TL;DR: ProtestAccess is a volunteer group that makes racial justice related content accessible. Folks can send in requests for access via our Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram, volunteer to help here, or volunteer as a standards advisor by emailing ProtestAccess@Gmail.Com.

Hey y’all! I want to tell you about a group I volunteer with, Protest Access. We take requests from disabled folks on Twitter, Facebook, and instagram to make racial justice related content accessible. Folks can submit requests by tagging or DMing us on any of those platforms or using the tag #ProtestAccessRequest on Twitter.

Most of our work is on videos. We write both basic transcripts with all the audio in the videos, descriptive transcripts with descriptions of all the visual content as well, and caption the videos. We post the finished products on our social media feeds. 

All of our work is done by volunteers. There’s six main roles volunteers work in, with many folks working in more than one role:

Those are the four general roles that most of our volunteers are involved in, and we have mentors for each of those roles to help new peolpe get started! The other two roles are organizing roles:

We could always use volunteers in any and all roles so please get in touch via the links above if you’re interested! We value any contributions folks can make and train people so don’t worry about lack of experience or time. If you can transcribe 30 seconds of audio a month, that’s still making more things accessible!

This popped up in one of my FB groups and I thought it was rad!

this is from a longer guide to consent in tabletop gaming published a few days ago! original can be found here: https://www.montecookgames.com/consent-in-gaming/

[Image description: A form titled “RPG Consent Checklist.” At the top are the fields “GM Name,” “Player Name (or leave blank),” “Planned game theme,” and “If this were a movie, its movie rating would be: G, PG, PG-13, R, NC-17, Other,” each followed by a blank line.

Below this is the text “Mark the color that best illustrates your comfort level with the following plot or story elements” above a green square labeled “Green – Enthusiastic consent; bring it on!”, a yellow square labeled “Yellow – okay if veiled or offstage, might be okay onstage but requires discussion ahead of time; uncertain” and a red circle labeled “Red – hard line; do not include.”

Below this text is a list of themes, each with a green, yellow, and red symbol next to them to check off. The listed themes are divided into categories. At the bottom of each category are several blank lines to add more themes. The categories and themes are:

Horror: Bugs, Blood, Demons, Eyeballs, Gore, Harm to animals, Harm to children, rats, spiders.

Relationships: Romance – fade to black, explicit, between PCs and NPCs, Sex - fade to black, explicit, between PCs and NPCs

Social and cultural issues: Homophobia, racism, real world religion, sexism, specific cultural issues.

Mental and physical health: Cancer, claustrophobia, freezing to death, gaslighting, genocide, heatstroke, natural disasters (earthquakes, forest fires), paralysis/physical restraint, police, police aggression, pregnancy, miscarriage, or abortion, self-harm, severe weather (hurricanes, tornados), starvation, terrorism, torture, thirst

Additional topics: several blank lines

In the bottom right hand corner is “Do you want the GM to follow up with you to clarify any of these responses? If so, which ones?” followed by several blank lines.]

I saw a post by @adhdmoi about sensory overload and realized it was relatable for anxiety, autism, and ADHD. so i made a meme.

the ultimate auditory sensory overload solidarity!

Y’ALL HAPPY NOW LOL???? i got SO MANY requests that i couldnt fit in in 15 or less hands, so i combined some of the similar ones onto one hand. I think I included every single request!! Hope this covers it all. *screams internally* this took so much effort please appreciate it. Also thank you @adhdmoi​ for inspiring this meme, it’s gained a lot of notes, so y’all go follow her, especially for my adhd friends!

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[id= all caps white text on pastel colored backgrounds. “Psychosis isn’t evil” on an orange background, “DID isn’t evil” on a peach background, “Schizophrenia isn’t evil” on a rose background, “PTSD isn’t evil” on a pink background, “BPD isn’t evil” on a light fushia background, and “OCD isn’t evil” on a purple background. /end id]

This popped up in one of my FB groups and I thought it was rad!

this is from a longer guide to consent in tabletop gaming published a few days ago! original can be found here: https://www.montecookgames.com/consent-in-gaming/

Our healthcare system should ensure patients & people living with chronic illnesses and disabilities have access to the treatments they need. Unfortunately, the use of #ValueAssessments & the #QALY could limit access to care for many. Learn more below. #ValueOurHealth

abled people think wheelchairs are prisons; but to someone like me, it’s a liberation unlike any i’ve ever experienced.

being able to go places and participate in things while being fully present, happy, and energetic is something i haven’t experienced since childhood. without the constant need to seek breaks or duck out of events early i can experience my life in ways that i simply wasn’t capable of before. 

[Image ID: The first panel is captioned “what i was afraid getting a wheelchair would be like.” It is a black and white drawing that pictures a sad and lonely looking girl sitting in an oversized wheelchair. The shutters are closed, and the room has cracks and cobwebs.

The remainder of the panels feature a cheerful-looking girl with long hair and bangs in a lightweight wheelchair, drawn in pink. The second panel is captioned “what it was actually like,” and features the girl rolling blissfully down a path surrounded by flowery fields.

The third panel shows the girl staring with sparkly eyes at a round cat-shaped object on a store shelf. Text by the girl reads “new items unlocked!”

The fourth panel shows the girl from behind, staring with an open-mouthed smile at some baby birds and their mother. The text reads “babies!”

The last panel is of the girl using her feet to propel down the sidewalk, while walking a brown cat with a harness. End ID]

Just so able bodied people know… this is 200% accurate.

Disabled characters can get a happy ending without being “cured”.

