anyway I will always be suspicious of people who tell disabled people to shut up for “activist reasons”. you know
“now’s not the time to talk about eugenics, we can’t give the anti-choice people the fuel” then stop being ableist when you argue for abortions
“now’s not the time to talk about the overlap between disability and queerness, we can’t let people think that queerness is a disease” stop letting conservatives control the narrative and start forming coalitions with your disabled siblings
it’s not progressive if you’re leaving disabled people behind. it’s not good leftism if you’re using ableist rhetoric to justify your positions. seriously
“Did you see the way that little girl looked at me? Kids. Little kids. They grow up believing that they can be a hero if they drive a sword into the heart of anything different. And I’m the monster? I don’t know what’s scarier. The fact that everyone in this kingdom wants to run a sword through my heart or that sometimes I just wanna let ‘em.” “We have to get you out of here. Over the wall. We won’t stop until we find some place safe, okay? We’ll go. Together. No matter what we do, we can’t change the way people see us.” “You changed the way you see me… Didn’t you?
NIMONA(2023), based on the comic by ND Stevenson, who came out as transgender in 2022
Jessie doesn’t nerd out often but when she does, it’s about snakes or fashion. After she released Arbok and sent Seviper to HQ, I feel like she missed them so much she just got deep into ophiology