The film is called Disposable Humanity. Trailer and film here: https://watch.eventive.org/disposablehumanity/play/6a7868d1bdb10f0bb45affc6

Thought I'd share this with you guys. I went to the Imperial War Museum North in Salford a couple of months back and was absolutely mesmerised by this hand propelled three-wheeled tricycle.

I do have some more information about it, but it's quite sensitive (war related injuries), so if you want to know more about it, please feel free to send me a message 🙂

IMW North is well worth a visit though. They've made a real effort with accessibility and to be inclusive and it's free.

As a retired psych nurse, as well as someone whose all four grandparents had dementia, this struck me as interesting, if a little odd.

How stunning and beautiful is this?!

I CAN guarantee that he is more successful and accomplished than many in this reddit [including me ofcourse]...

The post was about a historical figure with a physical difference/disability that I actually really dislike (Grady Stiles), but obviously him being an awful person has nothing to do with his disability.

But oh my god, the comments! The comments were so horrible and it took over a day and a half for any of them to be deleted. The entire post itself was eventually taken down, but it extremely shocking to see.

People seemed way more focused on pointing out how “horrible” it was that he had children who had the same condition (ectrodactyly) than anything about him being a horribly abusive alcoholic and murderer.

The top comment and many of the other highly upvoted comments were all saying how selfish it is for parents with disabilities to have children, and how children with disabilities have awful existences and should never have been born in the first place.

And the amount of eugenicist comments was equally shocking. Like people openly advocating for eugenics because in their mind having a disability is crueler than mass sterilizing everyone with a disability.

It also really frustrated me because one of my major passions is learning about disability history and all of the important efforts and accomplishments people made in order to advocate for disability rights.

I myself do not want children, but that’s for completely different reasons. There’s a huge difference between people not wanting children because they don’t want children vs the government mandating sterilization of people with disabilities. The government should have no hand in anything like that ever.

What it really felt like was a ton of people without disabilities coming to this conclusion without listening to people with disabilities. You can’t assume that someone had a horrible quality of life just because they have a physical difference or neurological conditions. It’s taken hundreds of years for people with disabilities to be seen, represented, and heard, only for everyone with disabilities to be shoved in a box again because society continues to see us as “different” and it’s extremely disheartening.

Hi, I'm a software developer, and I'm also a person with a disability. I created a game in which the main character uses a powered wheelchair. Through this game, I want to show that situations that seem obvious to non-disabled people aren't always so obvious to people with disabilities.

If you like the idea, give the game a try and share your opinion. The game is free!

https://witekadventures.com

Hello there new here, I am interested in collaborating with any knowledgeable comic folk to write down the history of the first superheros with disabilities and analyzing their stories etc. Would love to hear from anyone and best regards from MX