We are devoted to building human connections + self-advocacy by dismantling shame + stigma. #RadicalAllyship #InvisibleDisability
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Invisible Disability Project retweeted
Today is a #LupusChat holiday! 🎉Please join us in celebrating our founder, @TiffanyAndLupus! Tiffany, thank you for your amazing leadership. We appreciate all you do for the Health advocacy community as a whole. We wish you a very Happy Birthday!!🎂🎊🎁
ALT Photo of LupusChat founder Tiffany Peterson
Invisible Disability Project retweeted
@FacultyBerkeley @uc_faculty @ucftp in the midst of a COVID surge when @CAPublicHealth is urging ppl to wear masks, faculty should be leading by example & making sure vulnerable students know they have the right to protect themselves & one another.
Campus-mandated mask bans are fucking ableist & fascist
For more on mask bans and how this will impact students, staff & faculty at @UofCalifornia and elsewhere:
teenvogue.com/story/mask-ban…
Invisible Disability Project retweeted
Call for pitches for @DisVisibility guest essay on Gus Walz at the DNC hate speech & ableism
Disabled writers only. Very interested pitches from neurodivergent writers
✉️ [email protected]
Invisible Disability Project retweeted
“if high risk be safe” shows how out of touch people are. If the DNC listened to high risk & disabled people they would implement mitigations like a mask mandate
It is increasingly impossible to stay safe when there is such hostility towards people who mask in public
Invisible Disability Project retweeted
📣 💐📚Happy book day to me! DISABILITY INTIMACY has been a labor of love that I worked on for the last 2 years. I hope you enjoy it.
bookshop.org/p/books/disabil…
ALT Asian American woman in a wheelchair with a tracheotomy at her neck connected to a ventilator. She is wearing a plaid shirt with pastel colors and a magenta lip color (Chanel Milky Blueberry). Behind her are a bunch of plants and a bottom half of a poster of a frog.
Invisible Disability Project retweeted
Americans with disabilities still face obstacle after obstacle just for trying to be themselves. As we mark #InternationalDisabilityDay, we should all resolve to center disability rights and call out unfair treatment when we see it. #IDPWD2023
Invisible Disability Project retweeted
Disabled people are 25% of the population.
Discrimination against disabled people is not an oversight.
Inaccessibility is a choice.
Lack of accommodation is a choice.
Lack of diversity is a choice.
Ableism is a choice.
Invisible Disability Project retweeted
Instead of #DisabilityPrideMonth, how about #DisabilityPrecarityMonth where we organize and fight like hell?
Pride is complicated and flattens out a lot of the joy, love, and care that is intertwined with pain, systemic ableism, and trauma
Invisible Disability Project retweeted
It’s been a wild 12 months since I went to the ICU. So much has changed. It’s never easy to ask for help or donations but if if you have the means please give or share this post.
Thank you!
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Invisible Disability Project retweeted
The assumption that disabled people have special needs is a direct result of the devaluation of disabled people and disabled lives.
A special need is a burden.
A human need is not.
Ableism is a house of cards relying on faulty assumptions about disabled people.
Invisible Disability Project retweeted
“Things are so much better for disabled people now than they used to be. You should feel lucky and grateful.”
Any gains that disabled people have made are not a matter of luck.
Don’t ask disabled people to be grateful for the bias that persists in every aspect of life.
Invisible Disability Project retweeted
Hospital worker to me, a disabled person: “Do you have a DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) order?”
Me: “No.”
Hospital: “Do you want one?
Me: “No.”
Hospital: “Are you sure?”
Me: “Very sure.”
Hospital: “You can always change your mind.”
Would a nondisabled person be treated this way?
Invisible Disability Project retweeted
Stranger on street to me a wheelchair user: “Repent, have faith and you will be forgiven. Repent and you will walk again.”
Disability is not faithlessness.
Disability is not sinfulness.
Invisible Disability Project retweeted
Camel High School, Carmel, Indiana, 1990. I don’t forget this shit!
When Alice Wong (@SFdirewolf) was in high school, her teacher barred her from a more advanced drama class because of her disability. This week, Alice reflects how that moment got her “in touch with [her] rage.” Listen here: bit.ly/3DiUuAU
ALT A red quote card with a quote from Alice Wong in black text that reads, “It was one of the few things that I enjoyed and she said I couldn’t continue this because of my disability. For an adult, especially an educator who supposedly is supposed to bring up young people and get the best out of them, she drew the best rage out of me.” The Death, Sex & Money logo is at the bottom in the same black text with a yellow ampersand.
Invisible Disability Project retweeted
Someone just referred to me as ‘alternatively abled.”
Nondisabled people will go to extraordinary lengths to avoid using the term “disabled.”
Euphemisms for “disabled” are ableism.
Invisible Disability Project retweeted
Neighbor to me a wheelchair user: “I don’t see you as disabled. I see you.”
Telling a disabled person you do not see their disability is not a compliment.
Disability is not a wrong or a fault.
If you don’t see my disability or do not want to acknowledge it, you do not see me.
Invisible Disability Project retweeted
📢 Your girl is now a columnist for @TeenVogue!
My first piece is about the #Medicaid unwinding process starting 4/1 when states will resume annual redetermination processes for all enrollees which could result in millions losing their coverage
#CripTheVote #SaveMedicaid
"When the odds seem overwhelmingly stacked against us, I recall the phrase, “They tried to bury us, they didn’t know we were seeds.” We will rise again." Read the full story from @SFdirewolf ⬇️ tnvge.co/bk2Gsqp
Invisible Disability Project retweeted
Hot. Crispy. Salty. Oily.
I miss being able to eat solid foods but today my dad made me a green egg pancake, one of my favorites, and I will carefully taste & spit it out. I just need to make sure no bits go down my throat
This is bringing me joy today
ALT A white square plate with a golden green onion egg pancake with crispy edges that look like lace
Invisible Disability Project retweeted
Opening Twitter to see the passing of @judithheumann was absolutely devastating. She was a pioneer for disability rights & learning of her work was one of pivotal moments that led me to the path I'm on. I'm so deeply grateful for all she did for our community. #DisabilityTwitter
Invisible Disability Project retweeted
For more about Judith Heumann, check out her book Being Heumann
An Unrepentant Memoir of An Disability Rights Activist
penguinrandomhouse.com/books…
And this video about the documentary Crip Camp m.youtube.com/watch?v=f2AAXS…
#DisabilityTwitter #CripCamp #CripTheVote #DisabilityRights
