Manifestly Abusive #BADD2015
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davidgillonManifestly Abusive is my post for Blogging Against Disablism Day 2015 (which was yesterday), and looks at disablism in UKIP, Tory and Lib-Dem campaigning for the election. You should read it in conjunction with How many politicians does it take to throw 18% of the population under a bus? from Lisa Egan, which picks up on elements of the Labour and Green manifestos I'd missed. Together they give a survey of disablism across the platforms of all five major parties.
The BADD 2015 index post is here. I'm still working through the posts, but Christopher John Balls' What Are YOU Looking At? is an all too sharp look at on-street harrassment (BTDT {sigh}), while Kathryn Allan's Ableism, Academia and Science Fiction looks at problems in being a disabled academic, the near absence of disability in SFF, and problems in getting academia to adequately include discussions of disability in fiction in amongst all the other discussions of diversity (I was very strongly struck by the resonance with a paper I saw yesterday which talked about the near erasure of disability from children's early reader books). Indigo Jo has a horrifying look at disabled kids forcibly detained in secure and semi-secure units hundreds of miles from home, the harm it does and the lives it has taken: Sometimes it’s the miles. Sometimes it’s the care. Sometimes it’s both and Blogging Astrid looks at the demands society places of people in institutions in You Can't be in Society Like This, which in many ways could be extended to cover all disabled people and society's demand we conform to their norms.
BADD is seldom comfortable reading, but that discomfort makes it a reality society owes it to us to address
The BADD 2015 index post is here. I'm still working through the posts, but Christopher John Balls' What Are YOU Looking At? is an all too sharp look at on-street harrassment (BTDT {sigh}), while Kathryn Allan's Ableism, Academia and Science Fiction looks at problems in being a disabled academic, the near absence of disability in SFF, and problems in getting academia to adequately include discussions of disability in fiction in amongst all the other discussions of diversity (I was very strongly struck by the resonance with a paper I saw yesterday which talked about the near erasure of disability from children's early reader books). Indigo Jo has a horrifying look at disabled kids forcibly detained in secure and semi-secure units hundreds of miles from home, the harm it does and the lives it has taken: Sometimes it’s the miles. Sometimes it’s the care. Sometimes it’s both and Blogging Astrid looks at the demands society places of people in institutions in You Can't be in Society Like This, which in many ways could be extended to cover all disabled people and society's demand we conform to their norms.
BADD is seldom comfortable reading, but that discomfort makes it a reality society owes it to us to address
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Date: 2015-05-03 02:18 am (UTC)I'm so thrilled that BADD exists!
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Date: 2015-05-04 02:08 pm (UTC)I think the point about the power over us that is being passed to churches via food banks and other charity stuff is a particularly good one.