To all the disabled people gloating they were invited to the White House today for the celebration of the ADA anniversary and posting about it: I SEE YOU #NoPrideInGenocide #CripTheVote #FreePalestine

It’s interesting to me that my doctor, when I was clear that bad air quality was flaring my asthma, talked about asthma as being something I can either control or not (with meds) rather than noting that the air quality is, in fact, the uncontrollable variable causing the

People who can work from home should be allowed to and people who cannot do their job from home should be paid for their commute time.

We’re heading into conciliation with the EEOC, so I’m curious: are there any journalists out there who might be interested in doing a story about disability discrimination that took place at a large academic medical center and was carried out by a tenured professor with millions

Does anyone know how to determine an amount of money for emotional damages and reputation harm relating to a discrimination case? I need to do this for conciliation but I have no idea how to go about it. What happened obliterated my academic career chances and it negatively

BREAKING: New Jersey becomes the latest place to introduce mask ban legislation. The bill was introduced today by Republican Jon Bramnick. The bill would make it a petty disorderly persons offense for people who congregate in public while wearing masks. northjersey.com/story/news/new…

Possibly my favorite piece that Alice has written. Give it a read if you can.

Every other person in SF’s Chinatown is wearing a medical mask right now. Relatively more masking is observed in working class communities of color in Oakland, too. The racial & class bias of mask bans are so clear. So is the cruelty of targeting communities hit hardest by Covid.

Two days ago, a lawfirm filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against 6 commercial publishers (incl Elsevier & Wiley) in the federal district court in New York. They allege a 3-part scheme on part of publishers. 🧵 lieffcabraser.com/antitrust/acad…

I think many in the long covid community still believe Dr. House (or some scientist version of him) will eventually come to save them. I wish I could plug them into my brain and show them the reality that most doctors are more like Zoidberg and that we know so little about the

Disabled life is precarity to the extreme. So many of us are on the brink of some catastrophic problem that could destroy or uproot our entire lives, but we just carry on because we cannot do anything about it either way

"People say they need a break because their mental health is suffering [...] but nobody's acknowledging the impact on people like me." This feature on my ongoing experience as a #HighRiskCovid19 person needs to be seen everywhere. Please watch & share. youtube.com/watch?v=X0h0-g…

I figured it out: the LC community doesn’t realize how many of us in the disabled community still feel horrid, even with “good” medical care. It makes me sad because I get it: I used to think I could find a magical provider who would fix it all for me somehow. Then I learned they

The whole nocebo thing is a physician coping mechanism. Patient blaming done to preserve their own egos because they are unable to help or because the “help” they try to provide actually hurts people and that is rough to accept. It would make me sad for them if they weren’t

I just saw what I thought was a PSA to get vaccinated against COVID-19, but it was actually a Moderna sponsored ad. Public health in the US has failed so epically that pharmaceutical companies are the ones pushing out public health messaging. Late stage capitalism 🤝 Pandemic

I’ve said it before & I will say it again “Nocebo” isn’t a thing…it’s bullshit…it’s a gaslighting technique If a patient is reporting a side effect to a medication…listen to them & do something about it… Blaming the pt for their side effect is simply outrageous to me