Link-Signal-Boost, & "Yes, This":

[capri0mni]

From today's "Rolling around in my head" blog entry: Quo Status:

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. . . What it took was noticing. Noticing that while I typed on the desk in front of the television, Joe was left with little to do but watch me type. Noticing that I was using 'our' space for 'my' space had me noticing the unfairness of that assumption. So, a few minutes later, we are both using the space, both doing what we want, both happy here together.

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I think that's why many of us as people with disabilities sometimes feel 'hurt' rather than 'angry' or 'annoyed' or 'frustrated' at inaccessibility. I mean like didn't anyone NOTICE that this space is utilized by only one group of people, that the others are left to watch but not participate, look in but not come in, understand but not be understood. It takes NOTICING, noticing privilege and doing something about it. It takes NOTICING that what you expect as a given, isn't given to all. It takes NOTICING that the status quo for many is no status at all.

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Comments

[jesse_the_k]

I so appreciate the way he frames things. Not that he squishes his anger at all, but somehow kneads his thesis into a beautifully braided loaf. Then he gracefully presents it for consumption and I can't imagine not wanting to gobble it up!

[capri0mni]

Yes. Instead of centering attention around the hurt and anger he and others feel at being invisible, he centers it around it the love between two individuals, and the different, often simple, ways we have, as human beings, to show that love.

[smw]

Commenting to say that I read and was struck by this.

[capri0mni]

:-)