tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77259083247151516962024-03-14T06:05:59.059-04:00 Disability Thinkingapulranghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16133974049950425863noreply@blogger.comBlogger1425125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7725908324715151696.post-74345972874814534372015-12-31T23:11:00.001-05:002015-12-31T23:11:47.283-05:00MOVED ... NEW ADDRES!<h2>
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apulranghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16133974049950425863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7725908324715151696.post-14875011137183467362015-12-28T13:10:00.000-05:002015-12-28T15:42:40.709-05:00Moving<div style="color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal;">
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I have claimed several times that I would be moving this blog to another platform, and never carried through. This time, I’m serious. Really.</div>
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<span style="color: #454545;">If all goes according to plan, I’ll re-open the Disability Thinking blog as the Disability Thinking website. It will include a Blog (with all the past posts intact), the Podcast (I may or may not transfer past episodes, still debating that), and a Links page meant to be my personal “must visit” collection of disability websites to share with visitors. I am hoping to have a new site address, too … something like </span><b>www.disabilitythinking.com</b><span style="color: #454545;">.</span></div>
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apulranghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16133974049950425863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7725908324715151696.post-86681783140166792082015-12-22T21:15:00.000-05:002015-12-22T21:24:44.093-05:00Holiday Break<div style="color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal;">
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apulranghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16133974049950425863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7725908324715151696.post-77070622081960872142015-12-21T17:50:00.000-05:002015-12-21T17:50:00.511-05:00More Debate Coverage<div style="color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal;">
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It’s interesting that we both took notice of the candidates’ campaign against opiates. It might be a thing, and it’s certainly the kind of issue that can unique disabled people across party and ideological lines.</div>
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apulranghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16133974049950425863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7725908324715151696.post-53525816360426282212015-12-20T17:01:00.001-05:002015-12-20T17:03:54.665-05:00Weekly Wrap-Up<div style="color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal;">
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<b>Tuesday, December 8</b></div>
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<b>Tuesday, December 15</b></div>
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apulranghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16133974049950425863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7725908324715151696.post-23283696915558303012015-12-18T10:26:00.004-05:002015-12-26T12:04:00.475-05:00Disability Blogger Link-Up<div style="color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZqzGtz2WV7dNfGaRpMm8vughK7BaKvR4U28qzobh7eX4YUehUvVyOENU08plg-LkCy-aWQ7BbGHnwMoT6QWGYVA4NFKlr8wP6J-60CDMs3-y9Gd49OuAhQObooW3oX2HpDnq-tfLeoOY/s1600/Blogging.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The word Blog surrounded by word cloud" border="0" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZqzGtz2WV7dNfGaRpMm8vughK7BaKvR4U28qzobh7eX4YUehUvVyOENU08plg-LkCy-aWQ7BbGHnwMoT6QWGYVA4NFKlr8wP6J-60CDMs3-y9Gd49OuAhQObooW3oX2HpDnq-tfLeoOY/s320/Blogging.jpg" title="" width="320" /></a>Take a moment off from the holidays and post something you’ve written or read about disability. It’s the last Disability Blogger Link-Up of 2015. Let’s make it great!</div><div style="color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;"><br />
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</div><link href="http://www.blenza.com/linkies/styles/default.css" media="all" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"></link><script src="http://www.blenza.com/linkies/loc_en.js"></script><script src="http://www.blenza.com/linkies/opt_defaults.js"></script><script src="http://www.blenza.com/linkies/misterlinky.js"></script><script src="http://www.blenza.com/linkies/autolink.php?mode=standard&owner=apulrang&postid=17Dec2015&meme=12277" type="text/javascript"></script>apulranghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16133974049950425863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7725908324715151696.post-20946024970478841072015-12-17T17:08:00.001-05:002015-12-17T17:08:33.311-05:00More Debate Coverage<div style="color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal;">
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apulranghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16133974049950425863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7725908324715151696.post-3546307239862148662015-12-17T16:50:00.001-05:002015-12-17T18:02:49.175-05:00What I'm Thinking About Today<div style="color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal;">
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<i><b>Blogging Note:</b> I am going to start doing more posts that are short, underdeveloped sketches of stuff I'm thinking about from day to day. Eventually, I hope to get into a routine of blogging every day, with only one or two fully-developed essay blogs per week. I welcome feedback!</i><br />
