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“DWP PIP cuts under fire as Labour MP goes rogue and launches huge petition”

by Steve Topple in The Canary @thecanaryuk @UKLabour

“[Richard] Burgon has initiated a petition titled ‘Tax Wealth – Don’t Cut Disability Support,’ which has already attracted over 40,000 signatures, indicating robust support from the public”

thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/

Canary · DWP PIP cuts under fire as Labour MP goes rogue and launches huge petitionRichard Burgon has launched a petition that's already hit over 40,000 signatures, opposing DWP PIP and Universal Credit cuts
#Press#UK#Labour
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Support Natou's Journey to Stability

"t's been a loooong time since we've updated Natou's supporters, so let's give a quick update on the last six months:

-Natou is out of Alaska! Wooo!
-After spending some time with a couple different friends in 2024, they've decided to settle in Portland Oregon.
-They've managed to replaced their state ID and social security card, and they've gotten enrolled in Medicaid.
-They're in physical therapy for chronic pain from various injuries, they've established a primacy care physician, and are solidly on the long journey toward healthy and stability.

The news is very good; their situation is much improved from when we launched this fundraiser. Now there's one huge hurdle still facing them: housing."

gofundme.com/f/support-natous-

gofundme.comDonate to Support Natou's Journey to Stability, organized by Atlas Talos I’m Atlas Talos, a cartoonist and small business owner from Portland Oregon, and I… Atlas Talos needs your support for Support Natou's Journey to Stability
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#Disabled #Indigenous #Latina family, #Homeless.

Prior to eviction, Sabi, who's disabled, could take commissions, work on album, two YT channels, Twitch, radio streams, freelance, blogging, advocacy for #Disability & #MentalHealth.

Last March, this amazing multi-talented artist & musician lost equipment & began sheltering in hotel with elderly mom w/ dementia & ESA bunny, as 24/7 caretaker.

For months, through little sleep & food scarcity, Sabi's been fighting daily to keep her family alive.

#Indigenous #Latina family, #Homeless

#SabiLewSounds is 24/7 caretaker for #elderly mom w/ #dementia & #ESA #bunny; disabled multidisciplinary #artist & #musician; #mentalhealth & #disability #advocate

$120 Minimum Needed IMMEDIATELY
$920 Minimum Needed BY 11AM ET
$989 Covers all Bills
$1239 All Needs

ko-fi.com/SabiLewSounds
paypal.me/SabiLewSounds
cash.app/$toadlyturtle [Note: Sabi]
venmo.com/u/toadlyturtle [Note: Sabi]

Medical errors kill, maim and traumatize. As a disability advocate, I hear stories of medical negligence almost every day. I’ve got more than a handful of my own stories.

Few are as egregious a this one.

A young woman seeks help for abdominal pain. At first she’s dismissed as having PCOS.

They later find a 25cm (!!!) cyst on her ovary and proceed to do a total hysterectomy and resect part of her bowel and appendix.

She barely survives, and when she regains consciousness in the ICU is told she’s lost her womb and has stage four cancer.

That alone would be difficult to deal with, but then she’s later told she doesn’t have cancer and the hysterectomy and surgical menopause were unnecessary.

She tries to focus on the positive (not dying of cancer), only to have the medical team change course again and confirm that she actually DOES have stage four cancer but in her appendix and lymph nodes and not her uterus or ovary. Pp

The gauntlet of emotions this woman must be dealing with is heartbreaking.

How a medical team can get something this wrong this many times on ONE patient I will never understand.

As always, try and have an advocate with you at all times. I’m unsure if it would have helped in this scenario, but we all need a second set of eyes and ears in the room.

Ask questions. Get a second opinion. Don’t be afraid to speak up if you feel you’re being mistreated. Reach out online for support from other patients and caregivers… we will help you.

people.com/woman-32-has-hyster

People.comWoman, 32, Gets Hysterectomy Due to Tumor on Her Ovary. Doctors Later Apologize When Biopsy Shows No CancerRhian Butlin, 32, underwent an unnecessary hysterectomy after doctors thought a tumor on her ovary was cancerous.
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@Aaidanbird

Have you seen the documentary Crip Camp about the summer camp that gave rise to a generation of US disability rights activists?

