Posted by: EmilyEmilyEmily on: August 31, 2011
It’s not ableist to acknowledge that people have varying ability levels. I mean obviously come on that’s like, one of the most basic points of disability theory. Intelligence is ableist because it isn’t actually a thing. It’s a bunch of things, and often they aren’t correlated at all (See for example specific learning disabilities; like [...]
Posted by: EmilyEmilyEmily on: July 16, 2011
One of the common tropes about relationships that I’ve come across is that you’re supposed to do them in a certain way. Or that certain traits clearly are necessary to show you love someone, or a bit more often, that they’re indicative of romantic love, or just, coded as indicative of wanting a romantic relationship. [...]
Posted by: EmilyEmilyEmily on: June 17, 2011
(crossposted on tumblr) So anyway, Cabbage was just applying for a job and one of the steps prior to getting an interview was like… fill out this questionaire where you say you’re extroverted and organized and have no disabilities. I maaaay have taken down the problematic questions. (There were about fifty questions total, problematic and [...]
