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[frail-and-freakish]

today, april 11th, is the anniversary of Mel Baggs' death. Mel Baggs was one of the early founders of the neurodiversity movement and believed that no one was too disabled for human rights, something that modern nd movements fail to understand to this day. sie was so instrumental to my understanding of literally everything. sie died from medical ableism and neglect during the beginning of the pandemic. we would be nowhere fucking near where we are now without hir. i've decided to make a masterlist of some of my favorite posts of hirs, organized into different categories.

(some of these are listed in more than one category because they overlap so much)

here are some of the "essentials" (what you might have already read by hir/should read first):

hir memorial site hosted by ASAN:

In My Language

the oak manifesto

There is ableism at the heart of your oppression, no matter what your oppression might be

Getting The Truth Out (many pages, parody of bad autism awareness campaign called "getting the word out")

the meaning of self-advocacy

what makes institutions bad

aspie supremacy can kill

here are some of hir beautiful writings on perceiving/communicating with hir environment as an autistic person, and on communication in general:

up in the clouds and down in the valley: my richness and yours

distance underthought

the naked mechanisms of echolalia

empty mirrors and redwoods

the fireworks are interesting

hir tumblr tag #sensing (@withasmoothroundstone)

on personhood and who has the authority to take it away:

being an unperson

what it means to be real

empty mirrors and redwoods

on institutions and the I/DD service system:

caregiver abuse takes many forms

"i don't know that person's program"

what my home means to me

dd service system tag

god help the critic of the dawn: glamour and its fallout

what makes institutions bad

post on the JRC

outposts in our heads

on online social justice communities/their inaccessibility:

Your politics have a problem when they contradict the real-life experiences of the people they're supposed to be about.

politics, ethics and mental widgets

hir tumblr tags #outside the wall and #little packages (@withasmoothroundstone)

misc:

The Bones My Family Gave Me

Please violate only one stereotype at a time

My sort of people, just as real as theirs.

Reviving the concept of cousins

gender tag

this is hir poems and creative works:

this is hir writing on autistics.org:

may hir memory be a blessing/revolution.

#mel baggs #z”l #autism #actually autistic #autism acceptance month #autism awareness #disability #disability rights #disability justice #mushroom.txt #actuallydd #autism acceptance #actuallyautistic #tagging this in All The Tags so people see it #autism awareness month #autistic #autistic spectrum #autistic things #asd #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #i/dd

[prettymovie]

sometimes i feel so very 20

things are so new and sunny

scary, feeling so small

im still at the very beginning though,

this is the perfect time

for making so many mistakes, constantly learning

that even when it gets too much

the way the wind blows and the way the sun hits my cat is

telling me i still have time

and in this inbetween moment they will hold me so i can rest

#mushroom.txt #not my best poem but i feel good today #i cleaned my house and im on new meds #i just have to keep telling myself im doing good #even if it feels like im running out of time to do anything #poetry

[fungusinternet]

God i hope qrow ends up being canonically gay or bi. just imagine, what an incredible "fuck you" to vic mignogna that would be

#mushroom.txt #rwby #rwby spoilers

[drippinghoneypot]

i love watching people i love do normal, every day things. i got to watch my boyfriend play a game he loves yesterday over skype and i found out when he focuses he kinda. sticks his tongue out a little and its absolutely the cutest thing ive ever seen

#mushroom.txt #god i love him so much im so gay #hes the definition of perfect #and i cant wait to have my little cottage in ireland with him #cottagecore #lovecore #im in love with him!!!! #im gonna marry that boy

[number-one-radio-simp]

I've started posting about the book I'm gonna write a bit! There's not much, but there's gonna be a post explaining one of the characters soon! I'm just drawing some of them!

PLEASE DO! I LOVE READING!

#🌸 asks.txt #🌸 mushroom.txt

[frail-and-freakish]

look i appreciate all the Somerton dunking but can you guys stop acting like some guy on youtube having awful takes about the aids crisis makes the entire 1990s-2010ish radical queer opposition to marriage/military/hate crime legislation/assimilating into the church/etc a modern hot take from privileged gen z guys who don’t know their history. this take might have spread to weird academics who took shit from community organizers (like the Gay Shame conference at university of michigan who stole and de-fanged the work of Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s based as fuck collective of the same name) and then spread to people like somerton through like. twitter discourse.

but the people making this point at first were people who had lived through the AIDS crisis, who had been unable to visit their partners as they died of AIDS, who had experienced these things not just as a talking point or a collective memory but in a material, acute way. Sycamore has a great anthology of queers who grew up during the AIDS crisis and a 2006 anti-marriage/assimilation anthology called That’s Revolting and there’s a lot of overlap between the two

in contrast the people fighting for gay marriage in the 80s were by and large not aids survivors who wanted legal rights but conservative gays like Andrew Sullivan who basically argued “to shut those pesky little ACT UPers up we should just ‘coax them into traditional values’ so they won’t resist us anymore and also they won’t be sluts anymore”.

obviously this isn’t black and white like there are people who did great work in ACT UP who later did pro marriage organizing in the 2000s. and the specifics of these writers’ work aren’t as relevant now as they were then (i haven’t seen anyone argue that we should be fighting to repeal the rights we already have because assimilation bad and I’m glad that’s not a discourse topic). but this one guy being an asshole doesn’t mean this important queer line of critique came from privileged outsiders and we can’t take important things from it.

#the diskie #queer histories #mushroom.txt

[prettymovie]

i want a golden record tattoo desperately

#mushroom.txt

[fungusinternet]

man i dont use tumblr as much as i used to. i'm mostly on twitter now - feel free to follow me there https://twitter.com/paintedpaw

#mushroom.txt

[number-one-radio-simp]

Hhhhhi

FRIENDOOOOOO!

#🌸 asks.txt #🌸 friends.txt #🌸 Mushroom.txt