Make Pride Accessible For Everyone!!!!

Text reads "Disabled people belong at pride". three people are illustrated, one person is a tall girl with white skin and blonde hair, with ear defenders with a trans flag around her shoulders, the second is a girl with dark brown skin, big curly hair with a white cane, the third is a man with light skin and lots of freckles, wearing a yellow shirt and holding a blue walking stick in his left hand side.

text reads "but access is more than a ramp". two people are illustrated walking to the right. one is a girl with dark brown skin, an Afro, wearing a black denim jacket and using a grey crutch. the person walking with her is a white girl with light brown hair, wearing a yellow jumper, using a purple active wheelchair.

text reads" it's also quiet areas for people with sensory sensitivities". illustrated us a femme person with a purple mullet wearing a green hoodie. they are holding a progress pride flag and sitting on a brown chair, looking off to the side.

text reads "Braille, audio descriptions, high contrast, and descriptions,". illustrated is two people looking at a large sign which says "the history of pride". on the left is a man with albinism, wearing glasses and a blue and green jumper, holding a device with headphones on. next to him is another man with brown skin, purple tee and a ace flag around his shoulders.

text reads "Masking and covid testing where possible.". illustrated are two women, one of a woman with brown skin, wearing a yellow crop top and a blue mask, with a pan flag around her shoulders. next to her us a woman wearing a green hijab, a denim jacket and a lesbian flag mask, using a red rollator".

text reads "enough accessible toilets". illustrated is the back of someone, who has short red hair, sitting in a standard manual wheelchair, waiting for a disabled accessible portaloo.

text reads "and plenty more things that can make pride accessible and enjoyable for disabled people. price is supposed to be inclusive for all, so why do we exclude disabled people".

Make pride accessible for everyone!!!!

I made a post about this last year and the year before, and thought if I did it this way it gives people and orgs something to work towards. Often people forget that disabled people aren't just wheelchair users, and even those who are, need more than just that ramp!

My first ever pride, not only as a wheelchair but my first ever EVER pride, I went in expecting to feel at home.

Obviously I wasn't, I'm disabled, so why should I?

Instead there was just a ridiculous amount of uneven flooring, a steep ramp to the disabled toilet, no sanitary towel bin in the disabled toilet (???) no allowances to be let out of the festival to fetch things from my car, no where quiet and organisers who seemed genuinely surprised to see a wheelchair user!

My next pride, three years later, I was a seller, and while they had sorted their toilet problem (still no sanitary towel bin???), the hill to get in wouod have been genuinely impossible for me to get to if I hadn't been driving to get my stall in anyway, even with someone pushing me, no quiet areas, plenty of kerbs for me to get stuck at and again, genuine surprise.

Why is it so surprising to consider disabled people might be at pride? Not only do queer disabled people exist, but parents and family of queer kids and people, vendors and even entertainers!

Making pride accessible is crucial!

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so. FUN FACT

tumblr is apparently rolling out a beta for a new post editor that essentially makes it so there are no longer post “types” (text post, audio post, photo post, etc.), and instead all types of content are better integrated into a single post. pretty neat, right?

…until you read the fine print.

The maximum number of total content blocks allowed in a single post is 250.

i emailed support and asked whether each paragraph counts as a content block. i received this reply:

SO. each paragraph counts as a content block, and i’m only allowed 250 content blocks in one post. the solution provided was to reformat my fics by using shift+enter after every paragraph instead of simply enter. which is already unnecessarily annoying in of itself, but then you come to the second hurdle:

The maximum character length of a single text block is 4096 characters.

so–what?? besides spending my time writing thousands upon thousands of words, i’m expected to copy-paste it and then reformat everything, counting every single one of those words to make sure they fit within the restrictions? or i’m supposed to chop my fics up into multiple parts, even when i don’t want to? how exactly are writers supposed to write on this platform?? as you all know, my style tends to run pretty dialogue-heavy, so i start new paragraphs (and, thus, content blocks!!!) pretty damn often. i did a quick check, and let it snow, at almost 19k, is 550 paragraphs. with this new system, i would be forced to upload it in three (3!!!!!) posts! even my shortest chapter of ego, at 8.8k, is 350 paragraphs, and i’d have to split it in two.

this is honestly a formatting nightmare as a writer, and this is a decision that is liable to drive content creators away from the site and change fandom culture as a whole.

please. if you enjoy reading content on this site and want to continue enjoying content on this site, please don’t let tumblr make things harder for writers! since the tumblr team is supposedly eager to hear what everyone thinks, it would really help if you could message support and share your concern about the issue–maybe we can stop this disaster before it starts.

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Never stop talking about Palestine 🇵🇸

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“minimizing civilian casualties”

areas destroyed compared to population density pic.twitter.com/ulc6pjDs2P

— atra 🇵🇸 (@_bilaire) February 6, 2024

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te amo baitola ^_^

Q isso tá invertendo os papéis????

TE AMO MAIS MWAH MWAH MWAH VEM VER DISNEY COMIGO

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8-year-old Waseem from Gaza asking Duaa Tuaima for her microphone and if he can make a video about their circumstances. The journalists are clearly so loved because their voicing their people's struggles around the world that even the children want to be just like them.

Video: IG @duaa_tuaima

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