CalMatters briefly mentioned there would be an Office of Disability Rights, but so far as we know, no reporter questioned University of California as to what the Office would do and how it would do it. No questions about the current system throughout UC re disability and accessibility and how this Office would be any different. What is the Office empowered to do? How are whistleblowers protected? #UCAccessNow#Disability#HigherEd@disability https://sfba.social/@ucaccessnow/111421168831108154
My broadband stopped misbehaving long enough for me to be interviewed for STEM with disabilities this morning. I think it's at least a month out from publishing, but in the meantime read the great profiles they've already got there! https://www.stemwithdisabilities.com/
The rules for SSDI/SSI and a lot of other ableist policing are like the old trial by water for witches:
If we toss you in the water and you drown, you're innocent and not a witch, but you're dead.
If we toss you in the water and you swim or float in the water we've tossed you in, you're a witch and therefore we kill you by burning you. @disability#Ableism#Disability
At the time UC Access Now released the Demandifesto on the 30th Anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the UC Board of Regents had not discussed disability/accessibility for TEN YEARS.
UC Access Now was the 1st org we know of that advocated for a systemic approach to dismantling ableism throughout UC - prior to us, ppl were focused mostly on students, only at their own UC campus. UC brass have ignored us as much as they can, even when cherry-picking things to improve from our analysis.
@disability All along UC has erased UC Access Now from the discussion of disability within University of California and used groups that would not press them as hard as ways to buffer them from critique and from the public knowing that UC Access Now's approach had had an effect. We know we had an effect because people would inform us that we were mentioned....in closed door meetings where we were not invited.
@disability How will this Office of DIsability Rights go? Well, if we don't see UC acknowledging and relying upon the expertise of UC Access Now coalition members, if we don't see them taking the things currently easily within their power - their own communications, events, training programs, and projects begun hereafter - and making them highest common denominator of accessible by default...we know it's just another way of extending people's fights for justice...another delay before having to sue in court. #UCAccessNow#Disability#Accessibility#DIsabilityLaw
@disability Help us find more folks in the University of California anti-ableist community. Urge your friends to follow this account so when news like this breaks, we can make sure folks know more details than they're likely to get in any media coverage. #UCAccessNow#Disability#Accessibility#DIsabilityLaw
How welcome do I feel as a disabled grad student here? Well, I keep seeing image fliers sent without alt text for maskless in-person events with no creative accessible online options (or any online option at all).
🛍️Research opportunity for blind people in the UK | ‘Greetings from our research group at the London College of Fashion! We are reaching out to you with an opportunity to be at the forefront of a study that aims to revolutionize the fashion retail landscape, making it more inclusive and accessible’
#CfP for the edited #volume "#Disability in German #Literature", which will be "published by Peter Lang Verlag under the series "Jahrbuch für internationale Germanistik".
Have you nominated your favorite #IndieBooks for the #IndieInkAwards yet? Nominations are open for the month of November for several awards from Side Character MVP to Wittiest Character, & to highlight amazing #LGBTQ Representation, #MentalHealth Rep, #Disability Rep, #BIPOC Rep, & more. Open to all fiction genres and YA, NA, & Adult books. While you're there, you might find more #BooksToRead !
Relieved to see this outcome! I was one of the thousands who submitted a passionate response to the consultation #transport#Disability@disability | ‘Transport for All, a disabled-led organisation, called it "the best possible outcome", but added that while the government was "eventually swayed, it is appalling that disabled people's concerns were dismissed for so long".’
The #conference "#Literary and Cultural #Disability Studies. British and Continental Perspectives" will take place at the Universität Freiburg (Switzerland) on November 2-4, 2023.
Lordess, spare me from the inspiration porn of #NDEAM and make employers actually focus on dismantling their own ableism. @disability#Disability#Ableism
I am having a family emergency that requires a LOT of work from me and is incredibly stressful. It's been going on for weeks and it will continue for at least another 2. I finally have hit a flare, and was up all night in fibromyalgia agony. My stomach is upset, and I am exhausted. It is not an option for me to truly rest.
What are yalls tips for managing flares through crisis, when true rest isn't available, but I also can't afford to incapacitate myself. I am walking a VERY fine line here.
I am autistic, have panic disorder, fibromyalgia, chronic pain, CCI, and a bunch of other stuff.