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.
erika, you know about the current ACORN scandal here?
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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.
sometimes, I swear, I am working with children. The reason there has been no additional work done on the music?
i haven't heard anything from anyone, so i have have done anymore work.
I guess it's asking too much for him to follow up with the director??
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