🏳️🌈🇳🇿☮️🥄Tweeting about mental health, life with a chronic illness, and accessibility. Dream: equality for all & a peaceful global community. She/they.
Access for disabled people should not depend on beneficence.
Access is not charity.
Access is not a gift.
Access is not a reward.
Access is opening up a path to
undo discriminatory and
exclusionary barriers for disabled people.
@mikejbain You mean like these sneaks who deleted their tweet? Lol .... I'm already being the change and saying Aotearoa in a local context, I say Aotearoa NZ for international audiences. Be the change!
The fact that disabled people still have to go to extraordinary lengths to ASK for access and accommodation is a sad commentary on our ableist society.
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Kōrero mai, kōrero atu, mauri tū, mauri ora.
Speak Up. Stand together. Stop bullying.
📷 Pictured: Meg Martin (Manager) and Hannah Cunningham (Coordinator for Volunteer Services) with our penguin mascots, Vincent and Marama. [4/4]
#SpeakUp#StandTogether#mauriora
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At VM, we're joining in on Pink Shirt Day because we believe that equality and freedom from bullying are necessary for a community to thrive. Since we're all about community, it seemed natural for us to stand behind the message of #pinkshirtday. ...[3/4]
We're taking part in #pinkshirtday2021 today - speaking up & standing together to stop bullying!
Celebrated annually around the globe, Pink Shirt Day began in 2007 when 2 students took a stand against homophobic... [1/4]
@PinkShirtDayNZ
#PinkShirtDayNZ#TeRāOTeTīhāteMāwhero
Bus rider:”I hope you don’t mind if I hang my bag on the back of your wheelchair until I get to my stop. It’s heavy.”
A wheelchair is not a luggage rack or piece of furniture to hang things on.
If you exclude disabled people, I don’t want to hear how diverse you are.
If you exclude disabled people, I don’t want to hear how inclusive you are.
If you exclude disabled people, I don’t want to hear how accessible and accommodating you are.
I’m not “special.”
My needs aren’t “special.”
My rights aren’t “special.”
Often, in the context of disabled people, “special” means segregated, burdensome and inferior.
Like everyone else, disabled people should be treated with equity and justice.
That would be really special.
When our boy was admitted to a secure psychiatric unit he said te reo & whānau kept him going The other thing he loved, the Gym, wasn't available as all the equipment was broken. I'm fundraising to fix or replace equipment & make sure its maintained. https://t.co/PjRxt6ooSz
Even with the "more serious" or "more extreme" mental illnesses like schizophrenia, the people living with that condition are more likely to be victims
It displays those with mental illnesses as attackers even though statistically we’re more likely to be victims in situations.
Mentally ill people aren’t bad people.
Plus police isn’t trained in helping those who are mentally ill. 2/3