… when earning minimum wage is not enough to clear the poverty line, or when the working conditions at a job are so deplorable that they exacerbate existing disabilities or produce new ones?”
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I wasn’t able to go to Houston Pride this year bc I was bedbound due to my disability, but I spent the time reading this book by
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which has helped give word to my queer/disabled/poc body politic! Below are some of my fave quotes from what I’ve read so far 🧵
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The book is so beautifully constructed! It provides one of the best theoretical foundations / critiques to the field of disability studies that I’ve read before going on to describe tactical interventions we can employ to mitigate the impacts of ableism and to
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ultimately abolish the systems that have allowed ableism to thrive, to define ‘disability’ as distance from abled cishet normativity, and to use ‘access’ as a consolation crumb for those of us intentionally marginalized. Please read on and buy the book! ESP if you’re a planner!
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“Access didn’t eliminate ableism; it enabled ableism to bare its teeth.”
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“being disabled or claiming a disability identity says very little about a person’s experience of ableism, let alone their position in the broader social hierarchy, and still less about their political orientation to their position or the hierarchy.”
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“we have not yet addressed the underlying problem, the more fundamental ableism, that allows some embodyminded conditions to be capacitated into disabilities but not others.”
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“there can be no ethical future for disability so long as it remains defined primarily by its capacitating telos rather than its debilitated excess.”
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“Does the language of inaccessibility name the violence we think it does? And does the energy we spend demanding access secure the kind of liberation we want it to?”
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“what is the value of access to employment when disabled people are one of the only adult populations who can legally be paid less than minimum wage (Selyukh 2020)…
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“Access does not by itself fix ableism. […] Even if we get them to let us in, we can’t make them want us there.”
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“normativity is structured by whiteness & cisheteronormativity, along with abledness- all mutually entwined & contingent vectors of power that glean their meaning by manufacturing opposition in the forms of disability, gender nonconformance, sexual deviance, & racial difference.”
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“Unless paired with additional, more radical goals, employment and independent living end up reinforcing the liberalism linking economic productivity, independence, and citizenship.”
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“Anti-ableism requires mutual commitments to anti-racism and anti-capitalism because disability, race, and class are categorically and phenomenologically entwined.”
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“Ableism is sometimes just a fancy word for a society that doesn’t give a fuck.”
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“Crip negativity is sometimes just a fancy phrase for how it feels to never have been given a fuck about or to know the damage caused to others when no fucks are given.”
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“crip negativity runs on crip/trauma/mad time and, as such, is more concerned about holding space for bad feelings in the present than about making promises to fix the future.”
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“Hope suspends crips, however slightly, above the floor of resignation. Hope gives crips a structure for our negativity. One that demands no recognition, no gratitude—only a promise not to dissolve into the abyss of our pain.”
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