Happy disability pride to everyone whose disability makes it hard/impossible for them to leave the house.
Happy disability pride to everyone who WANTS to do something they love, but can’t because of their disability.
Happy disability pride to everyone who has ever been ignored, side-eyed or scoffed at (or otherwise judged) for being themselves in public.
Happy disability pride to people in constant pain, that doesn’t end or break.
Happy disability pride to people who can’t/don’t want an official diagnosis because it would fuck up their lives, but they need the accommodations anyway.
Happy disability pride to people who did get/have gotten/had to get a diagnosis, because they needed what came from it.
Happy disability pride to the under-represented disabilities that people don’t talk about much, or that get ignored both online and IRL.
Happy disability pride to those whose disabilities get represented in ways that do not match your experience at all.
Happy disability pride to the physically and mentally disabled people who are reading this. If you are one, the other, or (more often) both, you are still a valid person who faces discrimination and hardship from ableists, and we must all band together to vouch for our rights- ALL of our rights.
Happy disability pride to all of you, I love you all, and may we get through this month, and all the rest, together.
"no one is super offended or offput by transmascs, they aren't viewed as sexual predators" steve dain was:
- discouraged from being a tomboy by his counselor as a child (he was told he had "penis envy" and needed to "straighten out" or he'd become a lesbian)
- accused of "violating God's laws," and called "thing" "creature" "it" after transitioning and returning to his job as a teacher
- his transition literally "divided the town" he lived in
- the superintendent fired him for "immoral conduct" and "unfitness"
- said superintendent also publicly speculated about his genitalia, suggested that he would have to use his own bathroom because "would you want your little girl in the powder room with her?" and spread rumors that he had shown young girls his genitalia & molested them (likely, imo, what he means his "he talked about transitioning to some interested students and their parents got pissed" if there's any truth at all)
- also said "And I’m telling you, kids here just don’t understand this hanky panky of people going around chopping off their breasts" (fearmongering about top surgery from 1975!)
- Steve won his wrongful termination suit, but the school board then accused him of misusing sick leave because he took time off to medically transition. He tried to fight this but after four years he could not afford the legal costs.
- He was never able to return to teaching even after winning his lawsuit because no one would hire him, so he had to completely switch careers.
erasure is not a lack of hatred or violence towards transmascs. its a culture of silence around that violence. you cannot know how people see transmascs by only looking at how they treat us when they think we're cis men.
woah you're telling me that when homophobic transphobic cis people see an adult trans man they actually see him as a predatory threat to their children? you mean that there's more to anti-transmasculinity than infantilization? you mean that they don't actually see adult trans men as basically the same as a cis man? wild
The infantilization is their idea of "early intervention" and the ones they can't "correct" will be given the same violent predator label as everyone else because they're, so to speak, "too far gone".
Genshin Impact Kaveh's Hangout Event Endings: Act I: The Pendulum of Weal and Woe
the way these strikes get framed is always so funny to me
"the strike could stretch on until the end of summer" or the execs could pay their workers
"there won't be ANY new shows because of this strike" or the execs could pay their workers
"no more content for us because the mean old writers and actors are-" OR THE EXECS COULD PAY THEIR WORKERS
She looks like she's hiring
Dirty capitalists get put in pri-son
Watching Dana Terrace call Bob Iger out on his shit is just so fucking satisfying.
You're not causing harm to the community if IDing as ace or aro is a temporary label for you or ended up being a temporary label for you. Sometimes labels change, this can happen with any label.
Hollywood executives will nuke entire shows from existence, then wonder why the people they treated like shit are no longer willing to work for them.
Oh, and they already owned the rights to these shows and movies. It was costing WB and Disney nothing to keep shows like Final Space and Willow on HBO MAX and Disney Plus.
Today’s disability topic is how America forces disabled people into poverty.
Today’s particular topic is how SSI keeps disabled people poor.
Let’s first go over what SSI is. Supplemental Security Income is a program that provides monthly payments to disabled people and elderly people who meet the financial qualifications.
SSDI stands for Social Security Disability and eligibility is based on work credits. This is for people who used to work before becoming disabled. We will not be discussing this today.
Here are the facts:
The average SSI payment in January of 2023 is $553 per month.
Disabled people on SSI also cannot have more than $2000 in savings and assets. This is severely limiting.
This is not enough to even cover basic needs. How can someone live based off those payments? Disabled people who live with someone such as a caregiver, family member, or partner receive reduced payments and risk losing their benefits.
Disabled people cannot marry without losing their SSI or losing financial assets.
Here is an eye opening article about forced poverty:
https://brownpoliticalreview.org/2022/01/government-mandated-poverty/
Also check this article by The Hill called “Lifeline for people with disabilities forces them to live in poverty”
https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/3702528-lifeline-for-people-with-disabilities-forces-them-to-live-in-poverty/
hey i wanted to get this off my chest and i feel like u r someone who will get it! im an out trans guy and i work with mostly cis queer women, and the other day a trans man (wearing a trans shirt- we chatted :3) shopped in the store and afterwards one of my coworkers (who is my close friend and dating a transmasc person and i trusted her) LITERALLY said she could tell he was a trans guy “because he was too nice and trans guys who are nice are so obviously not actually men” and went on and on. she tried to walk it back a few minutes later with “i mean they’re the real men and cis guys aren’t” i didn’t say anything (i’m a coward) but like fuck. cis women are so comfortable calling us fake men and acting like that’s not a horrific thing to say. like it’s a compliment even. sorry for the rant i just feel so gross and stupid and evil for being a trans guy around women !!!!
need people to understand that “i can clock trans men because they’re so nice and docile and polite” is one of those complementary-stereotypes-are-still-harmful things.
for one its kinda giving “women are kinder because they are biologically predisposed to caretaking and motherhood, so they are naturally kind and generous because thats how their brains work :)” misogyny. Obviously a lot of trans men do act differently than cis men because we had to personally confront toxic masculinity and what it means to be a man & likely personally experience (or have in the past) things like misogyny and menstruation. Similarly, a lot of women historically have been motivated to help others because they wanted justice and cared about others lives. But there are also trans men who are huge assholes and women who are deeply selfish and cruel, and a lot of how people are is based on their choices in reaction to the situation they find themselves in by birth, not the situation itself.
Its like. saying “Ashkenazi Jews are biologically smarter than others” sounds like a compliment, and someone might even say it trying to be genuinely nice. But its rooted deeply in antisemitism & notions that Jews are supervillains who could overpower White Christians. There’s a difference between “Jewish culture values education and study” and “Jews have higher IQs, because they are essentially a different species, and I totally don’t mean this in a Nazi way and if you think that, maybe you’re the real antisemite!” Same thing here. If your “compliment” is othering to the people you are complimenting, then you should rethink it.
