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20 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Only 5% of homes in the US are accessible.

26% of the population had a disability prior to the pandemic.

1/4 of all COVID cases (symptomatic or not) will experience long term effects/disability.

Based on todays count of COVID cases (50mil) that’s 12.5 million more people.
At this point if you’re not building for accessibility, you’re either just an ass or bad at your job.
@Karnythia
(Because I saw you talking about it earlier.)

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Imani Barbarin, MAGC | Crutches&Spice ♿️ Profile picture
21 Dec
So every time I mention the increase in disabled people due to COVID, someone inevitably says that it means that more people will be disability advocates.

I hate to burst your bubble, but I have a little wine in me so gird your loins, my friends.

TW: Eugenics, Suicide
So keep in mind that I was born with my disability, so most of what I’m about to say are observations from my advocacy work.

Not a lot of people consider themselves as disabled from the onset of their condition. Some never do. In fact, the onset of the pandemic may have been
The first time a lot of people told anyone about their conditions and that was because employers were playing with their lives in regards to lockdowns.

You have to keep in mind that much of our understanding of disability surrounds capitalism, so in becoming disabled, the
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Imani Barbarin, MAGC | Crutches&Spice ♿️ Profile picture
9 Dec
So a few people have asked for the list ™️, so here is an easily shareable version:

Why I can’t stand Yt vegans: a thread
1.Main organizing principle is whiteness, if you really cared about preservation and the end of animal cruelty, you’d turn over your family lands and capital to indigenous folk and leave.
2.Y’all keep comparing animal cruelty to slavery which makes it sound like y’all think the enslaved were animals which is rooted in white saviorism .
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Imani Barbarin, MAGC | Crutches&Spice ♿️ Profile picture
13 Nov
Well, here are issues that are currently going on if #FreeBritney advocates are curious:

-30-40% of people in jails and prisons have a disability.
-50% of people kïlled by police have a disability.
-it’s legal to pay us below the minimum wage in 38 states.
-a recent report
By NDRN detailed systemic abuses of disabled children in for profit residential treatment facilities.
-recent voter restriction proposals target communities of color through disability.
-disabled people still have trouble accessing the vaccine and accessible materials on vaxs
-there’s a lack of direct support workers because of a failure to find services for disabled people.
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-disabled people often have their parental rights terminated solely because they have a disability.
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9 Nov
TW: On Travis Scott’s Astrofest Statement.

Please note that there is a correction in the third video.

Part 1
Part 2
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Imani Barbarin, MAGC | Crutches&Spice ♿️ Profile picture
5 Nov
It should not be lost on us, as a community, we often talk about the validity of self-diagnosis, the barriers black, indigenous and people of color face in terms of being diagnosed, let alone in seeking services.

Yet, a large amount of white disabled people, who, will in one
Breath speak of these things will demand proof from these very same communities of the validity of their disabilities.

A lot of us recognize the systems of ableism that are utilized to reinforce white supremacy and still we are met with demands that we possess proof that
These exact systems recognize our disabilities as valid.

This is why I recognize self diagnosis and, to be quite honest, I could care less how disabled people of color obtain the resources necessary for their survival.

I don’t trust any part of this system to save us, so
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Imani Barbarin, MAGC | Crutches&Spice ♿️ Profile picture
3 Nov
If you are someone talking about the CVS lobbying to eradicate disability protections, you need to do the following:

-Use the word “preexisting conditions” not “disability” all preexisting conditions are disabilities but CVS is using the fact that the word “disability”
Is so stigmatized that they won’t care.

-emphasize that the same policy mechanism that allows insurers to not cover anti-vax COVID patients is the same that gives protections to people with preexisting conditions.

-emphasize the number of newly disabled from COVID and
Mention the timing and era in which this lobbying effort is taking place.

-hammer in the snowballing effect that this will have on the Affordable care act.
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