Kochava Lilit כוכבה לילית

Autistic ADHD cripple, queer Jew, trans activist zey/zir

[Linda Hughes @lindah2057]

I agree with DRC commissioners, Bennett, Galbally & McEwin: The deliberate and systemic separation of people based on disability constitutes segregation and this is incompatible with inclusion.
We must end segregation!
#DRCfinalreport

[Suzanne Nielsen PhD MPS @DrSuziNielsen]

The complexity for ppl who use drugs in policy spaces is immense.. .@Annie_Madden_ "are you enough of a drug user.. or too much? Are stories that are not of recovery acceptable?" Consider what is at stake when we ask ppl with lived experience to share their stories. #marc2023

[Erin Ekins (she/her) @QueerlyAutistic]

Something people don't seem to realise about disability benefits is that you have to fight through one of the most degrading, dehumanizing processes known to man, often fighting for years against unfairness, just to get, at the end of the day, not enough money to live on.

[Kochava Lilit כוכבה לילית @QueerJewishCrip]

Chag sameach

[Dr Dale Whelehan @DrDaleford]

🙌 THE 4 DAY WORK WEEK HAS HIT IRELAND WITH ASTONISHING RESULTS. 🙌

The Irish Findings are as follows:
• 100% of the companies involved are continuing with the 4-Day work week ➡
• 85% of companies which reported data on revenue reported growth in revenue 📈 (1/X)

[E Krebs, PhD 🧂 @SaltySicky]

The United Nations has called involuntary psychiatric care a form of torture but it's still regularly practiced on suicidal patients in the US. Involuntary 72-hour ("5150") holds are the norm for people deemed a threat to themselves. During this time, consent goes out the window.

[E Krebs, PhD 🧂 @SaltySicky]

There are many ways to handle mental health crises that don't involve cops or involuntary psychiatric care. Access to childcare, meals, emergency funds, and affordable medical care can go a long way. Being in a community where people can talk openly about suicidality is huge.

[E Krebs, PhD 🧂 @SaltySicky]

Reporting someone for being suicidal can get them kicked out of college & fired from jobs. It can even cause them to lose custody of their kids. Mandatory reporting policies are dangerous & are aimed at protecting businesses and organizations from liability, not helping people.

[David Lo Pun-ch Nazis @helpmeskeletor]

Funny how ‘respect for the dead’ mysteriously never applies to the people subjected to colonial violence and ongoing genocide just the ones who preside over it.

[IndigenousX @IndigenousX]

For those saying we should be magnanimous about the passing of the queen, a reminder that the queen inserted herself into the lives of Indigenous people here multiple times. She wasn't a bystander to the effects of colonisation and colonialism, she was an architect of it.

[J. Logan Smilges @jlsmilges]

Whether it’s casual homophobia or legislative, anti-trans violence, so much of the discriminatory rhetoric aimed at LGBTQ folks rides on the tail feathers of ableism.

In this case, segregating disabled students is framed as uncontested to justify expanding carceral logics.

[Erin Ekins (she/her) @QueerlyAutistic]

Today is the day when adults who haven't been teenagers for several decades try to impart advice and wisdom to teenagers receiving their exam results, as if the world or context is the same.

Adults, please stop doing this. Just be there, be supportive, and listen to these kids.