daneka etchells

@greenparty.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social please consider this within your future debates. it’s accessibility that is letting us down, not sickness. the clarity with which you speak on immigration, palestine, war, we know you’re capable of the plainness of this too.

social model is the key.

disability IS economically viable.

for those of us who do work it’s impossible to unable to sustain without welfare.

and those who cannot work deserve dignity, respect, protection. it is not the human way to leave a comrade behind. difference enriches us.

we are not your political football.

welfare CREATES jobs. PIP, ATW, DLA - do you think we just hoard the money and never spend it? no! we hire carers, PAs, assistants with administrative tasks; cleaning, cooking. we buy equipment and non-NHS health care. we hire engineers, plumbers, builders, electricians. higher energy bills…

#BBCQT disabled people want to work. believe me, we do. if we are able to, we want to. but no party is mandating accessibility in the workplace. the issue is not our health, not our disabilities, but the lack of physical, environmental, attitudinal adjustments DESPITE LEGAL OBLIGATION.

“Why is it always hard choices for working-class communities — not for multimillionaires and billionaires?”

Zack Polanski calls for a tax on the super-rich on #BBCQT

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

“baby in her placenta”

the first autism diagnosis predates the creation of tylenol

cripping up has no consequences but more and more jobs and accolades afterwards and i’m fucking sick of it

not me missing the deadline for the only opportunity for cumbrian writers i’ve ever seen 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

wish i had the cutesy instagrammable autism instead of the kind where i have meltdowns and repeatedly thump myself till i bruise

what do you mean?

cisgendered women and trans people can both have equality at the same time. both groups deserve safety and autonomy. there is no intersectional concern - GC women are not afraid of trans people, they are afraid of men, which coincidentally so are we all. if we united, we would be stronger.

members who don’t believe in trans people’s equality have told to leave and been sacked? even more reason to vote Green.

i’ve not felt as excited by the prospect of a leader in my whole voting life as i am for Zack Polanski. these next few years are crucial.

Good and bad news for Zack Polanski: the Green conference was a joy, but now hopes are stratospheric | Adam Ramsay Members loved hearing from a leader who boldly reflects their views and isn’t afraid of the rightwing press. How far can he take the party?, says journalist and Green party member Adam Ramsay

Green members at their conference this weekend were exuberant. But can @zackpolanski.bsky.social and team meet soaring expectations? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... - me for @theguardian.com

Tax authorities examine finances of key Nigel Farage ally Exclusive: HMRC conducts scoping exercise into Reform UK backer ‘Posh George’ Cottrell’s income from business and wealth The finances of one of Nigel Farage’s key confidants are being examined by the UK’s tax and revenue authorities amid questions over his income from wealth and business activities, the Guardian understands. The scoping exercise by HMRC is said to be focused on tax residency and the business affairs of George Cottrell, whom Reform UK’s leader Farage has described as “like a son to me”. Continue reading...

Tax authorities examine finances of key Nigel Farage ally

i challenge any of these STB crusaders to spend one week not interacting with, purchasing, cooking, consuming, watching anything that isn’t wholly british.

they’d soon realise

here’s my hot take of the day:

if children in need cared about the welfare of disabled children, it would lobby for governmental change, not be a charity basis.

governmental change doesn’t give them the “good deed feels” but charity does. governmental change gives agency, charity creates pity.

it should be illegal to run a train without any functioning toilets. what ableist tripe

could not have said this better myself i will RT this into oblivion

If you want to know what actual racism looks like, what conflating a whole ethnicity and culture with the actions of a foreign government look like, then look no further than Starmer using the horrific event in Manchester to attack the pro-Palestine marches. The absolute shame.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social is asked about people still protesting against Israels actions in Gaza in the aftermath of yesterdays attack on Jews in Manchester #GMB

can someone explain that latest Your Party email. starmer hasn’t resigned? is this some sort of satire or a mistake? not very accessible for autistics like me.

i’m really trying to live my life synced with the seasons - its tests and gifts - and this is my first autumn and looming winter where i’ll be actively slowing down, seeking (all forms of) warmth, reflection, eating seasonally, retreating, shedding, recolouring.

watching women’s rugby is curing my big leg low self esteem. little daneka needed to see these women, maybe wouldn’t have hated her genetics for 30 years.

UN calls for human rights assessment of government’s benefit cuts bill and mental health reforms Disabled experts from the United Nations have told the UK government to carry out a “comprehensive” assessment of the human rights impact of its universal credit cuts bill, further plans to reform …

Disabled experts from the United Nations have told the UK government to carry out a “comprehensive” assessment of the human rights impact of its universal credit cuts bill, further plans to reform disability benefits, and its mental health reforms.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/un-calls-for...

waiting for the Zoe/Jasmine "you're not my daughter" YES I AM" moment

First images of Tony Blair entering Gaza as head of the new temporary international administration

doing macbeth on schools shows has taught me one thing: that the drive to desexualise the language around women’s chests and their functions is yet to be achieved. i was hopefully the new gen would be there but alas.