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The disabled workers unemployment rate reached 18.9% compared with 14% of non-disabled people and even now, that appointment rate of people withno disabilities is twice that of our non-disabled counterparts. >> my friend, liz planck, what do you think? >>, happy disability pride mon. thank you for this report. i think people with disabilities have so much to be celebrating. people without disabilities have some work to do. i think that ableism just makes people its not just morally wrong but mak...

Ironically, advocacy requires communication — perhaps this is why folks like me have been left out.

Does identity politics commodify us?   The Prime Minister has recently denounced ‘the growing tendency to commodify human beings through identity politics‘. In doing so, he raises a number of important questions. The claim of ‘commodification’ of human beings and their relations is a powerful one. The idea that humans or their essential relationships risk reduction to being treated as things (‘reification’, from German Verdinglichung) and thereby alienated from others was, indeed...

(South Korea Defense Ministry via AP, File) (This is an editorial from the Combat Veterans for Congress Political Action Committee that describes the peril in which the US Navy finds itself through implementation of cultural Marxist personnel policies. It is posted here with permission of the author. CVFC PAC supports the election of US military combat veterans to the US Senate and House of Representatives. Their cause is righteous, and generous donations are welcome at the links at the end. No...

Disability RC hears how criminal justice system fails people with disabilities Content warning: Descriptions of abuse Melanie at that stage was dressed in a safety smock. She had a big lump on her forehead. There was blood on her forehead, which seemed like fresh blood. There was dried blood down the front of her smock. And her room was bare. There was sort of sofa without a back or ottoman that was long, perhaps a little bit longer than this table, maybe a little more narrow, that was covered ...

Offensive in its depiction of autism – and painfully misguided in essentially every respect – Music is a vanity project that begs to be turned down. And here’s an entire thread breaking down all the problems with the film from an autistic perspective (I should also note that some of the critic reviews from Rotten Tomatoes are also from autistic critics): I’m watching Sia’s movie, in order to write a detailed & chronological review (so that nobody else watches it out of curiosity). B...

ABC Everyday Ableism is the favouring of able neurotypical people and exclusion and devaluation of disabled and neurodivergent bodies, Ellen Fraser-Barbour writes. ( Share Print text only As a disabled person, there are days I dont want to leave the house. I wish I could say I dont care what society thinks or assumes about me and my body. But the truth is, when my body is judged, ostracised, othered — I do care. Some days I have to really push myself. It could be a question from a stranger: "...

Expanding access to medical assistance in dying (MAID) to those not terminally ill puts vulnerable people at risk of feeling pressured into MAID, and doctors at risk of being forced to facilitate it.

Minced Garlic is good, actually. By Jessica MasonJan 25th, 2021, 4:01 pm Of all the things I expected to see getting called out and celebrated on Twitter yesterday, minced garlic in a jar was not one of them. But a since-deleted viral tweet started a conversation on packaged and/or cheaper food that brought up ableism, classism, and what it really means to be a “good cook.” The kerfuffle started, as many of these things do, with a tweet that seemed designed to offend some people and give ...