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Anyone who says you can't change the way things are is probably either afraid you will or ashamed they didn't try.

Vancouver, BC, Canada

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

2 years

Today I am thinking about the healthcare professional who sat beside my hospital bed & tried to convince me to sign a DNR shortly after I found out my partner of 6 years was leaving town forever rendering me homeless & alone. This was before MAID was legal let alone expanded. 🧵

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

8 months

Hey everyone this is not a good news story. It’s not inspiring. It’s not a way for you to feel better about life. This is what happens when cities design discrimination. Elevators break, need maintenance. There should never just be one.

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When he realized the train station elevator was broken, this dad did what he needed to do. He hoisted his son, who is paralyzed and uses a wheelchair, up a long flight of steps 💪

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 months

There is a fire. Fire department just told everyone to evacuate and of course I can’t. Please pray

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 years

If your ‘activism’ builds your career rather than putting it at risk, it’s worth asking whether what you’re doing is activism or branding?

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

6 years

It's a homemade wheelchair not a toy. All the kids - HS robotics students & 2-year-old - as well as parents are great. But PLEASE remember this happened because parent's insurance would not cover cost of his wheelchair so he asked his old school- which not every family can do.

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This 2-year-old couldn't walk on his own. So a high school robotics team built him a customized toy car

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 months

Hopefully this ends ok but either way for the love of God please stop putting disabled people in housing we can’t get out of in fires.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 months

I called 911 and they took my name, unit number and phone number and told me to just stay in my unit. Fire is many floors away. Not gonna lie. Sitting here hands shaking typing.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 months

Was supposed to be at a human rights meeting this morning. feels ironic right somehow. ‘Sorry I missed the meeting but because my human rights are ignored in housing design…’

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 months

For those of you asking if someone is coming, the answer is fire dept is doing it’s best and I trust making good decisions knowing what they know about fire. Lots of residents here need assistance - that’s the problem w stacking elderly & disabled in towers.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 months

The way we house disabled & elderly people makes no sense. No means of independent escape & all grouped together, hundreds in one place.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 months

I don’t know what to do while I sit here with alarm blaring. So I’m just going to keep tweeting. I’m reading your replies but I can’t reply rn hope you understand.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 months

Just had this thought about how it’s a perfect metaphor for disabled life - kind of in reverse tho - everyone outside and crips stuck inside.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 months

Ok it’s going to be a long time before adrenaline subsides. So thankful that when everything else is broken in this city, you can wait hours for an ambulance etc, - the fire dept - so far - holds up. Let’s keep it that way.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 months

Fire dept just now: for those still in building. Remain calm. Shelter in place. Fire is out. If you can, open your windows.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 months

Fire dept just knocked. Nice man. Me: hi! Really big fan of you folks right now. Him: thank you. He told me to just stay inside.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 months

But I absolutely put my faith in Vancouver Fire Dept. I let them know I’m here and now I leave it to them. I’m just not going to pretend that sitting inside during fire evacuation isn’t scary. It’s unnecessary trauma.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 months

Sneezing & wheezing but hey still breathing. People are still not being let back in because of smoke but fire is out. Thank you all for hanging out with me.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 months

The fire dept just announced that for everyone still in building stay in place & they will be door knocking. Someone outside said they are sending bus for them to be in. I think - but not 100 percent certain - fire may be out tho.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 months

Ok now that feeling immediate danger to me is subsiding, I’m really concerned about others who were closer to fire and the real intense smoke. I hope everyone got out who needed to. Thoughts go to them now. And any who are now displaced.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

2 years

That wheelchair was worth thousands of dollars. It would have been customized - measured to one person. Replacing it will take time, money and in the interim they'll be forced to use an unsuitable, possibly painful wheelchair. And the crushing feeling of knowing no one cared.

