So, about all the disability rants I've been posting, this year.

[capri0mni]

I've ranted a bit, now and than, randomly, about discrimination against the disabled, ever since I started this LJ, back when my user's name was "Pomeroyschild." As a matter of fact, I vented about well-meaning bigotry in my first post-midnight entry here: Well, it happened again (so it shows up as being on my second day here, but it was still in my first wake-sleep cycle -- you know how it is).

But this year, the same sorts of "minor annoyances" that I use to let roll off my back and then forget about, have been really bothering me, as when I casually scratch a mild itch, and open up a tiny spider bite into a huge-attention-swallowing-and-spreading rash that I have to bite my lip to keep from scratching again. I think it all started after seeing Dick Cheney in wheelchair at Obama's Inauguration, and I did some web-surfing to see if anyone else noted the irony that he was in an E&J chair. And I came upon a few very eloquent and impassioned essays about the indignity he was forced to endure. And once it was pointed out to me, I saw it everywhere, and it bothered me -- as a fish living in water all her life might not even be consciously aware of the pollution she's breathing in until a migrating fish points it out.

Anyway, in reading these other blogs, I came across this logo:



And, though following a link that spiralsheep sent me last night, I learned that there is an annual Blogging Against Disablism Day on May 1st.

So, I woke up this morning thinking that maybe I should sign up, and write one more new, fresh, non-recycled post on the subject as a sort of Beltane fire cleansing ritual, and then put a bandaid over the spider bite and not scratch it again until next year. What do you think?

[Poll #1389951]

Comments

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

I don't have time for special posts at the moment but I'll try to continue tackling issues as they rise up to slap me in the face. I, erm, "enjoy" your "issues" posts too. ::encourages you::

[scarfman]

Well, I was on the verge of commenting something curious, well-meaning and not-necessarily-borderline insensitive yesterday or the day before; so I voted yes but keep writing here, choosing to be content (because that's the bit I wasn't grokking), and me too (but it couldn't hurt to remind me the day before).

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

Ooops. I misvoted. I meant to vote on the first: "Yes, but keep writing throughout the year, too."

Whenever I've blogged about it myself folks thank me because they just haven't thought of what I'm writing about. I think it's really helpful for people, of not also cathartic for ones' self.