On Referring to People Who Aren’t White
Before I started reading feminist blogs, I’d never heard the term “person of colour” as it’s not widely used here in Australia. Since then, I’ve heard it perhaps four times (my head always jerks up in surprise!) out of femosphere contexts as far as I can recall. The concept itself, I should note, was not [...]
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We had a really good discussion about nondisability. It got derailed, a bit, because it depended on our ability to reasonably define disability. And it’s a subject that has come up in every discussion we’ve had these couple weeks. What is it? I advocate an intentionally overbroad definition of disability. And I definitely see a [...]
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Upon reading your article “Palin’s anti-choice legacy,” I wanted to bring a particular point to your attention. Your use of the term “anti-choice” is very misleading, and shows a significant misunderstanding of the term. The term anti-choice by definition means “one who opposes ALL choices”, no matter what the topic of choice be. [...]
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I, and others, have been mulling over how to refer to people who are not disabled. Roughly, our options seem to be: * normal, or non-marked identity: centering a certain body/mind as “normal” necessarily implies that any difference makes a person less than. It tends to imply that “normal” is accepted as good, whole, while [...]
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