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I found my way to a <a href="http://jezebel.com/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-a-hot-take-and-a-goo-1697039184">Jezebel article about different styles of commentary in online journalism</a>. Opinions, Arguments, Hot Takes, Trolling. It has me thinking about how disability blogging and social media matches up with broader online genres and habits ... good and bad.<br />
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In <a href="http://disabilitythinking.blogspot.com/2015/12/first-read-this-young-womans-treatment.html"><span style="color: #e4af09;">yesterday's post about Inspiration Porn</span></a>, I linked to an article in the UK's <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/12052943/McDonalds-Cheltenham-customers-step-over-disabled-man-choking-to-death.html"><span style="color: #e4af09;">Daily Telegraph</span></a>, about a wheelchair using man who choked to death in a McDonalds, right in front of staff and other customers who didn't take any notice until it was too late. It was clearly a terribly sad thing to have happened, and it doesn't reflect too well on bystander indifference. On the other hand, I sometimes feel like there are two very distinct shades of "bad news" disability stories. There's stories of injustice, which prompt the reader to ask why and think about how things might be better. And then there are stories that mainly encourage readers to scold, risk risk, and disapprove of individual wrongdoers, and lament a perceived decline in general morality and virtue. I am wondering if there’s more significance to this difference. Do people who gravitate towards the more individual-condemnation variety of “bad news” disability stories have different overall ideas about disability than those who focus more on stories of systemic awfulness?</div>
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apulranghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16133974049950425863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7725908324715151696.post-69323138022625360442015-12-16T18:43:00.000-05:002015-12-18T13:59:11.008-05:00Inspiration Without Inspiration Porn<div style="color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal;">
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<a href="http://www.americanews.com/story/society/2015/11/11/young-womans-treatment-disabled-vet-walmart-goes-viral-photos">Young Woman's Treatment Of Disabled Vet At Walmart Goes Viral (Photos)</a></div>
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… and marvel at the stunning insensitivity it took for this woman to congratulate herself for doing a good deed, after “stubbornly” overruling a disabled veteran who said several times he didn’t need or want her help, and forcibly helping him anyway. It takes a lot for a news item to stun and offend me personally, but this one had me swearing aloud to my iPhone.</div>
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Yes, it’s “Inspiration Porn” again. Why are we so bothered by people who are just trying to be kind? Why won’t we leave it alone?</div>
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Because it keeps happening, it’s genuinely disturbing, and people keep finding ways to make it even worse.</div>
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Still, I hate being a sourpuss. Just because I loathe sentimentality, doesn’t mean that all sentiment is wrong. Just because I don’t exist for your inspiration, doesn’t mean it’s wrong to feel inspired by whatever happens to inspire you. The alternative to Inspiration Porn isn’t gross negligence, like <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/12052943/McDonalds-Cheltenham-customers-step-over-disabled-man-choking-to-death.html"><span style="color: #e4af09;">stepping over a disabled man choking to death in a McDonalds</span></a>. There are decent, acceptable ways to be decent, kind, and helpful to disabled people.</div>
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<i>Can you do a "good deed" for a disabled person without offending them?</i></div>
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First ask, "Can I help you?", and then respect the answer. And if the answer is "No thank you," or even just plain "NO!", don't take it personally. How each disabled person answers depends on many factors. I’m not often asked if I need help. When I am, I usually say, “No thank you, I’ve got it” because I’ve got it. Sometimes I say, “No thanks,” then pause a moment, survey my situation, and say, “Actually, yeah, that would be great, could you …?” and then I tell the person exactly how they can help. Sometimes, I say, “Yup!” right away, and hand them the whatever that I’m trying to carry while inching my way down some stairs. The point is, it’s fine to ask, I call the play, and the only really offensive thing is if you don’t listen to my answer.</div>
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<i>What about pictorial depictions of bravery, kindness, perseverance, inspiration, like Facebook memes or YouTube videos?</i><br />
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Never snap a photo, never shoot a video about a disabled person without the disabled person's consent. It doesn’t matter that you admire the thing you are depicting. It doesn’t matter that you do it to make people happy or uplift them, or teach them a lesson about gratitude. What matters is the result, and if the disabled person isn't on board with the situation or being used in your little morality play, any good you think you’re doing will be undone.</div>
