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168 - Vanessa Vlajkovic is a subeditor at ABC News. She's also Deafblind, here's how she does her job - ABC News
My hearing impairment went from mild to moderate to severe, and in 2020 reached profound. When it started affecting my education during high school, my parents' solution was simple; a cochlear implant. But I wasn't keen. I am still, today, firmly against it. Because there was another option, one that hadn't crossed my parents' minds. And that was sign language. I didn't want or need to be cured. Deafness isn't a debilitating disease that causes death. Furthermore, there was no guarantee an...
403 - mekka okereke :verified:: "If you don't like the lawsuit …" - disabled.social
If you don't like the lawsuit filed against Fearless Fund, (a VC that funds Black women), and don't like the fact that it was filed by the people that brought the lawsuit that ended affirmative action at Harvard... You can donate here: https://fearlessfreedomnow.org/ For context, VC is the most racist and sexist part of the US finance industry. Less than 0.5% of all VC funding goes to Black women. Fearless Fund gives part of that tiny amount explicitly to Black women... so this group sued them.🤡
1189 - Yehuda | TurtleIsland.social: "🧵 2016 video of TV spot/artic…" - disabled.social
🧵 2016 video of TV spot/article I was in where people were living outside in below zero weather. In many places there are below zero weather forecasts. Consider that #Native #Indigenous people & #LGBTQ2S people are disproportionately affected & harmed by #Homelessness so PLEASE help your local people & support people/organizations that are in the trenches. Also consider many Native/Indigenous in rural areas have heat & supply issues, it's super serious! #TurtleIsland https://turtleisland...
4143 - Bruce Lehrmann ‘hellbent on having sex’ with Brittany Higgins and raped her in Parliament House, defamation judge finds | Australia news | The Guardian
Bruce Lehrmann has lost his defamation case against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson, bringing to an end a sprawling legal saga which has gripped the nation. In a live oral summary that took two and a half hours, Justice Michael Lee said the former Liberal staffer was not defamed by Wilkinson and Ten when The Project broadcast an interview with Brittany Higgins on Monday 15 February 2021 in which she alleged she was raped in Parliament House. He found that on the balance of probabilities Lehr...
5936 - OtherSociology
White people usually eager to be seen as "not racist" justifying the detention of poor, mostly migrant & refugee people Because it's racial minorities, White people can only imagine brutality as the primary way to manage public health when, in fact, there are many other models
8107 - Lifts the requirement to quarantine is a ludicrously euphemistic way to announce people who are sick with COVID will NOT be excused from school and work. It's pressure to go to school and work sick...
8845 - I've been thinking a lot about MeToo and the men who had their lives "ruined" by assault or harassment allegations, so...I decided to do some googling into Where Are They Now
9051 - A blind person and a wheelchair user go to the theatre. The accessible seats are in a location where the audio description headsets don't work, and the seats where the AD works aren't accessible. B...
10944 - From bias to brutality: How Australia is failing minority groups - ABC listen
They’ve been spat on, punched in the face, and told to go back to where they came from.
Minority groups in Australia insist hate crimes are on the rise since the Christchurch massacre.
There have been thousands of reports of property damage as well as verbal and physical abuse arising from racial discrimination.