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I usually don’t post anything serious on my twitter but something happened Saturday night and just can’t stomach the thought of this kid getting away with it. In the video below is a @MercyhurstU student and is currently on the @HurstMensHockey team. Carson Briere.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

2 years

Saying this gently and with care and understanding. Sincerely. But people with Long COVID are not the first people to incur illness and become disabled as a result of failure of policy and state negligence. Also not the first disabled people to not be believed.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 months

Thank you again everyone. Talking to you - via tweets - helped me stay focused and less alone. Calmer. But let’s all remain angry that this happens at all and fight for changes to housing policy.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 months

Just heard at least two people had to be taken to hospital. Please keep them in your thoughts.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

2 years

And I’m thinking how her demeanour changed in an instant when I said I didn’t want to die & would not sign & demanded they do everything & spare no expense, leave no stone unturned. In an instant her face turned to disgust. Did I have no desire for dignity? She asked/demanded.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

5 years

A disabled woman died during a power outage in NY last year. She had worried about dying this way and had asked to be allowed a back-up generator but it was prohibited because she lived in apt building. Answers look simple when you don't have a clue what you're talking about.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

6 months

Landlord days ago: time for annual fire inspection Me: ok and they’ll wear mask right? LL: oh yeah for sure (lists type of mask even) Today. Me: I think I’ll hang a couple of new masks on the door just in case. Later open door, no mask, refuses to put one on. Me: shuts door

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

2 years

They took longer with my care. Some talked about me to their colleague while rolling me. Comments about my body, my cost , my smell. They have lots of ways to abuse you without leaving a mark. I swallowed every fuck you I couldn’t safely say out loud.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

2 years

And I’m thinking about it today because this week a UBC medical school professor testified to the Special Joint committee that she thinks if someone has waited for 5 years for treatment they should qualify for MAID. So lack of access to services & care are a reason for MAiD

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 months

Adrenaline surge is currently transitioning from fear to anger. If this eventually ends in tragedy of preventable death, please remember how many times they were warned and decided to keep stacking us crips up not caring that we can't get out in fires.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 months

"It's a large high-rise with a lot of elderly and disabled people in it, which poses a problem when you have a fire in a building like this because you have to think about evacuation and bringing in more apparatus." 2017 Fire Chief to media. Different fire, same complex.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 months

Either fire evacuation access for everyone is made mandatory by law or it’s discrimination. Death by discriminatory design.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

2 years

My point is you don't have to believe the other side is full of bad people. You don't have to make any assessment about them or their possible motives. You just have to decide to believe disabled people who are sharing their experiences of harm. That's a place to start.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 months

I just contacted ED of non-profit housing provider who owns/operates this building and asked them if I could coordinate with them to send Crip Care parcels to the people in hospital.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

2 years

The rant only ended when I demanded she get out of my room. I was punished for my decision by various nurses in the weeks that followed. Punished by the people I have to say “please can I have a drink?” to. One cracked some of my vertebrae during rough transfer.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

2 years

Are these are good people with bad opinions? Or are these bad people who try to hide their hate under concern? Are they big ego doctors who have hard time coping with people they view as reminding them of the limitations of their ability to ‘fix’ & ‘cure’? Does it matter?

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

6 months

I hate everyone who failed this man. I hate the people making excuses. I hate every single policy maker in the history of this country that caused this. I hate that ableism teaches *us* that we're the burden not the godawful system that leads to this.

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Quadriplegic Quebec man chooses assisted dying after 4-day ER stay leaves horrific bedsore | CBC...

Local health authorities are investigating, after Normand Meunier, who has been paralyzed in both arms and legs since 2022, sought a medically assisted death after developing a huge bedsore while...

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 months

Trying to find a way to be useful in this horrible situation since my years of advocating for change seems to go exactly no where. Let's be clear it's both that they house disabled people who can't use stairs in towers and that they house us all together in large numbers.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

2 years

Did I not realize what my life was and would be? Was I in denial? “You aren’t going to get better you know! You’ll never walk! You’ll always need help! I don’t understand why you would want to go on living knowing this! It’s selfish! Crazy!”

