Kavana Ramaswamy

@kavana@scholar.social
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PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge. Lefty. Brown #crip #queer #agender. Caste traitor.

Profile pic: Brown person with short black hair squatting in a green lawn wearing large turquoise glasses, a purple shirt and a red vest. There's a dog on my left, a cat on my right, and a hen in front. I look delighted to be there.

#disability, #accessibility, #SocialJustice #activism, #research, #trauma, #CPTSD, #Socialism

Art account: https://mastodon.art/@kavana

Websitehttps://kavanaramaswamy.com/
Pronounsthey/them
Pronunciationkʌvʌnʌ
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Kavana RamaswamyJun 20

Dear MPs,

Regarding the Assisted Dying Bill:

Kavana RamaswamyMar 14
The bright side of being sick and unable to sleep is that I get to catch an eclipse I had no idea was happening 😁
Kavana RamaswamyFeb 13
From Beatrice Adler-Bolton & Artie Vierkant, Health Communism (2022):
Kavana RamaswamyFeb 13

Reasons I dislike Tom Shakespeare no. 76

The "most people" is from a poll run by Dignity in Dying, an organisation that campaigns for assisted dying to be legalised. In contrast, Scope has reported the opposite, from its own polls.

His statement demonstrates a wilful ignorance of how capitalist medical care harms disabled people; laws are not implemented in a vacuum of neutrality. This law in particular, is implemented in an environment of deliberate abandonment of disabled people.

Kavana RamaswamyJan 16
Pizza place decided to slice my pizza to match the anarchism sign. Sign to get going with the revolution, I say 😁
Kavana RamaswamyJan 10
From Ministry for the Future, by Kim Stanley Robinson.
Kavana RamaswamyOct 17, 2024

Is there any #amputee in #London looking for left-handed gloves? I have a lot of these from over the years of buying gloves and needing only the right sides. Size: small.

Definitely interested if you also happen to have right-handed gloves for me 😁

#AmputeeExchange #CripShare #Disability @disability

 

Kavana RamaswamySep 4, 2024
Finally joining #Mosstodon today after a hike in woods near Inverness. TIL that most moss leaves are only a single layer thick, which makes me think the cells themselves must be very thick 😅
Kavana RamaswamyJun 1, 2024
#caturday post
Kavana RamaswamyFeb 14, 2024

Denying disabled and financially dependent folks voting rights is based on the philosophy of preventing poor people from voting to "enrich themselves at the expense of the wealthy"

Of course, nobody thought to prevent the wealthy from voting to enrich themselves even more at the expense of the poor.

#FuckCapitalism

Extract from L. Beckman, The Frontiers of Democracy: The Right to Vote and Its Limits (Springer, 2009), p 152: