Got the zoom lens, went straight to the park, found this fella
http://redd.it/bitf7k

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Baby Elephant
http://redd.it/bj4x8m

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Max tweets,

' This is an exploratory THREAD about community medicine, how #AccessIsLove, & what #InaccessibilityMeans to abled & disabled people. '

https://twitter.com/MoFromTheGut/status/1124261526309883906?s=19

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Nourishing, supportive, consistent, relationship-building interactions with individuals surviving severe conditions...

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...*innoculate* privileged, denial-afflicted ableists...

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...against their own unfortunate experiences of destabilizing stress, life-threatening obliviousness, #AbledsAreWeird, confusion, paranoia, & unwitting cruelty.

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These nourishing, supportive interactions are essential community medicine -- only available if one treats survivors well + respects disabled & marginalized people.

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Without the kindness & respect of this community medicine, unwitting ableists don't understand why their lives are so difficult.

Their world is legitimately falling apart *because* it is disabling to individuals.

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#InaccessibilityMeans the community medicine disappears -- not just for disabled people.

#InaccessibilityMeans the community medicine disappears for everybody.

#InaccessibilityMeans we have only scapegoats in its place.

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All of this happens only because we lost track of how to care for human beings.

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#AccessIsLove helps us remember again.

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Please follow + support twitter.com/MiaMingus twitter.com/IntersectedCrip twitter.com/DisVisibility (#AccessIsLove), twitter.com/Emily_Ladau (#InaccessibilityMeans), & twitter.com/Imani_Barbarin (#AbledsAreWeird), the progenitors of these beautiful hashtags.

Thank you for making spaces for thriving.

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Othering & exclusion are uncomfortable feelings -- but are eased by a sense of community safety & belonging.

For all people, #AccessIsLove.

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#AbledsAreWeird when they inhibit their own functioning, safety, & recovery from hardship.

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Able-bodied people feel othered & excluded only because they haven't discovered yet how to extend community to disabled & marginalized people.

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That's the antidote.

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It's a great antidote.

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When we restore + support the community medicine of caring for one another...

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...we find that a lot of things are easier than they were before.

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Problems are solved more efficiently.

People are able to access their most personally healing, meaningful, & sustaining work.

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We feel connection + relief.

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This is medicine for communities.

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If you want to be free of stress, Abled People, build supportive community relationships with Disabled People.

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(What, you didn't think it could be that simple?)

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Hawks outside the office window. Someone is happy mom is home
http://redd.it/bqwg79

The Cousin Explainer
http://redd.it/bsv4uq

Fugue w/ Juicer (Max on Piano, Mom on Juicer)

A grandpa got a cochlea implant tattoo to become like his grandson
http://redd.it/buz245

'While everyone loves a good mystery, what makes this podcast (and TV series) truly groundbreaking is that all the indigenous characters are voiced by indigenous actors, and Alaska Native voices are featured across the production, including in story development and creative direction. The theme song, which is featured in the PBS KIDS series and podcast, is sung by members of the Yupik Alaska Native band Pamyua, with music from Gwich’in fiddler Brennan Firth.

In fact, the series is the first nationally distributed kids’ show in the U.S. to feature a Native American lead, which is exciting but also depressing in that it has taken so long. As has been proven time and time again, representation matters, especially for kids, and having a story revolving around the adventures of a young Alaska native is a small but important step.'

https://www.fastcompany.com/90356160/molly-of-denali-podcast-native-stories-with-native-voices?partner=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feedburner+fastcompany&utm_content=feedburner&fbclid=IwAR1sSGuI9Kd5XjsGC4xXZiUXNh6OenKvM7cNlRmKzE8Cci6h-hAZson94Lk

The Best newborn photoshoot
http://redd.it/bxo17a

My sweet Grandma Reita has Alzheimer’s and she’s been upset lately bc she can’t remember going to her High School Prom & we have no photos to help remind her. So we threw her a new Prom in our backyard & she’s never been so happy!! She was also crowned Prom Queen!
http://redd.it/byz4it

I painted this for my daughter.
http://redd.it/c08x2d

My parents were classic southern racists. I never understood that. At all. This weekend my son married the most beautiful, smart, sweet girl in the world who loves him and he loves her. Just the way it should be. 2 generations. Love wins.
http://redd.it/c0egfo