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My name is: Michelle, but most people call me Dark online.

My gender-pronouns are: They/them/their.

I am: 27 years old, a feminist, liberal, an atheist, an omnivore, and an ISFJ.

The Feminist: Intersectional, body positive, pro-choice, and sex positive.

My privileged identities include: Female assigned at birth (trans* privilege), white, able-bodied, allistic (?), dyadic, monogamous.

My non-privileged/oppressed identities include: Gender-fluid, fat, gray-a, neuroatypical, and gay.

I have: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Major Depressive Disorder.

I like: Pets & animals, animal welfare, pet care & pet care education, ~*SCIENCE!*~, anatomy & physiology, roleplaying, anime/manga, computer & video games, rock & metal music.

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Lavender Labia: doctornajib: I’m getting pretty sick of seeing people with...

lavenderlabia:

doctornajib:

I’m getting pretty sick of seeing people with “justifiable” reasons for being fat invading the fat acceptance movement. 

‘I have PCOS, that’s why I’m fat’, ‘I have mobility issues, that’s why I’m fat’.

Like, so the fuck what? 

Every time I see this shit, it makes me think that these people are only involved in FA because they used to be thin and now they’re not and they don’t think they deserve to be shitted on because of the way they became fat. They are the first ones telling you their long sad story about how they became fat due to medications or illness or whatever, and they are the first goddamn ones spouting that ‘you don’t know why someone is fat, so you shouldn’t treat all fat people like crap’ bullshit. 

Like it matters why or how someone is fat.

In the meantime, the rest of us — the fat people who are fat because we eat a lot of “junk” and high-fat foods, or live sedentary lifestyles, or have slow metabolisms, or have bodies that are comfortable at being bigger, or whatever the fucking reason — those of us who GOT fat, we deserve to be discriminated against and harassed, because our fatness was within our control.

STOP QUALIFYING YOUR FATNESS WITH YOUR DISEASE/AFFLICTION. NOBODY FUCKING CARES WHY YOU ARE FAT, STOP ACTING LIKE SOCIETY OWES YOU A SPECIAL ‘PASS’ FOR YOUR FATNESS BECAUSE ITS CAUSE IS BEYOND YOUR CONTROL. 

And then just shut the fuck up. People are fat for a multitude of reasons. Fat and size and body acceptance are about the elimination of size discrimination within our culture. It is not about being upset that your high school friends on facebook are giving you diet tips and you are embarrassed because you didn’t GET FAT, you started taking a medication that made you gain weight and become fat and OMG IT’S SO UNFAIR THAT THEY ASSUME!! 

Seriously. Just shut the fuck up.

(Source: angrybabysitter)

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People like you should never touch anything thats not meant for adults.

White males suffer sexism, racism, discrimination. Its snot exclusive to women and minorities you fucking retard. Stop pushing your backwards SJW bullshit. You are wrong and you will always BE WRONG.

Privilege is based on class not individuality, women and men are equally privileged. Its just retards like you that need education to understand these things.

Look guys, an MRA got a hold of the post.

Let’s point and laugh.

Disabled married couple fights to live together in group home

youneedacat:

neednothavehappenedtobetrue:

ateacupinastorm:

With the beaming smiles of newlyweds, Paul Forziano and Hava Samuels hold hands, exchange adoring glances and complete each other’s sentences. Their first wedding dance, he recalls, was to the song ‘

Gay marriage is not the only marriage equality issue we should be concerned about. I’m sure this sort of thing is happening to disabled people all over the world. Imagine not being allowed to live with your partner or to have a sexual life cos of how you were born. 

what the fuck is the justification for this bullshit?

It’s that we aren’t supposed to be sexual because that would mean paperwork. Or some shit.

If your fat activism erases people with eating disorders, you’re doing it wrong.

shakethecobwebs:

Fat people can have eating disorders, and reducing their mental illness to a “crutch” is damaging, harmful, and ableist.

Don’t.

munchflower:

I LOVE THIS FOREVER. 

(Source: djsavage)

void-symphony:

Stop threatening the HIPAA rights of people with psychiatric disabilities

crown-of-weeds:

Imagine the federal government holding conversations about your privacy - except yours is the only voice not at the table. This is what people with psychiatric disabilities are facing as the House Energy & Commerce Oversight Subcommittee takes up the issue of mental health and privacy rights under HIPAA.

Rep. Tim Murphy, Chair of the House Energy & Commerce Oversight Subcommittee, is holding a hearing this Friday to try and argue that the HIPAA protections that protect the privacy of people seeking mental health services are unnecessary and a threat to public safety. Regrettably, Chairman Murphy has a  history of threatening the rights of Americans with psychiatric disabilities. This Friday’s hearing is a continuation of a roundtable Rep. Murphy organized last month to try and showcase the inaccurate idea that people with psychiatric disabilities are more likely to commit violent crimes. Although empirical evidence shows no such link between psychiatric disabilities and violence, the roundtable made no acknowledgement of this simple fact. Furthermore, of all of the many witnesses called to testify, not a single person with a psychiatric disability was invited to share their perspective.

When a caller on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal program asked Rep. Murphy to explain his rationale for excluding the voices of people with psychiatric disabilities from the witness panel, he dismissed the need for the voices of people with disabilities themselves, claiming they would be incapable of testifying and that the most important conversation is one about parents and families’ experiences!