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Above all, make sure the disabled person has a voice in the story or scenario or whatever it is you’re focused on. If you write about an actual, named, identifiable disabled person, ask the disabled person to comment and include what they say. You’ll discover pretty quickly whether they think the situation is amazing and remarkable, or pretty standard and nothing to crow about. And that should be your guide on how to think about it, too. Follow the disability rights movement motto: "Nothing about us without us."</div>
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If you focus on a disabled person overcoming adversity, ask questions about that adversity and why it is there. Stories of individual courage and character are uplifting, but disability discrimination and hardships don't happen in a vacuum. The problems disabled people face usually come from or are made worse by the bad choices and neglect of actual people and institutions that should be challenged. Battling institutional ableism doesn’t translate so easily to cute Facebook posts that make people go, “Awww!” but that’s part of the point. And anyway, fighting discrimination IS inspiring!</div>
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Finally, remember that not every disabled person craves "going viral." Most disabled people just want to get on with life. Believe it or not, many of us strongly prefer anonymity! Most importantly, we all want to be treated as people, with three full dimensions, unique points of view, and complex feelings, not cardboard cutouts employed to symbolize abstract values, or tools to make you feel swell and become Internet-famous.</div>
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<i>But what if I can’t follow all these conditions and still tell my story?</i></div>
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Simple … just don’t tell the story! Sometimes, a little restraint is the best, most uplifting gift of all.</div>
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As far as I know, I am not autistic, but I am fascinated with the way autism is understood, misunderstood, and often grossly misinterpreted. One of the biggest hangups people have about autism seems to be the idea that autistic people are, by definition, impenetrable and unknowable. In that light, personal testimonies from autistic people about what it’s like to be autistic should be absolute gold, especially to parents of autistic kids and other people who want to help autistic people. Sadly, few people who say they are deeply invested in the “problem” or “epidemic” of autism seem to read or take seriously the actual words of autistic people. I can even understand that a bit when it comes to some of the more defiant, challenging, or poetic things I’ve read by autistic writers, even though they’re great, too. But this is such a matter-of-fact description, largely free of judgment, that I can’t believe it isn’t required reading for everyone connected in any way to an autistic person. With, clear, accessible things like this available for anyone to read, the biggest mystery to me about autism is why it’s considered a mystery at all.</div>
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<a href="http://www.people.com/article/disabled-model-chelsey-jay-couldnt-get-onstage-wheelchair-ramp">Disabled Model Invited to Speak About Diversity Couldn't Get to Podium Because There Was No Wheelchair Ramp</a></div>
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In many ways this is a pretty standard story of bonehead disability discrimination. I call it “bonehead” discrimination because it is both unintended and completely, easily avoidable. I am including this article on the list because it’s so unusual to see a disability story that is entirely about accessibility … and not at all teary or heartwarming … and in a popular magazine read by people who mostly aren’t tuned in to disability issues. It’s even better that readers probably won’t feel sorry for Ms. Jay, but will instead be angry right along with her. That’s absolutely central to the difference between the Medical Model and Social Model approaches to disability … the difference between “misfortune” and “injustice.”</div>
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By the way, at some point I’m going to have to do a post about what “unintended” actually means in the context of disability discrimination. I think this incident might be a good starting point for that conversation.</div>
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I hesitate to post this item, because there is so much fear and hysteria around ISIS, and with some justification. One the one hand, I'm a bit suspicious about the sources of this story ... mostly virulently anti-Muslim groups and tabloids like The Daily News. On the other hand, I have no trouble imagining that a group like ISIS might, in fact, institute a horrible policy like this. Totalitarian regimes based on hatred, that are focused on human nationality or affiliation as if the group is an organism that can be pure or poisoned seem to lead to a particularly extreme form of disability rejection. If the "nation" matters more than the individuals who make it up, then ordinary ableism can easily become a mandate for elimination. The parallels to Nazi Germany are pretty obvious.</div>
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I also think it's interesting that ISIS may be connecting disabled children in their territories with "foreign" fighters ... people from other countries who join ISIS. Is that the only way they can rhetorically explain the presence of disability in the "perfect" little world they are creating?</div>
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Still, we should be at least a little cautious. By all accounts, the Imperial German Army behaved truly horribly in the opening months of the FIrst World War. That doesn't alter the fact that the Allied countries didn't whip up a bunch of preposterous anti-German propaganda anyway.</div>
