Tag: Activism

I was threatened in the street today.

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I will post more about this later. As I refuse to let this ruin my day. But the post I shared online about it is bellow.

Image Description: A small dog on an empty pavement to the right of frame. My legs can be seen in the left of the picture. There are two large yellow and red smiley face stickers across the screen.

To the person that yelled at us from a car suggesting we take a photo of a bin. I could get round the bin so it wasn’t an obstruction to me. Thanks for the advice. Maybe watch where you’re driving rather than shouting at people in the street though.

To the person that crossed the street to yell and swear at us for taking this picture of our dog. I thought you’d like to see it. We cropped it for our own usage but this uncropped, but sensored version is just for you. Just so you know I’m allowed to post any obstructions i see or pictures for that matter. I set the guidelines of what I’m doing here, and what I post. Not you. Maybe if you have a suggestion for me you could let me know and we can discuss it, like adults. Rather than following me down the street, crossing the road to get in my face to scream at me. And then walk away when we offered for show the photo.

I suppose some might say I should thank you both for giving me something to post, as I wouldn’t have posted today. But honestly I would rather just not be yelled at.

I’m in the MEN

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https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/disabled-womans-pavement-parking-nightmare-26837234

As a result of the Facebook campaign I had this article written about me and my experiences by my local Manchester Evening News. Please take a look if you like.

Glad to know that someone is listening to me.

Full image description for article and pictures within

The first image and cover photo of article: woman in red socks peeping behind a grey car with pink coat showing with purple bag hanging from chair

Second image: Close up of a girl in a wheelchair wearing black with two purple lanyard around her neck the background of the photo is blurred

Third image: Back of women in wheelchair between a silver car and green hedge the silver is parked blocking a pavement head of a dog is visible in bottom of the frame

Interestingly when sharing this on my local Facebook page everyone was a lot nicer than they have been previously. So that’s definitely food for thought.

Apparently it’s all my fault. 🤣

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So apparently the posts I’ve been sharing in my local Facebook group are apparently derailing the whole group. And honestly I find how dramatic everyone is being hilarious.

But also at least they’re talking about accessibility. That’s a win in my book and literally a large part of why I decide to tacle this over social media.

I’m tired of being told disabled spaces are the only places we can talk about disabled issues. And I guess that has now changed. And honestly I like that. For however long it lasts

Owning up

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So I may have legal made a mistake. A minor mistake, which the law is ambiguous on anyway to do with picking up my dogs poo.

Now because I’ve been publicing innaccessiblity in my area and doing what others have revered to as causing problems. Someone decided to use my honesty against me and threatened to report me to the council. So I essentially beat them to the punch as it were.

I reported myself for dog fouling. Though I believe according to the law the sitsuiton qualified as a “reasonable exemption”, so whether I actually did anything wrong is debatable.

No one else who I discussed this with was able to prove to me how I had definitely done anything wrong. And were suddenly, yet again not interested in the law. Which honestly doesn’t surprise me.

I was even asked if I was neurodivergence, when insisting that it be proved that I had broken a law, and I’ll admit this park confused me. I thought the law applied to anyone and everyone, but people seem convinced that being governed by morals is enough.

It is quite obviously that they were threatening me, to try and stop me any way they could. But I made the decision to not give them this power over me.

If I’m found responsible for this crime, I will pay the fine accordingly.

This attempt to stop me hilighting an important issue in my local community isn’t going to work. Whatever they do. I’m going to keep going. Ultimately because I believe in what I’m doing and why I am doing it, whether or not others disagree.

This is a situation where if you are standing up for yourself and speaking out, you are not allowed to make even the smallest mistake.

Should I do this?

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Today has been one of those days of defending myself, in various different ways, and I’m thinking of doing something to prove a point.

I’m thinking of recording publicly just how often I face inaccessiblity. Without specifying. Just a number to make my point what do you think?

I was restricted on Facebook for fighting for equality for disabled people.

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Screenshot reads “You have been temporarily blocked from performing this…”

Yesterday I received a 24hrs ban from commenting on Posts in Facebook groups. This is because someone reported something on the posts I have been making.

I’m actually less annoyed that I was reported and more annoyed that Facebook allowed that report to be turned into a restriction on my account.

This is not fair, as I have been restricted from fighting for equality and equity of disabled people in my local area. This is shameful ableism from Facebook and I have contacted them to demand not only is the restriction removed, but also and more importantly, an explanation for how fighting for disabled rights can result in a restriction. I want to know exactly what I said that they didn’t like.

Screenshot of Facebook Restriction Notices. The screenshot reads “You account is restricted at the moment. You’re temporarily restricted from commenting in groups until tomorrow at 22.50. If you think that this doesn’t go against our Community Standards, let us know.”

I am also aware that it is almost certainly a bot of some description that decides whether an individuals account is restricted. But this is not an excuse. Facebook are still responsible for the restriction of Disability activism on there platform. And I will fight this.

I am aware that the restriction is not very long, the issue is that I’ve been restricted at all for activism, not for how long I have been restricted.

Quote reads “Courage means going against the majority opinion in the name of the truth” By Václav Havel.