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We're here. We're queer. We're proud of who got us here.

Nothing about us without us is for us — the rallying cry of those of us dedicated to disability justice. Disability eventually comes to us all with age — but it can also come at any time with no warning. It can be temporary, or it can last the rest of your life. Disabled folks MUST be included in every walk of life, at every level of planning for anything (ESPECIALLY in the beginning stages!), and accommodated. None of us should be excluded from aspects of life because of inaccessibility — and especially not because we've been forgotten.

As feminist author bell hooks states in her book, All About Love, "Without justice, there can be no love."

In the wise words of one Samwise Gamgee in Peter Jackson's "The Two Towers" — "There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for." May his eternal optimism and grit inspire you to keep fighting for the good in the world, even when it seems everything is just too dark.

Nothing about us without us is for us — the rallying cry of those of us dedicated to disability justice. Disability eventually comes to us all with age — but it can also come at any time with no warning. It can be temporary, or it can last the rest of your life. Disabled folks MUST be included in every walk of life, at every level of planning for anything (ESPECIALLY in the beginning stages!), and accommodated. None of us should be excluded from aspects of life because of inaccessibility — and especially not because we've been forgotten.

We're here. We're queer. We're proud of who got us here.

To grow up within a marginalized community sometimes means your ABC’s change a little bit.