@ascentale @PamelaSchure @bikenite A1. (cont'd) If things aren't bottlenecked and I'm pressed for time, I use the car to drive out beyond west campus where the research fields are.
If I have time/spoons, I ride there instead. Always prefer riding to driving, but the super-charged ableism here decimated my physical capacity to do it. #BikeNite #UCAccessNow
Starting July 26th, 2020 (the 30th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act), UC Access Now and allies started sending emails to the Governor, the UC Board of Regents, and every UC chancellor to read and act on the UC Access Now Demandifesto.
Our Governor mentions his dyslexia when it's convenient for him, but he never bothered answering the hundreds of people who wrote him about the systemic ableism within UC.
""Gov. Gavin Newsom recently sent burner phones to major California business leaders with his number preprogrammed — paid for by his nonprofit, allowing him to communicate with executives without having to disclose the content publicly.""
Ah. That's why.
https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/04/california-lawmakers-transparency/ #Ableism #Capitalism #Corruption #HigherEd #UCAccessNow @disability @academicchatter
In July 2020, UC Access Now let the Governor and the UC Regents know that emergency plans were not accessible and emergency information was not communicated accessibly.
Glad they're finally beginning to work on it?
https://calmatters.org/digital-democracy/2025/03/california-wildfires-disabilities/ #UCAccessNow #Fire #Emergency #Ableism #California
Have added this to our "Benefits Counseling Doc", which dates back to before the UC UAW strike. It contains links to free/discounted things that people in the University of California community may be eligible for but not yet know about.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Um9UEJizN_3-kEvkDedRdaPwOyR5PsLv3JKslFI-djg/edit?usp=sharing #Poverty #UCAccessNow
UC isn't even adhering to existing disability law so it should be interesting to see what PR moves and performative gyrations they go through under the current conditions in the US.
"New regulations for the Americans with Disabilities Act that will impact UC"
https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/employee-news/new-regulations-for-the-americans-with-disabilities-act-that-will-impact-uc/ #UCAccessNow #Ableism #Disability #Law @disability
From UAW 4811 to its members:
AFSCME picket info: https://afscme3299.org/blog/strikefeb-2025/
UPTE picket info: https://upte.org/ucstrike
Inaccessible cycling racks were the last straw that catalyzed the formation of UC Access Now.
It was very difficult getting non-disabled anti-ableists to be active.
These cycle racks were installed without consultation with us, but in response to our hard-fought campaign.
We told abled cyclists all along that accessible racks benefit you too! Most rack designs & installations throughout UC do not take upright bikes with trailers, bakfiets, cargo bikes, trikes, etc into consideration at all.
And this is an upright bike towing a trailer parked at the racks installed as a result of our activism. #UCAccessNow #CycleParkingAudit #Infrastructure #Ableism @fedibikes @disability
For things that affect donors or that affect people who get politically active and get the governor to crack down on UC Admins, they'll resist the coupsters.
For anyone else, UC admins will not resist. They're utter cravens.
We've already seen this in their response to Student Spring last year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAoiPJrFPCw #USpol #UCAccessNow
@disability @academicchatter This is nothing UC Access Now wasn't already pointing out, but it's still astounding how disabled people are sent to abled doctors to get "proof" of disability, yet abled doctors admit they don't know much about disability or what disabled people's lives are like! #Ableism #MedicalAbleism #Healthcare #UCAccessNow
"Healthcare Disparities for Patients With Disabilities Start in Medical School"
The study "“The Forgotten Minority”: Perpetuation of Ableism in Medical Education" : https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-024-09308-2
#Ableism #MedicalAbleism #Healthcare #UCAccessNow @disability @academicchatter
Disability and Accommodation Use in US Bachelor of Science in Nursing Programs - JAMA Network
"Medical associations’ commitment to advancing disability-inclusive practices has led to data collection on, and a significant increase in representation of, medical students with disabilities.1,2 However, information on disability representation and accommodation use in US nursing programs remains scarce. The lack of data collection on this population impedes the ability to identify barriers, benchmark, and measure progress. To address this gap, we quantified disabilities and types of accommodations used among traditional prelicensure nursing students in US Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree programs."