There is a time and a place for discussing improvements to the availability and quality of mental health services. A conversation about violent crime is not that time nor that place. It is inexcusable for public officials to use public safety as justification for an attack on the civil rights of an already marginalized and stigmatized population. Tell Chairman Murphy and Ranking Member DeGette of the House Energy & Commerce Oversight Subcommittee that the disability rights principle of “Nothing About Us, Without Us!” apply in mental health policy too. Don’t let our voices be forgotten.

Sign the petition and shut this shit DOWN.

“The reason people don’t go for help is because there is still stigma. People don’t talk about mental illnesses the way they do other illnesses.” [Maria Bamford] launches into impressions of people talking about physical maladies the way they talk about depression:

“Apparently Steve has cancer. It’s like, fuck off! We all have cancer.”

“I was dating this chick all this time and she let me know she’s been wearing contact lenses. I said whoa, do what you need to do but I don’t believe in all that Western medicine shit. If you wanna see like other people it’s all about attitude. You gotta want it.”

I wrote about Maria Bamford, Mike White, and kicking the stigma surrounding mental illness at Splitsider. (via marisacarroll)

(Source: marisacarroll)

Anonymous asked
Wow they seem to be nasty. I see now they are the exploited feminists that are actually helping out patriarchy more than the other way around, feminists are crazy and here is your proof kinda thing.

Uhh, the idea isn’t that feminists are crazy. First of all that’s ableist, second of all there’s intersectional feminists who are Doing It Right (or at least making efforts to).

But yeah, you hit the nail on the head with radscum actually helping the patriarchy more than hurting it.

beepunk:

in a nutshell:

  • autism speaks does not have a single member on their board that actually has autism
  • they use awful methods to raise funds and rely on shit stereotypes and villainizing autism to cause fear in people which is obviously the LAST thing we need
  • they dont put their funds to very good use
  • they want to cure autism altogether which basically means erasing people
  • instead of worrying about how to actually Help Autistic People in their daily lives
  • one time they made a video in which a mother talks about how she contemplated commiting a murder-suicide by driving off a bridge with her autistic daughter IN FRONT OF SAID AUTISTIC DAUGHTER and says the only thing that stopped her was her non-autistic daughter waiting for her at home
  • they are responsible for the “I Am Autism” video in which an eerie disembodied voices talks over clips of children playing and says things such as 
  • “I am autism. I have no interest in right or wrong. I derive great pleasure out of your loneliness. I will fight to take away your hope.”
  • “Your money will fall into my hands and I will bankrupt you for my own self gain.”
  • “And if you are happily married, I will make sure that your marriage fails.”
  • that is it
  • that is what autism speaks thinks autism is

Adventures of a Girl Janitor: [medical discrimination, medical abuse, ableism] Ableism kills, and it is killing people right now.

girljanitor:

User youneedacat is in the hospital right now waiting to undergo a lifesaving procedure. This morning, someone came to her room, woke her up and tried to talk her out of going through with the procedure. It’s clear that in the absence of her advocate who has power of attorney, she would probably be denied this procedure.

We’re talking about a published author here.

A rather famous advocacy activist.[Wired Magazine feature]

Because of vile lies about Autism spread by organizations like Autism Speaks, Cure Autism Now and a slew of other vicious orgs, people believe we are “empty husks”, that we are “autistic shells”, that we have no quality of life.

People with cognitive disabilities are routinely denied lifesaving medical procedures because it is commonly believed we have no quality of life, that we are “suffering [from Autism]” that we in some kind of misery that we should be “put out of”.

This happens all the time. [ASAN report]

46% of heart programs indicated that even mild or moderate cognitive impairment would be a relative contraindication
… 71% of heart programs surveyed always or usually utilized neurodevelopmental status in determinations of eligibility for transplantation..

TO MAKE THIS CLEAR: “contraindication” means that they WOULD BE DOING HARM BY SAVING A DISABLED PERSON’S LIFE.

And right now, this person:

I tell her that I asked one of the world’s leading authorities on autism to check out the video. The expert’s opinion: Baggs must have had outside help creating it, perhaps from one of her caregivers. Her inability to talk, coupled with repetitive behaviors, lack of eye contact, and the need for assistance with everyday tasks are telltale signs of severe autism. Among all autistics, 75 percent are expected to score in the mentally retarded range on standard intelligence tests — that’s an IQ of 70 or less.

After I explain the scientist’s doubts, Baggs grunts, and her mouth forms just a hint of a smirk as she lets loose a salvo on the keyboard. No one helped her shoot the video, edit it, and upload it to YouTube. She used a Sony Cybershot DSC-T1, a digital camera that can record up to 90 seconds of video (she has since upgraded). She then patched the footage together using the editing programs RAD Video Tools, VirtualDub, and DivXLand Media Subtitler. “My care provider wouldn’t even know how to work the software,” she says.

is in the hospital, with doctors trying to talk her out of saving her own life. Because to them, her life is not worth saving.

This is how your “awareness” kills.

This is how your language kills.

This is how your misinformation kills.

All I can say is that I am eternally thankful that she has an advocate in her corner right now to defend her basic human rights to receiving medical care for a life threatening condition. All too often, autistic people are denied care by medical facilities, by their caregivers, by their own family members. This is unconscionable and downright evil. This cannot stand.