It includes disability activist-led protest footage that reframes the concept of what protests can be & how they can work. It's a good resource for those who may not know how to answer what access in a protest can look like.

It's more relevant than ever. We warmly recommend it.

journeysinfilm.org/product/cri

#Disability #DisabilityJustice #DisabilityRights #DisabilityAdvocacy #Education #Homschooling @disability @disabilityjustice @disabilityhistory @education @edutooters

Journeys in FilmCrip Camp | Journeys in FilmCrip Camp Curriculum Guide and Discussion Guide with Full Accessibility - resources are free as is the documentary through Youtube

How is everyone feeling?

What activism is happening in the Disabled Sphere?

How can we better support one another?

What ways can we make protests more accessible?

These are questions I've been thinking about lately. It's why I'm working on the collective access zine. (It's almost finished!)

EDIT: This was meant to start a discussion on what we're all working on and/or needing.

YOUNG DISABLED COUPLE IN NEED OF CARE

After an urgent life saving move and an unexpected diagnosis of Addisons Disease for their Dog has led to a Financial Crisis

They are Behind on Several MAJOR Bills
Car Payment & Registration,
Electric, Internet, Health Insurance etc....

GOAL:
$1275 ASAP
for April Rent

Please Support

Vnm: skelders333
PPal: skelders

💕💸 #MutualAid #Poverty #Disability #HelpSky #Fundsky #SignalBoost #MABoost #MutualAidRequest #HelpFolksLive2025

NPR: DOGE abruptly cut a program for teens with disabilities. This student is 'devastated'

Students with disabilities lost a helpful program to DOGE cuts. It helped students with disabilities make the sometimes difficult transition from high school into college or the world of work and self-sufficiency

Image: Logan, 17 and a junior at Newton South High School, stands in his room in Newton, Mass. Logan was part of a program called Charting My Path, which helps students living with disabilities prepare for life after high school. The Trump administration cancelled the program in February.

Image by Cassandra Klos for NPR #USPol #disability #doge

npr.org/2025/04/14/nx-s1-53458

I am so very tired today, on top of being in way to much pain, I simply am tired and without a decent chair to actually relax in or a bed that actually supports me, I have no way to actually try and get some much needed rest, I get up move a few feet and feel exhausted sure would be helpful if people could read the following, and be supportive,

Some Empathy, Compassion and Understanding Would Really Be Nice, I Could Really Truly Use Some HELP and SUPPORT Right NOW!

