Hi! I'm Laura Packard, the cancer patient that Donald Trump blocked on Twitter while trying to strip away our health care. I'm in remission, and traveling across the country to tell our stories. I'm at 27k followers. Can you RT this & follow me to help get me to 30k this weekend?
A deaf audience member at the Broadway show Hadestown was called on twice by an actress for allegedly using a recording device when she was actually using a captioning device. Let’s unpack this story using disability scholarship👇1/4 #CripTheVote https://t.co/96Ih7SyHt2
So I lost a good chunk of followers yesterday for saying that my experience as a Black queer and autistic individual is much different and much more marginalized than a White queer and autistic individual. That I’ll always be seen as Black first.
So lemme say it again ☺️
Stranger on street as I, a wheelchair user, passed by: “Disabled people are leeches.”
Don’t believe it when people say that ableism is subtle. Ableism and contempt for disabled people are often blatant and overt.