Of course.Every fight is not just about getting yours...in my case that includes fighting for minimum wage increases and against discrimination of gay people(although I'm not quite as straight as I thought when I came here.) Although in some ways my disability awareness expanding has made me more liberal since I know what a gas poverty is, and also what a headfuck it is when you think the institutions of your nation are backing you up, only to come out of school and find the American Dream almost completely inaccessible...the most conservative thing they could have done would be to give me a challenging day job. Honest. I would have stayed out of politics and into shopping and safe Tipper Gore lite-Dem complacency. Now, I wonder if I *am* unemployable, if not for the reasons They think. I think maybe I shouldn't have been so scornful about that Wal-Mart job...I'd fuckin' dare the goons of Bentonville to mess with me more than God already has. How would that look? I will not join you in wine as it's 9:30 AM here, and that might make for a short day for a lightweight like me
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
erika - Good points. I too have learnt through disability rights campainging about supporting/campaigning with other groups fighting for their rights. For example, I'm involved with a general anti-poverty group that has supported my disability rights group in our campaigns against benefit 'reform'. They have no particular interest in disability, but were concerned about the number of disabled people experiencing severe poverty in our area. I've joined them in co-solidarity, because I was so impressed to see non-disabled people supporting our cause.
As for becoming more liberal, and questioning things like why people might be unemployable - I'm with you there. It's why I started studying the sociology of disability. At least, next time I'm job-hunting and the benefits people offer me work as a cafeteria server, I'll be able to explain to them that their expectations are disablist. (Not that there's anything wrong with being a cafeteria server. Just that when you're an experienced teacher with PhD ambitions, it exposes rather a lot of prejudice when your benefits advisor sees such a job and stops looking there.)
Maybe wine for you later then. It's 6pm here. I did not achieve a lot today. I have organized my desk. This should mean I can re-start work on The Dissertation. The wine will get in the way, though, so I won't...
Wrod, this. I love ACORN people, for instance...have met bunches and found them unfailingly awesome...(if also unfailingly hamstrung by guilt about able-bodied privilege...I could have had minions if I were down with that...then maybe ACORN would be as compromised as the right thinks) I mostly got "Well, sweetie, how fast can you type?" Very Peggy Olson, huh? I don't type that fast, but I would make up for it. But we rarely got that far, but, seriously, people, there's no short bus to journalism school. Well, there wasn't before Rupert the Pirate owned everything, anyway.
Pretty crazy, Lisah...while I would agree that most of the people I met were maybe too idealistic to live, I can't imagine they would be that...dense, either. Don't know what that's about.
I GOT THE INTERNSHIP!Yipee!!! Congrats Shir! That is awesome news!!
... And I just got a call from School of History.Ugg. But I'm holding out hope that those last grade(s) come through and pull your average up! Shifting ~ma from get-the-gig to boost-the-grades~ma!
There was more. But I kinda skimmed, as I should be working. Mondays suck. Raining still. Power blinked at some point, so final alarm clock didn't work. Overslept. And general uggs. And why does someone want to friend me in LJ? Oh right "Because you like iPhones". Never commented on any post I've written. Don't know him/her from Adam. Creepy? A little.
Between that and the voter registration problems, it sorta sounds like a ship without a rudder.
RAIN! Much rain! And thunder! I love the fall-ish in Utah.
take some of ours! wait. We were in semi-drought conditions. NO. We need it. Dang it. It's been raining since Wednesday!
What Trudy said. And remember, if you get sued, even if you win, you're likely to be out attorney's fees and other costs of defending a lawsuit -- not least of those being time and hassle.
I have liability coverage for this. Seriously. It's cheap and nice to have.