February 2012
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Declaración Conjunta de ASAN y Sociedad de Autismo... →
(The Joint statement from ASAN and the Autism Society, in Spanish/en espanol)
January 2012
I have blacked out my tumblr today. See you...
I mean, I’ll be in internetless land until friday afternoon, but my tumblr’s main page will be available again tomorrow.
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Friday, 1/20(the 2nd Anniversary of the “Citizens United” decision, Occupy Pittsburgh will hold a permitted protest Action against “Citizens United” and Corporate corruption of our government and body politick. We’ll have a permitted rally Friday, 1/20 at 4pm, in Market Square.
Then we’ll got to nearby PPG and posting, ceremoniously and theatrically, a...
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thequietworld:
I’m mostly just left wondering when we as a society are going to stop putting this glossy sheen over the Civil Rights era and when white people will stop patting themselves on the back for being so damn wonderful for giving people the rights they deserve and when we can move on to realize that if the power balance is to ever even out, then white people will have to stop putting...
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“Some of you may be familiar with very special episode syndrome. It’s a very,...”
– Ari Ne’eman, at the ASAN 5 Year Anniversary Celebration (via disabilityrightsstuff)
Movement to Reverse the Supreme Court Decision The 2nd anniversary of the “Citizens United” decision: 1/20/2010 to 1/20/2012 Rally In Opposition to “Citizens United” January 20th4:00 pm: Rally at Market Square:Downtown Pittsburgh Organized By Occupation Pittsburgh:Occupationpittsburgh.org Visit the People Park:6th and Grant Street:Downtown Pittsburgh The...
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Tired. →
I’m tired of being misrepresented. I’m tired of seeing the principles of self-advocacy misrepresented. And I’m tired of seeing the autism rights movement misrepresented.
Let me be clear. I’m not talking about allies, or about people who were just thrust into Autismland and don’t yet know much, if anything, about the constant conflicts that erupt here. This...
“What does it mean if I don’t pick the right shape when asked? For the “experts”,...”
– Amy Sequenzia (via allies-person)
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New Series: Sexual Inventory Checklists for...
neurodivergentsexuality:
(by Devyn)
“Yes, No, Maybe So: A Sexual Inventory Stocklist” at Scarleteen is a brilliant resource for anyone who is sexually active or considering sexual activity. The “Stocklist” is made up of several different lists of different sexual activities, situations, and boundaries that you might run into. For example, the “Body Boundaries” list includes items like “talking...
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“When you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of “nobodiness”—then you will...”
– Letter from a Birmingham Jail - Martin Luther King Jr. (via flutterflyinvasion)
This line made me cry the first time I read this essay.
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“Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via itscandidlycara)
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Non-speaking, “low-functioning”- by Amy Sequenzia →
I am autistic, non-speaking. I am also labeled “low-functioning”. This label is a pre-judgment based on what I cannot do. It makes people look at me with pity instead of trying to get to know me, listen to my ideas.
I am a self-advocate and I can type my thoughts. But, at the moment I show up with my communication device and an aide, my credibility, in the eyes of most neurotypical people, is...
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numol asked: i already have you added on the chat thingy, it's just that you always have a "do not disturb" icon when you're online so i figure i shouldn't disturb you.
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Petition: Tell AMC, Regal Cinemas, and other major... →
numol:
eateroftrees:
metapianycist:
anderjak:
adriofthedead:
kreedkafer:
verticalvest:
padwing:
stfufauxminists:
Here’s the petition I said I would start to try to get movie theaters to respect the needs of folks with hearing deficits. Captions are necessary for many people who have hearing loss to understand what is going on in films. There’s no reason why there can’t be...
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My world of random, incessant thoughts :): Can... →
nekobakaz:
goldenheartedrose:
soilrockslove:
youneedacat:
mumma-bear:
Can anyone explain this to me, and tell me if I am completely off the mark please?
