Residents in Gary, Indiana have been without power for nearly two weeks

Many are under a boil water advisory, which is nearly impossible without electricity

Thousands without power or safe water… and it’s barely a blip on the news

The richest country in the world is choosing to let people suffer

Please remember to check on the disabled and elderly … they are the first to die during catastrophic events like this

nbcchicago.com/news/local/what…

#gary #indiana #uspol #disability #poverty #ableism

Assisted by Improvising With The Other Than Human we'll take you through a ritualised, animist, and postactivist telling/sensing-with of one of the oldest tales of shadow-walking crips, heroes & monsters that is set down and performed in English.
A perfect experiential wyrd tale (and tale of wyrd) for spooky season, the session is VIRTUAL and and starts on Saturday 2nd November runnng from 23:00-1:00 UTC.

improvising-with-the-other-tha…

#becomingmonster #disability #postactivist #animist

"Oof, it's so painful!"

"Do you mean pain from Long Covid symptoms? Or painful grief from losing family and friends to Covid?"

"No, I mean attacks from folks who say I'm contributing to disability and death by doing nothing to stop the spread of Covid!"

#COVID #CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid #Disability

[Thread]Thinking about this in a #crip and #disability context:

"And I’ve realized that Mastodon is a superb example of antiviral design.

It was engineered specifically to create friction — to slow things down a bit. This is a big part of why it behaves so differently from mainstream social networks." uxdesign.cc/mastodon-is-antivi…

Past few years I've been thinking on the way the social media landscape reflects the societal urge towards the frictionaless 1/?

In searching for an instance to join, I noticed that many do not mention ableism in their ToC. I care about avoiding ableist language, so I picked one that did mention it.

I do notice quite a bit of ableist language in the larger fediverse, so decided to write a blog post of common objections to avoiding ableist language, and my responses to them.

Here it is: medium.com/@kavanaram/avoid-ab…

#Disability #Ableism #AbleistLanguage @disability