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"Kindness" - Naomi Shibab Nye
4 months ago
| Notes: 697
"Science is not “neutral,” nor is it purely beholden to positivism. People do science. People conduct research. People are embedded in social relationships. People reproduce certain understandings of truth and power. People have a stake in the game, an investment in a certain outcome. To point, there are many reasons why black folks—and people of color more generally—are distrustful of the medical establishment, and view the proposition that science is “neutral,” with great suspicion. We know about medical apartheid, using radiation to put holes in people’s heads, Mississippi appendectomies, the exploitation of Henrietta Lacks, and of course, Tuskegee. There are many other hidden histories. One of these is how black folks were marginalized by the mental health field and branded by State authorities as “insane,” “schizophrenic,” or “mentally ill,” because they dared to defy white racism. We have echoes of how suffragists were treated by the United States government during their struggle for the vote and a more full citizenship. This one is for the eugenicist race science clowns. Hopefully, they will have more entertaining darts to throw at what should be an open and shut case about how white supremacy works through science to reinforce the status quo."
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More Race Science: They Lock Up Those “Crazy” Negro Agitators and Call Them “Schizophrenic,” regarding Jonathan Metzl’s The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease (via thetart)
this is my father’s story
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4 months ago
"If you are amazed at how it is possible to speak, hear, smell, touch, see, understand, and feel — tell your soul that all living things collectively confer upon you the fullness of your experience. Not the least speck of existence is superfluous, everything is needed, and everything serves its purpose. ‘You’ are present within everything that is beneath you, and your being is bound up with all that transcends you."
- Rav Avraham Kook
4 months ago
| Notes: 75
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Removing ableism isn’t about changing lots and lots of words around. It’s not about creating the ultimate ideology and shoving it down people’s throats until your “anti-ableist” crap starts twisting around to result in damage or death to actual disabled people. It’s not about creating new “models” of disability, even if those are sometimes helpful on a really simplistic level.
It’s about really and truly and fully valuing us as equals within the human race, and going from there. And believe me truly getting what that entails is a lifelong process. Because if people saw us as equals already then most of what we believe and do, not just about disabled people but about all people, would be changed on levels that few of us can even begin to imagine.
And it can’t just be segmented off into doing this for one group of people, because how societies treat disabled people are tangled up in knots with how we treat all other people, oppressed or not, and because disabled people also face oppression in other areas. Most people seem to veer off from this part into memorizing a bunch of “social justice” ideologies and jargon for each oppressed group. Please don’t. Ideologies will never solve oppression, they just twist it into new forms.
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yeah, i’m about done with a disability culture in which people who have very different disabilities condescend to me how i need to have more “imagination” in how i see my own disabilities and how my own needs have to be subsumed under an umbrella that is failing me and a lot of other people. i deleted my initial reply to the post but i’m just feeling more and more pissed off the more i think about it.
Truth. A lot of disability spaces are very single issue and lack nuance. But I’m rather critical of equality language. Right, you can’t segment disability activism from other issues, but I think we should be careful not to rely on assimilationist, monolithic narratives of “the human race.” We don’t need to deny our powerful differences in order to address the ways in which some groups are failing us.
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4 months ago
| Notes: 371
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abdul-aziz:
[Today in History] December 20, 1996: Author, cosmologist and astrophysicist Carl Sagan dies.
We miss you Carl. Wish you were around to help us out and offer some sensible perspective on things.
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[Today in History] December 20, 1996: Author, cosmologist and astrophysicist Carl Sagan dies.
We miss you Carl. Wish you were around to help us out and offer some sensible perspective on things.
Love.
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| Notes: 6382
"Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape."
- bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions (via youveescaped)
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5 months ago
| Notes: 36
"We all wear masks, and there will be a time when we cannot remove them without removing some of our skin."
- Andrê Bartiaume
