STILL NEEDED: eSIMs for Gaza!

"[...] In so many ways we never thought we’d be here, still doing this two years later, weathering the storm of grief from losing Alice from this earthly plane. But in other ways, maybe this logo is part of the good within that unexpected steadfastness. That we are continuing, and being a part of building alternative systems that, god willing, will eventually lead to a thriving, free and autonomous Palestine.

Til freedom.

In love and disabled Asian persistence,

Alice, Jane and Leah <3"

https://chuffed.org/project/crips-for-esims-for-gaza

@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@fedibird.com

#Gaza #FreePalestine #DisabilityActivism #CripsForGaza

Disability groups are standing united for trans rights. That hasn’t always been the case

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/disability-protections-transgender-trump

I followed Alice Wong on the bird site, and one of her projects was Crips for eSIMs for Gaza. Here is their update from October 8th, a very worthwhile read:

Two Years of Genocide+: Crips Aren’t Done Sending eSims to Gaza

https://chuffed.org/project/crips-for-esims-for-gaza

If you can and would like to help Palestinians in Gaza, any amount however small is incredibly welcome.

@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@fedibird.com
#eSIM #Gaza #FreePalestine #DisabilityActivism

Gutted at the news of the passing of Alice Wong today.

In her final words: Don't let the bastards grind you down!

#AliceWong #DisabilityActivism #Disability

A Beetoota Advocate satire piece e today reads: Demise of Menulog proves there’s no such thing as ethical food delivery you fat fuck.’ And then (paraphrase) no such thing as ethical food delivery…‘anyone who thought otherwise is, frankly, a fat fuck’. And the comments to my reply are worse. Here’s the thing: Punching down on fat people isn’t funny - it’s hurting a marginalised group. There are a myriad of reasons why people are fat, and in the vast majority of cases, it has nothing to do with being a lazy ‘fat fuck’ who can’t be arsed cooking or going out to get food. Rather, it involves complex issues such as socioeconomic status, food availability (and deserts), chronic illness and disability, mental illness, iatrogenic medicine (eg many medications esp for mental illness cause weight gain), racism, and other intersecting factors. @betootaadvocate can and should be better than this. Good satire is always about punching up, not down 😖 #fat #fatacceptance #fatacceptancemovement #fatactivism #bodyshaming #bodyshamingiswrong #disabilityactivism #bodyneutrality

October is nearly here. The next time you sit down to watch Poltergeist, remember that Zelda Rubenstein was a badass human rights activist for people with disabilities and one of the first to step up to the plate in AIDS awareness activism. She will always be a personal hero of mine.

https://youtu.be/IFZijt2pTZE?feature=shared

#disabilityActivism #heroes

"I’ve seen a lot of people lashing out at people horizontally, and my gut sense is that sometimes it happens because the folks who are lashing out are definitely super traumatized, in crisis, feel and are really powerless in a lot of ways,” disability justice organizer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha in conversation with host Kelly Hayes and Elliott Fukui, who develops community safety strategies for emotional wellness and safety, about why people are struggling right now, what’s keeping people alive and engaged, and what we need to create together to survive these times.

https://truthout.org/audio/keeping-each-other-alive-mental-health-and-collective-survival/

#activism #MentalHealth #DisabilityActivism #CollectiveSurvival #ABetterWorldIsPossible

https://www.andererseits.org/wie-firmen-inklusion-vermeiden/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Marketing+FDS+SZ+Recherche+24+8+&utm_campaign=Wie+Firmen+mit+Exklusion+84+Millionen+Euro

#inklusion #exclusion #inclusion #Andererseits #activism #teilhabe #behindertenwerkstattenabschaffenjetzt #Behindertenwerkstätten #behindertenrechte
#behindertundwutend #ableism #ableismus #ableismexists #disability #DisabilityJustice #disabilityawareness #disabilityrights #DisabilityActivism #disabilitypride #notalldisabilitiesarevisible

Solidarity is the best way forward

# AltTextPalestine: Showing Solidarity By Creating Access, by Sarah Blahovec

Via her toolkit (link in article) I found a free online OCR reader which makes writing AltText a lot easier!

https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/03/03/alttextpalestine-showing-solidarity-by-creating-access/

#accessibility #DisabilityJustice #DisabilitySolidarity #AltText #PalestineSolidarity #DisabilityActivism
@palestine @israel

"Under capitalist structures that tie people’s worth to their productivity, where value is determined largely by how productive you are, ableism is used to frame disability, "non-productivity" as a terrifying identity to hold. Ableism therefore doesn’t only affect disabled people but affects everyone: we are all being judged on our ability/inability to be a good productive and obedient worker for the capitalists/fascists."

https://abeautifulresistance.org/site/2025/2/27/disability-day-of-mourning

#Disability
#DisabilityDayOfMourning #DisabilityActivism #AntiCapitalism #ableism #sanism #resistance #capitalism

