Kate Welsh

Queer Crip activist, artist, educator // settler // community organizer // crafter // disabled

[J. Logan Smilges @jlsmilges]

I am once again warning you all that I am this close 🤏🏼 to opening a gym that centers disabled and trans people’s needs with wheelchair-friendly machines, no loud music, soft overhead lights, individual shower rooms, fat-positive trainers, and classes led by drag queens.

[Christopher Leighton MD, FRCPC @ccleighton]

RAT COVID TESTING:
It's so important that you swab the inside of your cheek (especially at the level of your upper & lower molars), under your tongue and the back of your throat before you swab your nose. Sensitivity of available RATs increases significantly with this approach.

[CILT @CIL_Toronto]

Free program for new and established Disabled Writers coming up at CILT this September! Register here: https://t.co/H41JFaeh16

#DisWrites #DisabledStories #DisabledWritingCommunity

[Disability and Reproductive Health during COVID-19 @DisabilitySRH]

Do you identify as a woman or trans person & live in Canada? Contact us to participate in our 20-min survey! We're researching #disability & #reprohealth during COVID-19. Pls RT @DAWNRAFHCanada @HilaryKBrown @queer_kate @alexandracr88 @yonalunsky @AmyCMcpherson @JihanAbbas

[Disability Justice Network of Ontario @djnontario]

“It is far easier to let go than keep fighting for additional resources.”

Another case of a disabled person saying that death via MAiD is easier than living through state sanctioned poverty. How many more disabled people have to keep dying for something to change?

[♿ Dev Ramsawakh🏳️‍⚧️ (they/he) @merkyywaters]

I'm thrilled to have @criproject be a community partner for the 2022 @ReelAbilitiesTO festival! We’ll be co-presenting the Opening Night "Access Is Love": A Film Shorts Program - for more info or to purchase tickets https://t.co/DE5U2LSZFI

[Kate Welsh @queer_kate]

Ableism is always entangled in other forms of oppression

[♿ Dev Ramsawakh🏳️‍⚧️ (they/he) @merkyywaters]

As a multiply marginalized disabled person who can't watch one comedy show without having to see an entire audience laugh at at least one of my identities, it would actually mean the world to me if my loved ones would stop letting it slide all the time and KO'd ableists instead

[♿ Dev Ramsawakh🏳️‍⚧️ (they/he) @merkyywaters]

As a multiply marginalized disabled person who can't watch one comedy show without having to see an entire audience laugh at at least one of my identities, it would actually mean the world to me if my loved ones would stop letting it slide all the time and KO'd ableists instead

[Kate Welsh @queer_kate]

The IDE+A PROJECT Call Out!

CILT seeks disabled and Deaf folks with lived expertise for a new cross-disability steering group. Members will share leadership of a new 2-year project that aims to influence greater inclusion of disability equity & access (IDE+A) in GTA @CIL_Toronto

[♿ Dev Ramsawakh🏳️‍⚧️ (they/he) @merkyywaters]

Many therapists can be ableist, transphobic or perpetuate any number of societal harms as well. Finding therapists that align with your lived experience gets trickier with each identity you add which can be expensive. Many of us experience the most harm and have the least access.

[Kate Welsh @queer_kate]

Nothing is ever just a figure of speech when the language you use hurts someone else.

https://t.co/KIr1a5qZkn

[Kate Welsh @queer_kate]

@josierones @wendyporch @Uber This has happened to me way too many times. Contact uber - they take this seriously. dm me if you want support

[LivMendelsohn @LivMendelsohn]

Barrier-free Vaccination Clinic in Toronto. Accessible with ASL interpreters on site. No OHIP needed.

https://t.co/H4W0pUSRKX
#COVID19 #COVID19Vaccine #HealthForAll

[Kate Welsh @queer_kate]

Just got off the phone with @VIA_Rail and once again endured extreme #ableism. I wasn’t allowed to book a trip until I prove I am disabled. This is bs

[Kate Welsh @queer_kate]

@TTCStuart @TTChelps Except all of the people who use #wheeltrans - looks like disabled people once again don’t matter. Your #ableism is showing

[J. Logan Smilges @jlsmilges]

You’ve heard of “access intimacy” (@miamingus). You may have heard of “access hostility” (@ehlastigirl).

Now it’s time we talk about access thievery. 1/

[Kate Welsh @queer_kate]

I was on the radio this morning! https://t.co/Kj4BVqR9px @AccessibleMedia #thepulse

[♿ Dev Ramsawakh🏳️‍⚧️ (they/he) @merkyywaters]

Accommodations aren't only for the people you deem deserving enough

[Disability Justice Network of Ontario @djnontario]

Why are the vulnerable populations susceptible to MAID? The government will rather allow death, then to improve the living conditions, assistance, and healthcare to Disabled individuals in Canada.

This is "Unconstitutional" .
https://t.co/075x5Lmv1v

[Kate Welsh @queer_kate]

Yessss! Happy IDPwD (last week I know

[CILT @CIL_Toronto]

Here's Part 2 of this story. In it, podcaster Gabe Thibault @youngqueersick warns that the ableist bias that #PWD 'must' have a lesser quality of life, devalues their diverse lives & increases the risk of their agency and access rights being generally excluded. Thanks Gabe!