The social model has been accepted by disabled people and its should been
seen as an effective model in tackling all forms of oppression and abuses
against all disabled people, including with 'neurodiversity', too.
We all need to 'work-with' the social model, not 'against-it' and nuture
alternative discourses within the 'social model'.
Let's not move backwards through history. Remember the disabled people's
history and 'our' continued struggles and all the structural barriers that
we have to fight against; and still are, to get to the position where we are
at now.
Don't cut of your(our) nose(s) to spite your face(s)!!
This basic human and civil rights war within the disabled people's,
survivors, neurodiversity, independent and inclusive living movements have
not been handed to us on a plate without a fight and many of us now wearing
the battle scars.
Many of my peers have died and many of us are carrying physical,
psychological and emotional scars and are now fighting for our basic
liberties and freedoms for 'speaking-out' and 'whistleblowing' for our
cause.
It can be very painful being a 'foot-soldier' in the front-line of 'the-war'
and no-one knows and experienced this pain more deeper than myself as many
of you who know me and know about my case.
Remember our (His)Herstory!!!!
Yours
Colin Revell
>From: A Velarde <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: A Velarde <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Social vs. impairment models
>Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 14:50:55 -0000
>
>This is catch 22 situation as language will always reflect the episteme in
>which it belongs too. The term impairment , and any other term that was
>'constructed' to show the oppressiveness of the medical model will have a
>short life. This is not a revelation. Lets not be confused by the term as
>the term was never intended to be an aim in itself.
>
>Postmodernist writers may want to consider their critics to the social
>model
>(I.e. Shelley Tremain) as post modernist without political materialism
>(Marxism-social model) is metaphysics, a the philosophy of ideas, as it
>best.
>
>Larry and those that feel very critical to the social model, particularly
>from the post modern front, need to come into terms that without
>compromising, without an strategic alliance with the social model, will end
>up -and this is the irony of life- supporting the medicalised model too.
>Foucault also cannot escape to genealogy after all.
> Andy
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Larry Arnold" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 11:52 PM
>Subject: Re: Social vs. impairment models
>
>
>Impairment and never never forget this is an oppresive term, it is a term
>of
>judgement and comparison, it is a measure against a supposed (but none
>existant) paradigm of normality and societally supposed perfection.
>
>Those who think they have (twenty and past years ago) made a new model by
>merely transposing words in one particular language (ignoring what language
>is) have done no service to us.
>
>We are not less than anybody else and to use the word impairment implies
>that we fall short.
>
>Woe to those who perpetuate the infamy !!!!!!!!
>
>Larry
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: The Disability-Research Discussion List
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Hazel Frost
> > Sent: 06 March 2006 23:12
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Social vs. impairment models
> >
> >
> > Thank you for all the information Colin, I really appreciate all the
> > trawling of search engines that you do, even though often itīs not
> > relevant to me personally, I really appreciate your ability to find and
> > put together information, and when itīs stuff thatīs useful to me, even
> > better.
> > Cheers
> > Hazel
> >
>
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