Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research)

For decades, Canadians have been able to send braille and other materials, including heavy braille typewriters, through Canada Post for free through the "Literature for the Blind" exemption in the Canada Post Corporations Act. That exemption is now at risk of being cancelled.

@everyone please share this on social media Alt text : Disability Horror Club Meeting online to explore disability representation in a selected horror film. First Monday of every month. Contact darkhorrorfilm(at)gmail.com to sign up!

Also the lack of social interaction with other humans will likely accelerate the progression of dementia. This is not a good solution for a variety of reasons.

I urge you to note here how much of British politics and media - and indeed British culture in general - is just bullying, and little more. It’s a daily exercise in enforcing the social hierarchy by reminding everyone who they can and cannot kick. That’s why our most famous sitcoms are like that.

The vexatious imbecile Johnson: What the ETTING in the off a plane US the other day, I noticed a lot of people waiting at the door. They were all tabarded airport staff, and they had wheelchairs. all That's strange, I thought. It looked as touentrev mysterious rise in the numbers As we went up the jet bridge there were more and more wheelchairs, like the lobby of a geriatric hospital. wondered varuey aloud to one or ce alport stan. wny do so many people seem to require this type of assistance these days? It's just i those things, ne of passensers are asking for saem Some flights - he mentioned Toronto to Miam! wheelchair use. Imost 40 per It seemed like ar ucure. but I didn't the winter migration, of flocks of Cana-plane for a burst of Plorida sunshine demanding wheelchairs to get to their They think they are being taken for mugs plane tells us months later. I thought no more about the phenomenon. Apparently, it is everywhere. There is about the ever in insatiable popular hunger, at almost airlines are starting to get fed up. Tre spiralling costof many or their passengers are incapable of getting on to the plane using their own two feet. They think they are being taken for and that at least some of these the welfare state

A constant blazing terror that somewhere, somebody might be getting a free cheese sandwich. Or indeed brief use of a wheelchair.

Fascism is a pathology integral to liberalism

DoJ moves to eliminate sexual abuse protections for LGBTQ+ people in prisons Memo says the policy shift, which advocates call ‘reckless’, was designed to align with one of Trump’s anti-trans orders

“It will allow rapists to act with impunity. It is already sowing confusion among prison leaders, who have worked for more than a decade to put in place commonsense rules to end prisoner rape … It’s sickening”

They’re targeting the LGBTQ+ community by removing protections put in place to save lives

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How about instead we do a Gattaca / Elysium mashup with 3/10 on IMDB www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCgD...

>>SATIRE Nation's Employers Agree: Chronically Ill & Disabled People Just Need Better Attitudes - pic of guy thinking - mybodyistryingtokillme.com

#satire

"Crudely stated, this means that the characters meet themselves - or parts of themselves, their own needs/problems/exigencies - as actors on the stage of the
story, and so the internal struggle to deal with those
needs/problems is played out as an external struggle in the action of the story."

"Put simply, fantasy is a form of fiction in which the internal crises or conflicts or processes of the characters are dramatized as if they were external individuals or events. "

DUST Podcast "CHRYSALIS" - YouTube

@aptshadow.bsky.social This sci-fi radio mini series / podcast has a very strong opening episode : www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Announcing a new monthly film club to discuss disability in horror.
Contact darkhorrorfilm(at)http://gmail.com to sign up.
Our first film will be Crimes of the Future (2022), directed by David Cronenberg. We’ll meet to discuss it on Monday January 5th 2026.

Alabama wants to lower the bar for executing disabled people—if SCOTUS lets it The case law is clear: There's more to intellectual disability than IQ tests. Will Trump's justices care?

We're not supposed to execute people with intellectual disabilities because it violates the 8th amendment. The Supreme Court will hear a case where Alabama argues that Intellectual disability when it comes to death penalty should only be decided only by IQ tests.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Judge Dredd: Mega City One (TV Series) | Action, Adventure, Crime Judge Dredd: Mega City One: Judge Dredd patrols an over-populated metropolis in the 22nd Century, where he has the powers of a judge, jury and executioner.

Dredd series is in development I thought : www.imdb.com/title/tt6873...

wondering how you can be "very much in the center but slightly more towards than against" eugenics

And no, eugenics was not just mass sterilization and euthanasia. It was also positive eugenics--which is what this is.

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Always shorts www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1Sn...

@aptshadow.bsky.social Not sure if this is useful to know for the podcast, but a group of disabled academics discussed representation in all of trek and distilled the discussions into these zines: files.libcom.org/files/2025-0... and files.libcom.org/files/2025-0...

Disabled Musician biographies Seeking volunteers to write 120-140 word paragraphs about the lives of disabled musicians. Get in contact for more information: richardamm(at)gmail.com The Disability Action Research Kollective makes free disability research zines.Find them and subscribe free here: linktr.ee/disabilityark #disabilityarts #disabilityartsonline #disabledmusician #musiczine #zines #disabilityhistory #disabilityawarenessmonth

The 12th panel comic strip the first panel has the title heroin by Jim Himes. The second panel is black and white illustration of a man with his arm tied off injecting heroin into his veins the next 10 panels are all black

Heroin — Jim Himes, 1974

Off the top of my head mine are likely to be:
Eugenics, Horror, Disability and Zines.

Independent Living Services Must Become a Priority in the EU Disability Strategy 2026–2030 - ENIL This week, the European Network on Independent Living held a policy debate titled “Make Independent Living Services a priority in the EU Disability Strategy”. ...

Independent Living must be at the heart of the next EU Disability Strategy 🇪🇺

Rising institutionalisation + unequal access to support show urgent action is needed.

🔗Learn more here: enil.eu/independent-...

#IndependentLiving #DisabilityRights

Wild Bastards on Steam The spiritual successor to the award-winning game Void Bastards, Wild Bastards is a roguelike strategy shooter with heart-pounding FPS action, mod management, and a tactical campaign. Saddle up and le...

I played Wild Bastards recently, which has vibes and characters pretty close to Brave Starr : store.steampowered.com/app/1660840/...

Please tell us about disabled communists and anarchists we have not already covered. See zine 1 here: https://files.libcom.org/files/2025-07/Disabled%20Communists%20and%20Anarchists%20by%20DARK.pdf See zine 2 here: https://files.libcom.org/files/2025-07/Disabled%20Communists%20and%20Anarchists%20Vol.2%20by%20DARK.pdf

Please tell us about disabled communists and anarchists we have not already covered.
See zine 1 here: files.libcom.org/files/2025-0...
See zine 2 here: files.libcom.org/files/2025-0...

Doing a zine about how some animals treat their disabled members. Email richardamm(at)gmail.com to help write it. Only 120-140 words per animal.

Doing a zine about how some animals treat their disabled members. Email richardamm(at)gmail.com to help write it. Only 120-140 words per animal.

DARK CALL Disability & Eugenics Seeking volunteers to write 350 word pieces on the current and historical intersection of disability and eugenics. Get in contact for more information: richardamm(at)gmail.com The Disability Action Research Kollective makes free disability research zines.Find them and subscribe free here:linktr.ee/disabilityark

Seeking volunteers to write 350 word pieces on the current and historical intersection of disability and eugenics. Get in contact for more information: richardamm(at)gmail.com

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Are we separated from "nature"?