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Lesbian Lady Brielle

hey! im completely out of money due to a broken car and dental surgery, and im desperately trying to keep it together until i can move into a less expensive place in a couple months

paypal.me/briellebright
buymeacoffee.com/briellebouque

please donate/boost as you're able, i'm extra hurting this month 💕

0/700

im attempting to change my housing situation in order to avoid constant crowdfunding, but this month myself and my partners got hit with an $800 car repair and a dental surgery bill

@mutualaid #MutualAidRequest #MutualAid #Disabled #transCrowdfund #disability #DisabilityMutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund #crowdfund #lgbt

tired trans girl taking a bathroom mirror selfie. she has pink hair that's fading into bleach blonde at the roots and a shirt that says, the future is trans
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This should not be the primary reason to care, but I'll say it anyways:

You can become #disabled, at any time, for any reason. This should not be treated as a moral failing that you deserve isolation, poverty, houselessness, or death for.

This is the way society at large treats disabled people, because they are often deemed as "useless" under #capitalism, or "dead ends" to producing offspring.

This is eugenecist thinking. Full stop. Disability benefits and supports save lives. (And if you want to think in capitalist terms: they also help people seek work, because a lot of disabled people actually do want to be able to find accomodating work!) Clawing benefits back, slashing them, and introducing ever-increasing barriers to access is an act of #eugenics.

And, again, disability is the one marginalized group that you can join at any time, for any reason, through no fault of your own.

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Tristan

For my disabled followers, what do you consider when thinking about inclusive swag? Swag in this case meaning t-shirts, coffee mugs, backpacks, stickers, etc. that you acquire through conferences, work, or other places.
I struggle to name what I look for in swag for it to be inclusive as a blind person; I think the most I'd look for is cool tactile design on t-shirts and perhaps embossed designs on stickers. But even that's a stretch; I've never felt strongly enough to remotely consider this, and that's why I'm here! I also consider things like Braille to be a novelty, and don't feel excluded when it doesn't exist. In a nutshell--I don't really care. But I'm sure someone out there does. Surely there's at least one of you.
Please boost for reach.
#disabled #accessibility #blind #swag

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Fight for the Future

Mask bans are a tactic of #surveillance and control. Not only do they infringe upon people’s rights to health, safety, #privacy, and #accessibility, they cause disproportionate harm to racially marginalized + #disabled people. thesicktimes.org/2024/09/03/pe

The Sick Times - Chronicling the Long Covid crisis · “Perfect storm” of criminalization: Analyzing mask bans - The Sick TimesWhile the conversation around mask bans has focused on new laws and bills, 21 states and many municipalities have laws banning masks and/or disguises in different settings, which is more than other organizations have reported. Even where these bans have apparent limitations or exemptions, the finer language of the laws leaves all COVID-conscious people vulnerable. And the historic practices of police endanger people even in states with no legal bans.
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Toadlyturtle

#SabiLewSounds is 24/7 #disabled caretaker for #elderly mom w/ #dementia & #ESA #bunny; multidisciplinary #artist & #musician; #mentalhealth & #disability #advocate

They've been homeless for over a year

Between anti-homelessness laws & dangers posed by being both disabled & brown, this family is in URGENT NEED

Ko-fi.com/SabiLewSounds
PayPal.me/SabiLewSounds

Cash.app/toadlyturtle
Venmo.com/toadlyturtle
(NOTE: SABI)

#urgentmutualaidrequest
@IndigenousMutualAid @mutualaid@kolektiva.social @smote @mutualaid@a.gup.pe

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James Scholes

Real #disabled life:

In theory, our Crock-Pot is one of the pseudo-accessible models. It literally has one physical dial with four distinct clicks: Off, Low, High, and Warm.

Except after not using it for over a year, my #blind partner and I both forgot the order of those clicks. We made a decision to set it to the rightmost position based on logic, because Low and High are both hotter than Warm. Then we asked a sighted person to verify, but the labels are in English and they only speak Spanish so somehow they got mixed up.

