The idea that folks are like "well that wheelchair user must be Wrong, because they moved their legs" instead of like "Hmm what non-manipulative reasons could someone who can move their legs be using a wheelchair?"

Just fucking pisses me off.

I'd like kids. Realistically, I can't afford them as a disabled person - monetarily or physically. And that's not as dangerous or violating as forced sterilization - but it results in eugenics. and it hurts people.

I thought it was a very thoughtful piece. For many disabled women the barriers are innumerable - there's sterilization, but also enforced poverty, NO childcare help for those with limited mobility, no money for everything a child needs, v inaccessible disability repro services...

This link should work. Sorry, I’m a Bluesky novice 🙂. limerick1914.medium.com/as-intention...

@alttext.bsky.social

Racism is not caused by a brain injury. You can just say he's a dick.

Musk’s schoolyard utterings about the history of abolitionism are likewise ill-informed and predictably rooted in reactionary denialist politics. To argue that Denmark and Britain led the anti-slavery charge erases the ultimate sacrifices that countless thousands of slaves made when they revolted.

"It was a moral and legal break from any African or European tradition of labour. It constituted, furthermore, the most dehumanising, violent, socially regressive form of human exploitation known to human kind.”

Hilary Beckles: "The early modern world witnessed various forms of slavery and servitude as systems of labour, but neither in Europe nor in Africa did this subservience involve the branding of persons as chattel."