Wednesday, February 26, 2020

We can hear you

 Dear critics of Donald Trump:

Your Mad/ neurodivergent/ psychiatrically disabled friends can hear you calling him "crazy" and "mentally ill."
Your friends with learning and intellectual disabilities can hear you saying that he and his supporters have a low IQ.
Your friends who've survived psychiatric violence can hear you "joking" about putting him in a straitjacket.
Your fat friends can hear you saying that his body shape renders him incompetent, immoral, or ridicule-worthy.
Your friends with eating disorders, sensory sensitivities to food, allergies, or a limited diet can hear you say that eating a limited diet is "childish" or joke approvingly about sneaking an unknown ingredient into someone's food.
Your friends with genetic disabilities can hear you calling him genetically inferior.
If you want to insult Donald Trump for something, might I suggest being a corrupt, power-hungry, racist, sexist, xenophobic, misogynistic, violent, inept, self-aggrandizing fascist?

Saturday, February 1, 2020

The wrong question

 There are no right ways to answer the questions "Where should we put disabled people?" or "How should we solve the problem of disabled people?" because those are the wrong questions. The right questions are "Why does our society strip disabled people of the freedom to control their own lives and the resources needed to do so?" and "How can we overthrow the systemic ableism that treats disabled people as problems to be solved instead of humans with autonomy, agency, and rights?"

Reagan Didn't Do That

  One of the main problems with the “Reagan closed the institutions” narrative, besides straight-out historical inaccuracy, is that it erase...