Disabled Poetics

Documenting a research and writing project on Disability, Eugenics and Euthanasia. Tweets @chloeclarkepoet ♿🏳️‍🌈 Arts Council Funded

[Disabled Poetics @DisabledPoetics]

Recently TfL discriminated against me by not allowing me on the bus as a wheelchair user.

Looking for advice on how to take legal action against them.
#disabledbytherailway #disabled #disabilityjustice #legaladvice

[Alice Wong 王美華 @SFdirewolf]

It’s hard to be kind when every major institution is built on ableism and white supremacy plus cultural bias that reinforces the message that being disabled is a fate worse than death

[Disabled Poetics @DisabledPoetics]

@itvMLshow will the new powers for DWP to have access to private bank accounts affect PIP claimants too? If so why? As it’s not means tested. #martinlewis @MartinSLewis

[Disabled Poetics @DisabledPoetics]

@MoneySavingExp @MartinSLewis will the governments budget decision to give DWP powers to access your private bank accounts affect PIP recipients? #martinlewis

[Disabled Poetics @DisabledPoetics]

@beatface @j40257 @thecakelin I couldn't agree more, and why is the responsibility being put on her alone seemingly for eating inside 3x a year when 100s of people are going to the restaurant and taking no mitigations outside of this? She is probably their least risky customer.

[Frances Ryan @DrFrancesRyan]

Friendly reminder to the British media that the next week is not the only time to hire disabled journalists. Disabled people are for life, not just for the Paralympics.

[Disabled Poetics @DisabledPoetics]

Me, an autistic person, 1-hour post-surgery: Hi nurse, I'm in so much pain.
Nurse: Ok *leaves*
Me: Has to get out of bed to pee and ends up sobbing from said pain.
Nurse: *rushes in* OMG you should have told us you were in pain! *immediately gives me meds* #Autism #access

[Disability Rights UK @DisRightsUK]

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨

Charity for Disabled children funnelling over 40% of its funds to right-wing think-tanks.

Utterly shocking - an example of what happens when disability organisations aren't run by us, for us, with lived-experience at the forefront.

https://t.co/cDg9bPTU9z

[Disabled Poetics @DisabledPoetics]

@KiwiOnTheSticks The responses are so ridiculous; your thread was so informative & probably made a lot of people who don't mask think about wearing one. I think it's likely that many covid influencers don't admit they're not 100% for this reason. Honestly encourages people to mask not shame.

[Disabled Poetics @DisabledPoetics]

In person, I'm lucky to have only had a couple bad experiences with this but I think people don't consider how stressful it is to rock up at the bus stop and see a buggy in the space and ask them to move so you can get to your destination on time. #accessibletravel #disabled

[Disabled Poetics @DisabledPoetics]

I've seen a lot of discourse on the fact wheelchair users are given priority over buggies on buses in the UK. What's wild is before disabled folk fought for the space on the bus, there wasn't a space for buggies at all, just a blue bin to put a folded buggy in.

[Disabled Poetics @DisabledPoetics]

We can advocate and petition for two spaces to ensure everyone is happy but you can't argue an entitlement to a space that only exists because disabled people protested?!

[Disabled Poetics @DisabledPoetics]

Calling all white disabled people: it's not ok to compare the progession of our rights to Black and POC rights. Often when I see these comments made it's alluding to the idea that POC are now equal and racism results in outrage and ableism doesn't. It's not ok.

[Disabled Poetics @DisabledPoetics]

@charleyblogs Where do I apply to be a student? 🧐

[Disabled Poetics @DisabledPoetics]

My disability is not something I have to overcome, it's part of me, it means I can do some things and I can't do others and that is ok.

#disabled #disability #access #wheelchairuser

[Disabled Poetics @DisabledPoetics]

I am currently reading Scapegoat by @KatharineQ, it's absolutely wild how historical views of disabled people are still so embedded in our society today.

From seeing disabled people as something to sacrifice to the language still used around disability.

[Disabled Poetics @DisabledPoetics]

Also, can we talk about the fact that @Disney, instead of coming up with another solution, just CGI'd people with dwarfism? So THEY took away jobs and then THEY still reinforced harmful stereotypes? #disability #representation

[Disabled Poetics @DisabledPoetics]

Peter Dinklage has not 'taken jobs' away from people with dwarfism because he spoke out on the horrid representations of snow white.

Mega-corporations (like Disney) have taken jobs away from people with dwarfism by only casting them in roles that add to harmful stereotypes.

[Disabled Poetics @DisabledPoetics]

When I was learning to wheelie over curbs when I got my wheelchair people would look panicked as they saw me trying and my partner stood watching.

They'd run over 'DO YOU NEED HELP!'

It would always make us laugh, do they think my partner watches me struggle?

#wheelchair

[Hannah Al-Othman @HannahAlOthman]

Just wanted to share quickly how lovely yesterday felt in Southport; a total contrast to the night before. 🧵

The mosque and people’s garden walls were rebuilt by builders and bricklayers volunteering their time and labour: