Though the jokes that "since gay pride month is over, july is now gay wrath month" are funny and all, it's important to remember that July is ACTUALLY Disability Pride Month and y'all should really be focused on boosting disabled voices and issues this month! For instance, the fact that marriage equality doesn't actually truly exist in the United States for disabled people, or the fact that disabled people are forced to live in poverty or lose their disability benefits, or the fact that 1 in 5 people with chronic pain end up sufferring from alcoholism or other addictions, or how accessibility is still a daily battle for all of us, or how there are active hate groups on places like reddit who try to "call out" those they see as "faking" their disabilities.
This July, boost disabled voices. Talk about the issues that our community faces. Call out ableism.
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hi!! me and @taiiyo-stims were talkin about how wild it would be if there was a non-profit organization that provided neurodivergents with free stim toys, and well here we are!! please reblog if you like this idea, would consider donating, aw heck just reblog because you saw this post!! we want to help people, but we can’t unless our voices are heard. thank you so much!
With Elon Musk coming out as autistic a lot of people are giving the "all representation is good representation" excuse, or celebrating it for any myriad of ways.
Please understand what exactly is wrong with this representation: Elon Musk is NOT on our side.
When some rich famour influential man comes out as Autistic, he will now by default lead the narrative around neurodivergence in the mainstream. People will see his views as correct and the foremost source on these matters. They will see his ableist language, outdated diagnosis, his ideas of "curing" autism, and his tendency to chalk his oppressive behaviours up to autism, and they will see that as the standard for how to talk about Autistic people. And further infantilise Autistic people.
Not to mention, we absolutely do not want the face of Autism to be an apartheid-profiteering exploitative billionaire in the first place. That's not an autistic icon. That's the enemy. He represents the very system that oppresses us.
Neurotypical people, please take this time to flood social media instead with autistic people who actually are involved in activism every single day and tired from not getting enough engagement. Amplify those voices. Otherwise this is nothing but a slippery slope that leads us towards erasure, repression, and even extinction.
Saw some TERFs spreading these images of @degenderettes and actually everything here is awesome and needs more love.
Bash TERFs, love trans people.
🥺 support a black lgbt owned bookstore trying to open in the south? Bc I want to go there when they open? Thank u?
Look at them
From the Kickstarter: “Today, Durham is without a Black-owned bookselling storefront and the handful of bookstores in the area do not, at present, offer an expansive cross-genre collection of Black literature. This is the gap that Rofhiwa hopes to fill: (1) creating a space for collective imagining, where children and adults may find and share stories that reflect who they are (2) fostering the convivial atmosphere that is seminal to creating the bookcafé as a communal space (3) offering a deep collection of works by Black writers that invites readers to explore what it means to be Black here, over there and everywhere where Black people make life.”
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2025896590/rofhiwa-book-cafe-a-book-and-coffee-spot-for-east-durham
Do it for the black lgbts in the south !!! Thank u !!!
It’s 3:40 AM and all I wanna do is make lists.
........I’m gonna make some lists.
Syo bloopers from earlier tonight on @ask-uta-no-prince-sama! (BTW, I’m still on there, just as Unknown from Mystic Messenger!)
I hope this can be a safe space for all who need it. (He/him. Spoonie. I’m over 18.)
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