Theres a little boy at my older childs preschool centre with really severe autism. He doesnt verbally communicate with anyone, and has very little interactions with people at all. In fact, he generally tries to…
Yes.
There is a...
“The American habit of viewing public schools as the great equalizer of our...”
– A Nation of Little Lebowski Urban Achievers (via azspot)
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There's nothing wrong with sex, people.
- Having sex every day. - Saving sex for your wedding night. - Never having sex. - Having sex with different people. - Having sex with one person. - Having sex with a person of your same gender. - Loving sex. - Hating sex. - Being loud. - Being quiet.
The only thing wrong with sex?
When it’s not consensual.
Because that’s not sex. That’s rape.
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Week Two Report
theloudhandsproject:
It’s time for our weekly check-in! Here’s what we got up to in our second week:
We raised another thousand dollars!
We passed 100 discrete donors!
As of this writing, we’ve raised $7443 and received 117 donations. Wow!
We’ve also had an active web presence this week.
We were indiegogo’s featured project on their twitter account on Sunday and in their newsletter on...
“African American women’s internal life experiences are part of the American...”
– Melissa Harris-Perry (via sociolab) This. Whenever (white) people preach about “the good ol’ days,” I want to punch them in the throat. (via ethiopienne)
final observation on my anthro prof and why I...
triangularisthepie:
When I asked about my concern that the discipline can easily tip into othering and being voyeuristic toward other cultures
she thanked me for the question
then addressed it with a long, thoughtful response that didn’t at all go for the easy answers.
And acknowledged that there’s a long way the discipline has yet to go to overcome those issues.
and spoke of the importance...
mynameisjuthika:
wewanttobe:
kgrw:
If you think it’s “ironic” for a woman in a hijab to identify as a feminist then you are probably an asshole.
Not probably.
co signed and I am willing to punch you
“[Abstinence-only sex ed curricula] rely on offensive, sexist stereotypes about...”
– Did Abstinence-Only Ideology Create a Bully Generation? (via grrrlstudies)
Derail of the Day-"It only has power if you give...
youarenotyou:
lebanesepoppyseed:
When someone uses a slur and a person from the marginalized group that the slur disparages calls that shit out, there are is a common reaction that piss me the fuck off and is downright abusive in how it twists why the call out is happening and how it should go down.
“Well, it’s up to you get offended or not”
“It only has power if you give it power”.
“You...
Pennsylvania to impose asset test for food stamps →
face-down-asgard-up:
damekatharsis:
nebraska-admiral:
Pennsylvania plans to make the amount of food stamps that people receive contingent on the assets they possess - an unexpected move that bucks national trends and places the commonwealth among a minority of states.
Specifically, the Department of Public Welfare said that as of May 1, people under 60 with more than $2,000 in savings and...
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eateroftrees replied to your post: woah woah woah woah
Well has their support ever actually done anything useful? :\
Submissions now being accepted for It is Better to Speak. This is a Zine focused on Women of Color and Emotional Justice. We are looking for personal narratives, essays, intellectual musings, poetry, black and white drawings and other creative expressions from women of color that reflect on what emotional justice means for women of color individually, collectively and relationally speaking. We...
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We have blog badges!
theloudhandsproject:
The Loud Hands Project now has blog badges available! They come in a small and an expanded size.
170x193 pixels
170x300 pixels
Not sure how to make a blog badge?
A blog badge is an image that is linked to a site. It doesn’t have to go in your blog’s side bar or anything like that. Some people put them in their forum signatures as well. It is a good idea to...
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mellanvarld replied to your post: woah woah woah woah
They probably dislike ordinary users having access to their “cool, admin-only features”, or something like that.
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javert replied to your post: woah woah woah woah
he was thinking ‘hmmm how do I make this site as unnavigable as possible for everyone’ (or at least that’s what it seems like)
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woah woah woah woah
SERIOUSLY? I have to uninstall stuff ON MY OWN END or tumblr will BOUNCE all my support emails? Seriously?
Support is where you also submit feedback and report harassment, BTW.
