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Ashe “Anxious Crip Assassin” Frey MACDS
@crippledscholar
Disabled, Autistic, Mad, Queer, MA in Critical Disability Studies, Activist, and dog mum. Black Lives Matter; she/her 🇨🇦🇬🇧
Sep 19, 2018 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
Let's actually talk about job hunting while disabled First off let's get the elephant in the room out of the way

Employment discrimination against disabled people is a real and widespread thing so any job applied for no matter how qualified the candidate might be declined on discriminatory grounds anyway
Aug 24, 2018 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
Can we talk about how the ignorance of privileged people regarding the realities of oppression leads to more oppression? and I mean all ignorance even and in a lot of ways especially well intentioned ignorance
Aug 20, 2018 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
um hi ableds, can we talk about disability and yoga for a minute?

Ok, first off it is never ok to give unsolicited medical advice to disabled people ever

Please stop doing this in general

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk

Just kidding there's more I don't know what it is about yoga that makes it the one thing you think will benefit all disabled people/

You are wrong

Yoga can result in injuries

telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/2…
Jul 24, 2018 • 26 tweets • 5 min read
Why do so many ableds who want to seem progressive on the #strawban always seem to expect that their willingness to acknowledge that we have a right to exist and to have access to needed accessibility tools means that they can put the work of finding real solutions on us "oh, I don't want disabled people to suffer, please tell me what we should do instead" is a pretty common "progressive" response and I'm sick of it
Jul 20, 2018 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
This

but also remember the very real context of

Straw bans won't actually reduce plastic because there is no mechanism to stop the petroleum used to make straws being used to make other plastic

So they are hurting disabled people for nothing

There is no aspect of straw bans that seems to make sense with the overall goal of helping the environment

Despite the gymnastics many people do when you point out the cavernous holes in their logic
May 25, 2018 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
In honour of those brave souls who try and silence disabled people's attempts to not lose access to things that improve there quality of life by asking inane questions like "what did disabled people do before plastic straws anyway" clearly assuming the answer in "they were totally fine"

Spoiler Alert: WE WEREN'T

I propose the #DisabledPeopleBefore

example #DisabledPeopleBefore disposable plastic straws had limited access to nutrition if they had difficulty chewing
May 23, 2018 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Every time I point out how straw bans will impact disabled people I get one of two responses

1. Reusable straws exist

2. "oh... well I'm sure that there is an exception for people who need it So briefly I'll deal with #1

Here's the thing assholes plastic disposable straws are the thing some disabled people need

Reusable straws have been around for a while. We know they exist

We have not missed the existence of that particular invention.