4:26pm December 7, 2013

➸ http://youneedacat.tumblr.com/post/69080998329/madeofpatterns-privilege-and-power-dynamics-are

devilsmoon:

youneedacat:

madeofpatterns:

Privilege and power dynamics are *so* complicated when it’s a disabled person who is privileged over their staff on every other axis.

YES THIS.

This is why these things are never simple.

And it also varies a lot by what kind of disabled person it is.

Because things are…

Now I feel like an ass by going into education….

It’s not whether you go into the field.  It’s whether you go into the field thinking that your disability will make you immune to ugly power dynamics, without even having to learn how not to abuse power.

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