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Stories like this make it harder and harder to maintain the sober, sophisticated take on disability rights, wherein everyone acknowledges that most disability discrimination is accidental and everybody accepts disabled people now. If that’s true, then why do segregated programs and facilities for disabled people still exist … not just in isolated pockets, but endorsed and supported by entire states? It’s hard to escape the conclusion that a critical mass of people in any given area or state still, basically, don’t want disabled people around, getting in the way, and sucking up resources from normal, proper people. I have no call to be regionally snobbish about Georgia, either. My state, the vaunted Empire State, still sends at least some students to separate schools. They even have a catchy acronym like Georgia’s GNETS … in New York it’s the Board of Cooperative Educational Services, BOCES.</div>
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I have had a weird sort of attitude problem for many years about parents of disabled kids who get really scared and angry when they realize that seamless, comprehensively planned services for their disabled sons and daughters won’t automatically extend into adulthood. First of all, I tend to think that the problems themselves are not as terrible as they are often portrayed. Adult disability services are fragmented and you have to do a lot of planning and advocacy to make them work, but they are there and they do work for lots of people. Second, the outrage parents express about this has a tinge of privilege and entitlement … “How dare you all walk away as soon as my child turns 21!” Like I said, I have an attitude problem about this. That’s why I found this article so valuable. It finally really convinced me that the “Disability Cliff” is real, and that it’s a lot worse than it needs to be. Support services for adults with disabilities should be a lot simpler, easier to access, and secure. And Sam Bagenstos’ article explains precisely how. It’s a long read, but well worth the effort.</div>
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I won't be blogging this week, as I work on a couple of deadlines I will be paid to meet. I will return next Monday with the usual <a href="http://disabilitythinking.blogspot.com/search/label/Reading"><span style="color: #e4af09;">Weekly Reading List</span></a>.</div>
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Stella Young died one year ago today. She is still my favorite well-known disability activist, writer, and role-model, and I miss her voice and her “cracking brain” so much.</div>
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I wanted so much to re-post some amazing videos from Stella’s Memorial Service in Melbourne, Australia, but it turns out the Australian Broadcasting Corporation owns those videos, and though they are still on YouTube, they can’t be viewed here in the United States. What the hell?! That really pisses me off!</div>
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<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/rampup/articles/2013/10/04/3861579.htm">A letter to my younger self</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/stella-youngs-letter-to-herself-at-80-years-old-20141112-11llol">Stella Young’s letter to herself at 80 years old</a></div>
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Her TED Talk on “Inspiration Porn” is essential:<br />
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I would so love to hear what Stella would have to say about <a href="http://uproxx.com/webculture/2015/12/disabled-woman-kylie-jenner/"><span style="color: #e4af09;">Kylie Jenner</span></a>.</div>
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Just a few days after I posted this pice about Stella Young’s “Letters to my younger self” and “Stella Young’s Letter to Herself at 80 Years Old, she passed away. What a loss, and what an emotional week or two it was for a lot of disabled people around the world. It still seems sort of inconceivable that she’s not still blogging, Tweeting, and speaking to us all. </div>
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Two years ago in Disability Thinking: <a href="http://disabilitythinking.blogspot.com/2013/12/best-protest-idea-ever.html"><span style="color: #e4af09;">Best Protest Idea Ever</span></a>. </div>
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The first thing that came to my mind is the status of the <a href="http://www.un.org/disabilities/convention/conventionfull.shtml"><span style="color: #e4af09;">UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities</span></a>. The United States signed the treaty, but the Senate hasn’t ratified it, so our participation in it isn’t actually in effect. Most other countries in the world have fully ratified this disability rights treaty. The United States is in fine company balking at fully endorsing … along with Libya, Chad, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and North Korea. A few more Senators should probably get over their bizarre superstitions about UN officials micromanaging parents’ relations with their disabled kids, and ratify the damned treaty already. The United States is the world’s leader in disability rights … it really is. It’s about the last country on Earth that should worry about disability rights being included in international law.</div>
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Today is Giving Tuesday, which I guess is a special day meant to follow the commercialism of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday, by encouraging people to give to charities. It reminded me of a post I wrote in May, about how to choose a disability-related charity:</div>