I am a #disabled man living in #poverty, my #disability is 60% physical and 40% mental, and as I get older, both of those are increasingly hard to deal with, each day I try to do what I can where I live, as part of my rent is to help out when and as I can, but that is getting harder and harder to do, I am spent, between losing what little strength and physical ability I have left and not getting decent sleep nor having a decent diet, things just keep getting harder, and that causes my #anxiety to get worse which causes my #bipolar to cycle, which causes more lack of sleep, and I am in constant pain, and on and on it goes, at 47 years old I sure wish people could see the value in helping me #fundraise $5million dollars so that I can buy my own property and build my forever home, and have everything I need to never have to worry again, and to alleviate the stress of my day to day situation, and so I can really just age at a pace that wont effect anyone or anything, because in my own home, if I cant or dont feel like it I dont have to do anything for days, weeks, or months at a time and no one can get mad at me. People seem to forget that I am disabled and they dont realize I am getting older, nor do they comprehend that I simply cant afford #food to eat 3 meals a day, often not even one meal a day, that I have no #healthcare, people in general expect me to just keep going like the energizer bunny, when the reality is I am an old broke down ford truck, that on occasion I can get fired up and get a few things done, but more often than not, I really dont have the gas to even stand up, being #disabled and living in #poverty Fucking Sucks! you cant afford to eat when your hungry, you cant afford to take care of your health, you cant afford anything a person needs in life, Poverty Fucking Sucks, but when Your Disabled, it Fucking Blows, and every little thing is compounded a 1000 times and no one really cares to help you. I have so many unseen issues, most don’t realize the true difficulty I endure each day, first I don’t sleep well, for many reasons, from a brain that is constantly in overdrive, to relentless nightmares, to being in constant pain, to not having a decent supportive bed to sleep on, so my days start of painful, tired and overwhelmed before I even get going, Often I go hungry because living in #poverty I simply can not afford #food to eat, I typically only get around 600-800 calories a day when a man my size and age should be getting around 3000 calories a day, as a result despite my appearance I suffer from malnutrition, I have a great deal of difficulty cleaning my tiny cave, from not being able to afford the basics to have cleaning supplies to being physically limited in my ability to do so, I cant hardly bend over, nor can I very easily get up and down off the floor, taking a shower can simply become a serious challenge, and often leaves my exhausted not to mention I cant often afford the basics for personal hygiene, simply washing a dish or standing at the stove at times can be brutal on my back, then there are chores I need to tend to as part of my rent, and those absolutely can be a painful and exhaustive event for me, and those around often don’t even realize and expect more as a result, and if I say I have had enough today, I am questioned, because they assume I did what I did with ease, but they have no idea of the pain and struggle I had to endure to deal with to accomplish the tasks at hand, reading has become trouble some, as world become very blurry and melt together, writing is becoming increasingly difficult, as finding the words is getting harder and harder, being creative used to help but I have been in so much pain, and under so much stress that I often cant even muster up the energy to attempt to be creative, not to mention my camera is failing, my laptop is struggling, and again no money to obtain what I actually need, I have no #healthcare because the laws people pass have really messed that up, and after years fighting to get it resolved I have given up, so I fight through each day to just to suffer the next, I reach out constantly for financial support yet receive nearly nothing compared to what I actually need, this #disable man exists in #poverty, constant pain and my #anxiety exacerbates my #ptsd, my #bipolar cycles, and several other issues, my blood pressure has been all over the place and frankly in a rather obscenely high range for to long, my core body temp has been far lower than the average, while I often feel as though I am on fire, things get darker with my sight each day, and yet to bright, I hear and see so much that is not actually there, so very much wrong and no support nor help to be found, it would really truly help if people could and would help me #fundriase the money I need each day to live, and the money I need to set up a life where I can take care of myself and lessen the effects of poverty and disability on an aging body and mind.

$5-10-15 It All Helps, via #cashapp at $woctxphotog or via #paypal at paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=…

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I am finally healthy enough, and feel safe enough where I live that I am considering finding a #job again!

It would have to be worth it though. Because I risk my #disability payments if I find one.

However with the government in shambles, my faith that I will still have payments from there is sinking further and further into the floor.

So I want to be financially covered if something happens.

I kinda miss working in fine dining. All I do is talk anyway, maybe I'll go be a host.

My ADHD has turned on its head since I fixed my sleep. Now, when I have to be somewhere by a certain time, no longer am I always late. Lately, I've been like 20 minutes early to every damn thing.
Misplacing things has gotten worse though.
#adhd #disability

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‘Following the furore over Darren Jones and Rachel Reeves’s comparison of the forthcoming #disability benefit cuts to “pocket money”, it is with astonishment that I see that you have referred to being unable to cut up food, needing assistance to wash or shower, and needing supervision to use the toilet as “low level functional” problems that can be dealt with by “small interventions”’

Shane Brown Open Letter to Stephen Timms MP

thecanary.co/opinion/2025/04/1

Canary · 'How dare you': an open letter over callous DWP PIP cuts to Stephen TimmsAmid the Labour Party DWP callous PIP cuts, one disabled Canary reader has penned a damning letter to disability minister Stephen Timms.
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@verdantsquare

The article points out that UBI will boost local economies because low-income households will spend additional income immediately, stimulating demand, but I think there's another very significant boost: freeing potential entrepreneurs to risk start-up.

I worked in business development for many years, and it was clear that many people with great ideas and abilities - including people disabled in other ways - just couldn't take the risk of losing their current income. Not only is this a huge loss for local economic development - it is unjust and inequitable, because of course the already wealthy are not held back by the risks.