The Disabling Violence of Oppression: Imani Barbarin
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“Every single form of marginalization leads to disability.” -Imani Barbarin
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“Ableism is the undercurrent of so many other oppressions.”
Read: You’re Never Getting “Normal” Back
“Every system continues to snowball towards failure, and yet, people want normal. I question whether they truly want normal or to go back to being blissfully unaware.
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We cannot afford normal—and it seems that only the privileged are the ones who can actually afford to return to it. To want normal says that you have identified all of the issues put on display and said, ‘I’m fine with that.’ Unfortunately, the rest of us cannot be and never have been alright with normal. To move forward and change nothing despite what we have learned about these systemic failures and the people they affect would be a complete failure to protect ourselves from this happening again. Societies change due to pandemics and mass disease. We need to address pay disparity, paid medical and parental leave and employers taking advantage of their employees. Why, in the greatest health crisis of our lifetimes are politicians not pushing more ardently for universal healthcare, increasing asset limits for those on SSI and Medicaid and unilaterally forgiving student loans?
‘Normal’ means ignoring all of these things. So we all need to be asking ourselves, why do we really want it?”
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