(Who knows, maybe someday I’ll actually be famous enough to say this speech in front of a group of people! And I’ll say it with a fiery passion!)
And I spend every single day of my life fighting for rights for people with disabilities.
Because I’m constantly being oppressed by the abled people who run the world.
I fight for basic accommodations.
I fight for basic accessibility.
I fight for the basics of which I am entitled
I fight so that, one day, I may not be oppressed.
I may be a woman with a disability
And I’m also from a middle-class family.
And so I have advantages over other people with disabilities.
Because I might be facing oppression.
But there are people out there who are facing layers upon layers of it!
People who are denied treatment because of their skin color or sexual orientation.
People who cannot afford treatment at all!
People whose voices are not heard because the listener is biased
And this happens every single day!
Which is why I’m not just fighting against ableism.
I’m fighting against sexism and racism and homophobia, etc. etc. etc.!
Because every single oppressive group is linked in some way
And so we’ll fight together
We’ll fight until we are all equal.