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Editorial: Do I Have to Like It?
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Title: | Editorial: Do I Have to Like It? |
Authors: | Conway, Megan A. |
Keywords: | disability identity |
Date Issued: | 2013 |
Publisher: | University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies |
Citation: | Conway, M. A. (2013). Editorial: Do I Have to Like It?. Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, 9(1). |
Series: | vol. 9, no. 1 |
Abstract: | One of the actual problems of being an enthusiastic, “I am disabled now hear me roar” type of Crip is that sometimes being disabled is not very sexy. How to respond when someone close to you says, “But I don’t see you as being disabled. I just see you as yourself.” This is a lovely sentiment during, say, a romantic dinner on a cruise ship, but not so lovely when you fall on your face disembarking from the ship because your special someone forgets that you are blind. How can you respond with enthusiasm in the first instance, when you are glad to be seen as yourself in all of your loveliness, and yet still expect people to remember that there are times when you want to embrace your Disabled identity, or simply need their assistance... |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/58549 |
ISSN: | 1552-9215 |
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RDS Volume 9, No. 1 |
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