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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 posts in this edition were written before my call for entries, indicating that Occupy is on the minds of many who blog about disability already. […]

I’m in twice!

Rocking (and Flapping) at a 1000 Revolutions a Minute is definitely one of my favorite posts on disability and Occupy. It is a must read! This incredibly powerful, liberating post by Savannah Logsdon-Breakstone of Cracked Mirror in Shalott includes a captioned video Savannah took of herself at an Occupy DC event, off by herself, rocking, and how doing that contradicts the harmful messages she’s been subject to based on others’ responses to her autism:

The week before I sat in the park and rocked, feeling my defiance, I spent several nights wishing I didn’t exist. I knew all the things I talk about here intellectually, but that base part of me is still filled with the remembered abuse of my past. The most prevalent are those that were excused at the time as treatment while speaking words describing me as a burden and my being as a barrier.

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In her post, Decolonizing Our Voices, Savannah Logsdon-Breakstone of Cracked Mirror in Shalott describes the parallels she sees between the 99 percent movement and her activism against oppression of people with autism. In fact, she published this post on Autistics Speaking Day, an annual event to counteract the messages of pity and misinformation coming from certain autism organizations (which are run by people without autism).

After some thought, I’ve decided that there’s too much of a cross over for me in the work of Decolonizing Wall Street and of our voices as Autistics to not write this post today. While people in general are seeing their demands of their political representatives co-opted or diverted by corporations, Autistics routinely have our voices co-opted by our allies and diverted by large ‘non’-profits such as Autism Speaks.

I posted about how Autistics prefer not to do person first in the comments but the blog owner hasn’t corrected or un-moderated it yet? But I expect that they will, as I know them from Occupy at Home stuff. 

persephonemag:

Trigger warning: ableism, censored use of the R-word, and abuse

From the article:

When the things that make up a part of who we are is so suppressed, how can it not be revolutionary to rock in public? How could I not include this part of myself when protesting a system that treats people without economic means as worthless? Why shouldn’t I stim in the face of a world — one both outside and inside — that tells me that I, too, am worthless? (If you are new, I am indeed fond of rhetorical questions.)

I am stimming 1000 revolutions a minute when I go out and stim at a protest. I’m being Autistic, fat, disabled, queer, poor, covering, and many other things in public when I am in public, and being visible here is bringing all of those things out and into a space where revolution can happen. I am speeding our revolutions while joining their revolutions, even if it is only that tiny amount that visibility brings.

Read more at Persephone Magazine.

Look what got re-published on Persephone mag? \o/ !

(Source: persephonemagazine.com)

[…] When the things that make up a part of who we are is so suppressed, how can it not be revolutionary to rock in public? How could I not include this part of myself when protesting a system that treats people without economic means as worthless? Why shouldn’t I stim in the face of a world- one both outside and inside- that tells me that I, too, am worthless?

[…]I am stimming 1000 revolutions a minute when I go out and stim at a protest.[…]

So, yes, ANOTHER new post! I know I just psoted yesterday, but… it happens when it happens?

Here is a list of groups and pages with a disability or Deaf focus that support the 99 percent/#ows movement.

Some are cross-disability, and some are for specific types of disabilities. Please spread the word. A lot of solidarity and good ideas and activism is taking place at these groups. If you know of pages or groups not included here, please post in the comments, and I’ll add them.

For people with disabilities to share experiences, news, information, and resources on being a part of- and making more accessible- the Occupy/Decolonize Wall Street movement and those in solidarity.

I couldn’t believe no one had made one yet! So I did.