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@Imani_Barbarin
Aug 19, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
I had to tell the people on tiktok what’s what...

[video of Imani speaking]
Transcript: hey, so I know you’ve been fed a steady diet of inspiration porn of people with disabilities, and let me just tell you. This isn’t the place.

If you’re going to use those inaccurate representations of disabled people to speak over our community, then, fuck you,
This isn’t the place.

If you’re going to use your proximity to the disability community to silence us, again, this isn’t the place.

Let me be perfectly clear, if if you’re only going to listen to disabled people as long as you’re inspired, this isn’t the place.

My name is
Imani fucking Barbarin, and I’m not necessarily here for your feelings.

If you want to listen to disabled people, follow along, if you don’t, then you can fuck off.

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Private equity and hospital systems have been largely buying up disability, nursing home, and medial services in the U.S.. While hospitals and medical facilities aren’t supposed to shuffle around or evict patients that cannot pay, that is only due to regulations which may no
Longer be there since overturning chevron.

Even with regulations in place poor, disabled and homeless people have often been subject to hospital evictions with stories of some even being left in the street right outside.

These are people who, while our system wants
To jack up the cost of living, make people houseless and then arrest and imprison them for slave labor, would never be able to work in such a way that prison owners would never see returns from their imprisonment.

And thus, with like austerity measures devastating disabled
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TW: suicide

By the way, you all fundamentally do not understand the stakes: people are not afraid of your threats of fascism because they feel that their greatest relief would not be Biden, but death.

Have you been paying attention? Do you hear how people are talking about
Suicide? People lament waking up and not dying in the sleep in the form of jokes. They see no advancement in their lives, they see themselves being worked endlessly until death.

People are hanging on by a fucking thread and you’re chomping at the bit to punish them for not
Voting for Biden with fascism and concentration camps? They’ll kill themselves before that happens.

They see no hope in the future you’re advertising (assuming you have any plan for the future to communicate to begin with).

People can’t buy a home, they can’t afford it.
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Dec 30, 2023
I’m just posting this for posterity: but the thing that pisses me off with how disabled people are treated every single election cycle is when people offer or organize rides for disabled people to vote.

Most disabled people struggle with freedom of movement, it is extremely
Hard to get anywhere when you have a disability and that is even in cities with existing transit infrastructure. Even still it can be a demeaning process and there’s no assurances.

Never mind if you live in a rural or suburban area where transit options may be scarce or
Nonexistent.

So, whenever people, particularly liberals find themselves with all the organizing prowess in the world to make sure disabled people have rides to vote, I think about all the times they didn’t.

Did they have a ride to go hang out in town? To go to the doctors?
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Dec 29, 2023
The sad reality is that COVID is likely to be one of the greatest political blunders in the history of the U.S., let alone the globe.

And, for the “resistance” crowd, the fascinating part is how you all seemed to miss that the spread of Covid was literally a part of the plan.
Jared Kushner signaled in 2020 that they WANTED Covid to spread, specifically to “Blue” states so that Dems would shoulder the political brunt of the fallout—only for democrats to walk head first into that themselves when Biden took office.

We are only at the very beginning of
NBC article titled Did Trump and Kushner ignore blue state COVID-19 testing as deaths spiked? It's easy to get numbed by this presidency's cascade of awfulness, but, even by Trumpian standards, the amorality of such a suggestion is breathtaking.
Selection from NBC article that is highlighted and reads: Most troubling of all, perhaps, was a sentiment the expert said a member of Kushner's team expressed: that because the virus had hit blue states hardest, a national plan was unnecessary and would not make sense politically. "The political folks believed that because it was going to be relegated to Democratic states, that they could blame those governors, and that would be an effective political strategy," said the expert
Seeing the impact of COVID on global politics. We are in its infancy.

And while Long Covid rates appear to be on the decline, the reality is still that millions of people are struggling/will likely struggle—and we haven’t even begun to fully unravel its impact on future gen’s.
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Dec 22, 2023
While I will never tell a person with a disability how they should describe themselves, I mostly hear the phrase “differently abled” from nondisabled people speaking about disabled people and the use does more harm than good.

Firstly, it releases society of any responsibility
In making an accessible society but rather puts the onus on the disabled person presenting societally disabling barriers as merely difficulties that do not need to be systematically addressed.

Also, people, while you can be gentle with introducing disability into their
Personal identity, need to be able to use the word, particularly when applying to services and supports that legally require use of the word for grant funding and service targets. As much as Nondisabled people may think “differently abled” helps, it can materially keep people
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Dec 22, 2023
Ableism is wild because it is quite literally the accelerator for almost all oppression.

Racism: look up the logic behind “bodies made for labor.

Sexism: see “hysteria”

Homophobia: the same architects of conversion therapy designed autism therapies.

Fatphobia: “why are you
Eating your way to a disability?”

Xenophobia: the western gaze presents nonwhite cultures as unintelligent at points implying they’re intellectually disabled.

Classism: poor people are presented as too lazy and not fit for society

Imperialism: mass disabling events that
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