By amandaw on 24 October, 2009
(Originally posted July 2009 at Feministe, three rivers fog.) We had a really good discussion about nondisability. It got derailed, a bit, because it depended on our ability to reasonably define disability. And it’s a subject that has come up in every discussion we’ve had these couple weeks. What is it? I advocate an intentionally [...]
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By amandaw on 20 October, 2009
Access is an all-consuming endeavor in a disabled person’s life. I love that the disability community learned to frame it that way: it emphasizes that the problem is not the person, their body or their condition; the problem is society’s indifference. Many accessibility solutions are structural; they require collective action — constructing spaces such that [...]
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