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Being an unperson means that people talk in front of you as it you aren’t there. If they know you understand them, it means you’re not enough of a person for it to matter. It means listening to the staff gossip, saying things they would not dare say in front of real people. it means hearing their bluntest viewpoints about you, out loud, to your face, with the person behind that face unacknowledged. It means hearing confidential information about other unpersons.
Being an unperson means that your life is not a real life. It means being treated worse than most people would treat their own pet gerbil, and with less guilt. It means your existence seems to fill people with disgust or fear. People see you an describe you as a hollow shell, a body without a soul, a changeling child, or a vegetable. Or else they romanticize your life, calling you a special angel on earth.
Whatever they call you, people refuse to see that you exist at all.
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Amanda, “Being an Unperson” (via vagina-pagina)
We need to have more conversations like this.
According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, disability discrimination charges rose in 2010 by about 17 percent to 25,165 claims.
Event Date and Time: Thurs., Oct. 6, 6-8 p.m.
Event Location: Case Lounge (Room 701), Jerome Green Hall, Columbia Law School
Event Description
A panel of students, faculty, and staff will discuss the ways the university has both accommodated and excluded people with disabilities. What are some of the surprising and innovative ways Columbia has sought to include people with disabilities into its community? Conversely, how has it managed to maintain ADA compliance, while creating an unwelcoming environment? Columbia’s campus will serve as a starting place for a broader discussion about disability, access, and higher education.
perhaps, its the discrimination embedded in medical practice that makes fat folks “sick”. see below.
It’s shit like this that leads to the appearance of higher rates of illness among fat people, which then feeds the idea that chronic disease is critically tied to weight. however, as you can see in this article, perhaps it has nothing to do with weight at all, maybe it has more to do discrimination and disempowerment fostered by a medical community, which reveals nothing, but disdain for those who do not adhere to the body norms.
put differently, if fat folks are being “banned” from certain medical arenas due to their size, their exposure to high quality care is diminished, thus leading to higher rates of “sickness”. again, this trend does not get attributed to discrimination, but rather weight, which feeds the obesity epidemic beast and fuels more discrimination, and fat hatred.
FUCK THIS MAKES ME ANGRY.