FUCK YOU KARP. The reason I have missing e is because you refuse to listen to our support requests. The only OTHER way to get what I need to support my time on tumblr is to install a shit ton of things separately, which...
About my time with C-Diff
Don’t mind this, I am writing a blog post about how my ADLS deficits have impacted my health and wanted a place to describe in more graphic terms what C-Diff was like. Don’t click below cut if medical ick is not something you want to read.
Well, here we go.
I progressively had more and more diarrhea happening, and by the end the only times I wasn ‘t in OMG ridiculous pain is if...
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“[After] stumbling across some douchecanoe on Twitter whining about being...”
– 2012: The Year of Living Fatly « Fat Heffalump (via sailorbaby)
“offensively, obnoxiously fat”
YES
(via grrlyman)
I must be improving from sickness because my brain is capable of being depressed again. And from telling that unpleasant things are unpleasant.
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wear All the diapers! - X ALL THE THINGS | Meme... →
Guess who has Pneumonia? Me!
Guess who also has Stress Urinary Incontinence? That’s right, that’s also me.
Yay, “sensitive” constitution. -.-
December 2011
Homelessness and etc FML.
soilrockslove:
genderbitch:
Well folks, as suggested, I’m asking for donations to help with my yet again homelessness situation. Hopefully more temporary than past ones.
In order to preserve my identity’s secrecy and privacy, RMJ (who is a trusted and close friend) will be taking donations for me and then funneling them to my own personal paypal
Signal Boost
Please help out, if you have...
Today we remember the Lakota men, women, and...
Arizona Judge Rules Mexican American Studies... →
soilrockslove:
queernonymoose:
velocicrafter:
angryfuckingliberal:
PHOENIX (AP) - An administrative law judge ruled Tuesday that a Tucson school district’s ethnic studies program violates state law, agreeing with the findings of Arizona’s public schools chief. Judge Lewis Kowal’s ruling marked a defeat for the Tucson Unified School District, which appealed the findings issued in June by...
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This is the comment on Person-First I wrote
Hey! exciting!
One thing though- the Autistic Rights Movement uses the noun “Autistics” (capitalized) instead of the person first model. Part of it is that a number of the Autistics involved survived having abusive measures taken in the name of “treatment” to separate us from obvious signs of our disability, including our own self calming and self stimulating behavior.
My Friend Lydia recently...
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Disability Blog Carnival # 79: Disability and... →
I’m delighted to be hosting the seventy-ninth Disability Blog Carnival. I chose the theme of Occupy (as in Occupy Wall Street/#ows) for this edition. I have to say that I’m proud of this post. It makes it abundantly clear what we have to teach each other and ourselves, and what we have to learn.
I posed a lot of questions for people to respond to for this carnival. However, the majority of the...
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My favorite part of the Loud Hands video
littlemissmutant:
allies-person:
And also a comment inspired by discussion of autistic relationships.
I love the entire video, but my favorite part is of the two autistic people who were stimming together. ! Neil and I do that all the time, and for me it was powerful to see that on screen, just as it was powerful to see one-person stims that strongly resemble my own.
The experts say...
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tal9000:
ginger-lovee:
When people call kids who have Autism “Autistic,” it really bothers me. That’s not the proper way to address them. Say they have Autism. It’s more respectful.
Did you know that some kids who have Autism know they have that disability? Not many people do.
So, next time you hear someone call another person “Autistic,” correct them. Do that favor for me.
“Autistic...
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soilrockslove asked: Congratulations on the BC!
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thegenegenie replied to your post: blergh?
that’s great about the birth control! I hope it works out for you!
thanks!
blergh?
sooooooooooo…
pain tonight= lotses. lots and lots and lots. I keep trying to shift positions so that I don’t hurt and then … more pain. yay.
friend who is my… erm… person for physical intimacy? WHo is usually out of town as he moved across the state and he only comes home for holidays? Is busy for the rest of his stay, and I’m not able to see him tonight,...