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I tried in that post to be fairly neutral on what kind of disability work is most valuable, and instead focused on effectiveness and simply being aware of what kind of disability-related goals you want to support. In other words, I didn’t really make any value judgments. Today I’m going to go ahead and talk about what kinds of disability work I value, and why.</div>
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There are four main kinds of non-profit disability work I will list them in order of my personal preference.</div>
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- Helping disabled individuals fight discrimination, improve physical accessibility, and navigate bureaucratic barriers.</div>
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- Shaping all kinds of policies, regulations, and laws in ways that expand opportunities and make life better for disabled people.</div>
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Advocacy and Policy are my top priorities. I believe that most of the problems disabled people face are systemic rather than personal, and that making better policies and practices regarding disabled people does the most long-term good for the most people. It also happens to fit my personality, which is unsentimental and analytical, so I just "like" advocacy and policy wonkery more!</div>
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- Helping disabled people solve everyday problems directly and indirectly related to their disabilities.</div>
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- Providing disabled people with the financial support, technology, and direct personal assistance to achieve and maintain their independence.</div>
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Services and support address individual needs, especially when they are tailored to each person's situation and directed as much as possible by the person using the service. I feel it is important to support these services because individuals should not have to wait for that perfect accessible world in order to enjoy independence and fulfillment. I'm not into fancy, elaborate programs, and I'm dead set against segregated, sheltered ones. But certain basic services, like income support and home care, are massively valuable.</div>
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- Informing people about disability issues and the experience of living with disabilities.</div>
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Although social acceptance is important, and being treated cruelly because of your disability is terrible, I am skeptical about the effectiveness of most kinds of "disability awareness" campaigns. For one thing, I'm never quite sure what, exactly, people mean by "awareness." Disability awareness campaigns also tend to be rather simplistic, setting too low a bar for what it expects from people.</div>
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I value all kinds of scientific research, and in some cases, better therapies and treatments can improve disabled peoples' everyday lives. Too often, though, the search for a "cure" seems like a boondoggle. The rhetoric for these campaigns is often so negative about disability itself that they actually make it harder for us to achieve social acceptance. Basic research should be funded objectively, not based on who has the saddest stories, the cutest poster child, or the slickest marketing team.</div>
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There are few more important principles of the disability community than: “Nothing about us without us.” Whenever possible, support disability organizations led by disabled people, with disabled on their boards, and disabled people in upper management and on service-providing staff. If nothing else, you should seriously question the commitment and relevance of a disability organization that resists or downplays inclusion of disabled people in leadership roles.</div>
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What can I say? When Ari Ne’eman explains something it is explained, in crystal clear, easy to understand language. Here, he describes and explains the difference between “disparate treatment” discrimination and “disparate impact” discrimination, walks the reader through some sticky conflicts of accessibility and accommodation, and provides a balanced perspective on “reasonable accommodation” and “undue burden.” Along the way he manages to be very sensible about the difficult balance in disability advocacy between assertiveness and flexibility. This kind of thing is essential for newcomers to disability rights, and invaluable as a refresher for old-timers.</div>
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This article is a little out of date, since the immediate solvency problem for Social Security Disability has been remedied, and a few reforms are on their way. However, the fundamental problems cited in the article remain. Overall, it’s a very detailed, balanced view of what’s wrong with income support for disabled people in the United States. That said, there are two issues I still feel are not sufficiently dealt with by advocates on any side. First, I don’t think there’s enough recognition that different disabilities do tend to suggest different kinds of employment outcomes for the people who have them. No disability is an absolute impediment to employment, but some disabilities make full self-sufficiency and consistent employment more difficult than others. Second, reform advocates are naturally reluctant to say what may need to be said. Any meaningful reform to encourage employment will probably cost the government more, not less, at least for awhile. I think it’s a fantasy for anyone to think that we can put massive numbers of disabled people back to work and thus enjoy instantly massive savings.</div>
