Are you a Gen Zer with a disability, particularly neurodivergence? Want to talk to a journalist about your thoughts on disability, stigma and and identity? Email me at sluterman dot 19thnews dot org or DM.

Grateful today for the freedoms I have from my disabled ancestors' activism. My right to exist - at home, work, and school - is their legacy. Disabled lives are worth living. Disabled lives are worth protecting. The work continues. Thanks to @disabilitylab.bsky.social for the sweatshirt!

Reminder: If Visa and Mastercard are allowed to limit what games you buy, there's nothing stopping them from limiting what food you buy, where you buy your clothes, what services you're allowed to pay for, and more. This is a fight for your freedom to spend your money on your terms. Keep calling!

Still seeking mutual aid as I work to fundraise for a replacement wheelchair. I survive on disability benefits alone, and I need help as my current chair breaks down. Any shares or donations are appreciated! #disability #spoonie #cripplepunk #disabled #chronicillness #wheelchair gofund.me/b6103ccc

Disabled people are 11 times more likely to die during labor/in the postpartum period than non-disabled people. Better education and smashing ableism is how we get out of this horrible stat. For the past year, I’ve been looking into the topic of disability and pregnancy for @motherjones.com 🧵

I'm applying for some more disability services. I put onto the application prefer email. I put I'm an AAC user. I put my relay number as well as my cell (which was required). I had messages left on my cell phone telling me that if they can't get in contact with me in <x> days they'll close my case.

It's hard to explain to people outside this fight that Texas is currently trying to ban kids from using public libraries... but they are; it's passed out of committee, and it's going to a floor vote. 🚨If you know ANYONE in Texas it's time for them to call their reps and demand NO ON HB3225🚨

Ableism teaches us to abandon each other. Racism will disable you. Transphobia will disable you. Long COVID will disable you. Genocide will disable you. Climate change will disable you. Do not obey when told to abandon the vulnerable. Resistance & communities must be rooted in disability justice.

My painting COASTAL POPPIES

Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever they aren’t going into universities’ endowments they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research

doomscrolling break via dog photo

Pity is a wedge, not a bridge. When you say “at least I’m not like them” it’s easy to justify doing stuff that tries to stop us existing. It’s meant to make you forget that we’re here - that we can hear you. That we have needs and lives that are worth living. Eugenics is bad is praxis.

Raising money to get a new computer so I can do more work. I have a ~9-year-old laptop that sucks and is barely usable shares and contributions greatly appreciated ❤️🙏🏾 paypal.me/wagatwe venmo.com/wagatwe cash.me/$wagatwe ko-fi.com/wagatwe

they point to our families as tragic/cautionary tales while threatening to cut the programs that are actually focused on trying to support autistic children and adults

BREAKING: The House passed a bill that limits judges' ability to block the Trump administration's unconstitutional actions nationwide. This bill is a threat to the rule of law and endangers all of our rights — the Senate must reject it.

hi, cis folks! the comment period for the proposed rule to remove trans care from the ACA as an essential health benefit is open til april 11. it also strips care from DACA recipients. context & guidance in the thread. none of these people can afford to pay OOP for meds now. only 2 days left!

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” - Audre Lorde

hear hear

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB

Dear Congress, Libraries are the place we all belong. The place where Mister Rogers’ neighbors collide at the library to help one another. We come together to embrace library joy. What good is the world without libraries and museums? ❤️‍🩹 Call, email Congress! Help libraries & museums! We need you 💛

I understand that these are dark times that call for courage. But keep in mind I am just a baby

Just wanted to reup this. Trans women and POC especially! Also if you're trans and just want to write about food and not transness!

•••••BREAKING••••• A positive case of measles has been identified in Maryland, public health officials said Sunday. The highly contagious virus was detected in a Howard County resident who recently traveled internationally. (This case is NOT associated with the measles outbreaks in Texas and…

You don’t have to have every answer. Doing what you can is critical. We need fuckloads of people doing okay at and trying to getting better at fighting facism. We need every person we can get to be the bystanders intervening. Break the surface tension. This isn’t normal. Say so. Act like it.

Move fast and break things has really become a federal policy.

Timeline cleanse

The fatality rate for bird flu in cats is staggeringly high (up to 90% depending on the study). Outdoor cats are at highest risk. Keep your cats inside. Don’t feed them raw food. Keep them away from birds (especially water birds). Wash your hands thoroughly if you’ve been in contact with livestock

Sadly there may now be many climate scientists in search of a new job. Here is an important one at a fantastic organization.

