Straw Bans Are DANGEROUS For Disabled People [CC]

Plastic straws are necessary medical tools and creating legal bans endangers the lives of disabled people. In this video I talk about the history of its use, why alternatives do not work, the variety of ways banning them is dangerous and stigmatizing, and my hope that environmentalism becomes more intersectional and acknowledges the needs of disabled people without dismissing them as lazy or wasteful.

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VIDEO SOURCES:
Straw Twitter Moments:   / 1024935203666624513  
Straw Chart: https://twitter.com/rollwthepunches/s...
Santa Barbara: https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/19/sa...
Straw Denial: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/viral...
Plastic straw statistic: https://phys.org/news/2018-04-science...
Alternative Straws More Wasteful: https://nypost.com/2018/08/02/your-10...
Alternative Straws Terrible Solution: https://www.sfchronicle.com/restauran...
Anaphylactic attack due to biodegradable plastic straw: https://twitter.com/somesaylezzels/st...
Woman impaled by metal straw: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/wo...


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Annie Segarra (Annie Elainey) creates mainly first-person videos on introspective topics, social topics, sharing her experiences and thoughts on disability, body image, LGBT topics, gender equality, etc, as well as creative content; a variety of music/artistic media and short films. Annie identifies as a queer disabled (Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome) Latinx woman and uses she and they pronouns.