As Barrick Gold shareholders meet virtually at their AGM to discuss record high gold prices, impacted communities around the world are speaking out about environmental and human rights abuses! Today we put the spotlight on 7 ongoing community struggles: bit.ly/4k4YybY

Canada treating MAID like a pressure release valve will never not horrify me. The cold cruelties of a system that exists to repeatedly communicate the message to disabled people that they are disposable, and more efficient at dispensing death than it is at care.

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"“Brilliant people have to be in those positions,” Trump said. He cited efforts by the FAA to hire individuals with disabilities, including Dwarfism, missing limbs and intellectual disabilities."

I do stand-up about my epilepsy sometimes (officially year without a seizure btw!)

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For those with memory loss, I see you this #Thanksgiving; the anxiety you have going into tomorrow. Will you: remember faces/names, struggle to reminisce with family while pretending to know the stories, be so overwhelmed you need to leave? It’s ok to feel this anxiety. 💜 #epilepsy #memoryloss

What really gets my goat about this accurate observation is that physicians are often so quick to psychiatrize disabled people as hysterical or paranoid--but apparently cannot comprehend the lasting psychological effects of being told your doctor thinks euthanasia is an option you should consider

My colleague and I wrote about how harmful Danielle Smith’s new anti-trans policies would be for ALL youth. Don’t think this is only an attack on trans youth—it makes all children more vulnerable.

Having epilepsy and finding out just how little doctors know about any of it has been such a trip. You’ve got ghosts in your brain. Do some anticonvulsants about it.

Ive been thinking about how lighting is not all that frequently included in discussions of accessibility--one of my biggest triggers are light and patterns--as someone with epilepsy and migraines, and grocery stores and so many public spaces are so badly lit they leave me a triggered mess.

"The study found that people with epilepsy had a 60% higher rate of hospital admission with Covid and 33% higher rate of death." www.epilepsy.org.uk/news/swansea...

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Epilepsy means a lot of memory issues and memory loss. Which, yes, is bad, but also I wish I COULD forget some things about some people, it would make dealing with them a whole lot easier.