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Every person need to be taught disability history
Not the “oh Einstein was probably autistic” or the sanitized Helen Keller story. but this history disabled people have made and has been made for us.
Teach them about Carrie Buck, who was sterilized against her will, sued in 1927, and lost because “Three generations of imbeciles [were] enough.”
Teach them about Judith Heumann and her associates, who in 1977, held the longest sit in a government building for the enactment of 504 protection passed three years earlier.
Teach them about all the Baby Does, newborns in 1980s who were born disabled and who doctors left to die without treatment, who’s deaths lead to the passing of The Baby Doe amendment to the child abuse law in 1984.
Teach them about the deaf students at Gallaudet University, a liberal arts school for the deaf, who in 1988, protested the appointment of yet another hearing president and successfully elected I. King Jordan as their first deaf president.
Teach them about Jim Sinclair, who at the 1993 international Autism Conference stood and said “don’t mourn for us. We are alive. We are real. And we’re here waiting for you.”
Teach about the disability activists who laid down in front of buses for accessible transit in 1978, crawled up the steps of congress in 1990 for the ADA, and fight against police brutality, poverty, restricted access to medical care, and abuse today.
Teach about us.
bonk
What I find hilarious is, that they are communicating completely different things.
Goats butt heads. It’s not exactly aggression, but it’s always relevant to dominance. That goat is trying very hard to start a fight.
But to the horse, this is a gentle “hello” kind of head bump, and the horse is trying to be polite and return the gesture.
Big “I can take you! I can take you!” vibe here. (And the horse going “YOU ARE SO CUTE, LET’S BE FRIENDS!”) (…chortle)
GOAT: Bro! Bro! Come at me, bro!
HORSE: We are so different yet he hails me as a brother and beseecheth me to approach in friendship. I love him.Goat is trying to throw a punch, but it translates as a fist bump instead
women in STEM. women in BRANCH. women in LOG. women in TREE. women in BUSH (both kinds.) women in FOREST CLEARING. we’re everywhere these woods are ours
The idea that someone would willingly choose to use a mobility aid without actually needing it due to being “lazy” is really absurd to me because of the amount of work and physical energy needed to use aids that people just do not think about.
If you use a cane, you now only have ONE arm to do things like hold bags or open doors–how many trips do you want to take to bring groceries in again? If you use 2 crutches, or a walker, guess who doesn’t have ANY hands free? Manual wheelchair user? Guess who has a horrific time getting food from cafeterias or restaurants because you only have a lap? Oh you have to drive somewhere? Time to think about storage and whether you have the energy to lift your aid out of the car unless you had the thousands of dollars to spend on a ramp! Electric wheelchair? Time to not be able to go out unless your chair is charged, also btw the space underneath manual chairs has been replaced by battery/components ;). Oh no! A tall curb. Time to make a 10 minute detour. Time for your upper body exercises so you can even move in things like manual chairs or crutches for any extended period of time and/or up any sort of incline. Etc.
They ruled for eighty years. But no man can live forever, except he who possesses the heart of a star, and Yvaine had given hers to Tristan completely. When their children and grandchildren were grown, it was time to light the Babylon Candle. And they still live happily ever after.
Stardust (2007) dir. Matthew Vaughn
okay enough about ‘the queen’ now. that’s over. it’s time to talk about me again