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

7 years

Can't even begin to explain how much this comic means to me. So reflective of my experience. Thank you @aubreyhirsch

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

2 years

Non-disabled people are making believing disabled people conditional on us explaining these people’s motivations rather than treating our knowledge & experience as reason enough. Causal is likely multiple but it’s not relevant to deciding to believe MAiD poses threat to crips.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

3 years

It's quite incredible watching non-disabled people say that people - including children - have to become ill and die b/c they can't tolerate a much more accommodated level of existence than what disabled people who they previously told to stop complaining live with ongoing.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

2 years

I think that woman who sat beside my bad and tried to manipulate to agree to die is very kind to others in situations where the others are people she deems fully human and not a burden and drain on society. She probably donates to a food bank & charities.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

2 years

I’m thinking about how she was the first person ever to sit beside my bed in all the months I’ve spent in hospital, I’m thinking about how she touched me & put her hand on my hand to comfort me. Human touch. No one had ever done that. The only touch was clinical & usually rough

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 months

Someone replied about sprinklers - yeah, so, this hi-rise building full of elders and disabled people doesn't have any sprinklers. And no we do not have evacuation chairs either. This is social housing. It's tiny, cramped, storage container to keep us in until we die.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

2 years

And whenever I try to express concern to someone my brain hears her (and others) and I struggle to find words that convey my genuine feeling that don't remind me of someone trying to kill me. It's a mess & it's a lot. I never don't care. They just fucked w the wires in my head

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

2 years

What disabled people are asking of you is your help and support in this fight right now. But ultimately, what we offer is knowledge for a better world for you too - our insights are vital to making lives better for everyone. We need and are needed.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

2 years

If you accept the values and beliefs of this society, then I can honestly understand why disabled people fighting to live will seem illogical to you. Accepting our fight means believing injustice exists and that some 'truths' are actually lies.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

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I’m thinking about how she brought a box of tissues with her to offer me as I cried. I’m thinking about how she looked so empathetic and said I deserved rest. That it was too much for one person. She recounted all the suffering of my life - what she knew of it.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

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I’m very grateful to be unharmed physically but I’m not grateful that I and others disabled people are denied the right to a means of escape that is legally mandated to be in place for non-disabled people. And I’m very sad & worried for those who were harmed.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

2 years

If I understand this correctly, we can't have mask mandates to protect humans from getting sick and dying because we have to protect the politically extremely vulnerable and economically fragile capitalist system which would die if we prioritized saving human lives.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

2 years

I’m thinking about how she told me that she knew I had tried. That I had fought. She said I should be proud and that I “deserved to be helped to not suffer more.” She told me I’d earned the right to rest & I had nothing to be ashamed of. She said they could help if I signed.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 years

Many things would be better if we stopped requiring people to present their situation as worse than anyone else's in order to get the support and help they need.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

2 years

I haven't seen anyone raise this but it's so weird the way these (quack) doctors discuss immunity in this binary of "stronger" or more "efficient" immunity, considering autoimmune diseases exist. My immune system is so strong it could kill me. It's so efficient it almost did.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

2 months

Just here to rage about a dear disabled friend contracting COVID after spending one night in hospital. The medical procedure they required had to be done in a hospital. Getting help shouldn't make you sick. Bring back masks. RAGE.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

2 years

Also fwiw to those who interact with me on here, this and other experiences really has fucked up my ability to show and receive care. My PTSD sets off alarm bells when someone says they feel bad for what I am experiencing (why I'm avoiding replies rn).

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 months

Someone just asked a great question about how to quote-tweet this thread. I'm physically absolutely fine but others are not. One in critical condition after being revived on scene, one with smoke inhalation, more displaced, so avoid saying "happy ending." Policy has to change.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

3 years

People saying: But it's different in Brittany's case it's more about control. Wtf do you think it is about when done to other disabled people?

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

2 years

Ofc naturally this leads to "But why?" And that is a longer conversation we are happy to have and share our analysis and insights - including how govt has spent decades telling everyone but them in particular, that every bad part of their job is "b/c people are living too long"

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

2 years

But what I see happening is because people are struggling with the why - and the why is a lot, it's not a tweet reply, it's not even 'a' book, it's shelves and shelves of them - they reject what we are saying and default to believing those with power/authority & not us.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

3 years

Hands up if you don’t need anyone to explain to you why people would pick tents in a park over a homeless shelter?

