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Disabled & Deaf Uprising

@DisDeafUprising

Collective of disabled & D/deaf writers & artists. Send tips + leaks + things you can't say on yr own Twitter w/o fear of reprisal: [email protected]

Joined October 2017
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"The problem wasn't that the wheelchair was too wide. The doorway was too narrow." #DisabilityPride #MarcaBristo
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הנני@shabbosdyke14 Nov 2021
there really needs to be a place that's not the ER where chronically ill people can go when we have medical emergencies.
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Ru 🌸♿️ (she/they) 🎀@RollWithRu14 Nov 2021
the chronically ill urge to stay in bed for six months
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Elon Musk on #SNL is not the disability representation we were hoping for, especially when he’s making ableist jokes
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Alice Wong 王美華@SFdirewolf17 Apr 2021
This never had to happen #HighRiskMI #HighRiskCovid19 #CripTheVote #VaccineEquity
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@thedailybeast16 Apr 2021
NEW: A Michigan man with Down syndrome—whose futile quest to get the COVID-19 vaccine was chronicled by The Daily Beast—has died from complications related to the virus his family said. trib.al/I2UAadD
Michigan Man With Down Syndrome Who Could Not Get COVID Vaccine Has Died

Michigan Man With Down Syndrome Who Could Not Get COVID Vaccine Has Died

Vincent Welsh’s plight was spotlighted by The Daily Beast.

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Dear nondisabled people, Understand that “going back to normal” means that disabled people will not be given the option to work or to school at home. Most likely will have to fight for accommodations even though companies have shown it’s possible to accommodate anyone.
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White people will be like: I’m not white, I’m disabled
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White disabled people do not experience the level of marginalization as colonized disabled people. Read it again. For some reason many white disabled people think because they are disabled then they are having what is similar to “a Black experience” - I promise you, you’re not
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Aileen Graef@AileenGraef11 Mar 2021
Don’t ask people why they qualified for the vaccine. Thank you.
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That poem y’all like is a disability poem and should be recognized as such
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Thread about the need for accessible Braille and audio books of contemporary poetry. Ripe for a foundation grant. Solutions cost $. But surely not so much $ if can't be found? @GraywolfPress let's work on a grant app....
Disabled & Deaf Uprising (@DisDeafUprising) profile pictureDisabled & Deaf Uprising@DisDeafUprising27 Nov 2020
One thing we have been thinking of & we want input. We have been thinking of John Lee Clark's "Tactile Art" and Kathi Wolfe's Love and Kumquats and Constance Merritt's Blind Girl Grunt and all of our Blind and DeafBlind comrades. How do we have access to contemporary poetry?
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Riva Lehrer@riva_lehrer28 Nov 2020
Replying to @DisDeafUprising @SFdirewolf @RebeccaCokley @sinsinvalid @brownroundboi @JenDeerinwater @mattbc @sesmith @adalimon @Imani_Barbarin @NovicSara @crippledscholar @autselfadvocacy @POETSorg @accommodatingly @ACLU
This may be totally unhelpful but both @3Arts and the Poetry Foundation are here in Chicago. Could there be a project application through 3Arts to the PF to work on models for complex accessibility?
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El Norte Recuerda@Vanessid28 Nov 2020
Thank you to @DisDeafUprising for this thread about how contemporary poetry continues to be inaccessible to Blind and DeafBlind communities. Boosting.
Disabled & Deaf Uprising (@DisDeafUprising) profile pictureDisabled & Deaf Uprising@DisDeafUprising27 Nov 2020
One thing we have been thinking of & we want input. We have been thinking of John Lee Clark's "Tactile Art" and Kathi Wolfe's Love and Kumquats and Constance Merritt's Blind Girl Grunt and all of our Blind and DeafBlind comrades. How do we have access to contemporary poetry?
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Thank you Sandra!
Sandra Beasley (@SandraBeasley) profile pictureSandra Beasley@SandraBeasley28 Nov 2020
Replying to @SandraBeasley @DisDeafUprising @BlondeHistorian @Vanessid @Keah_Maria @Eloisa_Amezcua @JessEJelsma
My anecdotal understanding is that Count the Waves, my third poetry collection, is available in Braille via NLS. My standing policy is to provide a Word Doc to anyone who requests for accessibility purposes, if they query directly, as long as they pledge to not circulate onwards.
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Boosting this! Would love to know more about this as well
Sandra Beasley (@SandraBeasley) profile pictureSandra Beasley@SandraBeasley28 Nov 2020
Replying to @DisDeafUprising @BlondeHistorian @Vanessid @Keah_Maria @Eloisa_Amezcua @JessEJelsma
Thanks for this! Not tagged here, I hope a reply helps amplify this thread--I'm very interested in this issue. I wonder if someone can help me understand how the Library of Congress's National Library Service for the Bind and Print Disabled fits into this? loc.gov/nls/
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One thing we have been thinking of & we want input. We have been thinking of John Lee Clark's "Tactile Art" and Kathi Wolfe's Love and Kumquats and Constance Merritt's Blind Girl Grunt and all of our Blind and DeafBlind comrades. How do we have access to contemporary poetry?
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And @RogueAgentJ @thedeafpoets @monsteringmag
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Might be some repeats or mis-tags we’re doing our best out here!
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