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Joyce Amen
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“Many of us who are disabled are not particularly likable or popular in general or amid the abled. Ableism means that we—with our panic attacks, our trauma, our triggers, our nagging need for fat seating or wheelchair access, our crankiness at inaccessibility, again, our staying home—are seen as pains in the ass, not particularly cool or sexy or interesting. Ableism, again, insists on either the supercrip (able to keep up with able-bodied club spaces, meetings, and jobs with little or no access needs) or the pathetic cripple. Ableism and poverty and racism mean that many of us are indeed in bad moods. Psychic difference and neurodivergence also mean that we may be blunt, depressed, or “hard to deal with” by the tenants of an ableist world.”
― Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
― Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
“In order for nonviolence to work. Your opponent must have a Conscience. The United States has none.”
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“As I gazed rather intently at the earth my grandfather said: How long will your thoughts continue to dwell upon the earth?”
― Somnium Scipionis: The Dream of Scipio
― Somnium Scipionis: The Dream of Scipio
“What worries me most about the proposals for legalized assisted suicide is their veneer of beneficence—the medical determination that for a given individual, suicide is reasonable or right. It is not about autonomy but about nondisabled people telling us what’s good for us. In the discussion that follows, I argue that choice is illusory in a context of pervasive inequality. Choices are structured by oppression. We shouldn’t offer assistance with suicide until we all have the assistance we need to get out of bed in the morning and live a good life. Common causes of suicidality—dependence, institutional confinement, being a burden—are entirely curable.”
― Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
― Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
“Inclusion without power or leadership is tokenism.”
― Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
― Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
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