Some inventions aren’t about being bigger or faster. Someone invented a seatbelt. Someone invented traffic signals.
Someone invented car seats to protect the most fragile passengers, so moving forward doesn’t leave people behind
A research field I didn't know about: Discard Studies - which things get discarded in our work and society, and who gets to decide what gets discarded? We need to honor the origins of knowledge and ideas, rather than extracting them. #CriticalUX
@aribajahan@albanvillamil I would reframe. As phrased, I don't trust the intent. Visible to who? Under what conditions? It makes disability status about the perception of other people.
Eighteen months into this pandemic, so many people I know are still feeling so down (myself included). One friend put it this way: the bad things are disproportionately destabilizing and the good things are insufficiently fortifying. Anyone else feeling this way?
We are still in the midst of the civil rights movement, and I fundamentally believe that disability justice must be a central part of that intersectional struggle for liberation.
Our destinies are tied. As we mark #ADA31, we recommit to the necessary work ahead.
Pres. Biden & Senate Dems should take a step back and ask themselves if playing patty-cake w GOP Senators is really worth the dismantling of people’s voting rights, setting the planet on fire, allowing massive corporations and the wealthy to not pay their fair share of taxes, etc