*From the UK but it's relatable to #PeopleWithDisabilities globally because our governments don't care about our lives. Several of our governments are using #eugenics style death & not health care policies on us. Almost all of our #politicians from municipal to federal are actively enabling death on #DisabledPeoples too.

"Where’s the #CorporateMedia’s 'accountability?

In all my years reporting on the issues disabled people face, I’ve never felt as ignored by editors as I did during the early years of the #Covid19 #pandemic. Here I was – a #DisabledJournalist with a history of writing about my experiences – whilst a deadly pandemic was ripping through the world and mostly affecting disabled people, and suddenly nobody wanted to know. 

Whilst I and other disabled #journalists and #activists were trying to get the word out about our community having ‘do not resuscitate orders’ put on them in hospitals, the media focused on how awful it was to be “locked up”. Whilst we were trying to shout about how six in 10 deaths in England were of us, I saw how much of the focus was on “getting back to normal”.

Newspapers held countdowns to Freedom Day. They ran columns deriding mask wearers and vaccine takers, which were contradictory to their waning coverage of why #masking and #vaccines were still important. They focused on the mental health of non-disabled people and disregarded ours."

"But it’s not enough to hold just a few people to account. This is a vile disease within the heart of corporate media that puts white, non disabled, straight, and well-off people before anyone else and uses its power to convince the public that anyone raising concerns is a threat to their way of life.

Whilst governments are being held to account at the #Covid19Inquiry (though they won’t face any justice), so too must the corporate media who turned the public against disabled people and made it acceptable for us to die – so they could go to pubs."

https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2024/07/19/covid-inquiry-media/

My review of “I Used to Be Famous” (2022), Netflix, starring #DisabledActor Leo J. Long (my previous post) is now up on my YouTube channel!

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/WzzMjq0FSjs

YouTube channel link in bio! Please remember to subscribe! Thank you everyone!

#autism #autistic #disabled #disabilityrepresentation #inclusion #accessibility #disabledandproud #accessibleentertainment #disabilitycommunity #moviereview #disabledjournalist

It’s official!
To everyone at CUNY J-school: Thank you!
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#appreciation #disabledjournalists #disabledjournalist #blackjournalistsrock #womeninjournalism #blackjournalists #journalism #mastersdegree

ID 1: A picture of my diploma cover with the CUNY J-school logo on it in black and gray.
ID 2: My name written in black and in all caps in the center of my diploma. Appropriate CUNY officials’ signed it. The school seal is in the center at the bottom of it.