#ada week

[hypermoyashi]

An Honest Duplicity

Written for ADA Week 2018, Day 6

Relationship(s): Dazai Osamu & Kunikida Doppo, Dazai Osamu & Yosano Akiko

Warnings: alcohol, one-shot, not beta read

Summary: On a day as special as the anniversary of one's birth, there was only one way to celebrate it. Dazai was glad that Kunikida and Yosano were there to nudge him in the right direction. 

[read it on ao3]

[thisiswhatkarinthinks]

 it is important to realize not only how far we've come over the past 23 years, and how much further we still want to go, but also to realize that these things didn't just happen. I think it's important to remember the people who knew what was worth fighting for, and what they were not willing to compromise on. I think it's important to honor where we are because of them, but I also think it's important, especially for people like me will always have the ADA to seriously consider where we want to go, and what we are willing to fight for. In the 23 years since the ADA, the generation that has never known life without it has come of age. As we grow up and decide what we want to be, we must not take for granted we have, or forget what's still worth fighting for.

[thisiswhatkarinthinks]

"What I learned about Helen Keller was nothing more than that Anne Sullivan taught her to be part of "normal" society, and wasn't that great that she could overcome disability to be just like everybody else. What I learned of FDR was that he made it in the world by hiding his disability. No one ever told me about Ed Roberts, or Justin Dart. No one ever even taught me about the passage of the ADA. I never really understood how it came to exist.

I didn't even begin learning the history of the movement until I was 15 years old, while doing a world history project on a disability rights leader in South Africa. I didn't learn about disability culture and disability pride until my junior year in college. For most of my life, disability was medicalized, not identity."