First off lets define what I mean by passive oppression. I am referring to those instances of bigotry that people unaffected by the oppression don't see as problematic. These actions are usually brushed off with a "oh I didn't mean it that way" or "It was Just a joke, lighten up". The thing that makes … Continue reading Please Stop Simultaneously Bringing Attention to and Minimizing Examples of Passive Oppression
Category: Disability in Society
The Cost of Unnessecarily Medicalizing Acts of Daily Life
A few weeks ago I found myself in the Occupational Therapy Kitchen of my local rehabilitation hospital. My physiatrist was filming me demonstrating how I undertake various cooking tasks as a person with hemiplegia (to be shown to her medical students). Cooking for me is both time consuming and laborious. It can take me nearly … Continue reading The Cost of Unnessecarily Medicalizing Acts of Daily Life
Fighting My Internalization of the Hierarchy of Disability
I have had my autism diagnosis for a decade now and yet I often still hesitate to publicly identify myself with the label. For quite a while my Twitter profile only listed me as having cerebral palsy. I never thought twice about sharing that I had cp but I had misgivings about coming out as … Continue reading Fighting My Internalization of the Hierarchy of Disability
Dear Parents of Disabled Kids: Please don’t Share Videos of Your Mostly Nude Children
I want to preface this with an assurance that this piece is not moral posturing. I will not be suggesting that sharing images of very young children is in any way sexually deviant or even that the viewers of those images are doing so for any reason other than to learn about your child's development … Continue reading Dear Parents of Disabled Kids: Please don’t Share Videos of Your Mostly Nude Children
When Voices of Privilege Compare Oppressions to Make Oppression Respectable
The above image shows a picture of Army Veteran, Noah Galloway crouching as if to start a footrace. He is a double amputee (left arm and leg). He wears a running blade prosthetic. The picture is captioned Caitlyn Jenner won the Arthur Ashe Courage Award. The runner up was this guy: Army Veteran Noah Galloway, … Continue reading When Voices of Privilege Compare Oppressions to Make Oppression Respectable
Dear Strangers who Just Want to Learn About Disability, I am Not an Infobooth
TEDxSydney has been getting a lot of bad press from the disability community lately. This is because of their very poorly thought out #StellasChallenge campaign. The campaign sought to capitalize on the message and popularity of late disabled comedian Stella Young. The campaign has similarities to the doomed Starbucks campaign Race Together which sought to … Continue reading Dear Strangers who Just Want to Learn About Disability, I am Not an Infobooth
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