Help me decide: (Blogging Against Disablism Day)

[capri0mni]

So, May first is coming up. Beltane for the Pagans, Labor Day for union workers (everywhere but the U.S.), and for a large-(ish) population of Persons with Disabilities Online, it will be the Eleventh Annual B.A.D.D. [Blogging Against Disablism Day].

Before I give my reply saying announcing where I'll be posting my entry, I have to decide what I want to post.

I started Plato's Nightmare / Aesop's Dream specifically because of B.A.D.D..* So I could post there, again, but only if I write something that fits there. And I'm drawing a blank, right now on a story or other piece of literature (before the start of the Great War in 1914) that's I could use to discuss in broad strokes the role that Disability, itself, plays in our world today.

But I'm having ALL THE THOUGHTS about what original of art or prose, or poesy I could write on the subject of Ableism/Disablism. Right now, I want to go find a mountain top and a megaphone, and preach to all the parents:

"You are only allowed to have ONE 'Greatest Wish' for your child, ever, when that child is born. Do you really want to waste your wish on normalcy?! That's it?! That's all?!"

But if I post such an entry, it would be posted here, not at "Plato's Nightmare." ... And I'm feeling kind of iffy, at the moment, about strangers traipsing in with mud on their boots.

And meanwhile, I'm literally falling asleep at my keyboard, and can't find any more of what I want to say, so I'm going to stop now, and go to bed...

But if I write something new and modern like that

*I actually started it about a week earlier, so there could be some content there already when people visited for the sake of my B.A.D.D entry 2011: The Lame Smith God, and the two sides of "myth"

Comments

[smw]

Is there a place where you would feel comfortable as a guest poster? That way you could write what you wish to, but wouldn't have to worry about strangers on the ol' journal. Whichever you choose, I look forward to it.

Also: how did I not know that the date was so soon? I'm glad I learned with time to write fiction for it.

[capri0mni]

I'm glad I learned with time to write fiction for it

Yay! don't forget to go to here: http://blobolobolob.blogspot.com/2012/04/blogging-against-disablism-day-will-be.html to announce your intentions.

As for me, I don't really mind people coming here to read my thoughts; this will be my fourth or fifth B.A.D.D., and I only wrote in someplace other than my personal journal last year. But I created Plato's Nightmare to be my soapbox on this very issue... and it seems a shame to leave it unused on the day when I'd have the biggest worldwide audience of the year...

But to write a "Standout" piece for the day, and have it stand out from the other stuff there, I think it has to be something that addresses fear of Disability in General, rather than just "this story shows how people fear blindness (deafness, lameness, neural-oddity, etc.)." The piece I wrote for last year talked about the mistaken idea that our modern society is so much more enlightened than those poor ancient, superstitious, people, so quit your whining about how unfair it is -- 'cause really, we haven't progressed all that much... That's a broad issue. I'm trying to think of a different story I could write about that's just as broad, or at least close to it.