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Lydia X. Z. Brown Profile picture
@autistichoya
Dec 1, 2017 • 57 tweets • 25 min read • Read on X
Autistic people are human beings. We can and must make our own medical choices, especially about procedures as invasive+permanent as sterilization.

#BoycottToSiri
Forcible/involuntary sterilization because you're afraid of someone like me reproducing? Direct and clear example of modern eugenics.

#BoycottToSiri

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Lydia X. Z. Brown Profile picture
Sep 27, 2018
One of the worst harms done to transracial adoptees of color, especially transracial AND transnational adoptees of color, is stealing us from our homelands while depriving us of cultural connection and community.

#TransracialTrauma
We are permanent outcasts. Isolated. At the margins of the margins.

I don't belong anywhere.

White people want me to be a safe (to be openly racist to/around), palatable (to white respectability), assimilated (into whiteness) East Asian.

#TransracialTrauma
At the same time AsAm communities feel out of reach.

I don't belong to AsAm family that's been here for generations.

I'm not the AsAm (grand)child of immigrants.

I am culturally illiterate. My attempts to reclaim heritage+ancestral wisdom feel artificial.

#TransracialTrauma
Read 17 tweets
Lydia X. Z. Brown Profile picture
Jun 4, 2018
Some tips on access-centered event/program organizing/planning (some are mine; many I learned from other fabulous folks):
(1) When you put information about the event online, whether on (a) a website, (b) in email announcements, or (c) social media, only include images if you include alt-text and text-only captions.
(2) Don't rely on online/email/social media to get the word out.

Call people too. Many comrades with intellectual disabilities strongly prefer phones, even if they can use the internet+email. (And many can't+are actively deprived of access/training.)
Read 31 tweets
Lydia X. Z. Brown Profile picture
May 17, 2018
I think I have a lot of disability activid. opinions that aren't necessarily very popular and that others might share but are afraid to express.

So here are a few:

(Caveat: These are all somewhat simplified because of format. But I love nuances.)
It's not a moral failure for a disabled person to want a cure.

It's also not necessarily because of internalized ableism.

Self-determination+autonomy need to include the possibilities that some people want their brains+bodies to function differently.
It's okay for people to call themselves aspies or people with Asperger's.

Not all people who do are ableist aspie supremacists or shiny aspies.

Most people who use Asperger's and AREN'T aspie supremacists tend to be people of color, who get yelled at by white people.
Read 29 tweets
Lydia X. Z. Brown Profile picture
Apr 14, 2018
Over the last 6 or 7 years since I first posted the original Ableist Language Glossary on my blog, I've received literally thousands of comments on it in every form.

Fan mail, hate mail, concern trolling, and mutually contradictory criticisms.

So! Let's clear some things up.
(1) The list is NOT a litmus test.

Stop fucking using it as a censored word list.

Its purpose is to inform and educate, not enforce increased policing/surveillance of random people's language.
(2) It is a RESOURCE.

It's meant to be available to help folks who would like to take a close look at their own language think about their everyday use of words with ableist pasts or presents.
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Jan 24, 2018
A friend sent me this and asked me to share to protect their anonymity -- very important info for Boston #queer #trans #LGBTQ community about @FenwayHealth:

Content Warning: Suicide, medical abuse, sexual assault, self-harm.

#QTPoC #SDQTPoC #AbleismExists
"I'd like to take a few minutes of your time to warn you about a dangerous psychiatrist at Fenway Behavioral Health, Dr. Howard Hernandez. I apologize for not writing this sooner, but I didn't feel ready to share this until now."
"About thirteen months ago I saw Dr. Hernandez for the first time. It was an initial intake visit, so much of our time was taken up by completing my history."
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Nov 14, 2017
Stop stealing our word to co-opt our identities+colonial trauma!

- Signed, a transracial adoptee

(I'm East Asian PoC, specifically Chinese, adopted by white family in U.S.)
Because of racist assholes like this person, someone in activism actually thought I was one of them b/c my bio says transracial.

NOT WHAT IT MEANS.
Transracial+transnational adoption is a reproductive justice+disability justice+decolonization+racial justice issue.
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