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

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This inspires me to share the story of one my fave ever grocery store clerks.💜 Back when I was first a wheelchair user there was no delivery. Grocery shopping was a maze of inaccessibility. People would push me out of their way like I was a cart when I was looking at shelves. 🧵

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

2 years

This is Kim Beeston & Dave Savage who camped out in Nathan Phillips Square in front of Toronto City Hall b/c they couldn't find an accessible apt. They'd been living in accessible apts at York U which crips had fought for. But had to move bc graduating. This was 1984.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 years

I can't do this. There is a senator standing in the Canadian Senate reading out symptoms I live with every day and saying: This is not living. This is not a life. I am sobbing. Thank you Canada for telling me I am not alive. I guess that makes killing me easy. #BillC7

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

3 years

So...am I the only person in the world *not* going and hanging out at large events, conferences, travelling, partying, gathering and generally behaving as if the pandemic is over? because...holy shit do I ever feel that way today. every call. every text. even disabled people

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

2 years

Absolute nightmare. Ableist AI tool may be flagging disabled parents resulting in their children being taken by the state and put into foster care.

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Not magic: Opaque AI tool may flag parents with disabilities

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 years

omg. i just realized that 'i stayed inside more than usual during the pandemic so i know what chronic illness is like' is going to be the new 'i pushed my mother in a wheelchair so i know what it's like to be a wheelchair user' for ableds.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

1 year

Hot take: People not wearing masks has nothing to do with any of their listed reasons and has everything to do with fact they stigmatized mask-wearing by equating it with 'vulnerability' and 'weakness.' Same thing happens with resistance to using mobility aids in seniors.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 years

"If someone calls for mental health assistance, murdering people should not be the result.” Daniel Prude should be alive.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

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Like do these people think they will melt if they put on a mask? The level of weirdness to me asking them to put on a mask I paid for before coming into my - MY - fucking home. I literally had the door jam in in case they tried key. This was not gonna happen w/out a mask.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

6 months

Refusing to wear mask while going unit to unit in a building filled with disabled and elderly people. I swear some day in future they’re gonna hear these stories and dig up some of you just to bury you again.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

6 years

For those who escaped to rock, we salute you 🤘😈💀

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Nursing home escapees found at heavy metal festival: police

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

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I'm just so amazed that anyone on the 'left' thinks social workers or occupational therapists are less ableist and classist than doctors.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 months

Personally I luv this. Plus it comes with a straw! Also I know this is a tweet and written to be overly dramatic but calling IV bags (which this is not) a source of "public humiliation" is actually pretty ableist and frankly bizarre.

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I ordered a regular cold brew from a hip coffee shop and they handed me this. I think it’s biodegradable which is great but there has to be a better way to prevent plastic waste than making people perform public humiliation rituals sipping an IV bag of coffee

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

9 months

So when people talk about community leaders I think of her. When people talk about community organizers I think of her. When people talk about community I think of her. She is my model. You don't have to join a group to change someone's life and your community.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

5 years

Good evening. Everyone associated with this article and its contents can please fuck off. Thank you.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

6 months

In a caring society people would not fear needing to be cared for.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

6 months

My home. My rules. Get over your mask hang ups.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

6 months

Ok staff finally brought a mask and after saying how they’d use a respirator they brought a blue surgical mask. So I opened the door and saw it and said nope we’re not doing this. Slam door. He finally put on the mask I left for him. Seriously ridiculous.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

3 years

Hey people in my city. Please don't take photographs of disabled people doing things and share them on social media without their consent because you think it's "cool" to see us doing things in public. 'Look I spotted one in the wild' is fecking ableist. Delete.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

3 months

I said no to an academic (whose work I respect) who asked to meet with me for research. It would have involved me talking about work I do, my analysis, how I incorporate certain frameworks. And then it was going to be anonymized. I asked if academics anonymize their own work.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 years

I want @wirecutter to hire me to set up a team of disabled ppl with varying accessibility needs to test out accessibility of...basically everything they rate. I luv the site &refer to it often but it's a missing piece & I think even ableds would find it interesting. Do you agree?

