#activisim

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Something I never knew -even as a trans disabled person- is that there is a Disability Day of Mourning every year on March 1st. Much like with Trans Day of Remembrance keeping a list of the trans victims of murder, a list of names of the KNOWN disabled victims of filicide (killed by caregivers and family) is kept and published on disability-memorial.org . They ALSO publish a tool kit to help you do something about it.

This year there are over 60 ~recorded~ victims of filicide. For a list of names please visit disability-memorial.org (also in the QR code). Disabled Hikers(instagram&facebook) also has posts which feature the list of names.

I keep stressing “KNOWN” victims because obviously the deaths of disabled people are usually seen as something else, even if they were caused by the mistreatment or embedded ableism of their family or doctors. I know of an autistic child, for instance… who passed away in his sleep while under the temporary care of extended family… Quite likely an unintended effect of over-dosing him on meds they were unfamiliar with that day “just to make him easier” (its all been said before) but in truth we will never know for sure. There are many unseen stories just like that.

And this is to say nothing of the deaths invoked by systemic ableism in other ways - or the subtle but fervent genocide of millions of disabled people who have been sacrificed to covid…

We all spend a lot of time on the internet. Please take at least a few minutes today while online to read the names and check out the Tool Kit.

elthealchemist:

Please don’t just do spells. You’ve gotta mix your magic with action.

Donate. Protest. Educate. Support a Black-owned business.

Don’t let the lighting of that candle be the only thing you do.