Tara "the Terrible" Shearer

Passionate about neurodiversity, science and social justice. Disability justice activist. Politically opinionated pain in the butt.

[Tara "the Terrible" Shearer @NotAratear]

@RobertKennedyJr @nytimes But you have likened autistic children to the Holocaust.

[The Tweedy Mutant @the_tweedy]

I am increasingly convinced that there are two types of people in the world: those who hear "everyone will get COVID eventually" as permission and those who understand that it's a threat.

[Alice Wong 王美華 @SFdirewolf]

For many disabled, older, and poor people public transit may be the only accessible option to get around in their communities.

Clearly the public isn’t for ‘all’ when it centers the most privileged

#HighRiskCovid19 #DisabilityTwitter #CripTheVote #COVID19 #omicron

[Sarah Allen @Mssarahmssarah]

Eric Adams attended multiple events including in schools, theaters, at a film festival with people with disabilities, and in Albany, maskless. After he *knew* he’d been exposed at the Gridiron dinner.

This knowing and blatant disregard for other people is reprehensible.

[Tara "the Terrible" Shearer @NotAratear]

This is an immensely important thread.

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

TW: Ableism, murder, infanticide, sexual abuse.

People don’t know how deep ableism goes and how you all just see it as laughs.

About 2 years ago, I went to a screening of a documentary for work. I was there to hear one of the women I work with who was institutionalized

[Jennifer Gunter @DrJenGunter]

I didn’t tell someone to fuck off, who deserved to be told, so I may be growing as a person. In some way.

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

Oh also, Autism Speaks is in large part the reason why people believe vaccines cause autism, so if you think their ableism and harm doesn’t affect you…look around.

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

A lot of you who think “violence is never the answer” sure as shit support Autism Speaks…

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

Y’all let all these little ableist jokes slide before the pandemic and now a million people are dead.

You fuckers left us to die and expect us to laugh along with you at our expense.

[Urgency of Equity @UrgencyofEquity]

There is a moral urgency to protect all students & staff, including those who are most vulnerable.

We put together a toolkit to help communities sort out fact from fiction & advocate for a safe, healthy learning environment for everyone: https://t.co/YBDVlqUgKm #UrgencyOfEquity

[Tara Haelle #ReadBannedBooks @tarahaelle]

There have been 1,346 *reported* pediatric COVID deaths since the pandemic began. About half of those are from the first 20 months. The other half are the past 4 months.

Tell me again why we should drop masks in schools & why a handful of drs are discouraging kids’ vaccination.

[Yuh-Line Niou @yuhline]

Bringing back this piece by ⁦@RebeccaCokley⁩ and ⁦@AyannaPressley⁩ .

“Achieving diversity, equity, and inclusion means putting disability justice in every policy discussion and making it part of the continuing struggle for civil rights.” https://t.co/n8jQCdI9D9

[Tara "the Terrible" Shearer @NotAratear]

@GovMurphy Why can't "living with Covid" mean being decent human beings and living with modest mitigation measures in place?

[Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD @Nicole_Lee_Sch]

Mask mandate terminations are going to become my villain origin story. I'm never going to be able to stop wearing an N95. Who's behind the mask? Just an immunocompromised woman trying to survive in a eugenics driven world. Getting real tired of begging for my life.

[Tara "the Terrible" Shearer @NotAratear]

@emjay_probably Can we throw out this whole man?

[Tara "the Terrible" Shearer @NotAratear]

@Brian_Sauve What makes you think your opinion matters even a little bit?