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@autistichoya

advocate, organizer, strategist, educator, attorney • disability justice, collective liberation, active love • be fierce, kind, tender, unapologetic, and loud

Piscataway and Wampanoag land
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    10 May 2018

    Welcome! My homepage is . The first-ever anthology on autism and race is . If you learn(ed) from me+have money, consider tipping or or sponsoring at .

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    Jul 20

    Friendly reminder the USPS is not meant to be profitable. It’s designed to ensure every American has access to mail services regardless of location. If it didn’t exist, profit mail services would undoubtedly disproportionately neglect individuals from rural and poor communities.

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    Jul 9

    You can tell Commissioner Gordon is a fictional character because he arrests bad cops and still gets to be a police commissioner.

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    20 hours ago

    My research concludes that the capitalist mode of production is a fuck.

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    Jul 30

    eid mubarak to cats, we all know cats are muslim

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    21 hours ago

    hey so sorry i haven’t responded to your text from april i have been screaming for three months

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    17 hours ago

    I want us *all* to become more community-oriented. We need to learn intervention techniques when it comes to intracommunal violence, provided that we have the capacity/ability. We can’t scream “abolish police” and NOT actively work on appropriate, effective alternatives.

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    Jul 31

    “nobody uses USPS anymore” is such a privileged take when it’s the most accessible system for small businesses, inmates to contact their lawyers and family, and quite literally everyone else you failed to consider under your lens

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    18 hours ago

    Closing out a fantastic month of highlighting activists, artists, and more that share this space for disability advocacy. We're thankful for those that are leading the way in different ventures of showing their place in society. 🖼:

    [IMAGE DESCRIPTION] White background with a group of beautiful people with various disabilities, both seen and unseen. Pictured: Brad Lomax (Deceased) Drago Renteria Julia Bascom Nomy Lamm Haben Girma Stella Young (Deceased) Victoria Rodríguez-Roldán Judith Heumann Keah Brown Carrie Ann Lucas (Deceased) Alice Wong Lydia X. Z. Brown Jen Deerinwater Sandy Ho Chella Man Ed Roberts (Deceased) Imani Barbarin Noor Pervez Rebecca Cokley Stacey Milbern (Deceased)
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  10. 19 hours ago

    I hope this person steps barefoot on each and every individual lego in the entire collection of an elderly, rich and generationally wealthy autistic person with a lifelong special interest in legos.

    One of the most hurtful things someone has said to me was: “You don’t matter enough to think about.” Which objectively is a great burn! But So hurtful that I just remembered it and hope that person is having a terrible day. I hope they step in something wet while wearing socks.
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    21 hours ago

    . & Ridhi: * Disabled people are at greater risk of deadly force from police, and this risk increases even more when predictive systems target them. * Local governments should continue to closely scrutinize . MORE: 2/2

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    21 hours ago

    . & Ridhi: * Decades of predictive policing have resulted in biased over-policing & little else. * Predictive policing exacerbates the targeting of disabled people. 1/2

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    10 Apr 2019

    This is perfect specimen of Azurite and Malachite. The two minerals sometimes occur admixed or banded together, forming what is called "Azure-malachite" Photo: New Moon Beginnings

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    Jul 30

    This is a longer conversation for another time, but when you view the earth and its inhabitants as inherently sinful, prophesied to be cleansed with fire and destruction, it shapes your approach to public health and environmentalism.

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  15. 22 hours ago

    This was deeply inappropriate and upsetting, as a *participant/attendee*. It's also *especially* unfair to put neurodivergent people on the spot like this. Many of us have survived trauma and compliance training and can't fully assess/process until later.

    On my panel yesterday asked a pointed question about ADA advocacy and rather than allowing panelists to answer the question Judy said "How would you answer that Lydia?" And when they did, Judy said "that's how I would've answered it"
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  16. 23 hours ago

    This pandemic has spawned a whole new genre of nightmare fuel. I keep having nightmares about being forced to go to crowded public places where no one is wearing masks and everyone is crammed in with each other, for hours, and getting stuck there.

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    Jul 29

    My Zoom name has my pronouns in it, and I still had someone I work with misgender me at least a dozen times during a Zoom lab meeting. The next day that person thanked me for teaching them about they/them pronouns🙃

    It doesn't matter that I state my pronouns at the beginning of every meeting, add them to my Zoom name, and include them in my email signature... People (often white) who have worked professionally with me for YEARS misgender me anyway. (P.S. I use they, them, theirs, themself.)
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    Jul 29
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    Everyone at my work performatively has their pronouns in their email signature. My email said “they/them” for over a year before I just took it out because it was clear absolutely no one was reading it. Rather not out myself to outside clients if my colleagues don’t even care.

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    Jul 29

    I am proud of my friend for SO many reasons. But the fact she’s on the Stone Cold and The Jackal show is the greatest thing ever.

    This week we talk to MAYSOON ZAYID! GH viewers know her as Zahra, Shiloh's laywer, but did you know she is also a celebrated stand-up comic and has a FREAKING TED TALK?!! Get to know with us, and LAUGH, A LOT. Listen here:
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    Jul 29

    Given tweet on June 24th keeping up the support for , please make sure your company's actions align with its statements. Venmo is currently putting a Black woman at risk of eviction during a global pandemic. Please make this right immediately. 5/

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    Jul 29

    is putting a Black woman in danger of being evicted because the company is ignoring the fact that she cannot get an ID due to COVID. We have offered a really simple solution which both parties have requested: Reverse the transaction. 4/

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