Hannah🏳️‍🌈

🏳️‍🌈🇳🇿☮️🥄Tweeting about mental health, life with a chronic illness, and accessibility. Dream: equality for all & a peaceful global community. She/they.

[Hannah🏳️‍🌈 @spoonfulofqueer]

“If your voice held no power, they wouldn’t try to silence you.” - unknown
#BlackLivesMatter #humanrights #equality #NoJusticeNoPeace

[RheumForLove | Mal | @malo255]

@GHMansfield Access is a human right.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

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.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

Disability rights are civil rights are human rights.

Those who fail to make this equation deny the humanity of disabled people.

[Hannah🏳️‍🌈 @spoonfulofqueer]

Wow @TaxpayersUnion wussed out and deleted their tweet! Come on guys, if you believe it enough to tweet it, stand by it.

[Bathsheba 🍅🍉 @ShebaKiTaurangi]

@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!

[Hannah🏳️‍🌈 @spoonfulofqueer]

Yaassss

[Hannah🏳️‍🌈 @spoonfulofqueer]

Oh look, it me!
The arrival of this frame made me very happy last Friday!!

[Volunteer Marlborough @VolMarl]

We would also like to say thank you to @SouthVolunteer for letting us nab your idea!

#volunteersouthnz #dunedin #otago #mahiaroha #thankyou #shoutout

[Jacqueline Patterson @medicalmaryjane]

@GHMansfield And that any accommodation, while reasonable to us, maybe denied by an able-bodied person who doesn't see the value.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

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.

[Hannah🏳️‍🌈 @spoonfulofqueer]

Two of the most important this is in life: equality and freedom from harrassment, bullying, and abuse

#PinkShirtDayNZ #pinkshirtday #TeRāOTeTīhāteMāwhero #EqualityForAll #LGBTQIA

[Volunteer Marlborough @VolMarl]

...
Kōrero mai, kōrero atu, mauri tū, mauri ora.⁠
Speak Up. Stand together. Stop bullying.
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📷 Pictured: Meg Martin (Manager) and Hannah Cunningham (Coordinator for Volunteer Services) with our penguin mascots, Vincent and Marama.⁠ [4/4]
#SpeakUp #StandTogether #mauriora

[Volunteer Marlborough @VolMarl]

...
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]
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[Volunteer Marlborough @VolMarl]

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

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

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.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

You are not going to insult me by calling me disabled.
Disability is an identity.
Identity is not insult.

[Hannah🏳️‍🌈 @spoonfulofqueer]

*dole bludgers
#duckingautococonut

[Hannah🏳️‍🌈 @spoonfulofqueer]

And stop telling us that we're doll blushers that just need to try something different or try harder.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

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.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

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.

[Chlöe Swarbrick @_chloeswarbrick]

Sensible drug regulation focuses on reducing harm, whether that be from an unregulated black market or untamed ‘free’ market.

https://t.co/g7pNq08TUr

[2Tapu @2TAPU]

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

[Hannah🏳️‍🌈 @spoonfulofqueer]

Even with the "more serious" or "more extreme" mental illnesses like schizophrenia, the people living with that condition are more likely to be victims

[Joanna No Banana @JoannaNoBanana]

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