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Here’s a perfect example of a bona fide inspiring story that isn’t “Inspiration Porn.” I am really coming to think that the key difference is who’s doing the talking. When the narrator, writer, social media poster, etc. is talking admiringly about a third-party disabled person, or about other people being nice to a disabled person, it tends to veer into “Inspiration Porn.” When the disabled person speaks for him or herself, it feels different, less sentimental, more empowering and real. The content here is a bit sappy, and if someone else was saying them <i>about</i> her, I’d probably resent it. But hearing it from her directly makes all the difference.</div>
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I am working on the first episode of the new, shorter, rebooted <a href="http://disabilitythinking.podbean.com/">Disability.TV Podcast</a>. It will be on one of my favorite episodes of one of my favorite TV shows, The West Wing, Season 6, Episode 9, “Impact Winter.” It’s a favorite because it includes a few of the best, most truthful, complex, and triumphant senses of disability in all of television. Here’s what Netflix says:</div>
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“As Bartlett and his staff arrive in China for a critical meeting, the president is still suffering the paralyzing effects of multiple sclerosis.”</div>
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The podcast should be ready to post in mid December. Join me in exploring a President Bartlett's first full encounter with MS.<br />
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Here is a tentative podcast schedule for the first half of 2016:</div>
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Season 1, Episode 11 & 12, “The Menagerie, Parts I & 2”</div>
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Chief Ironside, Peer Counselor </div>
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Season 1, Episode 11, “Light At The End Of The Journey” </div>
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Character Profile: Mickey Abbott</div>
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<a href="http://www.hulu.com/seinfeld">Seinfeld</a></div>
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If you have any thoughts on these or other TV shows with disabled characters, send an email to: <a href="mailto:apulrang@icloud.com"><span style="color: #e4af09;">apulrang@icloud.com</span></a>. Or, contact me with <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewPulrang"><span style="color: #e4af09;">Twitter</span></a> or <a href="https://www.facebook.com/apulrang"><span style="color: #e4af09;">Facebook</span></a>. I would love to include</div>
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Life got in the way yesterday, so I’m a little late with my weekly run-down of disability articles I read last week.</div>
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Sawyer Rosenstein, Boing Boing - November 23, 2015</div>
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Nightmare stories of disabled air travel often read like laundry lists of countless little screws ups that add up to one big fiasco. Somehow, the moral of the story never comes, or amounts to “Acme Airlines sucks” or “do better.” It’s hard to translate what on the surface seems like personal bad luck into prescriptions for systemic change. However, after reading this account, I wonder if there are any airlines or airports who hire full-time troubleshooters specifically for disabled passengers. It just seems like they have all of the systems and equipment needed, but half the time or more the people involved can’t seem to make them work in the right place and right time. Maybe that requires a staff person or two whose only job is to whizz around an airport as needed solving the logistical problems. They would have to have the recognized authority, of course, to compel all the other staff to cooperate. Is anything like this in place? Has anything like this been suggested?</div>
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<a href="http://www.meriahnichols.com/why-ive-had-it-with-the-mighty/">Why I’ve Had it With “The Mighty”</a></div>
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Meriah Nichols, A Little Moxie - November 16, 2015</div>
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This blog post by one of the better-known disability bloggers attempts to dissect a rather “inside baseball” issue for the disability blogger community. What do we make of a website that seems to be trying in an admirable way to bridge the gap between people <i>with</i> disabilities and parents of kids with disabilities, aka, <i>special needs parents?</i> Can a disability-centered website do justice both to disability issues and the disability experience, and also provide a forum for parents of disabled people to share their innermost struggles and doubts? I admire “The Mighty” for trying, but like Meriah Nichols, I am often repelled by the results. There are some great articles by disabled writers, and some very good ones by parents. But there is just as much tear-jerking inspiration porn, and worse, disturbing articles where parents bear their souls and tell us … all of us … all of the ugly feelings and thoughts that run through their minds on the bad days. Like Meriah, I think there’s a place for that, but that the people who run “The Mighty” need to think more carefully about what they are doing. Intentionally or not, they have created a “space” where parents and disabled people meet, and it often reveals how big the gap can be between these two experiences. I think they need to do a better job of refereeing and reflecting on this gap, instead of just publishing everything and chalking up the clashes to ordinary differences of personal opinion. The other problem is that “The Mighty” is, in fact, mighty. It has a veneer of credibility and professionalism that gives it an outsized voice, and probably misleads casual readers into thinking it is some kind of authoritative voice on all things disability. In fact it’s something much more complicated and specific.</div>
