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archangelruind:

my friend is studying for the mcat and was just trying to explain to me about heat transfer and she said ‘you know, like the reason you get cold when you go outside on a freezing day is that your tiny human body is trying to warm up the entire universe’ and i think that’s the best thing i have ever heard

“People who oppose the use of screens aren’t trying to silence disabled people. The problem is that they aren’t thinking about us at all. When confronted with what smartphones can do for disabled people, anti-screen folks will claim that they are not talking about us. The thing is, when they look at a café and see people using their phones, there is no way to distinguish between the people who use phones as disability aids and people who just happen to find speaking through social media a perfectly adequate or even preferable mode of communication. A false hierarchy is formed, and of course, the ways some disabled people speak is at the bottom of it.
By idealizing inflexible, narrow definitions of communication, we are dehumanizing the people who don’t make eye contact, the people who don’t speak. Social media just gives us more socially acceptable and normalized options for communication. A world where people are “glued to their screens” is a world where I and others can more easily exist, succeed and be happy. Stop telling strangers you pass on the street to “look up.””

— Screen Backlash is a Disability Issue | NOS Magazine (via brutereason)

verysmallfrogs:

faegeekgirl:

i think it might be a good idea, when you’re designing a villain, if you look at them and think “why do these characteristics make me think of them as villainous” and like, if those characteristics reflect groups of real-life marginalized people….maybe, don’t go with those design choices?

*large hook noses, dark complexion, prominent lips, elderly, physical deformities, injuries, or disabilities, non-conforming gender presentation, obesity or overweight body types, improperly represented mental illnesses, sometimes sexual expression or agency especially in female villains, and certain accents*

'My Year Of Guards And Guns': Megyn Kelly On Standing Up To Trump And Ailes

npr.org
In her book Settle For More, the Fox anchor shares scary and empowering moments covering the 2016 campaign. But Kelly says she doesn't regret not going up against Roger Ailes earlier.

mswyrr:

This interview is useful in several ways. It shows the playbook Trump uses re: controlling media voices.

-He pushes favors on them. If they accept one, he uses it as leverage later.

-If they criticize him he sics his dogs on them - threats, intimidation, harassment. In an ongoing way intended to exhaust someone and drive them into giving up.

-Even someone like Kelly, who is privileged in so many ways and conservative and connected to conservative men like Sean Hannity and Roger Ailes, was not able to get it to stop until Trump felt that she’d lost face and shown him “respect” - and then suddenly all the threats and intimidation and harassment stopped. Which indicates that he is in control of his bully mob, particularly through the overt and covert signals he and his pals send them over Twitter.

The man has run his business and his campaign like a freaking mob boss. He has been at this for decades. He has created a web of control and favors and leverage. He will try to run the country the same way, using the same tools.

If you notice a journalist doing journalism about Trump, realize that they are taking a serious risk and exposing themselves to intimidation.

If, on the other hand, you notice a journalist being strangely accommodating about him and/or downplaying the white supremacy of some of his picks (Brian Williams, Anderson Cooper, David Brooks and I am sure many, many others) you have to ask yourself what he has on them. Whether, at some point, they took a favor from him. Or whether they simply do not want to expose themselves to intimidation and harassment.

Same thing with our elected representatives. He’s been trying to buy them off and/or intimidate them for decades as well. And people in entertainment.

hillaryisaboss:

“I listened as they said my President wasn’t born here.
I listened for eight years.
I listened as they called my him a Muslim.
I listened as they called him and his family a pack of monkeys.
Even the n-word.
I saw the pictures of him as Hitler.
I saw their signs and displays with nooses.
Still to this day.
I watched them turn their backs on every opportunity to open constructive dialogue.
I listened as they openly stated that they would oppose him at every turn.
I watched as they blocked every single path to progress that they could.
I watched them shut down the government and cripple the entire nation… twice.
I watched them as they refused to listen to anything he had to offer, nor his counterparts, nor the American people.
I watched as they did just that.
I listened.
I paid attention.
Now, I’m being called on to be ‘tolerant’.
To move forward.
To denounce the protesters, to denounce freedom of speech, to denounce our 1st Amendment.
To “Get over it!”
To accept this as the “new normal”.

I will not.
I will never accept Donald J. Trump, nor his brand of hate.
Tolerance is not tolerating intolerance.
This will never be accepted by me as the “new normal”.
It is unacceptable.
I will do my part to make sure this great American mistake becomes the embarrassing footnote in our history that it deserves to be.
I will do this every chance I get.
I will do my part to limit the damage that this man can do to my country.
I will watch his every move and point out every single mistake and misdeed loudy and proudly.
My voice will not be silenced.
I will let it be known every time this man backs away from a promise he made to his supporters.
The people who voted for him.
The ones who sold their souls and prayed for him to win.
Those who call themselves “Christians”.
The nationalists within our country who falsely claim to be patriots.
I will do this so that they never forget.
I will never allow them to forget.
And they will hear me.
They will see it in my eyes when I look at them.
They will hear it in my voice when I speak to them.
They will know that I know who they are.
They will know that I know what they are.
Do not call for my ‘tolerance’.
I’ve tolerated all I can.
Now it is their turn to tolerate ridicule; only rightfully so.
Be aware and make no mistake, every single thing that goes wrong in our country from this day forward is now Trump’s fault; just as much as they falsely claimed it was Obama’s.
It is unreasonable and hypocritical for them to expect from me what they were entirely unwilling to give.
They will get no respect.
They deserve no respect.
None.“

-Unknown

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It would be absurd for those of us in the disability community to argue against genetic research or medical technology. Indeed, many people who have experienced disability are alive today because of medical technology (myself included) and are understandably grateful for any research that promises to improve the lives of the disabled.

My concern here is that genomics, as the field is currently constituted and presented to the public, reinforces the social stigma attached to disability. Indeed, as we have seen, the genetic model of disability as defective or corrupted text reduces people with disabilities to the level of spelling mistakes, typographical errors that need to be eliminated by genetic editors. Feminist philosopher of science Sandra Harding reminds us that science is not value-free and that its technologies participate in the “translation of social agendas into technological ones”.

Unfortunately, many of the new technologies associated with genomics—such as genetic tests and genetic screening—raise the specter of an old social agenda that is still very much a part of medical science’s professional and public discourse: eugenics. In fact, philosopher Philip Kitcher has referred to genetic screening as ‘laissez-faire eugenics.’

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— (Re)Writing the Genetic Body-Text: Disability, Textuality, and the Human Genome Project by James C. Wilson (via thelarkcosette)