Thea Kurdi 🍁

For those who may not know me or who are new here from X/Twitter, built environment accessibility and universal design is specialty. And I love to teach! I'm also disabled with several invisible disabilities and advocate for overhaul of design legislation and education. My goal? Culture change.

If you feel like you don't know what you don't know about accessibility, it can help to follow folks who discuss assistive technology, accessibility and disability. Here's a Bluesky list of people who post a lot about those topics. bsky.app/profile/a11y...

@cbcnews-rss.bsky.social new disability rights article includes my feedback about how building code and accessibility legislation yet again failed to deliver equity, dignity or even a usable path this Ontario municipality's building. Read the article at: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #HumanRights

Are you attending the 2025 Disability Inclusive Pathways Conference July 15 and 16? I've been invited to be 1 of the panelists for the ‘Making our environments work for kaimahi and customers alike’ session. Learn more and register at www.dipc.nz #Accessibility #conference #Disability #business

Looking forward to giving the presentation I've been invited to give today to the @accessiblehousgnet.bsky.social about how smart green design also makes buildings and #housing accessible. There's nothing more #sustainable than #accessibility - demographics, durability, affordability, health, etc.

The hashtag #accessibility allows you to find lots of accessibility-related resources on Bluesky, LinkedIn, and other platforms that use hashtags. To find accessibility resources in Spanish, use the hashtag #accesibilidad. The hashtag #accessibilité helps you find resources in French.

#TeachableMoment Historic old town in Spain offers solution to overcome the old step up from the street outside problem with a gentle slope ramp inside the entry door. Such an elegant solution. It can be done! ¡Olé! #AccessibleCanada #ADA #DDR #EAA #CRPD #disability #accessibility #BillionStrong

Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.

Do you have a quick accessible building design question you need answered? Excited to announce this new service from Level Playing Field is now available! Learn more at: www.linkedin.com/posts/darby-... #NAAW2025 #NAAW #AccessibleCanada #ADA #AODA #architecture #InteriorDesign #UrbanPlanning

@mark-carney.bsky.social please ensure your mandates are aligned with the 40 year old changes to the Canadian Charter and Human Rights Code which recognize disabled Canadians as equal citizens. We need a Minister to sheppard the #AccessibleCanada Act, the #DisabilityBenefit, and changes to education

National AccessAbility Awareness Week Accessibility is the evolution of architecture, policy, legislation, business, and all design. It's time we evolve and right size and right cost. Prime Minister #MarkCarney bring down these barriers! Invest in justice. #NAAW2025 #NAAW #disability #inclusion

Quote from John Pavlovitz posted on social media, "Saying your anti-woke is a whole lot quicker than saying you're a selfish and fearful human being who is terrified of diversity, hostile to progress, and wants no one else to have the rights, representation, love or opportunity you have. #woke #DEI

I have my 1st poll question on my YouTube channel! Target audience: those creating buildings & built environment designs. Help by answering & sharing at: youtube.com/post/UgkxOCS... #AccessibleCanada #accessibility #UniversalDesign #architecture #InteriorDesign #Landscape #UrbanPlanning #education

Pope Leo meets Opus Dei boss in a private audience to get an "update" on its reforms You might recall Opus Dei cancelled a vote on its reforms hours after Francis passed away Leo "listened with great interest to the explanations given" - I bet he did! opusdei.org/es/article/a...

If guilty people don't have Due Process rights, then innocent people don't have Due Process rights, because we don't know if they're innocent or guilty until we have a trial or hearing.

Did you know the “weekend” and working only 8 hours per day used to be considered a radical, liberal idea? 139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea. A 🧵

Duckworth on if she's open to voting to confirm Mike Waltz: "I think everybody on that Signal chain needs to be fired ... he's failing up ... I'm not open to voting for him, no, because he's already demonstrated he's incapable of doing the most basic thing, which is handling classified information."

Trump’s new budget proposal would slash funding for national parks, monuments, historic sites, seashores, and trails by nearly 25%, cutting more than $1.2 billion from the $4.8 billion Park Service budget.

RFK Jr. is dangerous.

A gift to the NRA.

Hi, I’m God. All Trump supporters go to Hell. All of them. Hope this helps.

ICE has begun raiding the homes of American citizens. A widely shared story out of Oklahoma describes a disturbing incident where a woman and her children were dragged into their yard half-naked. Reports are mounting across multiple states of agents targeting the wrong properties.

96 people, including women who changed their names after marriage, were turned away from voting in New Hampshire under a new state law. One voter had to make 3 trips to cast a ballot. It's voter suppression – and the SAVE Act (in the U.S. Senate) would export this nationwide.

Walz: You have a situation where the Secretary of Health basically said it and was speaking with the language of eugenics, that some people just don't matter. People like Deanna's son or my son or those of you listening tonight. So look, this is a fight we must win.

The National Post in Canada is the National Enquirer of the U.S.

@profgalloway.com found this online making it's rounds today

Congratulations to Mark Carney and the Liberal Party on their election victory. The bond between Europe and Canada is strong — and growing stronger.

Even at early returns CBC projects we will have Liberal government but too early to tell if it will be a majority. NDP votes collapsed.

April 28th is the day we remember workers injured and killed on the job. They don't teach us the monumental stories of resistance and organizing to make workplaces safer. This is my reflection on the origins of April 28th and the miners of the north who made history. substack.com/home/post/p-...

At issue is a case testing the reach of federal laws that promise special help for children with disabilities in public schools. Specifically: What do parents have to prove in order to get that specialized help?

Pritzker: And we have a president who claims to love America but hates our military so much that can’t be bothered to delay his golf game to greet the bodies of four fallen U.S. soldiers.

Pritzker: Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research…

An executive order will convert 50,000 government employees into de facto political appointees who serve only at the president’s pleasure, Robert P. Beschel Jr. writes:

This is Canada — and we decide what happens here.

"It’s not going to stop with Dugan. It’s not even going to stop with judges. The administration’s position is that state and local officials must assist the federal government in its immigration crackdown or face prosecution." — @snipy.bsky.social

“So that’s a no?” 🤡 @acyn.bsky.social