Tag: access intimacy
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Interdependence, Access Intimacy, and Crip Technoscience: Disabled people do really cool things with language if people would pay attention.
Crip languaging incorporates practices of access intimacy, adaptions of technology, and relationality. To sum up, disabled people do really cool things with language if people would pay attention. View of Unsettling Languages, Unruly Bodyminds: A Crip Linguistics Manifesto We updated “Crip Linguistics”, “Written Communication Is the Great Social Equalizer”, “Interdependence”, and “Access Intimacy” with selections…
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Accessibility, Access Intimacy, and Forced Intimacy
These pieces on access intimacy and forced intimacy by Mia Mingus very much resonate with my experience. Forced intimacy is the continuous submission to patient hood required to access the right to learn, work, and live differently. K-12 SpEd families, higher ed students, and workers needing accommodations regularly experience forced intimacy. Forced intimacy “chips away…
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Defining Ableism
Excerpted below are quotes from community writing and scholarly studies on the definition, history, and forms of ableism. Content notes: ableism, racism, sexism, white supremacy, slavery, ABA, cure, defectiveness, eugenics, scientific racism, torture, murder, police violence, state violence, suicide, institutionalization, imprisonment Ableism A system that places value on people’s bodies and minds based on societally…
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Flexibility makes a big difference in inclusion.
Flexibility makes a big difference in inclusion. Source: Disabled People Have WFH For Years. Companies Catch Up The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge. Source: Bill Gates Says You Must Provide This Perk if You Want to Hire…
