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Disabled World (DW) Disability News Service retweeted
The big beautiful bill.
Projected to leave 10 million more Americans without health insurance by 2034.
Artist: @PaulNoth
Disabled World (DW) Disability News Service retweeted
Memories are freaking fascinating. I love the mix of straight up brain science + proteins + biology + psychology ...
Reconstructing a memory is interesting work!
#mind
"Remembering is a constructive, even creative, endeavour."
#mind #memory #BrainScience
thewalrus.ca/karim-nader/
Disabled World (DW) Disability News Service retweeted
"Chronic illness did not explain Lesya Ukrainka's literature. War did not create the cultural value of The Forest Song. Neither should be romanticized as a productive force."
Lesya Ukrainka: Chronic Illness, Writing and The Forest Song - How #LesyaUkrainka wrote The Forest Song while living with #tuberculosis and variable capacity, and how her 1911 drama became the animated film #Mavka during war - disabled-world.com/disabilit…
Disabled World (DW) Disability News Service retweeted
"Independence here does not mean absence of dependency. It means retaining authority over thought while using whatever infrastructure makes thought possible."
#poetry #literature
Lesya Ukrainka: Chronic Illness, Writing and The Forest Song - How #LesyaUkrainka wrote The Forest Song while living with #tuberculosis and variable capacity, and how her 1911 drama became the animated film #Mavka during war - disabled-world.com/disabilit…
Famous People Who Have or Had #Tuberculosis: Includes writers, composers, artists, saints and world leaders, with notes on how #TB affected their lives - disabled-world.com/disabilit…
Alex Zanardi: Rebuilding Control After Double Amputation - #AlexZanardi racing career after a double leg #amputation shows how #handcontrols, #prosthetics and #handcycle design rebuilt his driving and #Paralympic success - disabled-world.com/disabilit…
Disabled World (DW) Disability News Service retweeted
In my autism ABCs videos I introduce a word beginning with each letter in the English language and discuss important autism insights.
Please enjoy!
#autism #autistic #parenting
Full playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
Living With Crohn's Disease as an Invisible Disability - A graduate student with #CrohnsDisease explains how chronic illness, #InvisibleDisability, treatment costs and #Healthcare access shape education and work - disabled-world.com/disabilit…
Internalized Ableism: Rejecting #Shame and #DisabilityPride - This information looks at internalized #ableism, which is what happens when society’s negative messages about #disability get absorbed by #disabled and #nondisabled people alike - disabled-world.com/editorial…
Snowball Accessibility App Named in TIME's Best Inventions - #Snowball brings together #accessibility assessments, user reviews and practical details so people can judge whether a restaurant, hotel, shop or attraction suits their needs before they leave home - disabled-world.com/assistive…
#PlaynookGames: Free #Accessible Browser #Games for Everyone - A collection of 16 classic browser games, including #Chess, #Checkers, #Sudoku, #Minesweeper, #Solitaire, #ConnectFour and #WordNook - disabled-world.com/entertain…
Lesya Ukrainka: Chronic Illness, Writing and The Forest Song - How #LesyaUkrainka wrote The Forest Song while living with #tuberculosis and variable capacity, and how her 1911 drama became the animated film #Mavka during war - disabled-world.com/disabilit…
Disabled World (DW) Disability News Service retweeted
"I had seen Van Gogh hundreds of times before I stood in front of his work at the Albertina in Vienna. Books, catalogues, websites, documentaries, prints: the images were already familiar. The paintings were not.
In front of the originals, familiarity became almost irrelevant."
Vincent van Gogh: What Reproduction Cannot Preserve disabled-world.com/disabilit…
