Mette Anwar-Westander

Disabled people who can work are worthy.

Disabled people who cannot work are worthy.

Disabled people who are completely independent are worthy.

Disabled people who rely on others for assistance are worthy.

ALL disabled people are worthy.

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic

www.crabmuseum.org/visit

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Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.

Hi, I’m autistic and I’m the mayor of my city.

merry autism to all those who celebrate

Starmer: “The moral case for bludgeoning those cute bush baby things you see at the zoo” Prime Minister Keir Starmer has issued a statement explaining the “moral case” for bashing to death the adorable, wide-eyed bush babies holding back our nation.  Having tackled other societal menaces,...

Having tackled other societal menaces, such as disabled adults and transgender children, Starmer announced yesterday that he’d be forming a posse to erase every last galago, before they can get their tiny paws on our precious bananas.

Yesterday was Disability Day of Mourning. In a few weeks we'll mark 5 years since the first lockdown

Thinking about all the disabled people who died because of government and societal callousness, and how many more we'll lose to the same if assisted dying is legalised

We stand together, united in our grief, our solidarity, and our shared commitment to justice.

12/12

Today, we gather as a community to grieve. To speak the names of those who were failed by the very people they trusted and relied upon. To honour their memory. To name the violence for what it is and to validate the painful reality of what is happening.

11/12

This is why we observe Disability Day of Mourning. When we grieve together, we transform sorrow into solidarity, pain into power. We use our grief not only to honour those we have lost but to demand justice for the living.

10/12

Grief is medicine. It allows us to process loss not in isolation, but as a collective act of remembrance and resistance. Grief affirms the value of life. It reminds us that things can, and must, change.

Mourning the dead is a prerequisite to fighting for the living.

9/12

When we express our grief, we refuse to let those we have lost be erased. We refuse to let the value of their lives be minimised. We refuse to let the systems that harmed them go unchallenged.

With rising ableism in society, there has never been a more urgent time to express our grief.

8/12

Grief is meant to be carried together. When I joined the UK disabled community, I finally found the words and concepts to articulate the grief I had carried my whole life. I learned that grief, when acknowledged and shared, becomes a force for change.

7/12

The denial of our grief upholds the status quo. When we are unable to name and process our grief together, we are unable to transform it into action.

6/12

• The deaths of disabled young people at the hands of their caregivers are portrayed as the inevitable result of the "burden" of caregiving.

The abuse, neglect, and killing of disabled people are minimised, and as a result our mourning is invalidated.

5/12

• The deaths of autistic people in "care" or disabled people of colour due to police violence are excused as consequences of necessary interventions for public safety.

• The deaths of disabled people due to austerity are framed as an unavoidable cost of economic growth and efficiency.

4/12

• The deaths of disabled people due to NHS cuts and pandemic neglect are dismissed as the inevitable consequence of impairment.

3/12

As an autistic child, I saw and read about people like me being punished, neglected, abused, and killed. But without the language to name it as ableism, my grief had nowhere to go.

More often than not, ableist abuse and neglect remain invisible, unnamed, unchallenged:

2/12

Today is Disability Day of Mourning, a day when we remember disabled people murdered by their caregivers.

I grew up grieving...

1/12

We stand together, united in our grief, our solidarity, and our shared commitment to justice.

12/12

Today, we gather as a community to grieve. To speak the names of those who were failed by the very people they trusted and relied upon. To honour their memory. To name the violence for what it is and to validate the painful reality of what is happening.

11/12

This is why we observe Disability Day of Mourning. When we grieve together, we transform sorrow into solidarity, pain into power.

We use our grief not only to honour those we have lost but to demand justice for the living.

10/11

Grief is medicine. It allows us to process loss not in isolation, but as a collective act of remembrance and resistance.

Grief affirms the value of life. It reminds us that things can, and must, change.

Mourning the dead is a prerequisite to fighting for the living.

9/11

Content Warning: fillicideWhat is the Day of Mourning?Every year on March 1st, the disability community comes together to remember the victims of filicide – ... 2025 Disability Day of Mourning Virtual Vigil

Unable to go to a local Disability Day of Mourning event on March 1st, but still want to participate? Join us for a virtual vigil here:

UK Disability Day of Mourning Gathering to honour disabled people killed by caregivers

On Disability Day of Mourning, Saturday March 1st, the disability community gathers to mourn those killed by their caregivers and fight for the living.

This year we are hosting an online UK event, join us! #DDoM2025

www.eventbrite.com/e/uk-disabil...

“The only way to deal with unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
~~~Albert Camus

“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

Minister suggests cuts are coming to Access to Work scheme Ministers appear to be set to announce cuts to a flagship disability employment scheme, just as the government is trying to push more disabled people towards the workplace. Sir Stephen Timms (pictu…

Ministers appear to be set to announce cuts to a flagship disability employment scheme, just as the government is trying to push more disabled people towards the workplace.

photo of a full page ad in New York Times with a large header saying Trump has called for the removal of all Palestinians from Gaza. Jewish people say NO to ethnic cleansing! followed by many names printed in 6 columns, taking up most of the page

Trump has called for the removal of all Palestinians from Gaza. Jewish people say NO to ethnic cleansing!

As Jews for Shared Safety, we know our history demands that we take a stand against ethnic cleansing—wherever it happens. Trump wants to erase Palestinians from Gaza. We must be louder than ever.

350+ rabbis & Jewish figures are taking a stand in a historic NYT ad rejecting his genocidal rhetoric.