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9:21pm May 3, 2014

allies-person:

These things are just pretty frustrating to me, because initially when I found FWD/Forward, and then later Tumblr, it was really cool for me to FINALLY find other people who actually cared about analyzing ableism.  But then too often it just seemed really petty and divorced from the actual issues which affect PWD and I don’t get it.

And I would argue that this kind of narrow “anti-ableism” has penetrated to the real world.  Just the other, the professor I TA for (in a Gender Studies class, BTW) mentioned the whole problem with the way “blindness” is metaphorically used when showing a quotation from the reading.  I appreciate that she is attempting to draw students’ attention to this, but at the same time I’m not sure the way she did it was necessarily anti-ableist, nor am I convinced that this is the best way to introduce disability critiques into the course, which otherwise doesn’t have much disability-related contact.  So now a bunch of undergrads, who often tend not to have the most nuanced understanding of material presented to them in lectures, think that disability studies and activism is about picking at word usage.  

It’s really disappointing to me. 

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  8. raposadanoite said: The focus of anti-ableism could be used for more important topics but people only talk about words.
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