🧵 2nd time in a week I've asked an abled person (no disabled licence or placard) to move from a disabled parking space and been faced with belligerence instead.
Guy was sitting in the driver's seat playing on his phone. His first response was, "If a disabled person comes, I'll move". I had just parked in another spot because he was there, but I didn't want to say that because, as I told him, "That's not how the law works".
Disabled and chronically ill person withbsupport needs is raising money for basic necessities, food and an immigration Visa to remain in partner's country.
$50 of $600 raised!
(We're getting there!, please boost if you cannot donate!)
Just a reminder that organized religions are full of such good people that they successfully lobbied to get themselves exempted from the Americans with Disabilities Act. So as hard as it is getting secular ableist workplaces to obey the law, religions got themselves an exemption.
Ableism is banning disabled students from getting credit for seminars that already have a Zoom (unless they go through the disability cops on campus), but heavily advertising the food you bought because you have trouble getting maskless abled people to attend in person without a bribe.
#PeopleWithDisabilities are integral parts of our world & community, yet they often face #inaccessible or #unwelcoming spaces online. The word #disability itself is a limiting term, as it refers to an immense spectrum of experiences. #Disabilities can affect a person’s auditory, cognitive, neurological, linguistic, visual, emotional or physical abilities moving through the world, both online & offline.
Generally I'm seeing a lot of people these days post media without #AltText and being blasé when confronted about it. Some correct their habits, but not all. Some add very cursory alt-text, clearly they couldn't be bothered doing more. And it really disappoints me, because good alt-text is not only necessary for disabled people anywhere, but also a boon for those with insufficient internet connectivity, AND a great supplement for any media when used thoughtfully.
Just sent email to local #art gallery, that hosts #painting workshops/events/lessons - about how many of us #immunocompromised locals would really like to be able to attend their events & participate in their workshops/painting classes but are unable to because the indoor environment isn't #CovidSafe. I asked if they're planning any safer outdoors events/classes so they're more #inclusive. I hope they will.
Government doesn't give a damn about #disabled or #immunocompromised people but some citizens do. #Citizens run our local organizations, not #eugenics pushing government politicians.
A mistake many people make is thinking that ADA can only be met through offices of rationing & policing. No. That is how the ableists running UC choose to deny accessibility as the default and make ppl have to beg & eventually sue for accessibility.
Pushing for more funding for these offices is still granting their premise that doing things this way is being accessible to the public that funds UC. It isn't. #Ableism#Disability#UCAccessNow@academicchatter
Wow, if only there was some sort of explanation on why people might need #wheelchairs when they are in a rush to get to a flight that will leave without them if they are two minutes late, but not when they arrive and can take their time getting where they are going.
I hate when media does inspiration porn stories in general, but particularly when:
They let a newly disabled person with tons of internalized ableism become "the voice of disabled people"
and
When that "success story" clearly came from access to therapeutic supports the average person doesn't have, yet now everyone who doesn't meet their standard of recovery "must not be trying hard enough". #Ableism@disability
We must stop using Darwin's "survival of the fittest" to justify the suffering of disabled people. While disability brings challenges like pain, fatigue, and inaccessibility, much alienation stems from societal attitudes and rigid decision-makers. This artificial alienation can and should be changed.
🧵 What is this? After pushing UC for 4 years now to quit designing buildings where inaccessibility is the default, a main entrance to a building is wheelchair accessible?
Ah, there's the UC Davis we know. Unnecessary steps because you weren't specifically PAID to do your duty under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act nor to actually make a public university accessible to the public.
It really is another aspect of systemic #ableism the way that media and caretakers have elevated the genuine challenges abled caretakers have into now being something that gets more attention than the needs of disabled people.
It really is remarkable how abled people can always make disability, inaccessibility, even systemic ableism all about themselves.
(venting in rxn to the umpteenth media Q about how ppl can support caretakers that skipped entirely over how ppl can support disabled ppl)
Ppl with no history of activism for accessibility suddenly being concerned about ADA violations when it has the effect of quashing a group they want to suppress. UC itself has used this tactic in the past.
Abled-led progressive groups not thoroughly considering accessibility issues not just to head such tactics off at the pass, but to actually be accessible.
...we’ve made strides as a society to counter various forms of injustice, we still have a long way to go when it comes to challenging #stereotypes surrounding those with #SpecialNeeds & #disabilities. #Ableism is still an under-discussed topic & that needs to change.
That’s why we’re so excited to see this woman with #DownSyndrome run her own #CookieBusiness & take down naysayers who believe that a person should be treated as less than because of their disabilities.
🧵 Even before I formed @ucaccessnow, I persisted through campus channels trying to get them to acknowledge that cycle racks ALSO have to be accessible, not car parking spaces. After months of brick walls with UC and my union, I got a meeting with the head of UC Davis TAPS, who
This is why I & @ucaccessnow want all cycle racks to be accessible designs, accessibly sited. Here we have a twofer - for-profit micromobility that was given carte blanche on campus & in town without offering accessible vehicles nor a just plan for dealing with bad actors...like the people who parked at the new rationed "oversized cycle parking only" racks.
On the same trip, saw SPIN cycles dumped in the middle of the mixed-use path, parked at the end spots which are the only spots on these inaccessible #DavisCA racks where trikes, quads, and bakfiets can fit, and parked blocking egress from disabled auto spaces.
Don't ration accessibility; it's nearly guaranteed selfish people & corporations will take it. Build everything as accessible as possible.
I just replied to the same email they sent the survey link to me with. The one thing I wanted to give them as feedback in response to their questions about why I hadn't kept my membership.
"What has kept me from renewing with all plant science professional orgs has been the lack of accessibility & inclusion for disabled people. The ageism towards older students is also not helpful or welcoming."
Compare the speed with which businesses & institutions are adopting AI (despite its inaccuracy and lack of ethical provenance) to the footdragging that makes businesses & institutions inaccessible even 34 years after the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law.
I don't want to hear a fucking word about accessibility being an "undue hardship" ever again.