SCOTUS has me very upset right now, so I’m posting a happy moment from today. A moment so happy I actually shouted when it happened. My ballot was counted today. It took more than two weeks for my ballot to be counted, but IT WAS COUNTED. 1/6 #WomenAreVoting#CripTheVote
You may not have known I voted already because there’s no cute selfie of me with an “I Voted” sticker or dropping off my ballot. There’s no photo of that because I could not vote independently in this election. This is also upsetting, and so I’m posting another victory. 2/6 #Vote
When I went to drop my ballot off, the ballot box was completely cut off from me by street construction. The only path to the ballot box was inaccessible and full of stairs. @Loveladyesque had to drop my ballot off for me. 3/6 #WomenAreVoting#CripTheVote#Vote
If I didn’t have a member of my #VotingSquad with me, who knows what I would have had to do or how I might have had to risk my health to vote. Thankfully, I used the @AAPD’s voting resources (AAPD.com/voting) to report the inaccessible ballot box, and it was fixed! 4/6
That’s the 2nd win - a clear & accessible path to the ballot box. Far too many people experience far greater barriers to voting than I did. There are so many orgs & ppl working to fight voter suppression, and as of today, more than 60 million people have already voted. 5/6 #Vote
It may sound trite, but this gives me hope, and I need that right now. Please vote.
There’s been a lot of great coverage about the significance of the disability vote and the barriers and suppression faced by voters with disabilities during this election cycle.
A thread!
1. Jessica Clark, a teen with Down syndrome talking about her voting rights
An As a Voter With Disabilities, I Know Joe Biden Will Protect My Rights | Teen Vogue
The Supreme Court’s ruling to restrict access to voting last week is a reminder of the importance of disability rights laws for protecting the civil rights of all Americans.
Thread CW: murder, suicide, ableism. @nytimes published a story about a man who murdered his wife who had Alzheimer's and then killed himself. The author of the article characterized the piece as a "love story" in a tweet. 1/5
The content of the tweet angered me. I have a personal rule against reading articles like this because they upset me so much, but I decided to read the full article to see if the tweet was just poorly written due to character limits and a desire to go viral. 2/5
The tweet was an accurate representation of the author's opinions, and the article included no discussion of rates of fillicide or matricide of disabled people, advocacy to change these trends, or even a basic discussion of Alzheimer's statistics. 3/5