arts, the Kennedy Center will lose out on other exciting performances as well. The organization announced "Sigourney Weaver and the Pacifica Quartet at Sixth and I for WPA’s annual Ruth Bader Ginsburg Memorial Concert, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Strathmore, Yo-Yo Ma at Strathmore, and Midori at Sixth and I." This news comes as just the latest blow to the Kennedy Center, which has been hemorrhaging money and sinking in popularity since Trump first got his grubby hands on it. Katy Waldman of the The New Yorker recently stated that "no matter how well or badly the center was doing before Trump, the Trump anti-Midas touch is in operation here, and now everything is worse.” “Not only are ticket sales down, but donations have been paused, artists are pulling out. All of the spigots for money have slowed or have been turned off,” she added. Please retweet and ❤️ if you stand with Yo-Yo Ma!
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Folks… I’m so sorry, but I’ve decided to give up my legal case against my former employer, the one who harassed me and illegally fired me for being disabled, effectively destroying my academic career in the process. Why? Because it’s been almost four years. Because this system is built to break you. And it’s very good at it. And because of something I had never heard of until recently: an offer on judgment. It’s a legal tactic where the defendant offers you money before trial, and if you say no and don’t win more than what they offer in court, you will be forced to pay their legal fees. Even if you win! It’s a threat wrapped in a loophole, designed to make people back down. So I’m accepting it. Because I’m scared I’ll lose and end up owing them money. Because my health can’t take much more. And because, unlike a typical settlement, this still lets me speak. I can still talk about what happened. I can still do advocacy. I can still help others protect themselves. And I will. But I’m still sorry. I’m sorry because I don’t have it in me to keep fighting this. And if I don’t, with all my privilege, resources, and insider knowledge, I honestly don’t know who does. At every step, I’ve been up against a machine with more money, more power, and more institutional weight than I could ever match. I knew it would be hard, and in some ways, I was more prepared than most (the EEOC did rule in my favor). But I still wasn’t prepared for how brutal it would be. I wasn’t prepared for the endless tactics they’d use to wear me down. I wasn’t prepared to feel so manipulated: like the system was daring me to try and fight for justice just so it could punish me for trying. And I wasn’t prepared for the silence. The lack of media interest. The way the world just kept spinning while this swallowed years of my life. If it weren’t for the offer on judgment — this manipulative legal trap — I probably would’ve kept going, no matter the toll. But I can’t gamble my health and risk walking straight into financial ruin. So this is where it ends… for now. Not with justice, but with survival. And with my voice still intact. I’ll keep telling the truth. I’ll keep fighting in the ways I still can. Because I know I’m not the only one. But these systems are broken. And I hope this info at least helps others prepare for what lies ahead if they go this route.
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I signed the petition asking for the U.S. congress to impeach our current president (45/47) again. Will you join in signing? #SaveOurDemocracy #Resist #ProtectOurConstitution #ImpeachTrump impeachtrumpagain.org/
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I never expected my post to be seen by Lynda Carter or that it would blow up. I simply was sharing how I felt at the time. And I'm so glad it's touched a lot of people. And made a lot of people happy. I hope it inspires more people to be themselves. comicsands.com/carter-wonder…
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In 1945, six women pulled off a computing miracle. They programmed the world’s first computer—with no manuals, no training. Then, a SINGLE assumption erased them from tech history for decades. The story of how ONE photo nearly deleted computing’s female founders: 🧵
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✨COVER REVEAL✨ My queer, disabled YA romcom has the pastel wonderland cover of my DREAMS!🥹 You’ll love StDA if you want: 💕 A Deaf, demiromantic MC x Neurodivergent, pan LI 🎶 Himbo boy bands 🦮 A service dog named Ginger 📝 Post-it Notes as a love language GR 🔗 in bio! 👀
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💙 Empower Yourself with National #SignLanguage! On this World Hearing Day, let’s all recognise and promote national sign languages! Together, we can build a world where Deaf People Everywhere can Sign Anywhere. @WHO #WorldHearingDay #EducationForAll
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Here's another happy fallout story from Elon's chainsaw massacre @SecRubio @elonmusk #usaid (1 of 7)
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This collection of videos has closed captions to enable people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or have auditory processing disorder to understand the videos. Captions are available in each of the available spoken language options.
Replying to @ScottHech
Protect your neighbors from Trump. Share: 🚨If ICE is outside your door, don’t panic & remember: YOU HAVE RIGHTS. Don’t open the door. Ask to see a warrant. ICE can’t enter w/o one. All 5 videos. 7 languages. At wehaverights.us. Watch and share:
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12) You can also read our previous story to learn more about the items cities take in sweeps. It includes the stories of about two dozen people from across the country, some of whom wrote about the experience in their own words. projects.propublica.org/home…
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How can you tell if your plot is working or needs an overhaul? They can be so hard to see in your own manuscript, but plot holes, inconsistencies, and pacing issues come for even the best of writers. Ask yourself these 5 questions to determine if your plot holds up: 🧵
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In the darkness of a boarding school night, my mother said she could hear the other kids weeping for their parents. The children were forbidden to speak Lakota by clergy staff. So they spoke the language in their prayers. A thousand prayers — from a thousand lonely little hearts.
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For people who cannot view the video, please see @signingmango's own replies to their own video for a complete transcription and description. Video addresses hearing people who insist on saying a sign interpreter is "fake" because they don't understand how sign interpreting work.
The Hurricane Relief ASL Helpline by CSD is (833) 682-7630. Stay safe out there! #HurricaneMilton #Deaf
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Hard to believe but I am a 2024 @macfound Fellow! I am accepting the MacArthur Fellowship amidst the genocide happening in Gaza and indiscriminate terroristic attacks in Lebanon by the state of Israel on the 76th year of their occupation of Palestine macfound.org/fellows/class-o…
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The @OpenUniversity does a small thing that makes a huge difference to me as a disabled student. They include an accessibility guide that is specific to each module. 1/
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