disability

• Your Revelations Are Not Necessarily Enlightening To Everyone

  by Lyric Seal aka Neve Be

  "By regurgitating information you have recently learned to someone who lives it every day, you are forcing them to attend a 101 class on a subject they teach (often for no pay)."

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• Ain't I An Activist?: On Stevie Wonder and the Violence of Inaccessibility

  by Lyric Seal aka Neve Be

  "I hate to say this, but while we may, as individuals, be sad sometimes, our disabled lives are not sad. It is not sad, or touching, to be disabled, in and of itself. It is not a tearjerker, when a disabled person makes a political demand."

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• Riding in Cars with Douchebags: When Ridesharing Is Inaccessible

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  by Lyric Seal aka Neve Be

  "It's pretty triggering to have someone be all up in your space in a way your body and their job necessitates, and then have them scream at you for talking back about what they’ve just done to you."

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• Putting on a "Brave" Face: On Ableism and Appropriation in the Film Industry

  by Lyric Seal aka Neve Be

  "How brave is a nondisabled actor who gets turned down for an able-bodied role, when they know a career-making disabled role might be just around the corner?"

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• Topping As A Disabled Person

  by Lyric Seal aka Neve Be

  "I know all too well that bottoming is not passive; even when we are touched against our will, it takes every fiber of one's being to receive, or to not receive, psychically or physically."

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• I Want To Want It: On Female Sexual Dysfunction

  by Sarah Stanton

  The irony that so many of the conditions stigmatised in today’s society are those perceived as women’s illnesses is not lost on me.

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