"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

As a disabled pregnant woman currently taking paracetamol (tylenol) for back & pelvic pain... I don't yet have a response for the ableist, eugenicist, evidently pro-life movatived "announcement" from the US President. But I will say this. If you don't want a disabled child, don't have children.

Here's to hoping the House of Lords gives the Assisted Dying Bill the scrutiny, safeguarding, & open debate it failed to get in the Commons. Lives -- of disabled and ill people, already under attack in this country -- are quite literally at stake. Lucy Webster for @theguardian.com ⬇️

Are we repeating history? @annalandre.com provides a satirical take on today's disability politics. disabilityarts.online/magazine/opi...

As researchers, scientists, & innovators in the disability space, we at @gdihub.bsky.social wrote an open letter on the UK government's proposed disability cuts: They lack an evidence base & don't address the employment barriers disabled people face. cdn.disabilityinnovation.com/uploads/imag...

Priscilla Chan’s decision to stop funding the school she opened to help struggling families shows the risks for communities reliant on wealthy private donors.

The Assisted Dying Bill will soon be voted on in Parliament. We need all Disabled people and allies to urgently write to your MP and let them know why this dangerous bill can't go ahead. 📢 Use resources from Not Dead Yet to help you speak out:

If you're a disabled person whose mobility devices are damaged at anti-ICE protests by the police etc and you have evidence of it, I'm always interested in you contacting me for a potential @motherjones.com story at [email protected] or signal: juliametraux.49.

Our Global Research & Response Lead, @annalandre.com represented The Partnership this week in Geneva at the United Nations Disaster Risk Reduction Global Platform that brings together leaders from around the world on Disaster Risk Reduction.

On a train near a man who just said to his friend: “Like, people can become paralyzed at any time — become a burden to themselves & others. Sometimes it’s better to be dead.” But yeah, the UK should totally legalize nondisabled people deciding when suicide should be allowed for us. ♿️

Despite very much NOT being a celebrity (!), I’m proud to be one of the over 100 disabled people undersigning this letter to Keir Starmer as part of the #TakingThePIP campaign against cuts to disability services. Read the letter & share: takingthepip.co.uk

Will these new homes Labour keep crowing about building be fully accessible? Just 1% of new homes are planned to be wheelchair accessible, despite approx 1.2 million wheelchair users living in the UK. Source: www.pbctoday.co.uk/news/building-control-news/accessible-housing-lockdown/84458

I had a lovely bank holiday morning with @GMB today, discussing my unfortunate train access denial from last week — and some tips on enforcing your rights as a disabled person in a political context where they’re rarely granted without a fight.

lifts.matteason.co.uk now shows historical reliability data for almost every station lift in the UK - for example, lifts.matteason.co.uk/HRH/history I really hope this is useful for people who need to know how accessible local stations are as well as accessibility and disability rights campaigners

Every minister should read this. 👇 If the government actually cared about disabled people being in work, they would reform the chaos of Access to Work.

This government *says* it’s here to “get Britain working” — but its actions point to a very different, far more nefarious policy goal when it comes to disabled people. Jess can’t work now, because her services just got cut. She’s one of many. @ any media who follow me — this is quite a story!

Was just fully denied the right to travel today at Liverpool St Stn, on any train, because Network Rail staff collectively refused to deploy a ramp for me. Why? One of them claimed I was “rude” for telling him I didn’t need the lecture he was giving me on why they’d failed to …

Oh hell yeah. Assisted dying bills are NOT progressive and disability rights organizations overwhelmingly oppose them.

The assisted dying lobby isn’t being honest with you – Disabled people are at risk from this bill. Brilliant piece in the @theguardian.com from @lucywebster.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts. Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.

New blog from me at @motherjones.com: 25 people were arrested today during a Congressional hearing while protesting Medicaid cuts. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

If you think what disabled people did by interrupting Congress was cool today, how about you guys stop judging disabled people for trying to get the Americans with Disabilities Act enforced (aka through lawsuits).

Pretty telling the UK is allowing the media to call disabled people "parasites" at the same time as it is fast tracking assisted suicide legislation.

Donald Rodney was a Black, disabled, British artist whose pioneering work explores identity, technology, prejudice, state violence, & more. Much of his remaining work was on exhibit in London until last week -- read below learn more. cripoire.substack.com/p/donald-rod...

If I see one more tech person, even a well meaning one, mistaking a problem of political will and community care for a technical problem I’m going to become jokerfied.

“I asked ChatGPT” well I asked the three Fates and the one with the scissors got very agitated when I told her you were using your one precious life thread talking to that cursed thing

Hi, @motherjones.com disabled disability reporter here, I really want to hear about how tariffs are impacting disabled, chronically ill, and aging folks. Reposts appreciated and my email is [email protected].

