Hanukkah, night 2, on fire all the time

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Night 2: on being a white person with a disability, the always satisfying experience of having people's eyes glaze over so badly even RantWoman can tell just because RantWoman makes a reasonable accommodations request. Add the naive expectation that such requests can be coped with no fuss, no muss, no heads exploding at mere mention of RantWoman's name, no deciding accessibility is all handled because of some survey or that disability can be turned on and off depending on location.

RantWoman! You're harshing everyone's holiday mellow! How come all this old stuff keeps clattering out with the holiday decorations like batty guests one happens to be related to?

Ohhh. But I thought Quakers were all about every day being holy, just like every day being a good day to fight ableism Plus what holiday mellow? Vladimir Putin is threatening to nuke Yellowstone Park. Now that the January 6 Committee is finishing up its work, we are in for waves and waves of T***pist gaslighting The Sedition Caucus is about to get voted into leadership in the US House of Representatives, Seattle is dealing with snow as badly as ever. Christmas with the fam is getting upended by #COVID. This blog may be as mellow as things get.

RantWoman since you didn't get your point written during Quaker writing time, just write what's on your mind.

Dear...

It was great to (have the tech wherewithal to) participate in the most recent Board meeting. 

For the future, I need to make a standing reasonable accommodation request to have either a link to anything to be screen-shared or a copy by email. I am happy to provide probably more than enough detail to make your eyes glaze over about why I specifically need this, but others who have different disabilities have also commented that my suggestion would be a good idea. It is great to have the agenda and previous meeting's minutes available in advance online. It would be great just to make the slides available the same way.

I would prefer to have the documents in advance so that perhaps I can formulate questions for the public comment period currently set before other agenda items. However, this time I have a question based on one of the presentations.

The (team focusing on meeting the needs of BIPOC people in need of housing) is doing a great job. Do you have any data about what percentage of the people being served identify has having a disability?  What about the people who do not make it through all the hoops to actually get housing?

RantWoman is happy to suggest some standard questions used by the census bureau and happy to talk about wrap around services and anecdotal data from another part of her life but first, let's please start with the reasonable accommodations request.

Thank you so much.

Sincerely 

(RantWoman)