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<a href="http://curlabilityblog.com/2015/08/06/line-between-inspiration-inspiration-porn/">Where is the Line between Inspiration and Inspiration Porn?</a></div>
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Marissa Stalvey, Curlability - August 6, 2015</div>
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Ingrid Tischer, Tales From The Crip - November 19, 2015</div>
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I have mostly given up trying to write a complete examination of “Inspiration Porn,” partly because I lost all of my notes and drafts in a cloud mishap, but also because lots of people are doing a good job of it themselves. These two articles dig into the question quite well, each highlighting different aspects of the phenomenon. On issue I think has still been under-discussed is the personal taste reactions people have to sentimentality. If I do pick up the topic again, that may be my angle.</div>
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<a href="http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/disability-discrimination-job-market/">The State of Americans with Disabilities</a></div>
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John Hockenberry, The Takeaway - November 20, 2015</div>
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This is a great followup to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune’s excellent <a href="http://disabilitythinking.blogspot.com/2015/11/weekly-reading-list_16.html"><span style="color: #e4af09;">investigative series on disability segregation in Minnesota</span></a>. Also, if you haven’t heard of or heard much of John Hockenberry, this edition of his radio show, <a href="http://www.thetakeaway.org/"><span style="color: #e4af09;">The Takeaway</span></a>, is a good opportunity to catch up with one of the most interesting and wide-ranging voices of the disability community. Hockenberry’s book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Moving-Violations-Wheelchairs-Declarations-Independence/dp/0786881623/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1448385443&sr=8-2&keywords=moving+violations"><span style="color: #e4af09;">Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence</span></a>, influenced me a great deal back when I was just entering the deep end of disability rights and independent living.</div>
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<a href="https://wheresyourdog.wordpress.com/2015/11/09/ableistscript-pointless-venting-or-a-sign-of-hope/">#AbleistScript: Pointless Venting, Or A Sign Of Hope?</a></div>
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I had trouble at first figuring out this blogger’s point of view on the #AbleistScript hashtag. Was he or she for it or against it? Obviously, for it, but with an understanding and interest in how others may perceive and misperceive it, especially non-disabled people. I think it’s perfectly fine for disability bloggers to say, essentially, “I don’t care what others think, this is for us, our community.” However, I also think it’s important for us to stay anchored to “mainstream” opinion, even when those opinions are inherently flawed and uninformed. And that’s what this blog post does. I’m going to read more from this blogger for sure.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Tuesday, November 17</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Wednesday, November 18</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Thursday, November 19</span></b></div>
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Oh my goodness, it's time for another Disability Blogger Link-Up! Share a disability-related blog post or article here, any time between Friday, November 20 and Midnight Sunday, November 22, 2015. And of course, read what others have posted. </div>
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Two years ago in Disability Thinking: <a href="http://disabilitythinking.blogspot.com/2013/11/should-i-stay-or-should-i-go.html"><span style="color: #e4af09;">“Should I Stay Or Should I Go?”</span></a></div>
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I still agree with what I said in this post about the dilemmas of advocacy in different situations. Two years later though, I would add one more thought. These kinds of no-win situations we find ourselves in when confronted by unnecessary barriers and ableism are part of ableism itself. We shouldn’t have to agonize over whether to complain when there is real, concrete reason to do so. And one reason we do have to weigh our words so carefully is that we as disabled people are often held to an impossible standard of perfectly calibrated behavior. If we stay quiet, it’s taken as either consent or weakness. If we complain, we are grumpy malcontents or attention-grabbing egomaniacs. If we stay quiet at first, and complain later, well, why didn’t we say anything earlier!?</div>
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One year ago in Disability Thinking: <a href="http://disabilitythinking.blogspot.com/2014/11/shovel-ready.html"><span style="color: #e4af09;">Shovel Ready</span></a></div>
