But context matters. Being able to read the room matters. This interaction was stoked up and made to go viral - clipped from footage, stripped of context and engineered to cause outrage.

Two minoritised groups pit against each other and made to fight. That is what I find so incredibly disturbing.

February 25, 2026 - 21:11 UTC

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and it's wrong to think that Black people and disabled people are separate groups that have irreconcilable needs when Black disabled people are offering nuanced perspectives

I've linked to a transcript of Jhónelle Bean, a Black woman with Tourette syndrome:

bsky.app/profile/pygmywhales.bsky.social/post/3mfkksjm5vs2a
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In a world where appalling acts of violence are committed every day, our climate teeters on the brink of collapse and where powerful men act with impunity, don't we have better things to do than make marginalised people fight for scraps of dignity?
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