#Ableism #Disability #Healthcare #UCAccessNow @disability @academicchatter
"Compliance" is what you do when a law is passed and you are just trying to do the bare minimum to comply with the law.
This is the system UC has where disabled people have to go to separate offices (a different one for employees than students, for instance) to fight for the bare minimum in accessibility.
You don't have to worry as much about someone pressuring you to scrub all references to accessibility if you simply make the highest common denominator of accessibility be the default.
You can still offer accessibility - offer it to everyone instead of rationing it. Design your courses, your workplace to be ACCESSIBLE and inclusive as you can. #UCAccessNow
The rationing and policing system Is about keeping inaccessibility the norm and making it as hard as possible for disabled people to obtain an accessible and welcoming education.
It also happens to misuse the tax $ and tuition of disabled people to pay the mostly abled disability cops they hire to do this.
Nothing in the requirements about expertise in accessibility nor any lived experience of being disabled.
#Ableism #UCAccessNow #Riverside
https://jobsportal.ucr.edu/jobs/34875865 @disability @academicchatter
Everyone should contemplate the amount of money, administrative and legal power that UC puts into preventing public education and resources from being accessible and inclusive to disabled people...
...and then contemplate what they must reward given that several of the young tech folks who were henchtraitors to Musk at the US Office of Personnel Management and the US Treasury have degrees from UC Berkeley and UC Davis.
Doing my usual anti-ableist work of asking questions about accessibility at a webinar. One of the presenters saw the Q and wants to address it. The webinar is also being recorded so not only does this introduce the idea of accessibility to the webinar attendees and presenters, but also to anyone who will watch the recording in future.
Get people thinking about accessibility. #UCAccessNow #BotanicalGardens #a11y #Accessibility
Thinking today about the at least two lawsuits against the encampment protests during Student Spring pressed against the UC Regents on the basis of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which the plaintiffs were suddenly concerned about. A Federalist Society judge granted & UC responded to it by banning tents on campus at all, installing increased surveillance and other measures clamping down on 1st Amendment rights.
The same UC Regents that had no official response for the Demandifesto.
Also willing to bet the plaintiffs' concern for disabled ppl stopped the day they won in court.
The right wing doesn't care about disabled people, nor about hypocrisy. They just care about winning and control. #UCAccessNow #Ableism
Re last boost: It was a given that today's GOP would not support accessibility, even though ADA was passed with bipartisan work during the Bush (the elder) Administration. The current boughten members of SCOTUS would undermine disability law if cases were brought to them so a lot of disabled people have chosen to settle or not press suit because they didn't want to trigger a weakening of these laws on the books.
However, law and its enforcement is about compulsion. We should not need to be compelled to be accessible.
UC Access Now has always pointed out how possible it is to change culture by choosing to be accessible! What's in your control, make accessible! Create an accessibility culture as part of resistance! #Accessibility #UCAccessNow #a11y
https://akkomane.social/objects/e60c24e6-224f-43c5-9a37-ec17e7a642f9
Official UC Riverside event Wed, Jan 22, 2025 5pm to 6pm
"When Personal Meets Professional: Unpacking the Influence of Disability and Intersectional Identities"
No online option, no masking req'd. This is part of the problem.
https://events.ucr.edu/event/disability-awareness-month-feature-speaker-event-when-personal-meets-professional-unpacking-the-influence-of-disability-and-intersectional-identities #Ableism #UCAccessNow
If anyone has an in at Google Scholar and can help me with this, I'd appreciate it. Eventually my thesis will be done and I can put use that to start a profile, but I'd very much like to get the UC Access Now Demandifesto to kickstart it earlier.
https://archive.org/details/disability-equity-and-justice-demands #UCAccessNow #Attribution
So frustrating. At least 3 works that appear on Google Scholar cite the UC Access Now Demandifesto (and the one in my pinned tweet SHOULD have cited it), but there's no way for me to use the Demandifesto as a link for my own Google Scholar Profile.
I've tried uploading it to Hcommons in addition to Internet Archive, but the platform has been so error-ridden that I still cannot publish it there. (I am told Google Scholar will pick up Hcommons.) #UCAccessNow #Attribution
