Some better alternatives than Autism Speaks. If you really want to help autistics look into an organization that actually helps autistics. In fact, even doing absolutely nothing would be preferable to supporting Autism Speaks.
Tag: advocacy
longmoreinstituteondisability:
(screams from the rooftops) addiction counts as a disability too, and the refusal to allow addicts access to the disability community:
- ignores the fact that otherwise disabled people ( esp poor disabled people, trans disabled people, disabled people of color) make up a disproportionate percentage of addicts
- says a lot about how we as a community still cater our safe spaces around the comfort of abled people
- needs to stop .
It’s also important to remember that in the US, addicts played a crucial role in establishing disability rights.
Take, for example, the role of addicts in the 504 protests.
In 1977, over a hundred disabled people occupied the old Federal building in San Francisco. They did this to force the government to put into effect the first disability civil rights law (Section 504). The protestors were able to stay the course for 26 days until the government signed 504.
A number of community organizations supported the protest by picketing outside, providing supplies, and creating publicity. One of those organizations was Delancey Street, a residential self-help organization for drug addicts. They provided food from their café to the protestors.
Without the help of Delancey Street and other local organizations, the protestors couldn’t have stayed in the building long enough to force the government’s hand. If not for the protestors, 504 might have never been signed–or it might have been signed with watered down regulations like “separate but equal” (the exact words used by a government official) schools for disabled children. If 504 hadn’t set such a strong precedent, the Americans with Disabilities Act wouldn’t exist.
Without the work of addicts, disability rights as we know them would not exist.
The US disability community owes a lot to addicts. Exclusion from the community is no way to express gratitude.
if your disability activism doesn’t support belligerent disabled people, disabled people who refuse meds or therapy, disabled people who don’t trust the system that’s fucked them over too many times to count—if your disability activisim depends on disabled people being nice or respectable or willing to be made into inspiration porn—it is not good disability activism.
Family Caregiver Alliance
FCA is first and foremost a public voice for caregivers. Founded in the late 1970s, we were the first community-based nonprofit organization in the country to address the needs of families and friends providing long-term care for loved ones at home. We illuminate the caregivers’ daily challenges to better the lives of caregivers nationally, provide them the assistance they need and deserve, and champion their cause through education, services, research and advocacy.
Long recognized as a pioneer in health services, FCA supports and sustains caregivers with national, state and local programs and resources:
- National Center on Caregiving– FCA’s NCC unites research, policy and practice, to advance the development of high-quality, cost-effective programs and policies for caregivers in every state
- Family Care Navigator is sponsored by the NCC and helps caregivers locate support services by state
- Link2Care, is an online discussion & support group managed by FCA intended for clients of California’s system ofCaregiver Resource Centers, especially focused on caregivers of those with Dementia
- Bay Area Caregiver Resource Center is the CRC for the six-county San Francisco Bay Area, operated by FCA. FCA’s Family Consultants, educated & licensed in social work, work closely with families caring for ill or elderly loved ones.
Our services, education programs and publications are developed with caregivers’ expressed needs in mind, to offer real support, essential information, and tools to manage the complex and demanding tasks of caregiving.
Holding the Bowl 