Disabled Organizers Are Facing Down Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

Disability justice organizers are turning to immigrant rights groups to guide their interventions and support work.

https://murica.website/2026/03/disabled-organizers-are-facing-down-trumps-immigration-crackdown/

Disabled Organizers Are Facing Down Trump’s Immigration Crackdown – The USA Potato

STILL NEEDED: eSIMs for Gaza!

"[...] In so many ways we never thought we’d be here, still doing this two years later, weathering the storm of grief from losing Alice from this earthly plane. But in other ways, maybe this logo is part of the good within that unexpected steadfastness. That we are continuing, and being a part of building alternative systems that, god willing, will eventually lead to a thriving, free and autonomous Palestine.

Til freedom.

In love and disabled Asian persistence,

Alice, Jane and Leah <3"

https://chuffed.org/project/crips-for-esims-for-gaza

@[email protected] @palestine

#Gaza #FreePalestine #DisabilityActivism #CripsForGaza

Crips for eSims for Gaza

Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong. 

Chuffed

Disability groups are standing united for trans rights. That hasn’t always been the case

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/disability-protections-transgender-trump

I followed Alice Wong on the bird site, and one of her projects was Crips for eSIMs for Gaza. Here is their update from October 8th, a very worthwhile read:

Two Years of Genocide+: Crips Aren’t Done Sending eSims to Gaza

https://chuffed.org/project/crips-for-esims-for-gaza

If you can and would like to help Palestinians in Gaza, any amount however small is incredibly welcome.

@[email protected] @palestine
#eSIM #Gaza #FreePalestine #DisabilityActivism

Crips for eSims for Gaza

Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong. 

Chuffed

Gutted at the news of the passing of Alice Wong today.

In her final words: Don't let the bastards grind you down!

#AliceWong #DisabilityActivism #Disability

A Beetoota Advocate satire piece e today reads: Demise of Menulog proves there’s no such thing as ethical food delivery you fat fuck.’ And then (paraphrase) no such thing as ethical food delivery…‘anyone who thought otherwise is, frankly, a fat fuck’. And the comments to my reply are worse. Here’s the thing: Punching down on fat people isn’t funny - it’s hurting a marginalised group. There are a myriad of reasons why people are fat, and in the vast majority of cases, it has nothing to do with being a lazy ‘fat fuck’ who can’t be arsed cooking or going out to get food. Rather, it involves complex issues such as socioeconomic status, food availability (and deserts), chronic illness and disability, mental illness, iatrogenic medicine (eg many medications esp for mental illness cause weight gain), racism, and other intersecting factors. @betootaadvocate can and should be better than this. Good satire is always about punching up, not down 😖 #fat #fatacceptance #fatacceptancemovement #fatactivism #bodyshaming #bodyshamingiswrong #disabilityactivism #bodyneutrality

October is nearly here. The next time you sit down to watch Poltergeist, remember that Zelda Rubenstein was a badass human rights activist for people with disabilities and one of the first to step up to the plate in AIDS awareness activism. She will always be a personal hero of mine.

https://youtu.be/IFZijt2pTZE?feature=shared

#disabilityActivism #heroes

Zelda Rubinstein at APLA's Commitment to Life Fundraiser Press Conference - 9/19/85

YouTube

"I’ve seen a lot of people lashing out at people horizontally, and my gut sense is that sometimes it happens because the folks who are lashing out are definitely super traumatized, in crisis, feel and are really powerless in a lot of ways,” disability justice organizer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha in conversation with host Kelly Hayes and Elliott Fukui, who develops community safety strategies for emotional wellness and safety, about why people are struggling right now, what’s keeping people alive and engaged, and what we need to create together to survive these times.

https://truthout.org/audio/keeping-each-other-alive-mental-health-and-collective-survival/

#activism #MentalHealth #DisabilityActivism #CollectiveSurvival #ABetterWorldIsPossible

Keeping Each Other Alive: Mental Health and Collective Survival

“We cannot become what it is that has harmed us in the first place,” says Elliott Fukui.

Truthout

Solidarity is the best way forward

# AltTextPalestine: Showing Solidarity By Creating Access, by Sarah Blahovec

Via her toolkit (link in article) I found a free online OCR reader which makes writing AltText a lot easier!

https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/03/03/alttextpalestine-showing-solidarity-by-creating-access/

#accessibility #DisabilityJustice #DisabilitySolidarity #AltText #PalestineSolidarity #DisabilityActivism
@palestine @israel

#AltTextPalestine: Showing Solidarity By Creating Access

#AltTextPalestine: Showing Solidarity By Creating Access   Sarah Blahovec   Images and videos coming out of Gaza show the horror of the genocide every single day. Bombs rain down on the d…

Disability Visibility Project