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Questions for Leftists:

"Is your anarchy only allowing abled bodied people now? Do Disabled People, like myself, not matter to your movement? Are we not worthy of life and care? Do we not deserve the same access to information as you?"

Being inaccessible means excluding an entire swathe of people from the movement for equality, equity, justice, and autonomy. Anyone can become disabled at any time too, so being inaccessible means that someday the movement may end up excluding you.

Being inaccessible also means complicity and conscious or not agreement with the tenets of eugenics and white supremacy/abled-bodied supremacy. Both fight to erase disabled people of all identities and walks of life. When Leftism fails to be accessible, when they adopt these inaccessible approaches, they are taking from white-abled-bodied supremacy to oppress others. They have failed to be inclusive, to be just, to engage in collective care, and they betray the fight for justice.

Either your movement includes us -- nothing without us -- or your movement is part of the oppression that kills us.

In the fight for justice and for our right to exist, there is no middle ground here. Either be accessible in all avenues and include disabled people of all walks of life OR support those that wish to erase our existences.

Accessing information, accessing physical spaces, accessing transportation, accessing social platforms, accessing virtual spaces, accessing public spaces -- these are all the many elements of accessibility.

Accessibility is more than just AltText, ramps, doors that open with a button, and apps that work well with screenreaders.

Accessibility means that disabled people are able to access all the things abled-bodied people can access in all the spaces of life: physical space, transportation space, information space, community space, justice space, virtual space, and collective space.

To say that this is impossible to include everyone, to not even try to be inclusive and accessible? That is being complicit in oppression and eugenics.

Stop doing that.

It is possible to be accessible. It is possible to create a movement that LEAVES NO ONE BEHIND.

And if we are not willing to utilize our imagination to create that? If we fight against that and claim it's too hard?

Then what the fuck are we fighting for? Because it's not justice. It's not a future that will end oppression. It will only continue the oppressive institutions that harm and kill.

Leave No One Behind. Be Accessible. Talk with disabled folks like me and learn ways to be more accessible.

#Justice #LeaveNoOneBehind #Accessibility