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davidgillon) wrote2015-10-21 08:03 pm
davidgillon) wrote2015-10-21 08:03 pm
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Linkspam: Disability, whether to 'pass' or 'perform'?
Passing for Normal: The Austerity Politics of Visibility and Invisibility for Disabled People*
Fascinating academic paper by a friend of mine looking at the contradictory pressures of stigma and 'legitimacy' that drive disabled people towards either concealing or 'performing' their disability.
I think the way Naomi links the pressure towards 'legitimacy' into the wider aspects of the 'surveillance society' is really thought-provoking, as is 'the socially acceptable right of non-disabled people to invade the privacy of disabled people', while considering the DLA form as a mandatory, self-enforced version of the panopticon, oh my! Definitely worth a read if you're interested in disability politics, or just stuck between 'passing' and 'performing'.
* Site does require registration via FB or Google, but it's the first time I've seen a registration that lets you control what information is passed.
Fascinating academic paper by a friend of mine looking at the contradictory pressures of stigma and 'legitimacy' that drive disabled people towards either concealing or 'performing' their disability.
I think the way Naomi links the pressure towards 'legitimacy' into the wider aspects of the 'surveillance society' is really thought-provoking, as is 'the socially acceptable right of non-disabled people to invade the privacy of disabled people', while considering the DLA form as a mandatory, self-enforced version of the panopticon, oh my! Definitely worth a read if you're interested in disability politics, or just stuck between 'passing' and 'performing'.
* Site does require registration via FB or Google, but it's the first time I've seen a registration that lets you control what information is passed.
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Jeez!
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As though paid work were just as physically/mentally undemanding, flexible, and able to be put down when not up for it as posting photos to facebook is.
In what universe is 30 minutes of posting photos every few days equivalent to being able to do a paid job?
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But if anyone can find it, I wouldn't mind living there!
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It really does amount to a form of hate-incident, with the abuser refusing to acknowledge actual reality in preference to their own prejudices.
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The same woman, the same day: "You know, lugging all that extra body weight around must be exhausting and contribute to your fatigue"
"I don't have the energy to do exercise to lose weight. When I was walking 400m/day I completely stopped being able to shower, do laundry, load the dishwasher"
"Yes, but if you lost weight, you'd have more energy"
She was in my house and I just could not get her to shut up and get her out the front door.
These days I would just say "You need to leave now."
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The intersection of disability and weight seems to bring out the worst in people. No one seems to wonder, even for a moment, whether someone's weight might be a consequence of disability or medication, or even just irrelevant!
Worse, doctors are as prone to it as non-medics, if not worse. I'm lucky in not being particularly overweight by the Sacred Dogma of BMI, but I've heard horrendous stories from others.