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theconcealedweapon:

Differently Abled:

Person A has some skills that person B doesn’t have. Person B has some skills that person A doesn’t have. Society respects the existence of both of them, and considers both of their skill sets to be useful. Society does not require either one of them to use skills that they don’t have.

Disabled:

Person A has some skills that person B doesn’t have. Person B has some skills that person A doesn’t have. Society treats Person A’s skills as default skills that everyone’s supposed to have, while considering Person B’s skills to be useless. People who don’t have Person A’s skills are expected to learn those skills or be left behind, while people who don’t have Person B’s skills are given the tools to not need those skills. 

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“Differently Abled” is not just a nice way to say “Disabled”. It erases the fact that society actively causes certain people to be disabled.

“I think the NHL’s reluctance to support women’s hockey has a lot to do with the fact that culturally women’s hockey is seen as antithetical to the NHL. Women’s hockey is practically civil disobedience; women in sports still get an untold amount of shit from people, and women’s sports generally pushes back against gender stereotypes and essentialism.  
Harrison Browne’s jersey is one of the best-selling jerseys in the NWHL. If the NHL starts supporting women’s hockey, I think it inevitably leads to a higher level of awareness about stuff like head injuries/fighting, toxic masculinity in sports, gender, LGBTQ issues, and classism. The NHL probably doesn’t want to confront that stuff; it’s volatile, and they still cater their product to a male audience.”

— Q&A with Zoe Hayden from The Victory Press
(via whateverfandomworks)

randomslasher:

vladtheimpalainvalhalla:

vaspider:

notalwaysweak:

joannablackhart:

yamino:

tristifere:

himteckerjam:

intersectionalfeminism:

Acephobia in the LGBT+ Community from the documentary (A)sexuality. 

It is just…so fucking weird how threatened people feel when it comes to Asexuality.  I still can’t wrap my mind around it.

I’m so happy this post is being reblogged by LBGT+ people who aren’t asexual. I keep on reading posts by non-ace LGBT+ people of support to the ace community, and of being stunned by this reaction by a movement which should know better than to judge. AND THAT MAKES THIS ACE SO FREAKING HAPPY. The woman in the first photo expresses my sentiment. I know I belong in the queer/LGBTQIA movement. I want to belong. But I just don’t know if I’m welcome. I’m so happy that there are so many people on Tumblr who do not fall into the catagory of outright refusal of asexuality.

I know not a lot of people understand asexuality. And I know there’s confusion about it, about our experiences, and about how we fit in the movement. But let’s talk about this. Let’s have this conversation.

I mostly don’t delve into the ace tags, but I hear there’s a lot of ace-hate that and I really don’t get it.  I don’t understand how asexuality is threatening.

You know what I (as a queer ace-spectrum person) find most threatening?  Getting unwanted sexual unwanted advances from both queer and straight people. I’ve gotten them from people of all spectrums and it always makes me profoundly uncomfortable, and often unsafe.  It just boggles my mind how people are upset by the concept of asexuality.  That’s like getting really mad at someone who isn’t hungry.  What’s the point?  Just shut up eat your own sandwich. (And stop chewing on me.)

Wow, the fuck the people in those images.

Nobody has the right to disrespect anybody else’s sense of self. It may not be for, you but that does not give you the right to be an asshole.

We really need to push more for LGBTQIA+ to be a standard, instead of just LGBT, especially considering that even the B and T are already invisible in much of the community.

Not supporting some of us = not supporting all of us.

Not supporting some of us = not supporting all of us.

It really, really does bear repeating.

I couldn’t be further from ace, but for serious.

If we’re not in this together, we’re not in this at all.

This makes me so angry. I have friends who are ace, and they are just as much a part of the queer community as I am.

We need to embrace asexuality and treat it with the respect that it deserves.

I heart the non-aces who reblog this so hard. <3 Thank you friends.