NJCU LEADS Club

Advocating for students with disabilities and students who are family members of someone with a disability, and everyone's mental and physical health.

[NJCU LEADS Club @NJCULEADS]

@mfredericks1x @kdrich21 @zellieimani And the 23% is Latinx women who think they're white. Your last name is Rodriguez, you aren't white and never will be seen as such

[Kathy Flaherty @ConnConnection]

Anyone who is *still* talking about the importance of “stopping the stigma” with regard to mental health needs to recognize they have a lot more to learn about the bigger systemic issues at play, including the deprivation of civil rights and discrimination based on diagnosis.

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

It’s a mindfuck to ask someone who they’d be without their disability.

Idk, Why don’t you ask me who I’d be without ableism/discrimination, because that’s what’s shaped me more than my diagnosis.

We always expect disabled ppl to think of themselves as the ones needing change.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

Pedestrian to me, a wheelchair user:”Let me push you. I’ll take over.”
Me:”No, thanks.”
Pedestrian:”I insist.” (Starts pushing me)
Me:”You need to stop now.”
Pedestrian:”There’s no need to be rude.”

When a disabled person declines help, it is not rudeness.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

Driver to me, a wheelchair user: “Get the hell out of the street. You’re going to get killed.”

Given the pervasive barriers of inaccessible sidewalks and curb ramps, wheelchair users often have to travel in the street.

It is a dangerous necessity.

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

I sent out hundreds of job applications to no avail before someone from a disability rights organization found me. https://t.co/9uaextWSgW

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

Where do you report people for ADA violations?

Wrong answers only.

I’ll go first: the police.

[nico (perpetually lifeless) 🦥 @unicornthorn]

When I say ME/CFS is vastly different than my other illnesses & disabilities, what I mean is that I made a few phone calls A WEEK AGO & I've been so mentally & *physically* exhausted from it that I've barely been able to respond to messages, much less do anything else, ever since

[💜 JV 💜 @javi_khoso]

Love that a funky phone app filter made for laughs undid years of research that previously showed that cats don't pass the mirror test and proved that they in fact do understand what reflections are

[Jamie Lee Finch @jamieleefinch]

I was frantically refreshing twitter in the back of my white evangelical church during a service. When the verdict was delivered, I started sobbing. A leader asked me what was wrong — I told her and her reply was, “who?”

That was the moment I knew I was never coming back.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

Stranger to me, a wheelchair user:”Can you do tricks? I saw someone who can do wheelies and go up and down stairs in their wheelchair.”

Tricks? This isn’t showtime. So far, I’ve had to deal with barriers and broken sidewalks and ramps.

That’s my show.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

Like most privileged groups, nondisabled people seldom give up their priveleges voluntarily.

Access and accommodations are rarely, if ever, provided without a fight.

This intransigence forces disabled people to be adversarial to secure even basic rights.

[Diary of a Disabled Person🍉 @WheelerDax]

Isn't it funny how consent doesn't apply to #disabled people?
You can touch anyone disabled, even if they are telling no, because you're "helping".
You didn't mean it.
You didn't know that no meant no. You know?
The same fucking excuses given for sexual assault.
#JustAskDontGrab

[Natalya Dell @natalyadell]

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