hat means you inherited your oppression then, as a black person might in a
white hegemony.
My genesis should be the worlds revalation
Larry
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Curry, Paul
> Sent: 18 July 2002 17:09
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: 2003 logo
>
>
> I think that a lot of this is best left to how an individual sees
> themselves. I have a congenital disability. Long before I was a
> person I had
> what is considered (by any model) a disability/disabling condition/reason
> for society to exclude me etc. Growing up with my disability has totally
> shaped how I see the world and how the world sees me therefore,
> as far as I
> am concerned I am disabled first because that defines, good and bad, who I
> am. So, I'm a disabled person. Not proud, not ashamed, just me.
>
> Equally I know many people who look at it from the point of being a person
> first (although a lot are people who have acquired disabilities)
> and that's
> how they see themselves.
>
> Basically I'm saying that there is no right and no wrong answer
> to this and
> by trying to lump everyone into a single description we risk moving away
> from being able to see people as individuals which is what we want to
> achieve.
>
> Paul
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Stevens [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 18 July 2002 14:01
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: 2003 logo
>
>
> I have cerebral palsy. People with cerebral palsy. People with
> impairments.
>
> Disability is not impairment. Disability is like racism, sexism
>
> Please, give me a wall to bang my head on!
>
> Are you an autoed person? An jobed person? An wifed person? An
> interneted person?
>
> Many Thanks, Simon
>
> --
>
> Simon Stevens
> [log in to unmask]
>
> Tel: +44(0)24 7644 8130
> Fax: +44(0)870 133 2447
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lillie,Timothy H [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 18 July 2002 13:54
> To: Simon Stevens; [log in to unmask]
> Subject: RE: 2003 logo
>
> Simon Stevens writes:
>
> "The replacement of WHO first definitions with pure
> social model definitions can only lead into the logic of disabled people
> or people with impairments has being grammatically correct regardless of
> location and thinking."
>
> While I appreciate his passion and honor his insistence on being called
> a disabled person, if that is what he wishes, I can only wonder why he
> can say "people with impairments" rather than (logically) "impaired
> people."????
>
>
> Timothy Lillie, PhD
> Dept. of Curricular & Instructional Studies
> The University of Akron
> Akron OH 44325-4205
>
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