2:19am July 3, 2013

“Anarchist communities often value and revere “back to the land" attitudes. They fetishize a world after the industrial collapse where we are all riding our bikes everywhere and growing our own food. But that’s not a world I can live in. As a person with a disability, I depend on technology to keep me alive. I depend on my hearing aid, and my mobility chair. I depend on my perscription (sic) drugs to keep my immune system from destroying my spine. I can’t afford to “fuck cars and ride my bike.“ Anarchist communities who celebrate able bodies, have bonding and strategizing events in inaccessible locations, adopt mantras like “racism is a DISEASE” and “The revolution will not be motorized" are not welcoming or safe places for me. These ideas of what revolution mean are exclusive, and borrow heavily from eugenicist idealogy. They are rarely criticized, because PWDs (people with disabilities) are humiliated by dominant culture AND by most anarchist culture. It’s not a revolution unless everyone is invited.”

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Wren A.

THIS SO MUCH THIS

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(via affairofthepoisons)

This is basically the killer argument against primitivism - their ideology is really incompatible with having autonomous and mobile disabled people.

(caveat: my idea of revolution doesn’t require “everyone" to be invited, but “disabled people" is obv not an exclusion I want!)

wow this is a super fucking important point and not something that gets talked about nearly enough

(via ratkingxvx)

yooo and this applies to people who have serioud conditions that require medications like asthma or diabetes.

(via northeastdakota)

This is my problem with those “If everyone would just put down their cell phones and WAKE UP…" mantras. Because so many of rely on technology for our health. For some of us that means physical aide, and for some it means that thanks to technology we can finally communicate and make ourselves heard. Disabled people are empowered by technology in away that never existed before. And I refuse to buy into any movement that wants to take that away from people.

(via missingagloe)

Not to mention some of us need modern technology to breathe, either some or all of the time. Especially high quads. I don’t see losing that going over well with full time vent users, given they’d die instantly and horribly. And it doesn’t go over with me that well given I use supplemental oxygen and stuff, not to mention bipap at night and sometimes day too. Although I’d usually be fine for a little while, but might end up in hospital after awhile.

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