A reminder, on this last week of Disability Pride Month, that abled supremacy is a major system of oppression that is connected to *all* other systems of oppression/violence.
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If you aren’t integrating an analysis of ableism, disability and abled supremacy in to your political analysis, you will miss huge parts of (y)our history and (y)our present conditions.
You will miss huge parts of white supremacy, heterocispatriarchy, global capitalism, the climate crisis, state sanctioned violence & generational cycles of violence, colonization & settler colonialism, the immigration system & xenophobia, prisons & police, the current pandemic...
Ableism and abled supremacy fundamentally shape our culture(s), society and relationships. You cannot end or fight ableism without also ending and fighting all other forms of oppression and violence.
Disabled people are part of every community and it is impossible and harmful to separate disability from our fight for liberation.
For example: Abled supremacy is our dominant culture and is inseparable from capitalism and a culture where we are only worth the amount of capital that our bodyminds can produce or that can be extracted from us.
We create narratives of desirability that are constructed around not only being productive, but also most importantly, the *striving* to be, the *desiring* to be, productive (read abled).
The seduction of ableism/abled supremacy is very, very real.
The seduction of ableism/abled supremacy is very, very real.
Abled supremacy and white supremacy go hand-in-hand and have been enshrined by a science and medical industrial complex that upholds white bodyminds (and culture) as the standard of “health” and desirability.
Abled supremacy, ableism and disability shape abled people's lives in more ways than they know.
There is no liberation without ending ableism and abled supremacy.
There is no liberation without ending ableism and abled supremacy.
The quote in the image is from “Changing the Framework: Disability Justice”
leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/cha…
leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/cha…
original image at the top of this thread reposted from narrativetherapyindia on IG.
[image description: quote by Mia Mingus that says, "Ableism is connected to all our struggles because it undergirds notions of whose bodies are considered valuable, desirable and disposable.” White text against the backdrop of green palm tree leaves and teal colored border.]
