I just got excellent news. Our local #AbleSail Victoria program is opening up earlier this year! Our North Saanich Sidney location opens up for registrations in April. Our Oak Bay/Cadboro Bay location will open for registrations in mid-June. I'm so excited to get back on the ocean again & work on improving my #AdaptiveSailing skills.
I'd love to get my solo #sailing skills up to levels where I can enter to compete in future Mobility Cup regattas.
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In my past dating history, I've been fetishized for being Asian & also for being disabled. I'm not an object, like some men treated me as. I chose to stay single for years after my last split because I deserve better, was patient & had rebuilt a pretty content life by myself that I'm not willing to compromise for anyone who doesn't completely value my full worth. I won't negotiate on my own worth - I am a golden soul & deserve an equal.
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Disabled POC women who have overcome much traumas, including being exploited/fetishized, like me, tend to have a very difficult time trusting new people in our lives. If we choose to trust you, it wasn't done quickly. We learned to trust some people, who are patient enough to be openly honest, respectful of us & understand why we move at a snail's pace.
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#ThrowbackThursday
2017.
A #portrait that Danielle took of me at Wheelies Motorcycles & Cafe, in the Rock Bay area of #VictoriaBC - for a charity ride event.
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Stephanie, my trusted & excellent orthotist at Fisher Building, fixed both of my leg braces today. This is the left AFO - added foot cushioning & two new straps were put on to replace older ones that weren't holding up. My right AFO had specialty heel airhole cushioning & back of ankle padding added & I had her replace the top thigh strap too.
She has put in a funding assistance form for one specialty brace for my lower left leg to deal with some floppy foot & pain related issues when I try to sleep. Hopefully I get full funding assistance because orthotics are hella expensive to pay out of pocket for.
Beautiful customized #orthotics at Fisher Building. It's not mine. My leg braces are both full length leg braces.
At Fisher Building orthotics.
The same place that made my first leg braces in 1980. I've never gone anywhere else. Many of the former staff there watched me grow from a child into an adult.
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I tested out a new cane (it's really pretty - purple with colourful flowers) & used my umbrella hat for our rainy day hike today.
We ran into 3 younger hikers with a super rad Aussie shepard dog along the trails & 2 of them complimented me on my blue hair. I responded with - I love colourful things! I'm wearing a mini circus tent on my head, as you can see! Then we all laughed 
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#PeopleWithDisabilities are excluded from multiple local emergency evacuation plans. They do not even include us. We should just wait for help or die waiting? We deserve better!
I'm fucking SALTY today. I'm sick of people saying they fucking care about #PeopleWithDisabilities but won't do shit all, outside their goddamn comfort zones to try to help us. Fuck that shit. I don't need your words of comfort. I need you to step the fuck up, harder!
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Don't fucking tell me you care about us, when you do not use your privileges to stand up for us.
If you've never been a target of #eugenics by government - you should be grateful. You should use your privileges to try to help those of us targeted by eugenicists.
Why are more of you privileged & not targeted by government eugenicis monsters not doing much to step up to speak up for us - facing erasure by eugenics, by the same governments holding power over us?
WE NEED BRAVE COMRADES!
WHERE ARE YOU?
Death & disability wishes - to all people who stopped masking. ZERO SYMPATHY. You deserve to die & become disabled for lack of caring about others. ESPECIALLY, if you're an unmasked person who got covid multiple times. FUCK YOU.
I now look at unmasked people, especially in medical settings - as selfish #eugenics enablers & I feel like setting them on fire. These are the people who treat disabled people like me - like we should just shut up & die.
We won't. We will stay alive & keep reminding you eugenics enablers that we are still here & we think you are selfish shitheads.
5 years ago.
I found this cool, lean-to survival shelter, while out on a day hike around some #Wsanec forests. It was an unexpected find. Not really suited for a really big person - I'm under 5' & had to stoop a bit to walk into it.
En route to pharmacy to pickup prescription refills. A #SelfPortrait in the car.
