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Welcome to c/disabled, an anticapitalist community for disabled people/people with disability(s).

What is disability justice? Disability justice is a framework of activism which centers disabled people of multiple intersections. Before participating in in this community, please read the Ten Principles of Disability Justice.

Do I count as disabled/a person with disability(s)? "Disability" is an umbrella term which encompasses physical disabilities, emotional/psychiatric disabilities, neurodivergence, intellectual/developmental disabilities, sensory disabilities, invisible disabilities, and more. You do not have to have an official diagnosis to consider yourself disabled.

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Disabled Community Megathread from April 6, 2026 to April 19,2026 (hexbear.net)

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[–] roux@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I joined an antifa Facebook group last week because of the infighting between socialist, anarchists, commies, etc. against shitlibs in the comments. It's been a nice outlet since I get fighty on social media when I'm going through Big Depression. But holy shit the amount of transphobia and ableism on that page is just wild. It's all coming from the libs that wanna larp as anti-fascist. But like how the hell are these people going to even consider themselves anti-fascist when they can't even deprogram from essentially eugenics tier rhetoric?

I've been calling them out on it and I think I got at least one person banned for calling me a "sociopath".

I think today is gonna be a mental health day though. I can take the comment slop as it comes but I also know my limits. Gonna try to catch up on reading and gaming, and just try to turn my brain off.

[–] gingerbrat@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It takes a lot of guts to stand up to people who say transphobic and ableist shit all the time, no matter if it's facebook or irl. In all honesty, thank you for your service rat-salute

And now I fully support your mental health day and hope you can enjoy some games and books of your choosing. Take care of yourself, roux <3

[–] roux@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

meow-hug My mental health day turned into weed and horror movies but I'll still take it. I have today off too and wanna catch up on some song lyrics.

I was engaging in someone just this morning that posted a transphobic comment and I tried explaining it to them but they were not having it so I just disengaged. Fuck them. They were defending it by saying they were making fun of libs and I was like, "You don't see how that's still making fun of the trans community?" They weren't wanting to hear me so fuck 'em.