Now I’m imagining a 2025 remake where the main romance is a femme queer awakening and hernandos hideaway is a drag joint and queer bathhouse.

But seriously - has anyone else ever done a self duet like “Hey There”?

And of course not a single local conservation area has a meaningful accessibility section on their websites to make this easier. The AODA is such an utter joke when it comes to outdoor environments and it’s one of my biggest sources of grief as a wheelchair using outdoors human.

It’s always fun when your med goes on hiatus for a few months each year and you have to scramble to source alternate formulations or brands just to survive. More use cases means better availability.

Absolutely, but for the sake of this thread we are assuming genuine good faith engagement and a commitment to finding solutions that include everyone as the baseline for meaningful engagement 😊

I’ve met some really awesome and thoughtful public space planners and they deserve credit for their work!

Disabled people need to be a part of these conversations from the beginning. How can we create public spaces that serve us all when people without that experience can’t see the unintended consequences of their decisions?

Nothing without disabled people. Period.

This isn’t to say that it’s always bikes versus wheelchairs, but had a wheelchair user been a part of the planning process they might have seen this problem coming. We might have signs on the elevators reminding people to prioritize disabled folks. Or a better process that served everyone.

Sometimes you get lucky and a gate agent will give you the gate in advance allowing you to skip the horde of bikers. Sometimes you get verbally abused with a threat of it escalating into violence. Either way you never quite know what to expect.

So, now as a wheelchair user you’re left staring down a pack of folks on e-bikes who have formed a group bond as colleagues who don’t respect the prioritization of wheelchair users on the elevator (because of the need for advanced boarding)

However, e-bikes are generally heavier than someone wants to carry up and down stairs, and it’s created a massive demand for elevator space at major hubs and during peak hours.

They also only announce the platforms a few minutes in advance to avoid crowding on the narrow platforms and permit flow.

Now - add in an influx of bikers, many of them with e-bikes commuting into the city to gig work as bike delivery workers in the downtown core. It’s a way to reduce the overhead required to be a courier downtown and it’s a popular gig.

Most train stations in the GTA are primarily accessed by stairs and have a single elevator to access the platform level from any given entrance. They do the work to make it accessible, but generally the bare minimum with no or few redundancies.

In recent years the GO Trains in the GTA have expanded to have cars full of bike racks to encourage cycling and emission-reduced commuting.

Overall, a pretty innocuous thing and you wouldn’t necessarily expect to invite wheelchair users to that consult - except there was an unexpected consequence

Building from Access Intimacy - Crip-Platonic would refer to the types of love and intimacy that come from platonic relationships rooted in a deeply intimate co-created access system.

That disabled person who does medical triage just like you, and rides along to the ER is a Crip-Platonic Bestie.