Quotation: “Disability & Sentimentality”
When the disabled body and the handicapped self are inscribed as deficient and dependent, disabled people are aligned with other social groups perceived as needing supervision, assistance, and...
View ArticleQuotation: Why We Do Disability History
[I promise that I am so close to being done all this reading that there will soon be less quotation-posts, but I keep finding all these lovely words, and I'm very fond of them.] Reminders of the...
View ArticleQuoted: Karl Michalak, “Face Value” (excerpt)
Everything healed up but in a very strange way Years later when it was very obvious that something was very wrong with my face everyone said one or more of the following: It’s the Lord’s will. Just...
View ArticleQuoted: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson on staring
The first element in the staring process is for the staree to develop a keen sense of being scrutinized. This anticipation and preparedness arms the staree with the proper relational tools to manage...
View ArticleQuoted: David Levithan in ‘Will Grayson, Will Grayson’ on ‘Mental Health Days’
i think the idea of a ‘mental health day’ is something completely invented by people who have no clue what it’s like to have bad mental health. the idea that your mind can be aired out in twenty-four...
View ArticleQuoted: Francisco X. Stork in ‘Marcelo in the Real World’
A scene in which the title character (who speaks in the third person) is explaining the way his brain works to another character: ”Cognitive disorder’ is not an accurate description of what happens...
View ArticleQuoted: Audre Lorde
The supposition that one [group] needs the other’s acquiescence in order to exist prevents both from moving together as self-defined persons toward a common goal. This kind of action is a prevalent...
View ArticleQuoted: Tim Wise
Research has found that students of color, especially African-Americans, are disproportionately likely to be classified and labeled as learning disabled and placed in special education programs. This...
View ArticleQuoted: Susan Wendell
Feminist organizations have become more aware of the need to make their activities accessible to women who use wheelchairs, women who need written material in alternative formats, and women who need...
View ArticleQuoted: bell hooks
Cultural criticism can be an agent for change, educating for critical consciousness in liberatory ways, only if we start with a mind-set and a progressive politics that is fundamentally...
View ArticleQuoted: Paulo Freire
I find this quote helpful when I’m feeling worn down and need a little inspiration and motivation to keep fighting. “Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to...
View ArticleQuote: “Who are ‘the Disabled’?”
The disabled, therefore, are not a tangible and unproblematic collection of people but, rather, a population that is assumed to exist, a category into which able-bodied people can slot others who pose...
View ArticleQuote: Not a lack
It seems difficult for nondisabled people to write about disability without reflexively imagining what disabled people are missing or how difficult their lives must be. Rod Michalko, a sociologist who...
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