Tag: forced intimacy
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Accommodations: Individualized Responses to Structural Design Problems
The accommodations for natural human variation should be mutual. @laurenancona Yet on a programmatic basis, disability policy and other social programs remain enmeshed, even at their best, in accommodation models, where specific proven needs or deficits generate specific individualized responses. What might it look like to shift our framing of the social safety net to…
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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…
