Tag: disability
Changing Places Toilet Awareness Day
Today is Changing Places Toilet Awareness Day - an annual event to raise awareness of Changing Places Toilets which offer enhanced facilities for people with profound disabilities. Those of you who read my days out posts will note that I usually include the availability of a Changing Places toilet in the accessibility section. Whilst I...
Mutual Aid Checkpoint Roundup 20/05/2026
This mutual aid checkpoint roundup gathers urgent requests from the week, including direct appeals and Palestinian campaign spotlights. Support what is possible, contribute where able, and circulate the original requests so help can move beyond exhausted circles.
UPDATE 12-May-2026 07:45 UTC+7.
355/560 â 205 left to reach the goal for May, in less than 4 days đ„č I appreciate all kinds of distribution, really. I do really need help.
UPDATE 11-May-2026 11:30 UTC+7.
353/560 â 207 left to reach the goal for May, in less than 5 days. Monthly pledges help ease the instability that comes with disability and having no fixed income or healthcare, though one-off support also helps immensely. Small contributions add up toward the essentials that keep me afloat: food, bills, and internet access. If...
Update 2026-05-07 16:40 UTC+7
No movement so far. I still need $212 to cover the total of $560 for this month. The deadline is fast approaching :') I'm disabled without a fixed income or healthcare. Support helps me stay connected and continue my work in mutual aid, political writing, and advocacy. If you have the capacity, I appreciate any support. If not, please help amplify this far and wide. Thank you, thank you https://wrzky.com/links
Itâs been a minuteâŠ
After losing multiple Threads accounts, WRZKY began rebuilding through the Fediverse, federating the website via ActivityPub, and developing independent mutual aid infrastructure beyond Metaâs corporate control and algorithmic suppressionâwhile preparing the return of Mutual Aid Checkpoint through decentralised platforms and newsletter-based community organising.
Update 05-05-2026
348/560 â $212 left to cover May essentials. Thank you to everyone whoâs contributed so far Iâm disabled with no healthcare or fixed income, and I need ongoing support to stay afloat. If you can spare at least $5/month, it would make a real difference. If you prefer one-off support, that helps just as much....
CLEAN AIR: Long COVID Is a Catastrophic Public Policy Failure
A follow-up looking at the real, systemic intervention for the Long COVID mass-disabiling event: Clean air. MERV 13 filters, the Corsi-Rosenthal Box, and the Zadroga Act we still have to write to climb the bureaucratic wall of disability denial, and what those of us with capacity owe to those who are too sick to fight for themselves.
Disability in Adventure Time
Growing up alongside Adventure Time over fourteen years, this academic analysis explores Finn's permanent amputation as a radical moment in children's animationâexamining fatalism, trauma, prostheticization, and the cultural discomfort with non-normative bodies through disability studies theory.