DAMN Borders. End Barriers! Disability and Migration Justice Conference. 28th June 2025 London. Disability and Migration Network (DAMN) and DPAC Crip tank. @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social #DAMNborders #DisabilityAndMigration www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/disability...

Fuck Nigel Farage. Fuck disability registers, “overdiagnosis”, pity porn, and so-called bloated benefit bills. Disabled people have full, rich lives and add enormous value to the country. It is time for a new narrative. Who Wants Normal? is out now: linktr.ee/WhoWantsNormal

Disabled women know far too well what it is to fall outside society’s definition of womanhood. Wednesday’s UK ruling on “biological sex,” and its knock-on social-behavioural effects, will affect anyone with a perceivably non-normative bodymind. open.substack.com/pub/cripoire...

Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?

It really adds an additional dimension to having your rights challenged when the challenger is wearing Easter bunny ears 🐰🐣 I was ramp boarded onto a GWR train at Oxford 20 mins ago by a staff member who chastised me & another wheelchair user for “not checking in with [her]” …

Putting "biological" in front of something as an adjective should mean "tying it to biological reality". That is the opposite of how "Gender Criticals" use it and apparently now The Supreme Court. If the law becomes divorced from observable reality then it is worthless

A successful panel on disability, temporality and social movements in Latin America at #SLAS2025 with @annalandre.com , Lucía Guerrero and Eliana Rosas. Thanks to everyone who came!

#DisabilityGreenPaper Accessible formats for the pathways to work green paper Link here Deadline is 30th June 2025 www.gov.uk/government/c...

NEW EPISODE: Labour's 'War on Welfare' @goldbergradio.bsky.social talks #DisabilityBenefits with Ellen Clifford and @annalandre.com From @bylinetimes.bsky.social podfollow.com/byline-podca...

My first byline for The Guardian: Will Rachel Reeves’s tough decisions pay off? Our panel on the spring statement Polly Toynbee, Anna Landre, Jonathan Portes and Fatima Ibrahim www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I joined LBC's Matthew Wright this morning to talk more on UK benefits cuts -- this time, about how they'll shift costs onto the NHS, social care, & other already-struggling critical services. We also got into my advocacy on disabled people's ability to work in the US disability system. Cont'd⬇️

Anna says so many of the reasons why some of who impairment-wise might manage employment are blocked. Housing, transport, health and social care, ability to cook and wash at home, ability to be healthy and even then we might need breaks at random cos impairment-issues.

#WelfareNotWarfare Across the UK Disabled People are mobilising to begin the fight back against cuts to disability benefits which some call “Labour Government Disability Poll Tax’ Wed 26th March 2025 11am Meet at Downing Street Whitehall London SW1A 2AA & after a rally march to Parliament

When this government says disabled people ought to work, disabled people ask: Where are the jobs? The level-access commuter trains? The accessible homes? The carers to dress us at 6am? (Right, Brexit made them leave.) The reduction in wait times for Access to Work, Wheelchair Services?

"We need to ask government what they think they're doing when they say disabled people ought to work, but they're making it damn near impossible for us to do so." - Me for Novara Media live last night on Labour's cuts to PIP and other disability benefits

If you’re a disabled, neurodivergent or chronically ill person who experiences light as a barrier within theatre please do complete our short survey (8 questions) & contribute to our research on mapping & communicating about lighting in live performance: www.touretteshero.com/2025/02/10/l...

An excellent article from @annalandre.com explaining how Labour’s welfare plan will force disabled people OUT of work. There is no common sense in what they are doing. It would be easy to think they didn’t want us to survive with the cuts and barriers. Oh wait…? apple.news/AKNe6Vy-0RDi...

My opinion piece for LBC on the recent announcement of UK disability benefits cuts, as a wheelchair user and researcher who helped shape reform of the disability benefits system in the US: Labour’s welfare plan will force disabled people out of work, not into it. www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...

My opinion piece for LBC on the recent announcement of UK disability benefits cuts, as a wheelchair user and researcher who helped shape reform of the disability benefits system in the US: Labour’s welfare plan will force disabled people out of work, not into it. www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...

So Labour plans to "get more disabled people into work" by … cutting a payment that many WORKING disabled people use to cover extra costs of accessible transport/equipment for work. This will make it so fewer disabled people can work. Shockingly incompetent policy making.

Some great jobs and voluntary roles here for those knowledgeable about welfare, benefits, rights and justice across the UK: @rightsnet.org.uk www.rightsnet.org.uk/jobs

BREAKING: The government denies it's abandoning people with extreme disabilities by slashing their benefits, pointing out that it's removing the safeguards on assisted suicide to give them a cost-effective way out x

I’ll be interested to see how the Special Olympics crowd greets the people who ordered the elimination of materials that include the words "disability" and "accessible,” and who are in the midst of attempting to cut vital disability services. Give 'em hell, guys! ✊🏼🦾