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Jen H
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Parent & PhD student; MSW, disabled, trans/nonbinary, & autistic
interested in adjustment to illness & healthcare trauma
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enbycriphistorian.bsky.social
From my Tumblr
A tumblr post by enbycrip ... Big thing I've got from my study of disability in the early modern period in Britain, including dissertation research? Poor relief that gives money out to the poorest people is probably the most benefit per amount of money, but it's *massively*, *massively* resented by wealthier people. Not only because it's redistribution of wealth, given it was usually raised by local taxation, but because it takes both control and opportunities to benefit from them. The big thing money gives is options, choice, and freedom. Wealthier people value having that and massively resent poorer people having it. They much prefer giving charity to paying their taxes because a) giving charity lets them keep control of the money, even at a remove, and b) they usually find a way to benefit more directly from it. This is basically why we have the current social security systems we have, where so much more is spent on control and policing of the behaviour of poor and disabled people than actually helping. Universal benefits were popular when the systems were set up for a variety of reasons, including reducing resentment by wealthier people, but largely because means-testing is *more expensive* and *less efficient*than universal benefits. Wealthier people screaming for more means-testing are doing so because they prefer to have more money spent on tormenting people who are struggling with the conditions that those wealthier people create and maintain because it benefits them than that money actually reaching them. That's not how they parse it in their heads, I'm sure, but it *is* the reality of the situation. #disabled #disability #disableism #ableism #social security #social safety net #wealth redistribution #social control #charity #universal benefits #universal basic income
July 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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bigrockbigriver.bsky.social
Every set of my grandparents had a stay at home spouse, it is an ingrained part of American culture, you will never convince me that more than 40% of our population needs to work, because it doesn't.

I'm not falling for the propaganda.
virtuistic.bsky.social 🪾 Shel-brr Cold-pacio 🍂 [Feral #FreeLink Edition] @virtuistic.bsky.social · Jul 16
I would like to state for the record that I am totally cool with folks getting paid to stay at home and do whatever is good for them. That thing we did in the beginning of the pandemic: paying people to stay safer, housing folks, and meeting their needs? Man, that was great. We should do more of it.
johnnorthey.bsky.social John Northey @johnnorthey.bsky.social · Jul 16
It is funny/sad how study after study after study shows that a Universal Basic Income (or something similar) would be far cheaper than the mess done now in the USA, in Canada, and in other nations. But too many worry that someone somewhere will get paid to stay at home. Sigh.
July 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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johnnorthey.bsky.social
It is funny/sad how study after study after study shows that a Universal Basic Income (or something similar) would be far cheaper than the mess done now in the USA, in Canada, and in other nations. But too many worry that someone somewhere will get paid to stay at home. Sigh.
July 16, 2025 at 6:18 AM
jenhirsch.bsky.social
This is beautiful!
www.npr.org/sections/hea...
When illness or death leave craft projects unfinished, these strangers step in to help
It can be heartbreaking to let go of a hand-made rug or sweater that a loved one didn't quite finish. A group of volunteer knitters, quilters and other crafters offer some closure.
www.npr.org
June 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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highpassedu.bsky.social
New article: ASWB made troubling changes to its exam process.

Then it misinformed examinees about those changes.

www.psychotherapynotes.com/aswb-misinfo...

#socialwork #asw #lcsw #stopaswb
ASWB misinformed examinees about social work exam changes
ASWB made problematic changes to the format of its social work exams. It also described a testing process different from what was delivered.
www.psychotherapynotes.com
May 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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queenofthesouth.bsky.social
My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut *everyone* loses services.
May 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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erinbiba.bsky.social
This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.

This is a manifesto against disability.

This is the language of eugenics.
Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
February 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
jenhirsch.bsky.social
I love working with National Council of Dementia Minds because I get to hang out with fabulous folks like Bonnie! yellowstonevalleywoman.com/changing-the...
Changing the Stigma
Billings woman gives a voice to others like her living with dementia
yellowstonevalleywoman.com
January 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
jenhirsch.bsky.social
MOHELA is supposed to be open 7am -8pm Central time, so tell me why when call at 845am eastern time the office is closed. Plus wait times these days are stretching to 190 minutes and longer. Why didn't they hire more staff for us all going back to payment?
October 24, 2023 at 12:58 PM
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lunademaria.bsky.social
The anti-colonial power of Jim! What a gift to have a non-binary Latine rebel.

#ofmd #OurFlagMeansDeath #jimjimenez #nonbinary
October 3, 2023 at 2:08 AM