mostly just yelling about ableism and getting paid to play dress up & make believe. Yale School of Drama 2022
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truly obsessed with all these takes of PULSE. love/hate to see y'all fighting it out
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‘It’s not like disabled actors haven’t existed.’ Jessy Yates made history at Yale Drama and now stars in Pulse on Netflix, but her journey highlights just how far the industry has to go.
self.com/story/jessy-yates-p…
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Dr. Daniel Grossman, emergency medicine physician, Mayo Clinic, served as a key consultant for Netflix’s new drama Pulse. Actor Jessy Yates shadowed Dr. Grossman to understand how he navigates fast-paced ER care—all from a wheelchair. bit.ly/42lu8uS
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don't donate to anymore politicians. or the women's march. donate to local mask blocs. donate to local mutual aid orgs. donate to abortion funds. the dems raised $1 billion for this campaign & it's all gone now. put your $ where it's truly needed.
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to everybody, your first step of immediate action is putting on a mask
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When disabled people ask “what happens to disabled people?” And we are met with “not everything’s about you?” This is what we mean.
Have you seen any physically disabled people evacuated from Gaza? Because I have yet to.
…and that is the point.
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CDC says you can stop isolating if your boss needs the money
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So this means they're going to finally make wheelchair accessible turnstiles now, then right........right?
Emergency exit gates at three subway stations will soon take 15 seconds to open, MTA officials announced Monday, as part of an effort to crack down on the “super highway of fare evasion.” gothamist.com/news/emergency…
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It occurs to me in rewatching Christina Applegate’s #Emmys remarks she briefly refers to DEAD TO ME as “probably my last job”
The thing is, so many of the people who rose to their feet to applaud and cry could change that in no time. A lot of disabled folks wonder if they will
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Ok I don’t think I like this: let’s normalize people participating in society with a disability so that we don’t do standing ovations for just being “brave” enough to not disappear
Christina Applegate receives a standing ovation at the #Emmys. bit.ly/3Hhewi2
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getting any 'support' through the State is basically to be forced into austerity. and that's if you are lucky enough to qualify.
the response of "the state should take care of this, not us" in the State's current iteration is not actually progressive politics, babes.
If I see one more person suggesting using meals on wheels for food delivery I will scream. None of you fucks know anything about disability or about eligibility or about quality of life or about literally anything. I’m so over this.
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In September 2021, well into the covid vaccine era, when asked when the pandemic would be under control, Anthony Fauci said 'you've got be under 10,000 infections a day to feel comfortable.' Next week infections in the US will peak at 2 million per day
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my will to live did not need this today
Wheelchair users have been trying for ages to raise awareness about their wheelchairs being broken so often when they fly, and the devastating impact this has on them.
@AmericanAir baggage handlers decided to give a demonstration of how much they enjoy breaking them 😡
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I need every New Yorker stressing about the “migrant issue” to watch this immediately.
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