Accessibility can be done, and frequently is done, from a place of saviourism.

This mindset is one where disabled people are tragic and helpless and must be saved by accessibility.

Saviours are not able to see disability as a social issue they see it as a disabled person issue.

We need accessibility practice to be led by people who see disability as the result of oppression of people with various impairments: you are disabled by society not your impairments.

When you use more progressive framings like the social model you can more clearly see that we all are responsible for inaccessibility, it’s not charity work, it’s deconstructing systems of oppression.

@nickcolley

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When the right says "we need to do something about mental illness" what they mean is what happened to Jordan Neely. When they mention that Jordan was suffering from mental illness listen to the tone. Listen to how, like him being homeless it's a justification for ... murder. I live in the south Bronx. I've seen some very loud, 'erratic,' belligerent even, baseball fans, drunk, peeing on our sidewalks-- why aren't they on the "just kill em for being annoying" list too?