Who will tell the doctors (academic, nondisasbrled) that their tech fetishes & paranoias are absolutely related to their delight/disgust about disability?
Is that what I'm doing? When I take their title and say: The title 'dr' ? I don't want it. The title 'dr' got way too much ableist detritus on it. You can call yourself that. I decline to call myself that.
I switch bodies between crutches & tech so I'm all geo-spatially confused. If you also switch bodies, then you get it. If you're uncomfortable w/ lang of "switching bodies" then "changing embodiment" or "flipping form" works fine
Somebody wants a drawing. And I'm kind of down to draw so let's do this
Before that, a clarification: Crutches are tech.
So I actually mean something like ... I switch bodies between tech (old tech/crutches) and tech (new tech/otto bock) etc etc
Flashback. I'm in Buenos Aires and a writer asks me (but in Spanish) "who do you read NOT from USA?" and I'm thinking, thinking, and then writer says, "Let me guess. Bolaño."
I start laughing. He starts laughing. Then we're just laughing. At USA writers.
It helps if you know that I am USA writer, so I was very much laughing at myself. And this was in 2009 at the height of The Bolaño Fervor. Had I read the man? No. Was everyone in NYC telling me to read the man? Nearly everyone.
Some poets: We hate The New York Times more than The New Yorker. Actually, we love The New Yorker.
Really? That's interesting.
The @nytimes had an entire series called THE DISABILITY SERIES. So that happened.
Remind me, again, when @NewYorker last pubbed disabled writer?
And while we're here: How many openly & out disabled editors does @NewYorker actually employ? How many staff? How many tech people? How many ANYONE AT ALL openly and out as disabled at #TheNewYorker
Poets of a Certain Pedigree & possibly my Elders in Disability Studies:
"Cy, this is not the way to go about it."
Really? Interesting.
Because I've been "going about it" the other way, by writing poems, for FIFTEEN YEARS and nothing has changed.
What's up with @NewYorker for the abled poets who just haven't noticed their favorite zine reeks of fascism + ableism:
@TheBrooklynRail : ... in response to the ableism in her poem “The Star Market” in The New Yorker. In the penultimate stanza, your speaker interrupts herself to
say, “No one likes the poetry police. I’m not the poetry police.” Can you say more about what you mean by that? And have there been instances in which readers have reacted negatively to your criticisms and activism?
@TheBrooklynRail : Do you have any suggestions for dealing with defensiveness or fragility in the face of dissent?
Cy: I’m thinking of how Žižek, when answering a question, often says, “Did you see this movie? It’s not even a good movie.” Right? And then he moves on