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Anarchist communities often value and revere “back to the land” attitudes. They fetishize a world after the industrial collapse where we are all riding our bikes everywhere and growing our own food. But that’s not a world I can live in. As a person with a disability, I depend on technology to keep me alive. I depend on my hearing aid, and my mobility chair. I depend on my perscription (sic) drugs to keep my immune system from destroying my spine. I can’t afford to “fuck cars and ride my bike.” Anarchist communities who celebrate able bodies, have bonding and strategizing events in inaccessible locations, adopt mantras like “racism is a DISEASE” and “The revolution will not be motorized” are not welcoming or safe places for me. These ideas of what revolution mean are exclusive, and borrow heavily from eugenicist idealogy. They are rarely criticized, because PWDs (people with disabilities) are humiliated by dominant culture AND by most anarchist culture. It’s not a revolution unless everyone is invited.

Wren A.

THIS SO MUCH THIS

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This is basically the killer argument against primitivism – their ideology is really incompatible with having autonomous and mobile disabled people.

(caveat: my idea of revolution doesn’t require “everyone” to be invited, but “disabled people” is obv not an exclusion I want!)

wow this is a super fucking important point and not something that gets talked about nearly enough

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yooo and this applies to people who have serioud conditions that require medications like asthma or diabetes.

(via northeastdakota)

This is my problem with those “If everyone would just put down their cell phones and WAKE UP…” mantras.  Because so many of rely on technology for our health.  For some of us that means physical aide, and for some it means that thanks to technology we can finally communicate and make ourselves heard.  Disabled people are empowered by technology in away that never existed before.  And I refuse to buy into any movement that wants to take that away from people.

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Not to mention some of us need modern technology to breathe, either some or all of the time. Especially high quads. I don’t see losing that going over well with full time vent users, given they’d die instantly and horribly. And it doesn’t go over with me that well given I use supplemental oxygen and stuff, not to mention bipap at night and sometimes day too. Although I’d usually be fine for a little while, but might end up in hospital after awhile.

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And the fact that SO MUCH modern medication relies on plastics and technology for its manufacture.  I’d really like for my girlfriend to continue to NOT be suicidal all the time, thanks.

And antibiotics.  And vaccines.  And autoclaves for surgical equipment.  It was not all that long ago that THE SON OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES DIED OF BLOOD POISONING BECAUSE A BLISTER ON HIS HEEL GOT INFECTED.

 And SERIOUSLY PEOPLE WE DID THE MIDDLE AGES ALREADY AND IT WAS MISERABLE.  FUCKING THINK.

(Those who do not read history are doomed to repeat it while those who do beat their heads against the wall.)

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backwardblackbyrd:

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motherjones:

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has called a special session to crush Sen. Wendy Davis’ filibuster. He says, “The citizens of our state have made crystal clear their priorities for our great state. Texans value life and want to protect women and the unborn.”

NO THE FUCK THEY DID NOT.

THEY WERE SCREAMING AND CHEERING FOR YOU TO STOP THIS BULLSHIT. 

TH— nope.

nope.

*log off*

HEY. HEY. THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT. THIS WILL POTENTIALLY MAKE HER 13 HOUR SPEECH, THE EFFORTS OF THE LOVELY LADIES BEFORE HER, AND THE EFFORTS OF THE PEEPS WHO ATTENDED IN SUPPORT UTTERLY USELESS.
GO TELL RICK PERRY NOT TO DO THIS.
HERE’S A SAMPLE ESSAY IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT TO SAY.

WE WERE PISSED ENOUGH TO STOP THIS ONCE, WE CAN DO IT AGAIN.

consultingsuperhusbands:

somedonkusfromasgard:

genoid:

I hope Wendy Davis wakes up tomorrow well-rested and I hope she has a big, delicious breakfast and I hope she has a great day filled with little animals and lots of friends

I hope she’s going to get her pink Nikes put in a glass case and call them “The Shoes that ran the patriarchy to the ground.”

*These Boots Are Meant For Walking plays softly in the background*

But she can’t put them away yet; the assholes are gonna try it again. They already said so. Them boots gotta walk some more.

