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There’s certainly a lot of misinformation in the #interabled article, but it’s worth remembering the number of carers, who are predominantly women and disproportionately women of color, whose disabilities go unrecognized because of the racialization and gendering of care labor.
Christina Crosby and Janet Jakobson have recently referred to this problem as the “geopolitics of disability:” when the apparent independence of some disabled people is made possible by the sublimation of another group’s capacity to be disabled.
To be clear, the journalist should’ve done better homework on the care provided by disabled people, but this error does not negate the facts that (1) care IS LABOR, and (2) labor can debilítate bodyminds in ways that don’t qualify as “disability” under global capitalism.
Your partner becomes paralyzed in a devastating accident.
You become their full-time caregiver.
You catheter them every 3-4 hours and lift them in and out of a wheelchair several times a day.
Your state says it's a "wifely duty" and refuses to pay you.
washingtonpost.com/business/inter…
You become their full-time caregiver.
You catheter them every 3-4 hours and lift them in and out of a wheelchair several times a day.
Your state says it's a "wifely duty" and refuses to pay you.
washingtonpost.com/business/inter…
@washingtonpost just published my most ambitious project to date. For nearly a year I’ve been reporting on how America treats women caring for paralyzed partners. A spinal cord injury can happen to anyone, but men account for 80 percent of all new cases each year.
Only eight state Medicaid programs allow married people to be paid caregivers to their partners. Eight additional states have private programs that allow spouses to be paid as caregivers, but with strict limitations. 
