Hi,
I'm Ola and it is 99% able a youtube channel and a
blog where I talk about life as an independent disabled person,
as well as disability and body positivity activism.
Today, I would like to show you my favorite activists who work mostly on Instagram.
As next week,
I would like to talk about how Instagram gives shadow bands and uh sensors,
disable disabled people's photos and Instagram accounts.
So I think I would like to start with
probably the first activists that I followed on Instagram
and their name is Ruby
Allegra. They are gender
fluid and they have the same exactly the same uh disability that I have, which is a,
which is arthrogryposis.
What I like about Ruby is that they always show themselves as they really are
and
they always show that disabled people has to be, have to be respected
and they really fight for that.
They also
often talk about how,
what problems do people culture users have in their usual everyday life.
I am personally not a culture user,
but as
Ruby and I have the same disability, I still feel like
I experienced some of the things that they experience
and this kind of
make me closer to them.
And that's why I really like them as a person and as, as activists.
And I'm really glad that I had the possibility to get to know them.
Not personally, of course, but, you know, get to
know their work,
their activist work and what they write about their
opinions because I just learned so much from them
and I'm just really grateful for that.
The next person is Alex Daisy,
who I got to know probably as more most of
the people for Snapchat's Born different uh stories program.
And by the way, Born different on Snapchat is a really
nice, I could say
uh program as every week, I think or twice a week, something like that.
They uh add a new video of someone, some disabled person, sorry.
And you know, it's just
amazing to see how different disabled people in the whole world
uh manage with their lives. And
this program is usually very positive. So
it's just really nice to watch. I really like it.
So I think I could say that Alex is one of
the faces of the problem with Instagram that Instagram shadow bands,
uh disabled people.
And Alex sometimes posts pictures
of herself where she posts in the same uh
way as for example, Kim Kardashian poses or other celebrities.
And she shows that Instagram only delete her photos and not the celebrity photos.
And she also started another Instagram uh page,
another Instagram blog which is dis uh disabled by his mother.
And she also talks about it uh about it there and she post photo of different dis
people.
So the next part
person is Julian Van
or
who is also a trans advocate, apart from being a
disability blogger and activist, he's also a model.
So he talks about how to get into modeling as a disabled person and how it is generally
to be a disabled model.
He also recently wrote an amazing article about shadow banning and
censor and censoring disabled people's photos and deleting them on Instagram.
And that's what inspired me to talk about it next week.
And I really look up to him. I always wait for his post and stories because
he's just so positive and so open about everything about all of his experiences
that is just
amazing and really nice to watch him and follow him.
So the next person who is not a disability activist but body positivity activist
and she's probably the one that you will know the best, probably all of you know, her,
her name is Megan and she is known on Instagram as body
posi panda.
Even though Megan is not dis
disability activist and blogger,
she has a sister Gemma who is a disabled person and she's very often in her videos,
photos, stories on Instagram.
And
you can see that Gemma understands disabled people
and she uh really respects everyone else.
Uh she also shows through her stories and through her relationship with Gemma
that
viable people are
as normal
and as good
as able bodied people and that they should be treated
equally and that they are not worse,
which I will respect about her.
And I really, I'm really thankful for her about
it uh
because she,
she has a really wide following and um all
the people follow her just because of body positivity,
But they also learn about these abilities while following her.
So the next person is live from Instagram, a blog called Self Love Life.
And she is just really real, really real person.
And she's also she always very open about her experiences.
She talks about self love, but the positivity and also mental health
and
whenever
someone, whoever you know, struggles with mental health,
I think they should follow her because she's just
so open about it and so real about it and
it's just so amazing. She feels like a best friend
that everyone needs.
So yeah,
live is just another amazing person really worth it.
It's really worth to follow her on Instagram.
So the last person who
is probably one of my favorite people in the whole world.
Uh Her name is Jamila Jamil.
She's an actress.
And recently,
I don't know, maybe a year or two years ago,
she started a Instagram blog called Iwe
where people
talk about what they weigh in terms of not kilograms, but in terms of their feelings,
their process,
their family, um what they, what is important in their lives
and it's just really inspiring how people see themselves.
So, Jamila is mostly body positivity activist.
She posts a lot on Twitter, I think more than on Instagram,
but I weigh is on Instagram.
So that's why I talk about it here.
And recently I've noticed that she started talking more about uh disabled people.
So I hope that she will talk about it more in the future too.
So there are also a few activists and bloggers who I've only
started following a few days ago or not a long time ago.
And uh they are um talked about and they are usually friends
with other activists who I told you about a second ago.
So I would also like to mention them because there are people that
I know that early were following because my favorite activist follow them
and are friends with them.
So I will also just mention their names because
I don't know yet what they talk about exactly.
And what are their,
you know, opinions about everything? And I would love to get to know them better.
So the first person is Ariel from carpeted DM Instagram
account and they are friends with Julian from the disabled hippie
uh account who I told you about before.
And they're also a gender
and they also say that they are deaf positive.
So I would like to learn more about it because I
have to admit that I've never heard about this, about it before.
So I hope I could learn something new from them.
So the next people
uh who live with
Ileostomy are also very important in terms of next week's uh team,
which is uh shadow banning and censoring photos on Instagram.
They both are huge advocates
uh in this subject on Instagram. So the first one's name is Brianna
and her user name on Instagram is the laughing stomach.
And the second one, his name is Veronica and her name, her user name is Viz
Ilios
toy.
So the last person's name is Jessie and her user name on Instagram is disabled,
not defeated.
She lives with chronic pain with disability
and well a service dog who looks really amazing.
And I've recently started watching her stories
and she talks about some really important things
and she seems like a really kind person.
So I would also like to uh learn more from her and learn more about her too.
So that's it. Thank you very much for watching this video.
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So yes, that's it. Thank you very much.
I want to film another video about activists generally or from other platforms.
But today I just wanted to focus on only Instagram activists.
But yeah, that's it. So thank you very much and see you next week.