So, here is the first section of:
http://thefeministwire.com/2013/08/call-for-submissions-tfw-forum-on-disabilities-ableism-and-disability-studies/
Translated for people who have a real problem with non-contentious language.
I am also a gigantic fan of Radical Neurodivergance speaking, and you were the inspiration for this. I hope that that doesn't make you regretful.
We aim to produce feminist content and embody
our feminism as part of our regular business practices; for example, we engage
in ongoing dialogue with many of our writers. All of our writers pass though an
editing process, and when we hear from our readers, we take your ideas and
critiques seriously.
Yesterday, our CFP for the upcoming
disabilities forum went live, and we heard back from many of you taking us to
task for making the very problems we claimed to be trying to address much, much
worse.
First, several readers suggested that we
occluded understanding of the full range of disabilities, by looking only at
physiological disabilities, instead of also preparing for the mentally and
cognitively disabled. While our CFP creates a funding environment which marks
only physiological disabilities as worthy of help, this critique speaks to an
enduring problem within critical disability studies; that it is not run by the
disabled. As such, it is perhaps necessary to say very explicitly that we are
interested in pieces that document, theorize, question, and examine
disabilities broadly defined, (as archive material, when you have grown tiered
of your silly feels). Here we thought the only was to evaluate a disabled
person was how well they could hold a job. How silly that seems to CFP now,
when we realize that most of you are helpless, mentally handicapped wards of
ours.
We also got a lot of complaints concerning that
we’re not talking to you, (you disabled people). Given the generally lower
economic status of those with disabilities, the academic language of our call was
exclusionary . Reduced access to formal higher education works to perpetuate a
cycle of abelsm we support in the futile attempt to be both students and revolutionary’s
at the same time.
