I think she was speaking to the Autism Speaks’ blue puzzle piece, which is their insignia. You can “light it up blue” for Autism based off of it. As a general aside from this article, Autism Speaks is a terrible charity; anti neurodiversity and essentially anti-Autism.

Autism Speaks doesn’t use a puzzle ribbon, they use a puzzle (which is offensive to Autistic people), but yes they do also use the color blue in their logos and in their ‘Light It Up Blue’ campaign because of the myth that boys are overwhelmingly more likely to be diagnosed as Autistic than girls.

So yes, it’s one of…

This headline is so misleading and it’s so, so shameful of you to frame the situation like this. The GIF caused him a seizure. He’s epileptic. Yes, that is assault when you do something with the intent of hurting someone else, whether it’s just a GIF. That troll put him in danger knowingly. Epileptic seizures are…

People losing jobs to immigrants is largely a myth. Someone’s healthcare being stolen away is not.

This article hits home for me. I was paralyzed at the age of 21 in 2014, and while I’ve had a very lucky recovery, I will always face a lifetime of related medical costs. I know that there are millions of people in similar situations, and it filled me with rage to watch Paul Ryan give that fucking PowerPoint…

Has a contingency of black and brown gay men or perhaps some old black ladies from the south gone down under to properly demonstrate the glory of shade?

Nomi, thank you for sharing your story with us. It’s so well-written. You deserve respect and you deserve the ability to wear your womanhood and your identity with pride. I wish nothing but the best for you and for all the young trans women and men out there struggling today like you.

Her husband was Chewitel Ejiofor!! No one should leave him!!

Gaga should do a “Telephone” performance with Beyoncé Skyping in from some insanely elaborate master bed setup.

GASP! It’s almost as if you can be legally/functionally blind but still have limited sight for things like movement, etc.!

Non-disabled people are fucking ridiculous. They expect disabled people to be helpless shut-ins who are incapable of independence or variation amongst each other.

They could’ve hired a black model.

1. The first time I used nipple clamps we put them on too tight and I ended up with scabs on my nipples.

I’d say “come to Canada”, to escape him in some way, but how indigenous people have been and still are treated here is one extreme lowlight, in this country (plus, indigenous people shouldn’t have to escape from their own damn land). Colonialism still abuses and kills, even in places where the overall standard of…

My wife nearly died with both of our kids. It may not be a disability for everyone, but it is for a lot of folks.

wow you left out this part:

Don’t be too hasty to pin this on Trump and his ilk. Canadians are capable of hatred and bigotry and this mosque has been targeted in the past.

This might be a good time to recall something of which many of us are ignorant in our own history. It is estimated that 10 to 30% of Africans forced to our shores as slaves were of Muslim descent: many of them spoke and wrote in Arabic; some of them Hafidhs who had memorised the entire Qu’ran and could recite it in…

Huh?

This is the first, and I’m guessing last, time I have ever said to myself, “Good for you, Shia Labeouf!”