I’m learning about brain zaps - they feel like electric shocks in your brain. They are a lovely side effect [yes, that is sarcasm] of stopping venlafaxine (effexor) before trying a different antidepressant for preventing chronic migraine.
I also feel like I just got hit by a truck and every inch of my body hurts.
tbh - I am now afraid of trying the new antidepressant (nortriptyline).
Suggestions via your personal experience welcome (no mansplaining)
#NewOrleans#NOLA#Disability community resident still missing. The team searching for Lluvia is out of funds for flyers and other search tools. Please donate, share this, pray for Lluvia's safe return. #lgbtq@disabilityjustice
Requirements to put in a job description to discourage or filter out autistic people:
Comfortable with ambiguity
Strong people skills
Good culture fit
Multitasking
A fast-paced dynamic environment
Bachelor's degree or better
I see these things and think you don't want my >30 years of programming and machine learning experience, or my problem-solving skills and comprehensive knowledge that had people mistaking me for one of the team's PhDs, or my solutions that have proven patent-worthy. Your loss.
@actuallyautistic@hosford42@neurodivergence Not just filtering out neurodiversity, this filters out me too with my mental health disabilities. I don’t apply for jobs that have fast-paced in the description. #disability
UC President Drake just announced they've appointed Catherine Spear to head UC's new Systemwide Office of Civil Rights (which will include a Systemwide Office of Disability Rights under it).
The announcement does not go into what their lived experience qualifications might be.
@disability@academicchatter " Hiring Catherine is one of a series of steps we are taking to provide centralized oversight for these campus functions and a more consistent approach to how the University responds to allegations of discrimination and harassment." ⬅️ These framings continue to give the game away. For them it is not about NOT discriminating. Not about NOT being inaccessible and toxic places for marginalized parts of the public that funds them to be. It's simply about responding to allegations and trying to keep from getting sued too hard. #Racism#Sexism#Ableism#Disability#UCAccessNow
"Introduced in the 1990s in the United States by black women activists, the concept of reproductive justice highlights how access to reproductive rights is impeded by gender, race and class oppressions. The entry presents the origins of the reproductive justice movement in the United States and the circulation of this notion in activist and academic spheres internationally."
El Kotni, Mounia; Louise Virole : “Justice reproductive”. Dictionnaire du genre en traduction / Dictionary of Gender in Translation / Diccionario del género en traducción. ISSN: 2967-3623. Mis en ligne le 6 juillet 2022: https://worldgender.cnrs.fr/notices/justice-reproductive/@patriarchy
'The body which leaks, desires, rages, and lusts is seemingly disjointed from the dry and dense writings that often characterize Adorno's work. As bleak as this description of Adorno's writings may be, however, the body is both central to his critique of modernity and the site of hope and desire against the total domination and suffering that capitalism imposes. This paper highlights some of the ways in which feminist philosophy of disability and disability studies, more generally, would benefit by thinking in constellation with Adorno's negative dialectic to interrogate the ways in which meanings get made about bodies and, furthermore, use the margins of difference, in relation with others, to challenge what Adorno calls the "wrong state of things." I argue that the transfigured crip to come is central to this fight against the "wrong state of things."'
'The body which leaks, desires, rages, and lusts is seemingly disjointed from the dry and dense writings that often characterize Adorno's work. As bleak as this description of Adorno's writings may be, however, the body is both central to his critique of modernity and the site of hope and desire against the total domination and suffering that capitalism imposes. This paper highlights some of the ways in which feminist philosophy of disability and disability studies, more generally, would benefit by thinking in constellation with Adorno's negative dialectic to interrogate the ways in which meanings get made about bodies and, furthermore, use the margins of difference, in relation with others, to challenge what Adorno calls the "wrong state of things." I argue that the transfigured crip to come is central to this fight against the "wrong state of things."'
This ought to be good. Is this the same Pablo Reguerín who was sitting alongside Chancellor May at an interview with The California Aggie's editorial where May lobbied for the student fee supporting NCAA athlete perqs by likening NCAA athletes to disabled students by saying they too needed "special" supports? And didn't say anything about that? That Reguerín?
Do you know who was among the chancellors who never replied to hundreds of emails regarding UC's ableism? Chancellor May of UC Davis!! @disability@academicchatter
But a clue is in the fact that this is an in-person only talk. And that the advertisement of the talk contained no accessibility info even for the in-person part! #UCAccessNow#Ableism#Disability#UCDavis
Please help, as I have not gotten anything and I'm really trying to get things taken care of and need some help.
I am a disabled non-binary individual who unable to work, and I need to raise funds to buy medications not covered by insurance and cat food/litter. I've got doctor's appointments this coming week I need to be able to get to. I'm trying to at least get $50 in the short term so I can get my bus pass before the cutoff tomorrow.
I think as well as sharing my Autistic experiences I'm going to also try and share information about my combination of chronic diseases and what it does to an individual's body over time... It seems many people I am close to have never even heard much about Celiac's or especially Graves' disease...
If you have US federal programs or offices you depend on, get your business done before Friday. The fascists in the GOP are wanting to shut down the government again. Which means many federal things you depend on will not be available.
Unfortunately, many people got fooled into signing up for Medicare Advantage - which is for-profit insurance's attempt to direct more taxpayer money its way while denying more claims than Classic Medicare would.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is holding a public comment period, ending March 1.
The proposal is for a 3.7% increase in payments to Medicare Advantage plans in 2025.
Please take the time to make comment against the increase.
Got my postal vote for upcoming referendums in Ireland, so I thought I would remind people of this option for future votes (it's too late for the referendums).
American Assoc. of Persons with Disabilities (AAPD)'s Fall Internship Program is open for applications now.
"The AAPD Fall Internship Program is a professional and career development opportunity for disabled students and recent graduates. Interns explore career opportunities, gain leadership skills, and connect to the broader disability community.
...
will be completely virtual. Ten interns will be placed in remote internships at placement sites in either Congressional offices, federal agencies, non-profit, or for-profit organizations. Interns will work part-time for 15 hours a week. The program will be 14 weeks long. It will run from September 3 to December 6, 2024."
I usually have mixed feelings about passing this stuff on because UC loves to look like it cares about this stuff, but ignores its own UC community folks trying to make change at UC.