"Zona Roberts, grandmother of disability rights movement, is dead at 104

She worked alongside her son Ed Roberts, co-founder of the Center for Independent Living, as a fierce advocate for the rights of the disabled and supporter of inclusion and accessibility."

https://www.berkeleyside.org/2025/01/14/zona-roberts-obituary #DisabilityActivism #AntiAbleism

Solidarity is the best way forward

# AltTextPalestine: Showing Solidarity By Creating Access, by Sarah Blahovec

https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/03/03/alttextpalestine-showing-solidarity-by-creating-access/

#accessibility #DisabilityJustice #DisabilitySolidarity #AltText #PalestineSolidarity #StopGenocide #StopApartheid #DisabilityActivism
@palestine @israel

This is wild. #DisabilityActivism #gamingcommunity #fraud
https://www.ign.com/articles/a-prominent-accessibility-advocate-worked-with-studios-and-inspired-change-but-she-never-actually-existed

#greenLeft #censorship #NDIS #AusPol #disabilityRights #disabilityActivism #BillShorten

My partner wrote this article about the dreadful NDIS changes Shorten’s Labor Party proposed. They decided to share it to facebook but the post was removed by fb. Please give it a read and share it around. It is looking like this bill will go through and it will have dire consequences for disabled Australians.

Palestinians in Gaza urgently need more eSIMS!

98% of the amount the Disability Visibility Project has collected they've spent to keep people connected. Link to information on the eSIMs project: https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/12/25/crips-for-esims-for-gaza/

"Poet Rasha Abdulhadi, a disabled, queer Palestinian Southerner, invites us to do everything in our power to refuse the genocide against Palestinian people and in so doing, encourages us to make connections between our struggles and theirs. In their bio in The Offing and elsewhere, they share, “Wherever you are, whatever sand you can throw on the gears of genocide, do it now. If it’s a handful, throw it. If it’s a fingernail full, scrape it out and throw. Get in the way however you can. The elimination of the Palestinian people is not inevitable. We can refuse with our every breath and action. We must.” As disabled people we owe our disabled kin in Gaza to get in the way."

Direct donation link: https://chuffed.org/project/crips-for-esims-for-gaza

#PalestineSolidarity #StopGenocideInPalestine #Disability #eSIM #Gaza_Genocide #Gaza  #solidarity #DisabilityActivism #StopGenocide @israel @palestine  #IsraelWarCrimes #StopApartheid

Palestinians in Gaza urgently need more eSIMS!

98% of the amount the Disability Visibility Project has collected they've spent to keep people connected. Link to information on the eSIMs project: https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/12/25/crips-for-esims-for-gaza/

"Poet Rasha Abdulhadi, a disabled, queer Palestinian Southerner, invites us to do everything in our power to refuse the genocide against Palestinian people and in so doing, encourages us to make connections between our struggles and theirs. In their bio in The Offing and elsewhere, they share, “Wherever you are, whatever sand you can throw on the gears of genocide, do it now. If it’s a handful, throw it. If it’s a fingernail full, scrape it out and throw. Get in the way however you can. The elimination of the Palestinian people is not inevitable. We can refuse with our every breath and action. We must.” As disabled people we owe our disabled kin in Gaza to get in the way."

Direct donation link: https://chuffed.org/project/crips-for-esims-for-gaza

#PalestineSolidarity #StopGenocideInPalestine #Disability #eSIM #Gaza_Genocide #Gaza  #solidarity #DisabilityActivism #StopGenocide @israel @palestine #IsraelWarCrimes #StopApartheid

"It’s the greatest medical scandal of the 21st century. For decades, patients with ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome) have been told they can make themselves better by changing their attitudes. This devastating condition, which afflicts about 250,000 people in the UK, was psychologised by many doctors and scientists, adding to the burden of a terrible physiological illness."

Fantastic article, more here:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/12/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-me-treatments-social-services

#MECFS #DisabilityActivism #ChronicIllness #Disability #LongCovid

"We are calling for active resistance across the UK to these brutal attacks on disabled people."

More here on #NoMoreBenefitDeaths National Day of Action Monday 4th March 2024:
https://dpac.uk.net/2024/02/nomorebenefitdeaths-national-day-of-action-monday-4th-march-2024/

#DPAC #StateViolence #DisabilityActivism #DisabledPeopleAgainstCuts #AntiAusterity

Building on their presentation last Fall, abolitionist organizer Moss Williams is returning with another virtual event on antifascism and disability! On Sunday the 25th, Moss will weave together history and theory to explore the relationship between fascism and ableism—and how both are driving attacks on our bodily autonomy.

Register for this free event at https://firestorm.coop/events/3145-antifascism-disability-part-ii.html. Not sure if you can make the event? Sign up anyway and you'll receive a link to the recorded conversation when we post it! Moss's recorded September presentation is available from the link above.

#Antifascism #DisabilityJustice #CovidIsntOver #DisabilityActivism #FeministBookstore #WearAMask #FirestormCoop (- L)