I've just spent a good 15 minutes digging looking around for more information on this tragedy that happened yesterday near a cultural festival in Raleigh, and it seems no legacy media has touched this story so far thencbeat.com/black-man-fo...

Black Man Found Hanging Near Raleigh Caribbean Festival | Suicide Probe

Black Man Found Hanging: A Black man was found hanging from a tree in downtown Raleigh near the CaribMask Caribbean Festival Saturday. Police are investigating the death as a suicide.

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it honestly feels like some BS to get praised for your "resilience" by people who could have made your life less difficult.

The most vital feminist work often happens in the communal, unsanctioned spaces where the institutional archives refuse to look. Who are the thinkers fueling your work today that mainstream academia ignores?

Becoming obsessed with the overlap between theatre, gender, and disability because sooo much of social life is just: hit your mark, say the line right, don’t let anyone see the labor.

Autistic post-event autopsy hour: did I talk too much, too little, too weird, too long about the wrong niche interest, or all four simultaneously???

It is truly incredible how some of these male leftists who correctly criticize the police and court system will turn around and say a rape allegation can’t be taken seriously unless it passes through the cops and courts

I don’t have a grand thesis here yet, but I do think a lot of women’s anger is just pattern recognition that other people benefit from calling irrational.

Asking disabled people to do paperwork to prove they’re too disabled to do paperwork will never not be funny in the most depressing way. Who are you talking to? 😭

disability pride taught me that dependence is not the opposite of dignity. that’s one of ableism’s favorite lies, deadass.

You all should ask yourselves why the Therapy fields continue to enable applied behavior analysis when autistic people have been asking people to get rid of it for years. It’s because the psychology field and other types of therapy fields are all rooted in ableism.

If disabled people are “not a culture fit” for your workplace, the workplace culture might be the fucking problem.

Who’s here because you’re equal parts 📚 academic 🎭 artist ♿ disabled 🌈 queer 🧠 constantly connecting dots no one else seems to notice I feel like we’ve accidentally built a very specific little corner of the internet and I’m kind of obsessed with it.

deep respect to anyone whose healing journey has included the deeply radical act of saying “actually no, that does hurt me”

DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN

If your feminism has never been interrupted by disabled people talking about access, dependency, or which bodies get imagined as “normal,” please put Disability Visibility (edited by Alice Wong) on your list immediately.

Whenever conservatives call women choosing not to have children a societal crisis, I notice that exhausted mothers with no paid leave or affordable childcare have yet to receive the same emergency language. What gives?

Me Too did not go far enough.

There is no “right” way to be a disabled person in a culture obsessed with effortless conformity. Read my latest Substack essay: open.substack.com/pub/alyssacd...

The Gospel of Contempt: When Church Comedy Teaches You to Hate Your Needs

What “put a helmet on” taught me about internalized ableism, chronic pain, and the costs of performing resilience for people who cheer when we bleed.

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The thing about ableism is that it wants disabled people endlessly adaptable and institutions barely inconvenienced.

The disability binary is so flimsy. People love to imagine “disabled” as a fixed category over there somewhere, instead of a political and material reality that many people move in and out of, toward, or closer to across a lifetime.

Subtitles as paid upgrade? On behalf of everyone with disabilities, fuck you very much

Some of y’all only believe disabled people deserve support if we ask for it with the perfect tone, the perfect paperwork & absolutely no anger about needing it.

The older I get, the more “resilience” sounds like a compliment people give when they’d rather not help.

chronic illness really said what if planning ahead was also speculative fiction

Disability is not workplace misconduct, but many workplaces treat it like it is. So no, I would never judge someone for choosing not to disclose their disability to a job.

I wish every medical waiting room had a stack of disability justice zines. 💜

I wish every medical waiting room had a stack of disability justice zines. 💜

A lot of disability discourse still assumes the goal is to get as close as possible to nondisabled productivity. That's why I often turn to crip theory from folks like Sami Schalk (and why it matters so much to me).