‘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:...
Gutless Wonders!
Colectomies, colostomies, ileostomies, j-pouches, colo-rectal cancers, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis - I searched but did not find! Where are all my gutless wonder peeps?
Introduction
Hello everyone! This is the first post in the newly made Disability and accesibility community. Feel free to post anything health, chronic illness, disability or accesibility related. If you need a space for support or sharing your experiences regarding all of the above topics, this is the right place as well :)
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.
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 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...
Chronic pain
Hello! I’ve got chronic pain and just wanted to make a post here. Today has been a pretty tough day. Cabinets under my sink flooded yesterday so I had to clean all that up and really ruined my day and I woke up today incredibly sore and just in so much pain. It’s been tough but the day is almost over so hopefully tomorrow...
Spinal arthritis
After having chronic pain for numerous years, I finally found a doctor who believed that a healthy 20-something could have chronic pain. Two MRIs later, arthritis was found in my spine (C3-C5, L3-L5). Since then, I've been put on pain medication and undergone radio frequency ablations....
ME/CFS Hand Pain Adaptations?
Has anybody with ME/CFS found a way for reducing or preventing hand/wrist/arm pain and stiffness? Since it's not really muscle or tendon related, things l have tried (compression gloves, larger handles) have made very minor or zero difference. Any ideas?...