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NYT Wirecutter

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A good floor lamp shouldn't fall over easily. So as part of our research, we chucked a basketball at 15 floor lamps to test their stability.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 months

@AmandaB55744931 Elevators break down and need regular service and the fact this isn't planned for is just inexcusable. I hope your friend's is fixed soon Five weeks is a very long time to be without one. Also, many grocery deliveries would not climb those stairs.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

6 years

People coming for libraries are coming for poor people. Don’t pretend this is about tax $ My library is full from opening to closing with people using wifi, reading subscription newspapers and magazines. Libraries are the one place where they forgive fines bc they value ppl > $

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 years

IF. YOU. WOULD. BE. DENIED. A. VENT. UNDER. TRIAGE. YOU. SHOULD. NOT. BE. DENIED. AN. EARLY. VACCINE.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

2 years

1. Please don't tag OP. 2. I can't do alt text for all these right now but basically someone whose partner just died tweeted that aging is a gift and in reply a bunch of people on this site went to war with their words because everything is about themselves.

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Anna Fitzpatrick

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going to kindly remind everyone to take two seconds to look up the context of a tweet before adding your quippy QTs

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

9 months

When I was discharged from hospital I was on my own in a city I had never lived in. There was no disability org there to support me - again let go of that myth please. No 'peer support.' No social workers. Nothing. But I had her and that was all I needed to feel I could make it.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

6 months

Extra pissed off because I arranged a very large donation of masks for this building so wondering what happened to those.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

2 years

There is an entire history that you just became part of and it is a history that extends beyond this century and last and beyond the borders of whatever place you live in. Behaving as if you are first group ever to be harmed by state policy is...not helpful.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

6 months

So he refused to wear mask I left so staff has gone to look for one at the office. It’s been about ten minutes of this stubborn man standing on other side of door.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

7 years

Horrible fire in London apt makes me wanna remind non-disabled ppl - if you have disabled neighbour-they may need your help in emergency.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

6 months

I'm qualifying this by pointing out I'm poor and so this is coming from a poor person. I really need the online left to stop acting like $100K/yr makes someone rich. Or that anything in that vicinity is an unreasonable income.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 years

For non-disabled people who follow me just a reminder that tomorrow is Disability Day of Mourning. I won't be replying to or engaging with any of your nonsense arguments. Tomorrow I will NOT debate our right to exist. I will NOT debate our truth. Show respect or be blocked.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

3 years

I'll tell you one thing I could live without in 2022. Listening to non-disabled not poor people complain about what a personal hardship it is for them to meet virtually and how tired they are of their home offices.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

3 years

"A mathematics exercise from a Nazi school textbook discriminating against disabled people. The exercise is titled "What is the cost of care for the hereditary sick?" The exercise aimed to show schoolchildren in Nazi Germany that disabled ppl were a financial burden on the state"

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

5 years

I wrote a post about how some things non-disabled people call 'luxuries' are actually accessibility items for me. Similar to the framing of straws as wasteful, disabled poor ppl are denied needed accessibility bc it's not understood as accessibility.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

5 years

Hi non-disabled & not poor folks. Could you not reply to tweets about discrimination or harm that’s happened to disabled people with “people should sue them!” unless you’re attaching a cheque for the lawyers and devote the hours ‘people’ would have to & have your life scrutinized

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

5 years

I don't know who needs to hear this right now but there's no such thing as not being disabled enough to call yourself disabled or not having the right kind of disability to belong to disability community. This tweet inspired by so many convos

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

6 months

They found a 4,000 year skeleton of a someone paralyzed from waist down who'd been cared for in a society with no metal. Four fucking thousand years ago they managed to prevent and care for pressure sores. This system is murderous trash. ”%20Dr.

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Ancient Bones That Tell a Story of Compassion (Published 2012)

In Vietnam, archaeologists say, a Stone Age community took care of a man who couldn’t take care of himself.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

9 months

She was like my fairy godmother at a time when I desperately needed one. Always on my team. Always happy to see me. If I had good news she celebrated. If I was in hospital she noticed my absence.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social

4 years

Hi. Wheelchair user here. I hate these kind of lifts. Hate them. Just build ramps. Thank you.

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