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Accessibility Zine Completed and Ready for Download The Accessibility Zine my friend and I worked on is completed! I asked friends and members of the National General Strike group (they have an Accessibility affinity group) to review for errors and …

Forgot to post this here. I wrote a zine that discusses history of Disability movement, Disability Justice, Spaces Theory of Access, Infectious Disease Mitigations, and more! reshapingreality.org/2025/06/17/a...

#Accessibility #Zine #DisabledPeopleMadeThis #Disability #DisabilityJustice

That’s right. The billionaire bailout bill forces your tax dollars to pay for concentration camps and masked thugs to disappear your neighbors without due process. 16M people will be thrown off healthcare to pay for that, along with tax breaks for the rich.

Disabled kids like mine rely on Medicaid to survive; this bill cuts Medicaid.

I don't know how else to say that medically complex disabled children will die as a result of this bill.

Learning to rest is crucial when you’re chronically ill.

If you try and play through the pain, you can permanently set back your baseline.

Make sure you remember to rest your brain and your body.

That crushing brain fog that feels like scrambled eggs in your head?

That’s a warning sign to rest

And if you change your avatar, I will likely think you a different person until one day I do a double-take on the name and either realize, or act as if you're a different person only for you to remind me who you are upon which I hide in shame forevermore.

Likely won't be a real election in 2026. With the latest SCOTUS decision, we're in fascist dictatorship territory, and yet people keep acting like elections will continue like normal.

Trumpocalypse tries to jail/kidnap anyone who isn't a loyalist by then. I mean, he's trying to do that now.

Honestly, at this point, it'd be a rather epic way to protest. Especially if folks working there get in on it, and just obstruct whenever he tries to sign anything. I just fear it'd result in them using firearms and harming those that tried.

Someone suggested we do what Hong Kong did and just yoink harmful bills from Trump before he signs (since he must physically sign for it to be law) and abscond with it.

When Trump's goons try to tackle them, they hand it off to someone in disguise, like in a relay. Then yakety sax starts playing.

Covid is a social justice issue.

If we cared about reducing transmission, we would be providing respirators, tests, vaccines, paxlovid and paid time off to everyone.

If you can’t afford a mask, make sure to check for a local mask bloc!

maskbloc.org

I asked radiology technicians to mask since it was a swallow x-ray test and I had to drop down my mask to drink the nasty barium stuff. They said they are "not sick and not contagious so we do not have to mask unless asked." And I did indeed ask. In the end, they said no - them two against lone me.

I saw my general care doctor who was frustrated and angry by what Trumpocalypse is doing. He admitted to being very pessimistic about if we'll see necessary vaccines and booster shots. He had very little hope of better treatments for LongCovid coming to America, which means my treatment is in limbo.

Essay about the #RightToExist: comradery.co/reshapingrea... I examined it through the lens of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, but I also wanted to explore how the fascist/oppressor weaponizes various techniques to enforce their temporal reality to erase all others and to justify genocide.

Two photographs of a disabled man with Brown skin and short gray and brown hair on the floor out of his wheelchair. He is being arrested by three armed Capitol Police. In the second picture they have him turned over with cuffs behind his back. The man is wearing a yellow ADAPT t-shirt and khaki pants.

Two photographs of a disabled man with Brown skin and short gray and brown hair on the floor out of his wheelchair. He is being arrested by three armed Capitol Police. In the second picture they have him turned over with cuffs behind his back. The man is wearing a yellow ADAPT t-shirt and khaki pants.

Disabled people are being arrested in DC today as they're protesting Medicaid cuts.

Source of this photo, ADAPT www.facebook.com/theRealNatio...

Many visibly disabled or "unfit" potential immigrants would also be turned away at Ellis Island, and indeed that was the point of the physical inspections conducted there. And these eugenicist framings of disabled people as "burdens" continue into the 21st century.

nursingclio.org/2018/06/28/e...

Fun fact: people are still rejected for visas/green cards/citizenship if they're viewed as potentially being a "burden" (that's the language used).

So yes, disability civil rights seem to somewhat go away during the immigration process.

Because I see nothing on their site that shows they won't fall prey to the biases that current entrench publishing and harm marginalized authors. This software just sounds like a great way to make it incredibly difficult for marginalized authors to get seen by agents or publishers. Gross as hell.

Honestly, it's not possible for Inkbloom to not be biased as hell against marginalized authors. Do they reveal in detail HOW they determine what is "promising" and "marketable?" Do they have failsafes to make sure the software doesn't discriminate against BIPOC, Disabled, and/or LGBTQIA authors?

So if I submit my work to an agent or publisher, will I need to write a "I do not consent to my work being put through an AI shredder to feed their LLM's and problematic insights. I request a human being to review my work" to avoid this fate?

I hate this so much.

*waves in immunocompromised hermit-by-necessity*

I miss going out

People ask me why I still mask. They accuse me of being 'fearful of living.'

No, masks is what allows me to live. Do not mistake this medical tool for fear. Do not give in to the fascist lies that masking does nothing. A properly fitted mask can and has saved lives. It's a tool in our toolbox.

I don't expect anyone to read this. I yell my story into the void. I lift up the stories of fellow marginalized. I cry out for justice, for access, for a way to connect and build up solidarity and hope among one another. To not cede valuable tools like masks to our oppressors.

Our stories matter.

We must choose to fight for the right to exist and thrive. Fight for access and justice.

We need to choose to save as many lives as we can, to value one another's lives as worthy of respect, care, and dignity. To hold fast to our identity and our cultures.

Otherwise, what are we fighting for?

When people within Leftist movements fail to normalize infectious disease mitigations, fail to mask up, fail with centering access needs, they inadvertently (whether they realize it or not) have given in to normalizing death and disablement.

So we need to interrogate that. We need to unpack that.

We choose to try to save as many lives as we could, so that others may thrive in the present and future.

They choose to give in and normalize death and disablement, sacrificing others for a past that is gone.

And that's why I won't shut up about this in resistance movements.

Capitalism requires a disposable class to sacrifice. It relies on necropolitics, on a culture of death, as it has deemed these disposables necessary for the preservation of hits machine-like society.

But we do not have to accept this. Sacrificing populations is Not needed for a society to thrive.

"Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without restraint," says Nemik's manifesto in Andor. History shows this with the Haitian Revolution, the fight to end slavery, the revolutions against fascism in the Global South, Palestine, fights to stop the genocides by US and its allies.

Capitalism and imperialism strips us of our identities and cultures. It strips us of who owe are until we are exploitable labor -- cogs in the machine. Fascism thrives on this misery, but its need for control will not end with sacrificing disabled folks like myself. More and more will be sacrificed.

People fought for justice and the right for us to exist and thrive. People found ways to share food and stories. We bridged divides. We centered access for all people instead of a few.

And yet, despite this glimpse of something better, the gears of capitalism demanded sacrifices.

We could have built a better present. I still remember dolphins once more in Venice's canals. The decrease in emissions. Better air quality. The eradication of entire flu variants. All because we masked and paused the gears of Capitalism.

People worked together in mutual aid, in collective actions.