I Want To Do This With My Friends 🥺🥺

if you didn’t realize, ableism is actually bigotry and systemic ableism and inaccessibility are really oppression and it’s not something disabled people brought on ourselves by having bodies&minds that you think are inferior and therefore not worth fighting for. disabled people’s lives and wellbeing matter. we don’t have to earn our worthiness by doing “enough” to deserve a good life. nobody does.

it's like. the episode where buck kisses a man for the first time is about eddie and his friendship with eddie. and the subsequent episode dealing with the fallout, which is also the last episode to do any meaningful exploration into his sexuality, is also about eddie. the only non-comedic coming out scene he gets is with eddie. and this is not even good! this is not a ship win! i would so much rather this storyline be afforded the weight it deserves. I don't think it should be about anyone but him, even if there are feelings there. and then he does nothing for the rest of season seven. he starts eight with the perfect opportunity to explore this newfound label of his (friction with known and established bigot gerard) and then he just. doesn't do any of that. and they proceed to make every other storyline this season (!!!) with the exception of an unserious halloween sl. about eddie and his relationship with eddie. they refuse to dedicate any screentime to his actual romantic relationship and have them break up because of perceived romantic tension between him and eddie. and then they end the season with no change in their friendship, no new insights, just a waste of time. as a shipper I'm annoyed by the lack of follow through, yes, but I'm more annoyed that they let their desire to bait their fans prevent them from doing any meaningful plotline with the ideas they were actually willing to commit to. and if i didn't ship them i would probably be even more pissed, but to have that discussion starts with admitting that 1) this is blatant and obvious bait. and 2) the show's inability to commit to or face the obvious undertones of their own writing is actively harming the queer representation that is present. pretending as though queer fans don't have a right to be pissed about that, not just Buck's storylines these past seasons but Hen's as well, is helping no one but the network.

#couch theory lives

"Actually many disabled people do contribute to society" is not a great argument against eugenics, by the way.

Not "humans are inherently good" or "humans are inherently evil" but a secret third thing (humans are inherently social animals which means that we're very good at cooperating and being compassionate towards those we perceive as being part of our community but we're also very good at being tribal and violent towards those we perceive as threats to our community and everyone defines their community differently)

Racism in the plural community is a real problem. Racism in the medical community is a real, dangerous problem.

Pour one out for DID/OSDD systems of color that go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed because the psychiatric institution dismisses them.

Pour one out for all systems of color who feel isolated because the online community often conflates plurality with whiteness.

Pour one out for systems of color who get called racist or appropriative because their systems incorporate aspects of their own culture, but people automatically assume they must be white.

Pour one out for systems of color whose voices are silenced because of their ethnicity.

Uplift non-white systems. Talk to non-white systems, not over them.

but i didn't save them 5.13 // 8.17

I know there's been some controversy on whether pcos and related conditions count as intersex but I think in the current political climate there is no space for community discourse and instead an urgency of community building and solidarity. Politically, I'm claiming the intersex label. I refuse to accept the narrow view of sex and gender presented by this regime. The way I look, caused by the way my body works, is already a category crisis for them and I refuse to make it easier for them.