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Our city got closer than I ever thought possible to seriously considering making sidewalk snow and ice removal a city responsibility. It’s interesting that the strongest opposition came from the city employees who would be most responsible if the city did take over the job. I can see how they would want to doge that thankless job. On the other hand, it would expand their dominion, so to speak, and if they did a good job, it would enhance their careers. But that requires an optimistic, activist government point of view, whereas most of Plattsburgh’s top level civil servants seem to have a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Swanson"><span style="color: #e4af09;">Ron Swanson</span></a>* philosophy regarding local government work. So, depending on how the weather actually turns out, it looks like we’ll have another winter of patchy compliance and many more days of disabled people being “snowed in” for no good reason.</div>
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<i>* Don’t get me wrong, I adore the Parks & Recreation character. Ron Swanson is a sweetheart of a guy. And some of our city officials are absolutely nice, decent people. I’m talking about their perspective on local government.</i></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 15px;" style="font-size: 15px;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica;" style="font-family: "helvetica";"><span data-mce-style="color: #454545;" style="color: #454545;">Just short of a year ago, we read a similar story, about <a href="http://disabilitythinking.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-boy-with-cane-or-what-heck-is-pool.html">an American school district taking away a young blind boy's white cane</a>
because they said he used it to threaten harm to someone. They gave him
a semi-flexible foam "pool noodle" instead, and shortly afterwards,
gave the cane back to him and apologized for confiscating it. Compared
to this British girl, that case seemed like more of a real dilemma. One
way or another, safety was at least a bit of a reasonable factor. The
disability rights consensus was 1. Don't confiscate a disabled person's
main tool for adaptation, and 2. Do make sure that young disabled
children are trained in how to use these tools safely and appropriately.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 15px;" style="font-size: 15px;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica;" style="font-family: "helvetica";"><span data-mce-style="color: #454545;" style="color: #454545;"><br clear="none" /></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 15px;" style="font-size: 15px;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica;" style="font-family: "helvetica";"><span data-mce-style="color: #454545;" style="color: #454545;">The
same formula probably should apply for Lily-Grace, or any kid just
starting to use a white cane, crutches, or a wheelchair. Nobody is
saying she's reckless with the cane, but she's seven years old, and
there's a method to using a while cane. You don't automatically know
what to do with a cane just because your blind and they had you one.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 15px;" style="font-size: 15px;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica;" style="font-family: "helvetica";"><span data-mce-style="color: #454545;" style="color: #454545;"><br clear="none" /></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 15px;" style="font-size: 15px;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica;" style="font-family: "helvetica";"><span data-mce-style="color: #454545;" style="color: #454545;">Both
situations underscore how small disability-related problems get out of
hand when one or two people with some sort of veto authority get antsy
about anything unfamiliar going on in their professional territories. It
gets worse when they happen to have a personal preoccupation with
certain aspects of disability life. It may sound strange, but there are
people who have very firm opinions about the use and abuse of white
canes, crutches, ramps and elevators, and wheelchairs ... not to mention
service animals. And they absolutely do not see it as ableism in its
purest, simplest form. I suspect the officials responsible for both of
these crises felt that they were the only ones with the good sense to
raise concerns and put the brakes on well-meaning but carelessly
permissive policies. Couple that with administrative procedures that
handle contentious issues too slowly and deliberately, and you get, I
think, maybe 75% of the news stories about ableism that make it into the
mainstream press.</span></span></span></span></div>
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so galling when it is happening, that it's easy to froget that most of
these situations are resolved more or less properly in the end. Blind
kids get to use their white canes in school. Customers can, usually,
enter coffee shops with service animals without it making the local
news. Most people don't regard ramps and elevators as expensive
luxuries, at least once they are fully installed. But in the meantime,
massive time is wasted futzing around with pointless deliberations when
the eventual outcome is rarely ever in real doubt. This is where a bit
of autocracy can actually be a good thing. We need more school
principals and headmasters who are willing to say, "I appreciate your
concern, but unless there's an actual problem, blind students will be
able to use white canes ... or whatever they need ... in our school.
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My review of Saturday night’s Democratic Presidential debate is up at the Center for Disability Rights website:</div>
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There’s also a great piece on the same debate by Emily Munson:</div>
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<a href="http://cdr.rocweb.info/blog/disability-politics/explosions-verbal-and-otherwise">Explosions, Verbal And Otherwise</a></div>
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