Comments on: Technically, I’m on holiday. http://crip-power.com/2007/08/07/technically-im-on-holiday/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:59:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: April http://crip-power.com/2007/08/07/technically-im-on-holiday/#comment-22 April Sun, 12 Aug 2007 03:39:36 +0000 http://crip-power.com/2007/08/07/technically-im-on-holiday/#comment-22 Self help is SO critical. :D Self help is SO critical. :D

]]> By: “ON HOLIDAY!” : Disability Blog Carnival #20 « Andrea’s Buzzing About: http://crip-power.com/2007/08/07/technically-im-on-holiday/#comment-15 “ON HOLIDAY!” : Disability Blog Carnival #20 « Andrea’s Buzzing About: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:13:16 +0000 http://crip-power.com/2007/08/07/technically-im-on-holiday/#comment-15 [...] “Technically, I’m on holiday,” says Miss Crip Chick, who then describes all the attendant side-issues of organising activist conferences. “Even though these conferences take A LOT of energy (imagine having to always defend your every belief), fellow activists and I treat them like vacations because it’s when we get to see each other. How messed up is that??? I think community is a big part of the “vacation” concept because the main point of vacations and holidays is to give you energy.” [...] [...] “Technically, I’m on holiday,” says Miss Crip Chick, who then describes all the attendant side-issues of organising activist conferences. “Even though these conferences take A LOT of energy (imagine having to always defend your every belief), fellow activists and I treat them like vacations because it’s when we get to see each other. How messed up is that??? I think community is a big part of the “vacation” concept because the main point of vacations and holidays is to give you energy.” [...]

]]> By: Jonah http://crip-power.com/2007/08/07/technically-im-on-holiday/#comment-9 Jonah Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:38:38 +0000 http://crip-power.com/2007/08/07/technically-im-on-holiday/#comment-9 Inter-disability community doesn't exist all that much outside of advocacy and conferences, that's true. But intradisability community sure does. Intradisability communities are based on similiarities within a disability or cluster of disabilities. Organizations that provide social opportunities for people with just one type of disability abound, from support groups to Special Olympics to all sorts of Deaf groups. Within a disability, we have lots of non advocacy kinds of things to say and share, but it's a little harder to fit in inter disability wise. I would like to see a day when we have a disabled community that's an actual neighborhood or even a township. Someplace where half or more of the population identifies disabled and proud, and is therefore more willing to accommodate. Inter-disability community doesn’t exist all that much outside of advocacy and conferences, that’s true.
But intradisability community sure does. Intradisability communities are based on similiarities within a disability or cluster of disabilities. Organizations that provide social opportunities for people with just one type of disability abound, from support groups to Special Olympics to all sorts of Deaf groups.
Within a disability, we have lots of non advocacy kinds of things to say and share, but it’s a little harder to fit in inter disability wise.

I would like to see a day when we have a disabled community that’s an actual neighborhood or even a township. Someplace where half or more of the population identifies disabled and proud, and is therefore more willing to accommodate.

]]> By: Dylan http://crip-power.com/2007/08/07/technically-im-on-holiday/#comment-8 Dylan Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:49:25 +0000 http://crip-power.com/2007/08/07/technically-im-on-holiday/#comment-8 It is so important to critically look at the interconnectedness of all social movements. Ableism, racism, heterosexism, feminism, classism... one can not be faught without fighting the others. But you are absolutely right that groups who constantly need to advocate out of pure survival really need to take a break and just vacation too. Yet how can oppressed groups ever escape their oppression... they can't, thus there is rarely a time when it doesn't come up, isn't the focus of group gatherings with like minds. Maybe one day. Maybe one day. It is so important to critically look at the interconnectedness of all social movements. Ableism, racism, heterosexism, feminism, classism… one can not be faught without fighting the others. But you are absolutely right that groups who constantly need to advocate out of pure survival really need to take a break and just vacation too. Yet how can oppressed groups ever escape their oppression… they can’t, thus there is rarely a time when it doesn’t come up, isn’t the focus of group gatherings with like minds. Maybe one day. Maybe one day.

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