The end result is that our raw chicken has been sitting on the Warm setting, in 32 degrees C weather, for 2.5 hours. This is a cascading set of bad circumstances, all because a device manufacturer can't put tactile markers on their products. It's also why I like devices with companion apps, not as an alternative to physical controls but as an extra line of defense and piece of mind against human error.

#accessibility#disability
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⚧Celeste⚧חי♿θΔ&:heart_nb:🇵🇸​🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️1312

*May Update*

(Ty to everyone who donated and shared last month. I am starting my main garden crops this month. 💚🌿 )

Pain leaving me in bed
Struggling financially
No vehicle. No bus line. I rely on friends and Lyft
HVAC and insulation leaks bad
Busted electrical outlets
Busted plumbing
Leaking roof
Water damaged floors
Mom's recovering
Struggling to get disability
Need food delivered

Still need to pay for:

active goal 🌡️
goal met ✅
to be determined ⬜

• transit - $0/200 month 🌡️
• food - $0/100 month 🌡️
• medications - $12/100 month 🌡️
• medical masks - $10/10 month ✅
• home supplies - $0/50 month 🌡️
• braces - $0/7000 🌡️
• transition $0/50000 ⬜
• phone $0/350 ⬜
• computer $0/1000 ⬜
• etc

Anything helps. Please boost / share 🔁

venmo.com/u/Phoenix-Elektra

paypal.me/anonymous356

cash.app/$PhoenixElektra

A pink and blue haired, pink tail, white fur bunny wearing a mask and holding tea. There's an air purifier running. There's two words imploring the viewer to Donate💸 and Share🔁
#trans#enby#disabled
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Varceptious

Those moments you sublaxate your knee from crossing your legs while at the vet. So it locks, pops loud, swells, and kinda burns. Hurts to walk on, almost made me puke from the pain at the vet today. So now I'm laid up in bed due to knee pain. Such is life apparently

#hEDS#Spoonie#Disabled
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Maggie Maybe

Speaking of the references on your original student loan application, you might not remember doing this but you would’ve had to give them two people’s names and addresses and phone numbers, one could be a parent but I think you had to choose someone else for the second one. If you are old like me it’s extremely unlikely that that person still has the same address or phone number they had when you went to school.

But if you are a more recent borrower and you would be terribly embarrassed if that person got a phone call from your lender saying you didn’t pay your loan, anyone used as a reference for these loans has a right to have themselves removed.

20 years ago that person could just call the servicer and request this, no identification confirmation necessary. If a borrower would call in upset that we had called their reference, if I went ahead and noted the reference called and asked to be removed I could delete them. But if the borrower were called in pretending to be the reference I wouldn’t even know. Deleted.

Don’t let this crap ruin your life. Also if you are #disabled you can have your loans forgiven. I’m not sure if that part of the program has changed since I did it, but back in 2014 if the SSA had not determined you were disabled but your doctor says you are, your doctor can sign the form and submit it with minimal medical records.

They took my mom’s tax refund her whole adult life. Once she finally told me they were keeping part of her #SSI (see I am just a girl so boomer mom thought I didn’t know about money) I had her sign a form and a few months later she was free from them.

#StudentLoans
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Pope Aby

World may be ‘post-herd immunity’ to measles, top US scientist says

As infections pummel communities in the US, Mexico and Canada, fear of ‘the most contagious human disease’ grows

“We’re living in a post-herd-immunity world. I think the measles outbreak proves that,” said Dr Paul Offit, an expert on infectious disease and immunology and director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

“Measles – because it is the most contagious of the vaccine-preventable diseases, the most contagious human disease really – it is the first to come back.”

#measles #covid #covid19 #GetVaccinated #GetBoosted #vaccines #disabled #disability #health #healthcare

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

The Guardian · World may be ‘post-herd immunity’ to measles, top US scientist saysBy Jessica Glenza
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