I often talk about reality checking and going along with it when helping someone deal with delusions, but I felt as if I didn’t really make it clear to what I meant when I said it.

Recently I saw a post similar to “how to sneakily give your delusional friend a reality check when they told you not to” and honestly, that’ll just make us lose trust for you. Because we can tell when you do that.

i think its worth saying that “adding to the delusion/trying to send them deeper into the delusion” isnt always as malicious as it sounds, “adding to the delusion” can mean attempting to comfort them but inadvertently creating more layers of it (ie “youll be safe if you keep your door shut” “they cant hurt you because im protecting you”, etc). 

even if your intentions are good and it temporarily makes them feel safer, youre just adding another layer to it, and it will just become more difficult for them to overcome later on

[ID:

first, a flow chart titled “My friend is experiencing a delusion!”

the first question is ‘have they asked you to give them reality checks when they have a delusion?’ if the answer is 'yes’, give them a reality check. if the answer is 'no’, let it be / go along with it. if the answer is 'no, but i’m still worried’, move on to the next question: 'have you asked if you can give them reality checks and they said yes?’ if the answer is 'yes’, give them a reality check. if the answer is 'no’, let it be / go along with it. if the answer is 'they said no but i’m still worried’, move on to the next question: 'have you asked if there is anything you can do instead?’ if the answer is 'yes’, do that instead. if the answer is 'no’, let it be / go along with it.

next are several lists.

what letting it be / going along with it is NOT:

what letting it be / going along with it IS:

what reality checking is NOT:

what reality checking IS:

/end ID]

Half-Orc Shaman by Kat Finn

i really like when crows just insert themselves into a group of other birds and then act like there is absolutely nothing strange about it

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It’s here !! The guide for two-legged people who don’t know how to draw wheelchairs !!! 7 pages of infodump ! Disclaimer : I don’t know everything, I have one (1) experience of wheelchair user who used both bad and good chairs, and I share what I learned.

Image description :

1) Calvin in his wheelchair saying “yo” under a huge title “how to draw manual wheelchairs properly by Calvin Arium, a wheelchair user comic artist”.

2) A character says “my character self propels in a chair that was outdated in 1970 lol” Calvin says “so it looks like you two legged people don’t know the difference between an hospital chair and a chair made to be independant” an arrow point the crapppy chair, saying “we never want to see this again”

a bubble says “the hospital chair is extremely unpractical, tough considering it’s cheaper than a good custom chair a lot of us have only this”

3) a character hurt himself trying to reach the wheels of the hospital chair. Several arrows point why the chair is unpractical : “high backrest restrain shoulders movement” “huge armrest restrains wheel access” “separated footrest : amovible, cheap, bulky” “x structure, foldable but heavy” “huge front casters for stability” “heavy wheels”

4) Several arrows point an active wheelchair (the KSL by Küshall) : “usually no armrest” “a low backrest allow more movement” “light, design, ferning expersive” “special cushion to avoind injuries” “knee angle is usually 90°” “one single piece of frame, sometimes entirely welded” “weight : from 4 to 10kg” “often rigid” “center of the wheel is the center of gravity” “higher quality wheels : less spikes”

5) A hand grab different parts of the wheel, pushing harder in the second half. Bubbles says “some have gloves, some don’t. The hand must grab the biggest area possible. Less movement = more energy. This is a common but not only way to push.Calvin is on his back wheels, rolling on grass and dirt bubble says “popping a wheelie is when a wheelchair user rolls on their back wheels to roll on every complicated surface.

6) several drawings illustrate the folding frame, the ergonomic but rigid and expensive backrest, the separated footrest (only for folding frame), the handles, the folding handles, athe amovibles handles, or no handles, the cool fancy loopwheels, the pretty custom colors 

7) More Features ! The fancy rigid-foldable frame, the anti tippers (sometimes used by beginners), the motorization (wheels, smart drive) when propelling yourself is difficult Calvin says “and now vroom vroom motherfuckers”

Barbarian with a twist…

Role playing as a barbarian with anxiety. Raging? No just a panic attack. No flight response only, fight. They’d like to run away/avoid combat but their knee jerk reaction is just to swing the nearest thing that qualifies as a weapon. Danger sense? Sure if that’s what you want to call it. Except it’s just happening all the time.

My players as soon as it’s their turn, as if they didn’t know it was coming up again:

When you’re at the bottom of the order and just space out for ten years until the dm calls you out.

Well I HAD everything planned out, but I follow the WIZARD in turn order and he just turned the entire terrain into Jell-O pudding to kill the guy I was going to charge at so now I have to reconsider what I was going to do!

[ID: 3 versions of the handshake meme, a dark skinned person and a light skinned person both with muscular arms clasping hands. Over one person it says “People with BPD” and on the other it says “People with ADHD”. In each picture, a different thing is written over their hands. These things are: “mood swings,” “impulsiveness,” and “thinking everyone hates you.”]

Brain cousins? Brain cousins

I’m gonna say something….. controversial

if you’re writing a story and your villain has (or is) dissociative identity disorder then your art is bad and you should feel bad.

you know how straight people are really terrible at telling gay jokes because they don’t understand what the actual funny parts of being gay are?

Yeah people without DID who try to use the disorder for horror/thriller purposes fail at it because they don’t understand how DID actually effects people and their lives and behavior and relationships

In fact every piece of dramatic media I can think of that depicts DID kinda relies on the audience not understanding how DID actually works

And if the audience being educated ruins their suspension of disbelief, you’ve fucked up

And if you have to demonize highly vulnerable abuse survivors to create drama, you might not have any business writing fiction to begin with