Thank you, Jim Davis, for your helpful discussion on the zen of
putting disability politics into practice in our everyday encounters
with non-disabled people.
--- at 10:40 AM 1/7/03, Jim Davis wrote ---
>My conclusion, and I do have one....
>To make it more common for large numbers of PWDs to handle able-bodied
>people in a fully self-respecting way in terms of how words get chosen
>and used, and to reduce the prevalence of the politically
>backstabbing-the-group formula of "Don't worry. I'm not one of those
>bad ones. I'm one of the good ones.".... we have to spread
>opportunities for all of us to learn not just the abstract rights /
>pride principals, but also we all need to spread opportunities to learn
>the very specific self-respecting methods of implimentation that work.
I'm reminded of a wonderful poem by Laura Hershey, "You get proud by
practicing."
Enjoy it here:
http://www.thenthdegree.com/proudpoem.asp
--
Jesse the K -- Madison, WI USA -- mailto:[log in to unmask]
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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