Less Than 24 Hours After Abortion Bill Filibuster, Texas Governor Calls Another Special Session

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Less Than 24 Hours After Abortion Bill Filibuster, Texas Governor Calls Another Special Session

kiaxet:

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) will call a second special legislative session that will begin on July 1, according to ABC News reporter Arlette Saenz. The news comes less than 24 hours after Texas’ first special session concluded with a 13-hour filibuster that effectively blocked an omnibus abortion bill from passing. 

You’ve got to be fucking kidding me.

lord-kitschener:

“Could you PLEASE not post any more pictures of Trident Gum? I’ve had a fear of it since I was a young child.”

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And /this/ is why expecting other people to protect you from your triggers (by warning, tagged, behind readmore, whatever) is /STUPID/.

ANYTHING can be a trigger for someone.

I have a question.

Why is this (tw: suicide) a huge deal, but this and this is okay?

My proper response to that crap is this, but let me draw out a few pertinent quotes for you.

As someone who is borderline-suicidal in her daily life because of clinical depression, I do not have time for your bullshit, fandom. I am fighting my depression kicking and screaming and clawing, clinging to the very fucking edge of that abyss, and I do not need you adding weight to the load.

So many of us who become attached to fandoms enough to do things like write fic, roleplay, draw, and otherwise create for them? So so so many of us use this as an outlet because our real lives suck. In Meegan’s case, she was suffering from bullying in-person, and fandom should have been a safe space for her. Instead it became somewhere else she was being hurt, and she took her own life. 

We failed her, as a fandom, collectively. We failed to provide her with a safe place to feel comfortable in her own skin, despite the fact that so many of us know exactly what she was going through, because we’ve been there. We failed to call people out on their shit when we saw it, and we failed to reach out when we could have done something. 

If the minute I say

It had to do with my self-doubt, my trying to figure out how I was going to deal with wanting to play with people and not reaching out. It had to do with — frankly, with the damned dummystark situation and with my personal insanity.

honestly I get jumped on for using my illness as an excuse — well, thanks, you just made me want to repeat the cycle all over again. Why would I want to stick around a fandom, where I come to get away from that crap, that hits me with my illness like it’s something I can help?

I didn’t write that to say “dummystark drove me away”. Far from it. It was a horrible, stressful situation; I had a lot of doubts about my desirability as a friend and roleplayer, and I crawled into a hole and pulled it in after me. That was all me. And I gritted my teeth, took my meds, talked to my therapist, and decided that reaching out to people was important to me, as a writer, as a geekgirl, and as a roleplayer.

That other person died because stuff like what was said to me gets praised.

You can’t do that to me. I’ve been there. You can’t say anything to me I haven’t heard before, period. But I will be drawn and quartered, tarred and feathered and driven off tumblr and out of roleplaying before I stop calling people out on that shit. And what was said about me last night was bullshit.

Dishonor on your cow.

Only in rape do we blame the victim.

syrusbliz:

If a man assaults someone, he is held accountable and punished.
If a man robs someone, he is held accountable and punished.
If a man drives a vehicle and causes an accident, he is held accountable and punished.
If a man murders someone, he is held accountable and punished.

There are many other scenarios that can be listed; I wanted to highlight the most prominent.

Additionally, being intoxicated in the above scenarios does not absolve or lessen the impact of the crimes performed.

We give no excuse because of intoxicants; being under the influence does not anyone a pass. If the person assaulted/robbed/collided with/murdered was also intoxicated we do not lessen the punishment or share the blame between the two. (Though in some cases the victim can be punished for also being intoxicated but not for causing the crime, except perhaps for drunk driving (double fault).)

Does this sound familiar?
“Oh, [rape victim] should not have been in [place] at [time] / [doing activity] at [location] with [other people] / without [an escort or protection] / with [the wrong escort or protection] / [wearing whatever attire] / because of [favourite cop-out].”

Men are beasts unable to control themselves at any time, right?

If a man gets drunk and rapes someone, we blame the victim for being in the company of drunks and should have known better.

If a man gets drunk and rapes another drunk, “oh [victim] should not have consumed alcohol because [of reasons]. If only you were not intoxicated you could have stopped it.”

I say these things knowing that men also get raped by both men and women, but their respective numbers are significantly smaller than instances of men raping women. And if we would stop victim blaming and
punish only the perpetrator it would be a whole lot easier to reduce rape in the first place.

In rape we consider rape the crime and punishment for the person onto which the act was committed and additionally continue to punish the victim through shame and ridicule.