Invisible Disability Project

We are devoted to building human connections + self-advocacy by dismantling shame + stigma.

#RadicalAllyship
#InvisibleDisability

[Invisible Disability Project @EndInvisibility]

If you interact with humans and/or design for them ... your training is incomplete if you do not have disability studies in your education portfolio.

[Invisible Disability Project @EndInvisibility]

The False Radicalism of Corporate Disability Literature https://t.co/tClvDDLMv5 via @lithub

[Invisible Disability Project @EndInvisibility]

@plagueprose The vocal prosody of Hardman is so pedantic, gaslighting on its own- even without the gaslighting content. Patient Labor is the highest uncompensated position.

[#LupusChat @Lupus_Chat]

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!!🎂🎊🎁

[Anne-Lise Francois @imp_lise]

@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.

[Alice Wong 王美華 @SFdirewolf]

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]

[Alice Wong 王美華 @SFdirewolf]

“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

[Alice Wong 王美華 @SFdirewolf]

📣 💐📚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.

https://t.co/EyhBShQnBX

[Invisible Disability Project @EndInvisibility]

"Timely Access to Care" @UCSDHealth ?

Scheduling for a loved one with a "Stat" referral. Soonest appointment? JUNE. JUNE?

#HealthcareAccess
#PatientRights

[Katie Porter @katieporterca]

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

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

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 @EndInvisibility]

@GaetaAmy Yes, please!

[Alice Wong 王美華 @SFdirewolf]

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 @EndInvisibility]

Loving and familiar caregivers who know Alice, her body, and her needs and who can attend to them in her own space are what she needs most. Please, give what you can to help Alice.

Help Alice Stay In the Community
https://t.co/9eBuFJt01k

[Alice Wong 王美華 @SFdirewolf]

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!

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

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.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

“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 @EndInvisibility]

@GaetaAmy Would love to learn what comes from that discussion on the basis of academic ableism.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

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?

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

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.