Gentle reminder that many disabled people can’t always shop local, especially if housebound. We’re dependent on delivery & sometimes left with big chains as only option. If you can, help someone get what they need from a great local minority owned business! Community will save us in the end.

It took seeing adult bullies to understand that my childhood bullies didn’t even really want to hurt me, they just wanted to feel powerful and how I felt about it wasn’t even in the equation. I can’t imagine someone not outgrowing that, but apparently it happens quite a lot!

Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

"i can draw this jungle scene, no problem. i've seen trees before." *three hours later, waist deep in image searches* "how the hell do ferns work"

Why haven't we seen more backlash against the GOP's proposed cuts to Medicaid? One reason is that people may not know they're on Medicaid, because Medicaid has different names in different states (see 🧵). Another is that some people may not realize that they (or their kids) could qualify.

Washington: Apple Health Washington D.C. : Healthy Families West Virginia : Medicaid Wisconsin: Forward Health, BadgerCare Wyoming: Equality Care Thank you @lisalightner.bsky.social and A Day in Our Shoes for this list

Oklahoma: SoonerCare Oregon: Oregon Health Plan (OHP) Pennsylvania: Medical Assistance (MA) Rhode Island: RI Medical Assistance Program South Carolina: Healthy Connections South Dakota: Medicaid Tennessee: TennCare Texas: STAR+PLUS Utah: Medicaid Vermont: Green Mountain Care Virginia: Cardinal Care

Nevada: Medicaid New Hampshire: NH Medicaid, Medical Assistance New Jersey: NJ FamilyCare New Mexico: Centennial Care, Medical Assistance New York: Medicaid Managed Care North Carolina: Division of Health Benefits (DHB), Medicaid North Dakota: North Dakota Medicaid Expansion Program Ohio: Medicaid

Massachusetts: MassHealth Michigan: Medical Assistance or MA Minnesota: Medical Assistance (MA), MinnesotaCare Mississippi: Mississippi Coordinated Access Network (MississippiCAN) Missouri: MO HealthNet Montana: Medicaid Nebraska: ACCESSNebraska, Nebraska Medical Assistance Program (NMAP)

Indiana: Hoosier Healthwise, Hoosier Care Connect, M.E.D. Works, Health Indiana Plan (HIP), Traditional Medicaid Iowa: IA Health Link Kansas: KanCare Medical Assistance Program Kentucky: Medicaid Louisiana: Bayou Health, Healthy Louisiana Maine: MaineCare Maryland: Medical Assistance

Florida: Statewide Medicaid Managed Care Program (SMMC), Managed Medical Assistance (MMA) Program, Long-term Care (LTC) Program Georgia: Medicaid Hawaii : MedQuest Idaho: Medicaid Illinois: Medical Assistance Program, Allkids

Alabama: Medicaid Alaska : DenaliCare Arizona: Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) Arkansas: Health Care California: Medi-Cal Colorado: Health First Colorado Connecticut: HuskyHealth, Husky C (for aged, blind or disabled persons) Delaware: Diamond State Health Plan (Plus)

Egg production is only down about 4% from last year, but prices have more than doubled. While the industry blames bird flu, critics are accusing the largest egg companies of price gauging. They point to the fact that corporate profits have soared in recent months.

#MyDisabledRamadan remains full of fatigue, this year. Can’t fast because I gotta hydrate, eat and take meds at regular intervals or I’ll pass out, which remains. Stressful. If someone demands why I’m not fasting, I’m gonna follow them around shouting random crip lit poem. Befuddlement as praxis.

Comrade @heathercorinna.bsky.social just reminded me about this outstanding piece from @thellpsx.bsky.social in 2021 on how mutual aid in the disability community sometimes looks very different from that in nondisabled spaces! Very important read in this moment.

some of you haven't fill out a tome of endless forms, waited hours to perform humanity, prove your worth, decency of healthcare, only to be shot down by an indifferent stranger. Then having to appeal multiple times to prove your worth for meds you need in order to survive... And it shows. #Medicaid

1. Major news: Remember those "Biological men"/"Biological Women" signs at University of Cincinnati? They have come down thanks to MASSIVE student protests at the college, which have continued. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/university...

I had the distinct pleasure of talking to @kimkelly.bsky.social about her new book (dropping in May), which will supplement kids’ labor education, and teach them how to organize and fight for what they deserve.

I think a lot about how movements generate language which shifts into buzzwords that become increasingly handwavey and watered down, so I appreciated this look at regenerative agriculture.