I had no idea that happened Rebekah (though am not surprised). I am so incredibly sorry and hope @aft.org would not endorse him after SO many different things he has done to harm educators the UM system

Whatever happens, the government does not decide love. It doesn’t regulate connection or community. We have survived worse and we will survive this. We protect us.

Annnnd. A reminder that even as we speak, marriage is NOT equitable in the U.S.; disabled people cannot marry for fear of losing benefits, immigrants marrying citizens are so heavily scrutinized, etc. And many states still allow for anti LGBTQ+ discrimination, which marriage does nothing to protect.

Today the Supreme Court will decide on LGBQ+ marriage equity, including whether so many people I love get to continue to have these benefits. It is so scary for so many.

And trans folks, racialized folks, survivors. So so many reasons to change this.

Kattari noted. Many of these groups already have less access to providers due to systemic barriers like transportation, language access or insurance limitations.

The intersectionality of marginalized identities compounds these barriers. "Racialized people, disabled people, lower income people, fat people, non-native English speakers are all already less likely to be believed by healthcare providers, more likely to be accused of faking it and/or drug seeking”

refusing to touch patients because they're queer/trans, or, touching them more aggressively and painfully. Blaming all health issues on someone's gender/sexuality. Not believing their reported pain levels. Using queerphobic and transphobic language, laughing at/about patient, denying care.

And the experiences that cause that fear? Kattari didn't mince words. While smaller interactions like misgendering and using dead names can stack up, there are far more egregious experiences that are too common:

1) Anyone have a source for disability prevalence in trans (or general queer and trans) populations?
2) Anyone at @transequality.bsky.social want to connect about creating a disability specific report? Or peer review articles?
3) a reminder to all y’all of how little disability is recognized, STILL!

Appreciate you 💜

Two of my favorite colleagues Christina Dadswell from the UM SSW Field Office and Dr. Haylie Miller from Kinesiology both also got honorable mention, while Dr. Feranmi Okanlami SO deservedly won the award this year. I am so lucky to be in such great company, and forever onwards in solidarity we go!

Two of us on stage wearing masks! And our whole panel on action steps to reduce ableism in social work education did.

But yes, incredibly disappointing. CSWE bought 2,000 masks to hand out but I’m not seeing anyone wearing them.

Am always disappointed by other “progressives” who don’t mask.

From our action steps to reduce ableism in social work education panel. 💜

It’s pretty frustrating. Some other people seem to put on masks to talk to me…which is nice I guess, but also shouldn’t you care about everyone and yourself, and not just me?

There are maybe 10 other regular maskers here, another dozen occasional ones. Not shocking but still disappointing.

We are all so pissed about this and have been bringing it up at every presentation including the plenary. So much solidarity 💜