Wow. I've only just seen the harassment
@Soc_of_Authors
is getting for the carefully worded announcement of the ADCI prize. Everyone equating self-ID with lying needs to have a big word with themselves. They're attacking a prize devised by disabled writers for disabled writers.
There’s criticism of the “self identify as disabled” line used here but, what’s the alternative do you think? A register for disabled? A benefits slip as proof? It isn’t to let non-disabled people fake it, it’s to enable disabled people who worry their disability “doesn’t count.”
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They also need to educate themselves about living with disability (including the CI people replying diagnosis is fact & not self ID - bless you sweet summer children if you think that's how the world works). The whole point is the prize is not a PIP tribunal.
#DisLit
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And lets face it, we all know why 99% of them have leapt on the words 'self-identify' and it sure as hell is not because they care about disability justice. 👀
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@pollyrowena
@Soc_of_Authors
I wonder if this response is linked to transphobia and the way self-ID has been wrongfully discredited in that context. People don't realise how often we all have to self-ID in various situations
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@DrDanne
@Soc_of_Authors
I would say very much so, looking at the replies. We all self-id all the time in life, of course!
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@penny_author
@Soc_of_Authors
I'm so sorry Penny - thinking of you & sending love & solidarity. You musn't let this dampen the great achievement of bringing this prize into being x
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@pollyrowena
@Soc_of_Authors
Absolutely spot on. And of course the usual suspects are rearing their ugly heads to attack us.
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@pollyrowena
@Soc_of_Authors
I’ve just made the mistake of looking at the replies - upsetting and rage-inducing. Isn’t it even in the Equalities Act that proof is a non-equal burden?
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@pollyrowena
@Soc_of_Authors
Imagine hating a 2-word expression so much that you'd attack the organizers of a book prize created by disabled people to give all those suffering from chronic illness or disability a chance to turn their experience into an opportunity...
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