Tag: ableist

I heard this gem a few weeks ago and it’s been seared into my brain since. Here we go.. It’s categorically untrue cos people who can’t hike aren’t being treated any differently than typically-abled people who don’t hike. So if typically-abled people are being treated...

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part. You can’t even passively take part! And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears, and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you&rsq...

Ableism is a set of beliefs or practices that devalue and discriminate against people with physical, intellectual, or psychiatric disabilities and often rests on the assumption that disabled people need to be “fixed” and are not equal to non-disabled individuals. The accepted and ev...