Comments on: on (dis)ableism http://www.raveneye.org/?p=422 Women and gender queer of color ISSUES have been done to death, we want OUR LIVES*** (Lisa Factora-B) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:09:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: ableism and the constellation of our lives | cripchick's weblog http://www.raveneye.org/?p=422&cpage=1#comment-132 ableism and the constellation of our lives | cripchick's weblog Sun, 03 May 2009 23:12:58 +0000 http://www.raveneye.org/?p=422#comment-132 [...] disabled young people’s collective retreat we had earlier this year. this is excerpted from raven’s eye: …I have a lot of people in my family with disabilities, though none of them would consider [...] [...] disabled young people’s collective retreat we had earlier this year. this is excerpted from raven’s eye: …I have a lot of people in my family with disabilities, though none of them would consider [...]

]]> By: moya http://www.raveneye.org/?p=422&cpage=1#comment-131 moya Sun, 03 May 2009 21:21:11 +0000 http://www.raveneye.org/?p=422#comment-131 thank you! loved your post at guerrilla mama medicine on this! It makes me think of radical ways that the"nondisabled" can stop colluding with ableism by sharing these stories and starting work stoppages and slow downs connected to the ridiculous demands that bodies are expected to meet. good news <a href="http://media-dis-n-dat.blogspot.com/2009/05/indian-womans-advocacy-leads-to-more.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> thank you! loved your post at guerrilla mama medicine on this! It makes me think of radical ways that the”nondisabled” can stop colluding with ableism by sharing these stories and starting work stoppages and slow downs connected to the ridiculous demands that bodies are expected to meet.

good news here

]]> By: SA http://www.raveneye.org/?p=422&cpage=1#comment-127 SA Sun, 03 May 2009 13:45:31 +0000 http://www.raveneye.org/?p=422#comment-127 Interesting post. Your point about drugs is particularly interesting. Drugs are a lot like food, So necessary for life for so many - yet the way they are produced, marketed and sold destroys lives. Interesting post. Your point about drugs is particularly interesting.

Drugs are a lot like food, So necessary for life for so many - yet the way they are produced, marketed and sold destroys lives.

]]> By: admin http://www.raveneye.org/?p=422&cpage=1#comment-121 admin Sat, 02 May 2009 23:55:15 +0000 http://www.raveneye.org/?p=422#comment-121 beautiful post moya. especially looking at the intersection of race and dis ability. it reminds me of this convo i was having a couple of months ago with a friend who runs a refugee school and basically told all the teachers that if they took sick leave for menstrual cramps they needed to have a doctors note because hey! menstrual cramps arent that bad! stop exxagerating! and i was like: ummm....when i apply for a job i normally have to put on the application that i will probably need to take two days off every month because 'cramps' doesnt begin to describe the level of pain that i am in during the whole menses thing. i cant walk. i cant think. i cant sit up. and then she said: oh yeah one of the men tried to explain to me that i didnt understand sudanese women and menses...and i wonder if i he was talking about fgm and how that would affect 'the cramps'....but i *know* that the worst it could be is a lil bit of back ache and tiredness... and so this lil convo leaves me wondering about ways that we deny womens pain by insisting that they explain their pain, their dis ability to us in ways that *we* can understand. i am also thinking about being preggers. and how in pregnancy you *supposed* to be full energy and happy and productive. and i wasnt. i lost 75-80 percent of my hearing. the back pain was excruciating. i was so tired and tired and tired. and no one took it seriously. how i obviously just didnt have the right frame of mind. how i obviously was a whiner. i dont know. but it does seem like our society refuses to listen to pain. refuses to acknowledge that the standard ideal of the human body's functioning is a myth. its like we are not allowed a diversity of body states. of abilities. of perceptions. of pain. what is going on? i definitely think its linked capitalism and the fact that my body is supposed to be a means to production. that that is my primary worthy function on this earth. and i am with you on the caretaking tip. i was just writng about this earlier tonight...centering care taking in community...and the ways that bodies on the margins of ability speak to that need for a reformulation of what is valuable in human beings... thank you moya love maia beautiful post moya. especially looking at the intersection of race and dis ability.
it reminds me of this convo i was having a couple of months ago with a friend who runs a refugee school and basically told all the teachers that if they took sick leave for menstrual cramps they needed to have a doctors note because hey! menstrual cramps arent that bad! stop exxagerating!
and i was like: ummm….when i apply for a job i normally have to put on the application that i will probably need to take two days off every month because ‘cramps’ doesnt begin to describe the level of pain that i am in during the whole menses thing. i cant walk. i cant think. i cant sit up.
and then she said: oh yeah one of the men tried to explain to me that i didnt understand sudanese women and menses…and i wonder if i he was talking about fgm and how that would affect ‘the cramps’….but i *know* that the worst it could be is a lil bit of back ache and tiredness…
and so this lil convo leaves me wondering about ways that we deny womens pain by insisting that they explain their pain, their dis ability to us in ways that *we* can understand.
i am also thinking about being preggers. and how in pregnancy you *supposed* to be full energy and happy and productive. and i wasnt. i lost 75-80 percent of my hearing. the back pain was excruciating. i was so tired and tired and tired. and no one took it seriously. how i obviously just didnt have the right frame of mind. how i obviously was a whiner.
i dont know.
but it does seem like our society refuses to listen to pain. refuses to acknowledge that the standard ideal of the human body’s functioning is a myth.
its like we are not allowed a diversity of body states. of abilities. of perceptions. of pain.
what is going on?
i definitely think its linked capitalism and the fact that my body is supposed to be a means to production. that that is my primary worthy function on this earth.
and i am with you on the caretaking tip. i was just writng about this earlier tonight…centering care taking in community…and the ways that bodies on the margins of ability speak to that need for a reformulation of what is valuable in human beings…
thank you moya
love maia

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