ableism runs so fucking deep it's a tool of every oppression we care about today and yet in nondisabled circles, esp academia, it's just not given ANY thought.
like there are theories of ableism, but they're created by disabled people and in every other discipline we just aren't paid attention to. medicine is focused on eradicating us. anthropology focuses on every intersection of modern oppression EXCEPT us, even though ableism/pathologization is a tool of all of them that works near-invisibly.
and as soon as you bring up fat disabled people, or intellectually disabled people, or disabled people of color, people begin to actively promote eugenics with a kind of glee i find deeply disturbing.
one million dead in a two year long pandemic, the majority of them disabled, and even liberals are telling everyone to return to normal and questioning mask mandates.
disabled people need to have incomes, families, and legal and social self-determination. we need to be included in mainstream analyses of power and capitalism. i'm sick of being ignored, isolated, and worrying about the future, knowing that i am immensely privileged in comparison to the majority of disabled people, especially disabled people of color, who are at the dead bottom of the totem pole. it feels like no matter how loud we scream they refuse to listen, and we need nondisabled people to pay attention.
