12:14am May 24, 2014

➸ A Hard Look at Invisible Disability /March 2001

We will always need to learn from one another about the barriers each of us faces, and barrier removal will need to be an ongoing process, not an accomplishment we can safely put behind us. Dismissing that which is unfamiliar to us as “invisible” (and suggesting that it cannot be discerned rather than that we have not learned to discern it) is another way of throwing the responsibility for social justice back on the individual who carries the burden of injustice.

Full article by Cal Montgomery, go read it.  It’s about why “invisible disability” doesn’t always work as a concept.

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