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Adapt Design retweeted
If you're a person w/a disability, either mental or physical, & you're willing to share how watching businesses suddenly provide work accommodations w/little to no issue makes you feel I'd love to speak to you for @TeenVogue. DMs are open or you can email me @ [email protected]
Adapt Design retweeted
A good resource from @AimiHamraie: mapping-access.com/blog-1/20…
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Feeling the love for the disability community today and uh...got a little carried away designing my #DisabilityValentines.
Happy Valentine's Day, everyone! 💖
ALT Background image of an accessible parking space overlaid with text that reads: Roses are red That parking space is blue If you're non-disabled It's not for you. #DisabilityValentines WordsIWheelBy.com
Adapt Design retweeted
Roses are red,
Ableism is bad,
My wheelchair is liberating
And shouldn't make you sad.
#DisabilityValentines
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#WhyDisabledPeopleDropOut A thread. As a former faculty member, I have heard several colleagues complain about accommodations as being frivolous. If they are willing to say these things in front of a very visibly disabled colleague, what do they say behind closed doors? 1/
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Perhaps we would avoid this problem if disabled folks were supported to work and do research in science and biotech in the first place! #AcademicAbleism
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9 million views on a stair-climbing wheelchair video won't help me enter a store with stairs. And much of the tech in viral videos isn't on the market or it's prohibitively expensive. I'm all about problem-solving but social media contributes to over-complication of basic access.
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Viral videos on innovations that will "change" disabled people's live can be cool to watch, but they also encourage false hope and unrealistic views of how accessible the world actually is. We need to balance dreaming up innovations with providing practical access here and now.
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Was considering getting back on dating/social apps when I remembered a very discouraging obstacle...
The amount of houses/apartments I can never visit because they are not wheelchair accessible.
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My bus ride today:
Bus rider:”You don’t mind, do you?”(After he hung his wet umbrella on the back handle of my wheelchair)
Me:”Actually, I do mind.”
A wheelchair is not furniture or a hanger.
Please don’t touch, push or hang things on it without permission.
Adapt Design retweeted
Not only that, but pretending to be disabled for a day doesn't tell you JACK. Good lord, the lengths people will go to not to JUST TALK TO DISABLED PEOPLE. teapaw.org/brookewinters33/status…
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A9: Just a few words of advice: have a strong support team, both medical and friends/family, and make any necessary adaptations your living space may need in advance of having a baby if possible! #DisabledMamas teapaw.org/disvisibility/status/9…
Q9 For the people in this chat who are thinking of becoming parents, what are your concerns and questions? #DisabledMamas
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A7: Idk if this link has been tweeted, but just in case: ncd.gov/sites/default/files/…
#DisabledMamas
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A4 As an Asian American disabled woman who uses a wheelchair, I LOVED seeing Sen. Tammy Duckworth enter the Capitol Building a few weeks ago with her baby to cast a vote.
We need more visibility like that! #DisabledMamas
cnn.com/2018/04/19/politics/…
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A4: Either there are almost no widespread stories about #DisabledMamas, or they are “super-crip” inspiration porn-ish, or they are stigmatizing, sensationalist evening news type stories.
Dang. Can we just get some REAL depictions of disabled parenting? Strengths AND challenges?
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Love to disability activist @annieelainey for this gorgeous image!
#thefutureisaccessible
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Even though Mother’s Day is coming up, all people are welcome to participate in this chat in particular disabled parents, guardians, foster parents, grandparents, and prospective parents.
Plus children of disabled parents & non-parents! #DisabledMamas
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Here’s a new one: got to a restaurant, got seated, asked if they had a wheelchair accesible bathroom. Guy says “no, don’t think so.” My friend goes to check anyway. Not only is the bathroom accessible, but it has a sign on it that says so! Access is such an elusive concept 🤔
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Hey so, uh, excuse me Mr. Lawson, but are you for real? Because if you are, guess I'll just cancel all the early morning work travel and late evening social plans that I, a disabled member of society with a valid driver's license, happen to have written on my calendar. teapaw.org/DanielLaw1998/status/9…
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