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Vilissa Thompson
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Vilissa Thompson
@VilissaThompson
#DisabilityTooWhite Creator • Founder of @RampYourVoice! • #Disability_Rights #Consultant • Social Worker • #Writer • patreon.com/RampYourVoice
- It’s not often I see disability in Black art. Really feeling this. Black creatives, please do more of this.When women walk and work together ...
- Seeing Beyoncé modify her tour to accommodate her needs makes my #disabled heart happy. We should all do better in normalizing accommodations so that we show up as our full selves without putting undo strain on our bodyminds. If it’s good for Beyoncé, it’s good for me/you/us.
- I have waited 33 years to have a Barbie that looks like me. Now Black disabled girls won't have to wait as long as I did for a doll to exist. Thank you, @Mattel.
- It’s 2022 - your ableist jokes may have consequences you might not be ready for. And… leave Black women alone. Period.
- My #RENAISSANCEWOLRDTOUR recap - the #Philly show! Seen a few #disabled folks - we were out here! A 🧵 of photos from the concert - from my POV
- So, are we ready to have the conversation about ableism in progressive spaces or not? Because it seems to me that it's long overdue in the way some of you all are behaving.
- Blue Ivy knowing & reading you all’s comments about her breaks my heart. She’s just a kid. I know y’all are twisting this to show that she’s “resilient,” but we do need to realize that no child should have to be resilient. The way y’all discuss & treat kids are disturbing."Blue Ivy’s performance was only supposed to be a one-off, and even that took some negotiating. “She told me she was ready to perform, and I told her no,” Beyoncé says in the film. Though she finally relented, Beyoncé was dismayed when Blue Ivy read comments on social media that
- This is me. And I’ll never stop. The goods with the later expiration dates (like milk) are typically near/in the back. Plus, the items up front are touched more.I mean.. this ain't wrong.
00:00 - Stan! Phenom casting.N.J. high school’s ‘Wizard of Oz’ shines with student and her service dog playing Dorothy and Toto nj-ne.ws/Sr1KatI
- I had to write about why @ewarren's disability plan stood out from the rest - she included intersectional disabled voices that endured that the plan was just as impactful and inclusive as it needed to be.
