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J. Logan Smilges

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14 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read

Anxiety really doesn't care about the kind of day you're having, huh?

It just stays ready.

Anybody wanna come to my “Do they hate me?” party? We all just share who we think hates us. You get one point if you can confirm it’s true, two points if you can’t! My therapist loves this game*.

*she does not love this game.

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14 Jun

I think it’s time the disability community begin confronting its own hierarchies of capacity and inclination toward approximating abledness more seriously. I’ve been calling it healthism.

Disability scholar Susan Wendell long ago distinguished between “healthy” and “unhealthy” disabled people based on how well a person can pass as nondisabled in a capitalist context, wherein ability is measured by productivity. This distinction is useful but insufficient.

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If we expand our focus to include @jkpuar’s work on “debility,” we can account for the conditions that produce incapacity, such as poverty, colonial and racialized violence, and environmental damage. These factors sustain healthism without always qualifying as “disability.”

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