Tag: stephen hawking

trantifa:

beyond-earth:

just-shower-thoughts:

Stephen Hawking is currently getting a full walking tour of ALL the universe’s mysteries.

Born on Gallieos birthday and departs on Pi day. The Universe has taken back a piece of itself.

Memorial posts that focus on a disabled person’s sudden ability to walk now that they’re dead are horridly disrespectful to their memories and to disabled people who’re still alive today.

Stephen Hawking was an ardent crusader for disability rights, and he was also an atheist, so saying that he’d be doing anything in an afterlife, especially walking, is straight-up insulting.

I’m not a wheelchair user, so I can only echo my friends who are here.  But these are some of the things they’ve said:

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So much of it comes down to seeing wheelchairs as a restriction on mobility when it is the opposite, wheelchairs give us freedom when our mobility would be otherwise limited. So hurtful seeing the way people are treating a proud disabled scientist in death.”

“My wheelchair freed me. I was housebound, except to use the scooters at the grocery store. I went awhile without one because I had to fundraise, and it was misery. Imagine being stuck in the house except to go to the grocery store for one hour a week. Now I can grocery shop alone, visit friends, DANCE, run errands, go shopping, exercise. I could work until I got too sick, too. A wheelchair is like getting wings. The only time it’s a pain is when SOCIETY doesn’t make something accessible. Something Hawking fought strongly for. He’s a cripple hero.”