unfortunately you can be seen as both, by different people or by the same people at different times... including doctors

[ID: Venn Diagram of “Not Disabled Enough” and “Too Disabled” overlapping with a thin slice of “Right amount of disabled.” There’s points alongside ranging as a scale.

Not Disabled Enough:

Right amount of disabled:

Too Disabled:

/end ID]

society’s idea of a perfect disabled person is someone who is doing well in the current system. this ideal of a person is “strong” enough to overcome the “misfortunes” of disability, because misfortune requires no action on the viewer’s part. the perfect disabled narrative is one which does not ask them to make changes or even acknowledge a cruel system.

my one comment. no real disabled person is the right amount of disabled. the right amount of disabled is a social myth used to hold living humans who are disabled to an impossible standard. also it is very possible too be on both sides of the venn diagram at once: this is what scholar M. Remi Yergeau calls "demirhetoricity." demirhetoricity posits that whenever a disabled person speaks (or signs or types) on disability, they are simultaneously declared to be both "too disabled" to know what they're talking about, and "not disabled enought," by virtue of being able to communicate at all.

William H. Hay (American, b. 1956)

Island Universe

生徒作品　村上さん。

荘厳で堅牢な古びた城。 中世からそのまま出て来たような 上質の絵本の挿絵のような ここまでムードを出せるって素晴らしいです。

wet specimens

Emma Odumade — Mister Fly (charcoal, acrylic, vintage photos, ink, graphite, coloured pencil and black tea, on canvas, 2024)

Corset-Bodice and Skirt. Mid-17th Century. Magyar Nemzeti Museum (Hungarian National Museum) Budapest, Hungary

Sadgirl hours

giving directions in the place you grew up is so difficult. no i don’t remember the name of the street but it’s the one with the grocery store that used to have a video store that had a popcorn machine and my parents would take my brother and i there after grocery shopping to pick out a movie and we’d eat the popcorn on our way home because it tasted best freshly popped. um so maybe if we can mind meld for a sec i can impart that experience to you and you’ll know where it is

recently old men have been haunting me

You have posted cringe. You are going to lose shifgrethor.

much better footage of the haka that shut down parliament today

@endless-demon thank you so much for asking! it's a little complicated but I think simplification does a disservice to the issue and is exactly what people like David Seymour rely on to spread lies about historical context and current consequences. I'm putting this in a reblog because it's long, and I'm putting it on this post because I'd rather this video be the one to get seen. as always I'm pakeha and also not an expert, so I'm very open to corrections on details but im confident of the broad strokes.

so when the English first arrived to build settlements in aotearoa, they formed a treaty with Māori (te Tiriti o Waitangi), the people already living there, that the English can govern their own settlements, as long as they allowed for continued māori sovereignty (tino rangatiratanga). there exist two versions of the text, English and te reo Māori, which do not perfectly match. after this, the English settlers began acquiring massive swathes of land by legally questionable means, and asserting absolute sovereignty over these areas. these culminated in the land wars, which then lead to massive land confiscation as a form of both political punishment and colonization. the end result is that now the crown own nearly all land in aotearoa and claim absolute sovereignty over it.

now, the Māori text does not claim sovereignty over the property that the crown recognizes Māori own. the text promises, among other things, self determination for Māori, which is essentially impossible under a westminster system of government because they are currently a demographic minority. it's only very recent in our history that the crown has acknowledged the legitimacy of the te reo Māori text, and even more recently that we began to actually implement any of its principles. one of the biggest ways the treaty is used in modern day is to guarantee Māori have an opportunity at the table for major national decisions (particular those of environmental significance), and to defer organizational power for Māori issues to Māori communities.

the treaty principles bill seeks to water down these promises by allowing these rights to all new zealanders, "democratising" the treaty and removing those guarantees that have been so hard fought for by Māori. but, more importantly, it seeks to seed division and racism within this country to gather more support for the ACT party who are sponsoring this bill.

this bill was part of the coalition agreement by our current 3 party right wing government. the national party agreed to sponsor this bill to first reading (allowing public submission on the bill) but no further. I personally believe, along with many others, that when the time comes to vote for the second reading the act party will threaten to pull out of the coalition if the bill is not passed again, and our prime minister will not have the strength of character to stand up to his deputy. regardless, the relationship between the crown and Māori has already been damaged, both by the simple introduction of the bill as well as all the changes our current government has implemented.

as Paul Goldsmith, Minister for Treaty Negotiations outlined in his speech during the bill, the National party believe that te Tiriti must be killed, not in a single action, but by a thousand cuts, like the removal of references to the treaty from our legislation and curriculums, and the disestablishment of agencies like the Māori Health Authority, cuts to Māori advisors to govt departments, removing māori seats from local government, etc.

there's so much more to this issue, like the centuries of abuse and mistreatment of Māori by the crown authorities, how this abuse is ongoing to Māori children and adults today in state care, how iwi voices are our last line of defence against environmental and ecological damage by industry, the unilateral natural of the treaty reparation settlement process... but this is why this protest was staged in parliament today.

(in fact, there is a much larger protest taking place nationwide, scheduled to arrive the day the bill was supposed to be introduced. the bill was in fact introduced a week earlier, in a move many suspect was done to prevent exactly this kind of protest.)

as far as I'm concerned though? I think te pāti Māori achieved exactly what they wanted by this protest. they forced the government to drop the mask of civility, and force the protestors out of the building. and they showed their supporters that their protests are working - they felt threatened enough by this that they lashed out, felt a need to retaliate by suspending hana-rawhiti maipi-clarke from the house for 24 hours. the coalition are getting nervous

tumblr please stop telling me to wd40 a mouse

Bro imagine if Tom and B’Elanna had seen Timeless Harry

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