5 Ableist Reasons Autistic Bloggers Lag Behind
(Autistic tangent/photo description: So the title of this post contains the phrase "Ableist Reasons" and the word "Bloggers." I thought I'd find a picture of me typing on a laptop, but couldn't find...
View ArticleThe best advocates for people with disabilities
Content/TW: Discussion of ableism and abuse. The best advocates for people with disabilities are other disabled people. Not their non-disabled parent(s), not their non-disabled teachers, not...
View ArticleCall for PCA Story Submissions
This post is from a friend and fellow activist, Sarah Rizzuto. Call for PCA Story Submissions Photo: Sarah Rizzuto (using a wheelchair) smiling at the camera. Hi, everyone, My name is Sarah Rizzuto,...
View Article"No, but seriously, where are you REALLY from?"
It's not a picture of me, but it's from this campaign by Oxford students of color about racist microaggressions. Photo: Young person outdoors making incredulous face, holding whiteboard that says,...
View ArticleHow Not to Plan Disability Conferences
How Not to Plan Disability Conferences (or, how to be an ableist asswipe while planning a disability conference) 1. Form a planning committee without any actually disabled people on it. You’re...
View ArticleCourt Hearing on JRC - October 26!
Content/TW: Fairly descriptive discussion of torture and abuse of people with disabilities using electric shock in an institution. There is a court hearing about the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC)...
View Article#TheAbleistScript (The Original Tweets)
Content/TW: Institutionalization, sexual violence, gaslighting, other discussions of violence. On Friday, I was fed up and pissed off at the everyday, casual ableism endemic to everything from pop...
View ArticleIn Solidarity with Black Students at Georgetown University
Photo: Brick outside wall of the Intercultural Center (ICC) with chalk lettering that reads, "Black Students of GU, Your Allies Stand With You." I did not write the text of the letter below the...
View Articletoo dry to cry
Content/TW: Gun violence, mass shooting, detailed discussion of ableism and racism (especially against Black and Brown people) surrounding such events, mention of sexual violence, occasional swearing....
View ArticleWhy do I think I'm autistic . . .
This was actually originally a question on a survey as part of a research study (which asked me why do I consider myself to be autistic, in addition to having once been handed an on-paper diagnosis,...
View ArticleYou want real change to stop gun violence?
Content/TW: Liberal profanity (including many f-words), gun violence, institutions, police violence, racism, ableism. Photo: Hand-drawn cartoon of a hand holding a gun, and another person's hand...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to the Educators That I Work With
An Open Letter to the Educators That I Work With This anonymous post comes to Autistic Hoya from the same anonymous contributor who wrote "How to be an Ally to Sick People,""A Guide to Sighted...
View ArticleDisabled people are not your feel-good back-pats.
Anyone who watches Orange is the New Black remember the cringe-worthy Caputo episode? (S3, E11. "We Can Be Heroes." Yep, that's the title of it. And no real spoilers ahead in this post for people who...
View ArticleHello, internalized ableism
Content/TW: Internalized ableism, passing for neurotypical, not passing for neurotypical. Hello, internalized ableism I don't believe in the ableist, classist hierarchy that treats autistic people as...
View ArticleGeorgetown makes progress on disability, but continues to fail.
Photo: Chalkboard with text that says, "Uncovering Institutional Ableism at Georgetown." I've been out of Georgetown for almost a full year now, but while a student, I spent a lot of time agitating...
View ArticleAbleism is not "bad words." It's violence.
Content/TW: Somewhat graphic discussion of violent attack on disabled people; discussion of S.V. (rape). Ableism is not "bad words." It's violence. Photo: A police officer outside the facility,...
View ArticleRacism, Ableism, and Much-Needed Reminders on Chicago Torture Case
Content/tw: mentions and brief descriptions of sexual violence, torture, racism and specifically anti-Black racism, ableism photo: a set of six street signs that say, Racism, Sexism, Heterosexism,...
View ArticleThinking about patterns of opposite extremes among autistic people
About a year and a half ago, I posted this list of characteristics that seem to be much more common in autistic people (especially the more of them a person has) than in non-autistic people. But both...
View ArticleWhy we must #BoycottToSiri / An open letter to Judith Newman
Content/TW: Discussions of involuntary sterilization, abusive parenting, mentions of Nazis, eugenics, intense anti-autistic ableism in general. Why we must #BoycottToSiri I originally wrote what...
View ArticleThey keep publishing these violent articles
Content/TW: Abuse. Physical and emotional. Restraint. Deliberate causing trauma. I am livid. Shaking with rage. There's this essay going around, in the Washington Post, hailed as brave and courageous....
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