A #MaryOliver poem for #EarthDay
Haeven 💜
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NB (they/them) - ND - many chronic things all happening at once - I do my best to be nice and keep my mouth shut when I can't. ALT text profile picture: The very top of a taper candle is seen against a black background. The flame on the wick is large, leaning and curling to the left as if blown by a breeze.
Haeven"On Thursday, a federal judge in #Texas struck down a provision of the #AffordableCareAct ( #ACA ) that requires #HealthInsurance companies to fully cover #PreventiveCare services such as screenings for #cancer, #depression, and #diabetes for free. The decision... argues that mandating coverage for #BirthControl, #PrEP, and #HIV screening violates the #ConstitutionalRight to #ReligiousFreedom.
"(T)he judge's decision... takes effect immediately."
"The Markup tested the websites of Newsweek’s top 100 hospitals in America. On 33 of them we found the tracker, called the Meta Pixel, sending Facebook a packet of data whenever a person clicked a button to schedule a doctor’s appointment...
"The Markup also found the Meta Pixel installed inside the password-protected patient portals of seven health systems."
#ImaniBarbarin of #CrutchesAndSpice gives a quick and essential lesson about what it really means to care for patients (via #Instagram)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CqBHzBND5z2/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
#MedicalStudents #MatchWeek #DoNoHarm #Disability #MarginalizedPopulations
"... #solarpunk is able to distinguish between developing technology for health and hapiness and developing technology for its own sake. In this way, a solarpunk world is one where lifesaving medical technology not only exists but is prioritized and abundant."
https://sammylincroft.medium.com/the-place-of-disability-in-a-solarpunk-future-1db5e40ddb55
#Disability #DisabilityRights #Accessibility #ClimateJustice #HumanCenteredTech #InclusiveFutures
Vayl Larkin (they/them)Ok, I'm going to put this as mildly as possible because no-one has glanced at my CW'd posts, but I don't want to retraumatize survivors.
If you never have, please look up Intersex Surgery on Children, for information about an Actual thing that Really happens in our country every day, not a made-up thing that never has.
I was lied to for 44 years. Trust me, this is NOT a good approach for someone to take with their child.
#intersex #intersexsurgery #medicalabuse #lgbtqia #nonbinary
Emily JohnsonNow I know many of the jobs Social Security considered to make that assumption were jobs that haven’t existed for over 50 years
Accessible jobs that paid enough to cover healthcare costs *at that time* that were given to disabled and immunocompromised people
Those jobs are often gone https://www.disabilitysecrets.com/resources/when-the-number-of-other-jobs-proposed-by-the-ve-is-not-significant.html
Lilian Mae BallI still get shocked surprise when I tell people that H G Wells wrote War of the Worlds after learning about the genocide inflicted by British colonists on the Aboriginal Tasmanians. It's right there in the foreword of the book.
#HGWells #WarOfTheWorlds #Indigenous #FirstNations #Aboriginal #lutruwita
"But I suppose you earn the most social capital by telling us you want us to work beside you
then denying us what we need to be there."
@Tinu breaks down the experience of being #DisabledAndWorking:
(via Twitter)
https://twitter.com/Tinu/status/1593248008568594436?t=iA4DtRWXev3swXc2SgJARA&s=19
[ Discovered via @EbThen 's thread responding to the assertion "You can tweet, you can work", here: https://twitter.com/EbThen/status/1592924478920687618?t=dhtvwrgdxLDdShtdacqq9g&s=19 ]