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.

https://www.improvising-with-the-other-than-human.com/

#becomingmonster #disability #postactivist #animist

IWTOTH

I mprovising W ith T he O ther T han H uman is a relational bone structure which nourishes  creative experiments, cultural practice, care & connection.  It infuses the world with inspirational...

^IWTOTH

The creator of alt-text.org is looking for someone to take over the projects. Please reach out to her if you'd like to help and/or have an interest in accessible software.

https://github.com/alt-text-org/in-need-of-adoption
#AltText #Disability #VisuallyImpaired

GitHub - alt-text-org/in-need-of-adoption: I am dying and unable to continue work on any projects here. I am seeking folks to take them over.

I am dying and unable to continue work on any projects here. I am seeking folks to take them over. - alt-text-org/in-need-of-adoption

^GitHub

"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

Cash-strapped councils may seek to put disabled people in residential care to save costs, without regard for their wishes

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/disabled-rights-social-care-independent-living-budget-cuts-campaign/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Mastodon

#ukpol #UKPolitics #disability

Care cuts threaten Disabled people’s right to independent living

Cash-strapped councils may seek to put us in residential care to save costs, without regard for our wishes

^{Mikey Erhardt (openDemocracy)}

This is your periodic reminder that ambulatory wheelchair users exist. Many folks think wheelchairs are only for those who can't walk at all, or folks who can only take a couple steps.

Wheelchairs and electric scooters are used due to pain, weakness, balance issues, orthostatic intolerance, etc.

#Disability #Wheelchairs #DynamicDisability #ChronicIllness #MEcfs

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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: https://medium.com/@kavanaram/avoid-ableist-language-394f48fcc473

#Disability #Ableism #AbleistLanguage @disability

Avoid Ableist Language - Kavana Ramaswamy - Medium

Ableist language is any communication that validates the belief that disabled people/bodies/functioning are less worthy of respect than others. Let’s break this down. In an ethical society, every…

^{Kavana Ramaswamy (Medium)}