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17 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
If you take nothing else from me, understand ableism and disability stereotypes affect everyone regardless of diagnosis or lack thereof. Let the 2020s at least teach you that. #TexasBlackout #texas
Here is a thread of tips for disabled people trying to survive snow and ice:
@Tinu is a Black disability advocate trying to survive this cold and sheltering in a hotel with her family, you can help with the cost here: paypal.me/TinuWrites
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Imani Barbarin, MAGC | Crutches&Spice ♿️ Profile picture
18 Feb
Oh also, Texans, if you you feel as though you’re going to fall, you have a split second to decide what your body is going to do.

For liability reasons I cannot endorse you trying this at home, but this is what I was taught to do in physical therapy since childhood:
In the millisecond I need to make a choice, I go limp on the SIDE on which i want to fall. If I feel myself going directly forwards or backwards I attempt to use that energy to position myself so I land on the soft part of my side to protect my head. Being limp is also key.
Once on the ground, and I know this sounds ridiculous, I take a mental inventory of my body position. If my body is laying in a way that I’ve ever been known to lay down voluntarily, it means I’ve either sprained or injured something and I need to stay still and call help.
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Imani Barbarin, MAGC | Crutches&Spice ♿️ Profile picture
9 Jan
So is no one going to talk about how Madison Cawthorne was instrumental in stoking insurrection or are nondisabled people unfamiliar with white supremacy in the disability community?

For all that talk about calling racism a disability you don’t seem to want to deal with it...
Disabled BIPOC have been raising the alarm on this for years but people fail to listen. White supremacy is a part of the disability community no matter how much you want to brush these things aside.

The fact is that any POC with a disability on this app has been met with as
Much racism from disabled peers as anyone else.

Do you think the who’re woman stabbing people at target from her wheelchair during the BLM protests was an isolated incident?

We have been trying to sound the alarm for years but because you’re used to treating disabled people
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Imani Barbarin, MAGC | Crutches&Spice ♿️ Profile picture
18 Dec 20
So, I may have worked out how tiktok is silencing marginalized creators and it stems from something @alexhaagaard told me and an observation I made after @_benjvmins_ ‘s profile was removed....

Thread of videos:

Pt. 1
Part 2
Part 3
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Imani Barbarin, MAGC | Crutches&Spice ♿️ Profile picture
13 Dec 20
Ok, It’s later and I’m ready to talk about it:

Other than the fact you all left us to die one of the most infuriating aspects to 2020 is that during the 30th anniversary of the Americans with disabilities act, you all were so incredibly inept when it came to discussing the law.
There will always be a certain number of people who will never be able to use masks, but the way anti-maskers toyed with the ADA to spread disease is unconscionable on for them AND FOR THEM. Yes, I blame you both.

Allow me to put it this way: neither side knew the ADA well
Enough to engage in this level of bullshit: Anti-maskers didn’t know the ADA well enough to use it and you all didn’t know it well enough to defend it. And you all can use the excuse that “you didn’t know the law because it doesn’t pertain to you,” but that’d be a lie, because it
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12 Dec 20
I’m coming to the conclusion that ignorance of invisible disabilities partially stems from the combination of capitalism and the Ugly Laws that legally penalized disabled people for being seen in public.

You see, capitalism requires easy segregation of who is seen as profitable
And who is not. People with physical disabilities that are visible can easily be segregated from the general public and demonized for not contributing to the capitalist structure and using benefits, the same cannot be said for those with invisible illnesses. They’re gaslit about
Their disabilities because by all appearances, they SHOULD be contributing to the capitalist structure and their identifying invisible disabilities is seen as a betrayal of this centuries-old system. They’re also forced, however possible, to hide they’re diagnoses until the last
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21 Nov 20
Here is a full summary of Sia’s actions in the last 24 hours. Fun fact, Tiktok is actively suppressing it...

#SiaDoesntSpeakForUs
Working on a transcript now
🧵 So if you're wondering why disabled people specifically autistic, people are pissed at Sia, here's a summary of what happened in the last 48 hours. And Trigger warning because Sia gaslights and mocks disabled people. So around Thursday the trailer for see his new film “Music”
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