7:35am June 18, 2014

“That’s invading her rights as a person to decide whether or not she wants to get it done or not.”

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Mother wants answers after teenage daughter’s armpits were shaved by teacher

A fourteen year-old girl has her armpits forcibly shaved by a teacher, in front of other students. The teacher and school district defend it because the girl is developmentally disabled and needs to learn “independent living skills” (otherwise known, in this case, as why you must submit to gendered social norms at all times).

And the justification is that the girl would be made fun of if she didn’t do it? Maybe you should change the behavior of the kids that are the bullies, not the kids being bullied. Because even if you forcibly shave her armpits, she’s still noticeably disabled, and that (in her case) can’t be hidden/normalized quite so easily.

The message being sent here - and in so many of these programs - is “You’re being teased because you’re different, so try to be the same!” Rather than seeing the value in human difference and diversity.

(via disabilityhistory)

This makes me so angry.

(via thisisnotyourhomework)

Inexcusable. Bodily autonomy, people, LOOK IT UP.

(via animatedamerican)

The fuck? This is abuse.

“She’ll be made fun of if she doesn’t."

WHAT IN THE SHIT DID THEY THINK WOULD HAPPEN AS A RESULT OF THIS TYPE OF VERY PUBLIC SHAMING/ABUSE?

(via peoplemask)

no means no, regardless if the person has a disability!!!

(via nekobakaz)

I have to wonder if that had happened to me, would my parents have even objected, given that they were always trying to make me shave? (I shave now, but only as odor control, not as an aesthetic thing.) I was in a lot of "programs” to “teach ADLs” and I could totally see something like that happening.

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