Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸

Donate to Help The Alhassanat Family Rebuild, organized by Ky Kennedy Hello family, friends and allies -- My name is Ky (or some of you may know me by Dove). … Ky Kennedy needs your support for Help The Alhassanat Family Rebuild

since the start of this year i’ve been helping to support a newly postpartum mom through her lactation journey in the midst of an active genocide. we are now trying to help her & her family leave gaza to rebuild their lives. please read this campaign, share & donate if you can gofund.me/a94ddad2b

putting some version of “obviously this doesn’t apply if you’re disabled” at the end of what you say doesn’t make what you say any less ableist

Today it's expected that the federal administration is going to make an announcement claiming to have found a "cause" for autism and their plan for what to do about it. Members of AU's team had a discussion about what sort of statement we wanted to make and came to this conclusion: those of us who are impacted by this sort of rhetoric (actual autistic people) have known for a very long time that this was coming.

Despite research proving time and again there is no one "cause" for the autistic neurotype, people still want something to "blame". The real epidemic here is ableism. The amount of time and energy presumably spent on naming autism a "public health crisis" should be spent on solving actual public health crises (such as the overwhelmingly horrifying reality of black maternal mortality rates) and finding ways to support autistic people, not "cure" them. We have no interest in entertaining this announcement but what we do want is the unredacted Epstein files

and if you think tylenol causes autism, don’t forget the first person to get a documented, clinical diagnosis was born before tylenol existed

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my husband and i have been together 11 years today 🥹

image of me, a black feminine presenting person with curly black hair, wearing a black and white maxi dress. i am standing on a stage with the word TEDx behind me. text overlay reads “meet ky, they/them. autistic & ADHD (+), has hEDS and PNES, 29, mom of 3, ambulatory wheelchair and service dog user, published author & TEDx speaker, queer, co-founder of Autistics Unmasked

allow me to re-introduce myself 🤗 for those who are new here, my name is Ky!

after several years of facilitating workshops & speaking at events through my nonprofit & Boston’s Disability Commission, i’m excited to offer my services more broadly! check out pleasecallmeky.com to learn more!

it seems as tho today was the first day there was no military presence at union station. one day after the start of the sit-in

what did Gil Scott-Heron say?

Turquoise background with text that reads : Visibility fights Erasure

Why Black Autistic Women Must be seen, heard, safe & protected in autistic spaces ♾️

US veterans staging a sit in at union station in dc until the military occupation of the district ends. but no news coverage whatsoever.

i love going to trainings where the facilitators implement practices that i’ve implemented into my trainings. it helps me feel like a stronger facilitator, knowing that what i do works and other people do it too

i have not! it’s an app? or a website? i’ll check it out thank you!

i hate getting writers block. i’ve been writing a memoir for over a year now and i feel like scrapping it and starting over bc it feels so disorganized rn and i feel like it’s not going the direction i want

i may never be an actual ASL interpreter but i would love to be able to provide an additional layer of built in accessibility to the work i do

i’m excited to be taking asl classes finally. not only so i can use it in my personal life but also so that hopefully i can do my own interpreting when i do workshops and keynotes

Hell yeah! 🤟

TAUGHT BY QUEER DEAF FOLKS

i’m finally taking ASL classes 🥹

yall up? 👀 pleasecallmeky.com

thank you!!

how are we supposed to endure 3 1/2 more years of this

i should have made a living on the app formerly known as twitter back when i went viral every other day

if i see one more “we aim to champion EMDASH EMDASH EMDASH” im going to scream

looking for a job these days SO many websites are written by AI and they don’t even try to hide it.

ISA symbol where the wheelchair is purple and the person is brown with a black afro. the wheelchair has a gold infinity symbol in the wheel

ooohhh what am i up to now

me too 😔

then i told her yes and in a very concerned little voice she said “we need to help her” 🥺🥺🥺

my oldest this morning: “mom is the earth still confused?” (talking about climate change) 🥺