POTUS ended his speech with “praise for the spirit we [as Americans] see in Orlando.”
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Oh, snap! I'm standing up in my living room cheering right now.
desiccated, hollowed-out pumpkin stuffed with wasps
I want to feel anything other than sorrow and hurt, but I can’t. All I’ve been doing is crying. My community is bleeding, and all I can do is cry.
Sadly in this day and age it is so hard to find a truly safe accepting space. I’ve found it here.
Thanks for this space. I’m having a really hard time with this. I just keep thinking about being in my early 20's and going to gay bars for the first time and feeling so elated to be in such a fun and SAFE feeling space, to really feel a sense of community and to be able to let loose in a way that normal spaces would…
I’m beyond heartbroken at what happened in Orlando early this morning. A lot of people were out trying to enjoy life and just have some fun, only to have their lives cut far too short by an act of hate.
Man, that is powerful. It’s so powerful to see her face and hear her voice. It’s so powerful to hear and see her pain and fear.
Jesus Christ, I have never read that story but that passage made me tear up.
I don’t have emotions for this other than to say this one thing.
That made me cry so hard.
I just keep thinking about this mother who hasn’t heard anything about her son. I want to believe the son is okay but I’m not feeling optimistic. http://abcnews.go.com/US/mother-man-…
Man. I guess I really shouldn’t be surprised that the comments on this article are so different to the comments on last week’s Constance Wu/whitewashing article, but I am. Basically, it appears that “chill the fuck out” is the consensus here. The one movie of the year about a person with a serious disability — not…
The problem is that this character is not a real person. He is a fictional character with no agency; he can’t “choose” anything. The author has chosen to create a story where the ideal outcome is the disabled person dying. Its a problem when the only stories about disabled people we can imagine are ones where…
But your imagination of what it might feel like to be disabled is not the same as actually being disabled. Check out some of the hashtags being used on Twitter by disabled people to talk about this so you can gain some insight into their viewpoints. #MeBeforeEuthanasia, for example. As with any less privileged group,…
The thing is that the character isn’t a real person. He doesn’t have agency because he doesn’t exist. He was made up by a non-disabled person.
A guy who cut off his own arm and a mutant superhero = amazing role models.
Do you suffer from a physical disability or chronic disabling illness? If not, you might just consider not telling people who do to “chill”.