Nice! Yes to more ideas and offerings! And thanks so much!! 🙏🏾

I won’t be able to join 😭 3 major deadlines for apps and teaching over the next week, but I’ll keep a look out for future offerings like this! Thanks for sharing!

It's a part of my identity in the same way that my Blackness is.”

…that is tying me to a culture of people, a community. And to know that my identity is politicized creates a different entry point. To think about disabled people as disabled, rather than solely just people that have disabilities. Like I don't carry my disabilities in a purse with me.

“Differently abled” also reminds me of person-first language and I appreciate Dustin Gibson’s take on that from The Groundings Podcast episode “The Anti-Black Pinnings of Ableism.” He says, “I define myself now as disabled, that's a political designation. It's also one that is social…

For example, too many people and the government have abandoned disabled people in this pandemic. That especially shows how disabled people aren’t just “different.” Like other oppressed identities, it’s more that we deviate from a standard of who ableist people and structures deem worthy of living.

I dislike (maybe even hate?) “differently-abled” and don’t use it because of how it depoliticizes disabled identities. I feel that it’s meant to give able-bodied people and disabled people a false sense of similarity on an interpersonal level that ignores ableism on that level and structurally too.