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Mar 16

Hi, do you have a link to anything about the guy getting booted off skepchicks following the whole majorly problamatic ableism issue? I've gone from not knowing about this site to being obsessed with the issue (I'm not sure is obsessed is the right word, horrified is probably better). I realise that you may not be directly connected but you are the only person I follow who is posting stuff around this.

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ischemgeek:

neuroatypically-speaking:

goldenheartedrose:

ischemgeek:

goldenheartedrose:

I don’t, I’m sorry.  

K (sherlocksflataffect) probably knows more.

Hi,

I don’t know you but I do know the writer in question. I told him about your request, and he gave me permission to link you to his FB page address, which includes his announcement of Skepchick booting him. 

And in case your browser hates hyperlinks, here’s the address for copy-paste: https://www.facebook.com/kit.partin.54

hope that helps

Ooh more information. Thanks!

Was he an actual contributor? Did they boot an actually autistic contributor? I no longer use Facebook or have an account (because I don’t want my family using it to reach me), so I can’t see the actual announcement. 

Kit was a writer for Teen Skepchick.

And, yes, he’s actually autistic.

And he was the only writer there brave enough on the blog network to explicitly call out the higher ups on their toxic ableism and abusive tactics back in February. For which they gaslighted him to the point that it aggravated his depression and induced a several-days-long meltdown. And also pretty much made fun of him for having a meltdown and ageismed at him (he’s a teenager).

And then the disability post went live and the autistic parent bloggers thing happened, and Kit spoke up in support of me and autistichedgehog and voiced the concerns of the autistic community in the comment thread, and they booted him.

And there’s even more stuff he confided privately that was jaw-droppingly ableist to me, but AFAIK, he hasn’t disclosed it publically and has something in the works on that front so I’ll let him decide when & how to disclose that part of it. This is just the stuff he’s made public via FB or what else have you.

But, yes, they actually booted an actually autistic writer for conveying the concerns of the autistic community and for calling out ableism. On a supposed social justice blog network. In a supposed anti-ableism project. 

I’m just gonna leave that at that because it really says more than I ever could.

I can’t even words right now. I’m just like o.o except for when I’m like D:

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