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.
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.
“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?
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
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
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
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
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.
Barrier-free Vaccination Clinic in Toronto. Accessible with ASL interpreters on site. No OHIP needed.
https://t.co/H4W0pUSRKX
#COVID19#COVID19Vaccine#HealthForAll
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/
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
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!