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> -----Original Message----- > From: [log in to unmask] > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of David > Pfeiffer > Sent: 10 March 1999 20:12 > To: Disability Studies Research List > Subject: Re: dismay at terminlology > > > David wrote: > What about most of the people I know personally on the list who are people > with disabilities AND people with a professional interest in disability. I > am becoming more dismayed at "professionals" who do not know that many if > not most disability studies scholars are people with disabilities. > >I tend to think David that this is the way you would like to keep it too! I am a student of Disability Studies, and fifty percent of my particular course do not have disabilities themselves (that includes me) but are extremely interested in the construction of disability in our culture and the injustices therein. I'm trying to get away from the 'us and them' scenario. How about you? Gill. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%