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Anna Landre ♿️

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Anna Landre ♿️

@annalandre

Part woman, part machine🦾. disability justice.

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Joined September 2013

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Anna Landre ♿️
@annalandre
Jun 15
With the reintroduction of Assisted Suicide in Parliament, it feels apt to reshare this political satire piece: A Cost-Effective Proposal: For Preventing the Sick & Disabled from Being a Burden on Their Country, & for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick disabilityarts.online/magazine/opini…
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Anna Landre ♿️
@annalandre
Jul 20, 2024
Yesterday I received one of the highest and most ancient honors in London, the Freedom of the City. But the celebration soured into an experience of indignity when upon arriving, I found that there was no ramp for me to access the stage. 🧵
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Anna Landre ♿️
@annalandre
Aug 28, 2024
I’m a wheelchair user in Paris for the #Paralympics2024 opening ceremony. The wheelchair viewing platform is entirely taken up by non-wheelchair users. “Welcome to Paris!” 🫠
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Anna Landre ♿️
@annalandre
May 28, 2019
As a disabled woman & wheelchair user, I’ve been fending off my insurance company’s cuts for years. Today, they finally got a judge to side with them—and now I can’t go back to college next semester. The American healthcare system has just, quite literally, ruined my future.
Anna Landre ♿️
@annalandre
May 18, 2025
Was just fully denied the right to travel today at Liverpool St Stn, on any train, because @networkrail staff collectively refused to deploy a ramp for me. Why? One of them claimed I was “rude” for telling him I didn’t need the lecture he was giving me on why they’d failed to …
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Anna Landre ♿️
@annalandre
Jul 20, 2024
Replying to @annalandre
It’s amazing how ableism can so quickly turn honor and celebration into insult and injury. I was gutted by not getting to experience the true nature of the ceremony that was spoken about so highly. I spent most of the hour trying to hold back tears. (2)
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Anna Landre ♿️
@annalandre
Jul 20, 2024
Replying to @annalandre
As disabled people, we’re forced to make calculated decisions during emotionally intense situations of discrimination in desperate attempts to assert our rights in the “correct” way, remaining palatable, polite, &pressured to always take the high road or be labelled unreasonable.
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Anna Landre ♿️
@annalandre
Jul 20, 2024
Replying to @annalandre
- yes, they knew I was coming and that I was a wheelchair user. - I was assured that the venue was wheelchair accessible by people who knew I was there for the granting ceremony. Apparently that did not include the main event. (6)
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Anna Landre ♿️
@annalandre
Jul 20, 2024
Replying to @annalandre
I even considered leaving without completing the ceremony at all, but couldn’t decide if that was the “right” thing to do; (3)
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Anna Landre ♿️
@annalandre
Jul 20, 2024
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because she apparently thought I wouldn’t want it. I cannot fathom what her thought process was, or why she didn’t think to ask me first. (9)
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Anna Landre ♿️
@annalandre
Jul 20, 2024
Replying to @annalandre
It’s been 29 years since the passage of the Disability Discrimination Act in the UK, and 14 years since that of the Equality Act. The lack of basic ramp to the stage was in clear violation of law. (Yes, I am aware that I can probably sue. I have not decided if I will yet.) (7)
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Anna Landre ♿️
@annalandre
Jul 20, 2024
Replying to @annalandre
For those inclined to play devil’s advocate or make excuses for the situation, I offer the following information in advance: - the stage was not protected under any historic preservation rules. It was modern; - the stage was less than half a meter high; (5)
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Anna Landre ♿️
@annalandre
Jul 20, 2024
Replying to @annalandre
After the fact, having made my displeasure known — including as I shook hands with the Lord Mayor on the floor in front of the stage — one of the event staff informed me that they do in fact have a ramp for this stage. She just chose not to put it out today, (8)
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Anna Landre ♿️
@annalandre
Jul 20, 2024
Replying to @annalandre
… with some variation of “no, it’s fine / of course it didn’t. This one of many hidden ways disabled people are expected to manage the comfort & emotions of those committing acts of discrimination against us. I told them that yes — it did spoil the occasion for me. (14)
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