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Karl Knights

@Inadarkwood

9 Sep

I have a Google alert for the word 'disabled' and a story about 'benefit cheats' landed into my inbox. This line from the story is utterly chilling: 'days before and after the home assessment of her level of disability, DWP investigators secretly filmed her at the supermarket.'

I'm not going to link to the story, but it's from the BBC News site. Just an idea, but if broadcasters gave the same space to the thousands of disabled people who are denied benefits, people might actually have a better bloody idea of what it's like to be disabled in England

Combine that line with the fact that police forces actively share information on disabled protesters with the DWP, and you get a truly terrifying picture.

disabilitynewsservice.com/police-force-a…

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Karl Knights

@Inadarkwood

9 Sep

Forty years ago today, Christy Brown died at the age of 49. He was the author of four novels, and three collections of poetry. Here is a thread on Brown, and what his work has meant to me as a disabled writer.

In his lifetime, Brown feared he would be remembered by My Left Foot, a book he published in his early twenties. By the time his bestselling debut novel, Down All the Days, appeared 16 years later, he called My Left Foot 'the bleating of a naive cripple.'

Today, the thing Brown feared so much in his life has come to pass. He's now remembered, if at all, for My Left Foot, a book that he regarded as apprentice work, and the subsequent film that's nothing but inspiration and pity porn.

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Karl Knights

@Inadarkwood

16 Jul

This Tim Dlugos poem has been on my mind a lot

Alt text: My Death by Tim Dlugos.
'when I no longer/feel it breathing down/my neck it's just around/the corner (hi neighbor)'

Dlugos was writing from the height of the AIDS epidemic, an epidemic that would claim his life in 1990, at the age of forty. This poem really seems to nail what I'm feeling so much these days: that sense of being hunted by forces beyond your control.

For like the two people who stick around for my poetry content, I appreciate you xoxo

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Karl Knights

@Inadarkwood

16 Jul

So, let's recap: 1,200 scientists have signed a letter published in The Lancet, saying that the lifting of all restrictions on Monday is an 'unethical experiment' that encourages new covid variants.

Meanwhile, I and every other disabled person I know has been haunted by the fact that 60% of the UK's Covid deaths are disabled people. Just yesterday, it was reported that people with learning disabilities are eight times more likely to die from Covid than their peers.

What does the new government guidance recommend for disabled people to do? 'Avoid the indoors and the unvaccinated.' Just as we have been throughout the entire pandemic, disabled people are being ignored, while we make up a majority of the UK's covid deaths.

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Karl Knights

@Inadarkwood

19 Feb

https://twitter.com/RMCunliffe/status/1362758873401221120

Can you imagine posting a trash take like this while 60% of the UK's Covid deaths are disabled people? Just say you care more about your holiday than disabled people's lives.

https://twitter.com/RMCunliffe/status/1362758873401221120

It's certainly been an...experience to find out just how many people value their trip to Spain more than my life

Can you imagine having the nerve to say that nondisabled people are being discriminated against in the pandemic, when disabled people make up a majority of Covid deaths, DNRs are still being issued, and we're being ignored in the vaccine rollout? Good lord

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Karl Knights

@Inadarkwood

19 Feb

Ever since the news came out last week that a majority of Covid deaths in the UK are disabled people, I've been able to think of little else. Despite making up less than 15% of the population, disabled people make up 60% of the UK's Covid deaths.

I've been wondering why I've been so desolate, sluggish, and unable to concentrate. Watching eugenics become casually mainstream might have something to do with it.

Disabled people in the UK have been living with a certain amount of background terror for over a decade now thanks to Tory rule. But I've never seen so many people say, on national platforms, that my life is expendable as much as right now. It's incredibly hard to take.

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