Approximately 1/3 of all wheelchair users are ambulatory. This means, 1/3 of us are able to move or walk to some extent. It DOES NOT mean we are 'fake disabled' or not 'genuinely disabled'. Reminder: you can't SEE health/pain/fatigue. Both are me, still disabled.

Y'all! I heard from a friend just now who called Costco this morning looking for Novavax, and was told they don't have it yet, but said THEY SHOULD BE GETTING THEM NEXT MONTH BECAUSE OF THE NEW VARIANT!!! This is great news!!! Data Report Friesein Don Ford - The People's Strategist - #Novavax

"But employers can't discriminate based on disability". In theory, no. In reality, they do it all the time. They just do it in ways where it isn't legally enforcible, or they rely on the fact disabled people are too unwell and exhausted to actually take action.

IMPORTANT: I know everyone knows about the heat waves happening right now. I have Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome which means I’m VERY sensitive to the heat. Here are some tips as a POTSIE to help you survive. A thread 🧵: 1. Portable fans 2. Mister spray bottles

So you’re aware, if you wear glasses, that’s a mobility aid and you’re disabled. Glasses are just so normalized that most people don’t see it as such. Imagine if most mobility aids were that way. Imagine how much more respect disabled people would get. It’s completely possible.

#RIP 🕯️René Mebus 6.3.1994 - †30.6.2020🖤 René wurde bettlägerig, konnte weder Licht noch Geräusche ertragen, Krankenhausaufenthalt verschlimmerte alles, auch Morphium konnte Schmerzen nicht lindern. Er starb innerhalb kurzer Zeit an #VerySevereME. ncf-net.org/memorial

Anyone asking, yes there is a black American sign language because, yes, even the deaf schools were segregated

The best way to do this is to start masking!! Kn95 or better!!! Covid is ravaging our communities like AIDS did in the 80s!!

One thing that won’t be in the news, while the police investigate bob vylan for chanting “death to the idf”, is that zionists tried to attack disabled people at a protest and told them to “fuck off and die”

They came for disabled adults as they felt we were an easy target - upon learning that we are, in fact, capable of fighting back, they've decided disabled children are an easier target instead. As disabled adults, we cannot stand for this. #TakingThePIP #DisabilityRebellion

🚨Disabled man lost his PIP after being filmed by DWP at his cricket club🚨 It's deeply concerning that Disabled people face punishment for being active. We must resist the welfare reform bill that will only make the DWP more harmful! getyourselfactive.org/punished-for-a…

It's Disability Pride Month! Let's start this month out by trying to get some kneads met!! If you're disabled, cher your cf/💰🔗/wl/website/creative ventures/whatever here!!💜 If you're able, choose someone's day to brighten!!🌞💜

The Government’s passing of their benefit cuts agenda shows the deep disdain for Disabled people. Despite attempts to silence us, through our collective campaigning, we made them drop billions of cuts, and we will continue to resist this disastrous bill.

There is a covid positive patient in the room next to mine who keeps being at his open door and wandering out. I’m immunocompromised, on immunosuppressants, and currently having significant trouble breathing and I STILL can’t get a masks required sign up on my door

I wrote my first substack article, finally! It is an open letter to my friends and family about their ableism and capitulation to eugenics. Please subscribe, and help me boost the article. Link below (testing algorithm with and without link in first tweet).

Please share widely! Please help our friend Kendra eat this month, the nursing home hasn't been feeding their residents! Please help Kendra save up for safe housing as well. If you can't help, please share here and on other platforms if you are able. 💖❤️🦋🌈✨💖❤️🦋🌈✨💖

It's July 2nd and I now owe $545 for June and $1750 for July's rent I'm trying hard to find solutions to my current financial crisis but without help I'm clearly not going to survive this $maelee21 V: @ Maelee-Johnson PayPal.me/maeleeJ ko-fi.com/maedaej #neisvoid

Happy Disability Pride Month! It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale. I sell pins, knee braces, compression gloves, artist gloves, binders, wrist braces, compression socks, cute bags & more! Store details below!

We've gotta help Mae keep her head above water here, so to speak. Getting through a crisis means really through it, not just having it roll into the next one. So please, help out this woman who has done so much to create and cultivate spaces for joy and connection online for us.