Books by Helen Keller on Project Gutenberg (www.gutenberg.org)
Via Project Gutenberg:...
Study finds 67% of individuals with long COVID are developing dysautonomia (www.news-medical.net)
"Our study finds that 67% of individuals with Long COVID are developing dysautonomia. That’s an estimated 38 million Americans with Long COVID dysautonomia, and millions more around the world,” says Lauren Stiles, President of Dysautonomia International and Research Assistant Professor of Neurology at Stony Brook University....
Jack Hanna's long goodbye: How Alzheimer's is stripping away the man the world once knew (www.usatoday.com)
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/778529...
Jordyn Zimmerman is redefining communication as a nonspeaking advocate for disability rights (19thnews.org)
School was pretty terrible. School is the hub of our communities, and I was segregated within school. So I was therefore segregated from my community. Within school for years, people talked about me like I couldn’t understand them. And even like I didn’t exist. I was easily controlled and manipulated by adults, restrained...
Practicing a Love Ethic in the Ongoing Pandemic Part 1 — Ji-Youn (www.itsjiyounkim.com)
"May we re-member and re-embody the knowing that resisting abled supremacy is a love practice. Reducing community transmission in the spirit of collective responsibility is a love practice that is liberatory to every bodymind where abledness is temporary. " A 2 part essay. Part2 is here:...
‘May be an image’: what it’s like browsing Instagram while blind (www.theverge.com)
This article is two years old but still relevant to social media in 2023....
Forcing Yourself for Love: Hotaru, Sailor Moon, and "Overcoming Disability" Narratives - Anime Feminist (www.animefeminist.com)
"This is the true harm of the hegemony of the overcoming disability narrative: the idea that your access needs are a mere hindrance that you should always be working to be rid of."
Institutions Often Treat Disability and Mental Health Not With Care But Violence (truthout.org)
Disabled People Get Support in the Kitchen from a New Cookbook (civileats.com)
No, ‘AI’ Will Not Fix Accessibility (adrianroselli.com)
Via @aardrian:...
Loathe Fascism? Then don't be a health supremacist (indoxicate.me)
An article talking about the details of the health supremacy ideology that is inbuilt into the way our systems work.
The Cost of ME/CFS: An OT’s Lived Experience (batemanhornecenter.org)
A very educational post about a ME/CFS /Long Covid experience from the perspective of a person with an occupational/physical therapy background.
The Fight Against Ableism (theanarchistlibrary.org)
Here is a very interesting text from Itxi Guerra originally written in Spanish and translated to English by Anti. It talks a lot about the relationship of anarchism and disability, but I believe it can an be interesting perspective to read for any kind of activists. In the first section there is also an informative list of all...