Side-eyeing the term 'special needs': "There’s not a need you have, that a person with a disability does not. Our needs maybe more complex, or require skillsets the ableds don’t have […] but they’re still just basic needs." By @rebeccacokley.bsky.socialrebecca-cokley.medium.com/why-special-...

Why “Special Needs” is _______

Why “Special Needs Student” is not the preferred lexicon

Also from @rebeccacokley.bsky.social.

Why “Special Needs” is _______

Why “Special Needs Student” is not the preferred lexicon

Medicaid Expansion is the reason I was able to get health insurance after six years of being uninsured. (tho it took Missouri years to expand Medicaid because Missouri Republicans don't want poor people to have health care)

MCmatthewcort.landDec 9, 2023 7:16am

Medicaid expansion? We could spend a few hours talking about how many people Medicaid expansion has kept alive. I'm one of them. In just the four years from 2014 to 2017, Medicaid expansion saved 19,200 lives of adults just between the ages of 55–64

Hi Moshu!

Here’s a thread of cool places you can donate to for my birthday. 1. The Potter’s House - it’s a nonprofit bookstore and cafe that also provides free meals to community members and does other community work.

2. The Autistic Self Advocacy Network - an autistic led nonprofit that does all kinds of advocacy and policy work for autistic folks and the broader disability community.

3. AstroAccess - this is a disability organization working to make space and the space sector more accessible for disabled folks.

Donate - AstroAccess

DonateMission: AstroAccess is a nonprofit project entirely funded by charitable donations. All donations go through our 501(c)(3) nonprofit, SciAccess Inc and are tax-deductible. Expenses we need to c...

4. The National Disabled Law Students Association - a disabled led nonprofit that provides community and does advocacy for disabled law students and early career legal professionals.

NDLSA

Advocating for disabled law students.

Annual shout to one of my favorite lines of arts reporting: On Nov. 14, 1965, Minneapolis Tribune entertainment columnist Will Jones quoted someone who’d seen a preview cut of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” who said it contained, among other things, “a fierce rock ‘n’ roll dance sequence.”

Struck by the notion that disabled people always give their literal lives to the work…. Because the system itself is set up in such a way that we have no other choice.