A Time and Space To Centre Blackness In Autism

England
Joined May 2019
Many disabled people experience grief. The grief of losing your abilities over time. The grief of being abandoned by friends and family. The grief of never having the life you wanted. The grief of not being thought of in society. The grief of not being seen. It can be so heavy.
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You must live. In the depths of your sadness or nothingness you must live, there is no other way
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I have so much respect for women in academia. The intellect, discipline, curiosity and sheer perseverance it takes to build a life around knowledge is deeply admirable.
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You gotta kill that fear of being seen because visibility is your birthright, people need to know you. In fact, think of showing up as putting out little signals that help your people find you. You’re not showing up for everybody, you’re showing up for your people.
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Hey y’all it’s been awhile! I became unhoused this summer and am raising urgent funds. I am also havin an upcoming healing + learning circle on Indigenous approaches to mental health. Check out updates at my blog/newsletter and event registration at the linktree in my bio✨
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JAŸ-Z freestyling over the Talking The Hardest beat was a spiritual experience.
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🪧What role can Disabled communities play in challenging racism and building solidarity? Take part in this survey to be part of the conversation, which aims to create opportunities for reflection, learning and understanding 👇 touretteshero.typeform.com/t…
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Al Jazeera English
@AJEnglishAug 31
A mural commemorating late Cambridge professor Jason Arday, who died after intense media coverage of plagiarism allegations, is displayed at London’s Notting Hill Carnival. It features student testimonies and challenges claims by Nathan Cofnas, who accused Arday of plagiarism.
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Loved seeing disabled people at carnival because carnival is truly for everyone!!!!
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reached the Caribbean, (then fed to sharks) and millions more were lost to the horrors of slavery. Carnival is a celebration of the lineages and bloodlines that made it. That’s why it’s so loud, so colourful, so free and so alive. We were never supposed to be here! We survived😭
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For anyone who misunderstands the importance of Carnival, think about it this way… Caribbean people are direct descendants of the slaves that SURVIVED the most brutal, evil and barbaric system of human exploitation in human history. Millions were extinguished before they..
Boo me all u want but Carnival ain’t fun 👍🏾 Just a waste of time
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“Black excellence” is respectability politics. Why do we have to be excellent to get respect? Black people deserve to be mediocre. Black people deserve to be boring and not want to make a name for ourselves. We should be respected without impossible standards.
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A Public Inquiry into Jason Arday Public Lynching needs to issued and if they don’t we do our own! . We need to sign this open letter as the Government only issue these with public pressure and support- goodlawproject.org/petition/…
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I wanna meet as many people at MCM Comic Con in Birmingham! Super excited to be talking all things, comics, TV, gaming and of course ADHD on The Neurodiverse Creator Panel this Friday
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you not black first. or a woman first. you’re a black woman. that’s it. your experience with misogyny is unique because of racism. your experience with racism is different because you’re a woman. the term ‘intersectionality’ exists because our experience is so unique.
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Maybe some of us have a concept of African Multiplicity of the self. In that there are many selves not just one essential being like in Western ontology Big T.
Replying to @Sugarpalmnut
Right so identity crisis,, you don’t have a clue who you are just going with the wind
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A deaf black man is opening a coffee and arts shop in south London, SE18 3TB, grand opening is 13 June. All coffee and pastries are £1 for the day, go support.
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“Tell dem freedom in we DNA…” 🎶 💥💥💥💥
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can we please start packaging ADHD meds like birth control. the day labels. the pop tabs. the visual confirmation. ADHD brains need to SEE that today's pill is gone.
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Your ancestors didn't call it neurodivergent. They called you the seer. The healer. The one who knows. Reclaim that. 🌑
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