Nineteen residents have been killed in a knife attack at a care centre for people with mental disabilities in the Japanese city of Sagamihara
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as a disabled black woman, i am really heartbroken about this. especially after learning about the autistic somali-canadian named abdirahman abdi, who was beaten to death by police in ottawa, canada (yes, the country some people love to say is "perfect" and "doesn't have a police brutality problem". ableism is global. ableism is violence. i recommend reading this, lydia brown is my friend and a highly respected disability rights activist:
Don't you ever fucking dare try to say, "but who could hate the disabled?" to me again. Don't. Dare.
We are not some innocent angels untouched by the realities of the world around us. We are not unaware or oblivious to the existence of others, let alone of hate. We know hate and we know violence, because it is written on our bodies and our souls.
We bear it, heavy, wherever we go. Ableism is the violence in the clinic, in the waiting room, in the social welfare lines, in the classroom, in the recess yard, in the bedroom, in the prisons, in the streets. Ableism is the violence (and threat of violence) we live with each day.
http://www.autistichoya.com/2016/07/ableism-is-not-bad-words-its-violence.html
Don't you ever fucking dare try to say, "but who could hate the disabled?" to me again.
Don't. Dare.
We are not some innocent angels untouched by the realities of the world around us.
We are not unaware or oblivious to the existence of others, let alone of hate.
We know hate and we know violence, because it is written on our bodies and our souls.
We bear it, heavy, wherever we go. Ableism is the violence in the clinic, in the waiting room, in the social welfare lines, in the classroom, in the recess yard, in the bedroom, in the prisons, in the streets. Ableism is the violence (and threat of violence) we live with each day.
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