And ableism, disability, that is a really huge hurdle to getting a job anywhere, and no one talks about the intersection between ageism and ableism.
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These issues all arguably stem from America's culture of ableism.
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But our society doesn't really want to believe in ableism.
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It's perpetuated by the discrimination and ableism that exists in society.
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Stories that we need to overwrite the corrosive narrative of ableism.
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Ableism leads officers to approach people with disabilities as erratic and dangerous.
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The wrong certification course instructor could also implicitly reinforce elements of ableism.
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As such, we are inadvertently reinforcing the ableism that pervades American society.
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Ableism, misogyny, racism, elitism, and intellectual sloppiness deserve to be called out.
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Let's, back to ableism, there are visually impaired people of all ages.
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But do we fully understand, and condemn, the effects of systemic ableism?
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It requires us to call ableism what is: a form of injustice.
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There were charges of "ableism" and of "triggering" due to loud talking.
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In the social justice space, ableism would be categorized as a macroaggression.
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When you look at the hashtag, it shows that ableism certainly does exist.
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The incident in Conyers demands we confront the ableism that permeates American society.
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These kinds of remarks in politics bring this everyday ableism to a national scale.
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Your ableism probably isn't apparent to you, just as mine wasn't apparent to me.
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Ableism is stigma or discrimination based on perceptions about disability, whether accurate or not.
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It can also lead to societal instability, allowing sexism, ableism, classism and racism to flourish.
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It may not be possible to keep the ableism out of the 2020 presidential campaign.
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Fatphobia, transphobia and ableism are part of our daily realities, especially for women of color.
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No one wants to knock a first-time author, especially one tackling ableism and identity.
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Yet those messages might take a while to sink in, moving past layers of acculturated ableism.
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A lot of it is about breaking down ableism and feeling really good about themselves going forward.
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But the racism, transphobia, fatphobia, ableism and more that permeates the queer community needs to be addressed.
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But the debate also walks the lines of race and xenophobia, classism and intellectualism, accessibility and ableism.
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Frankly, I consider the talk of cost-effectiveness to be not only discriminatory but also pure ableism.
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Whether you are angry about Trump's ableism, or if you think Trump wasn't ableist at all, get involved.
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" "This is about dismantling white supremacy, heterosexism, sexism in general, cisheteronormativity, ableism, Islamophobia, all of these different things.
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And we must also support other movements, such as Black Lives Matter, and LGBTQ rights, and fight ableism.
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They're often the ones asked to educate their colleagues on racism, sexism, ableism and all the other -isms.
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White women must talk to their sisters, mothers, colleagues and friends about racism, homophobia, Islamophobia, transphobia and ableism.
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Indeed it scans as ableism, a shameful undercurrent that has pervaded discussions of the 2020 election, along with ageism.
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Obviously don't feel like I need to tell everyone about the general misogyny, transphobia, and ableism issues, do I?
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" If you go skydiving, as George H. W. Bush did on his ninetieth birthday, you're guilty of "competitive ableism.
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Millions of us could be sending the message that racism, homophobia, misogyny and ableism have no place in 2019.
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Even modest carpeting can render wheelchairs useless, calling attention to the ableism baked into the most ostensibly mundane items.
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My heart sank because this scene illustrates the everyday ableism people with disabilities face, and it's not an uncommon one.
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"Feminism is part of a larger consciousness of oppression along with racism, ageism, classism, ableism, and sexual orientation," LaFleur said.
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Ableism also teaches us to ignore the voices of disabled people, even when they can testify to their own abuse.
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Furthermore, I've learned to extend the conversation on disability from my own personal circumstances to the broader issue of ableism.
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Sometimes bias comes out in the form of microaggressions, or indirect, often unintentional expressions of racism, sexism, ageism, or ableism.
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It involves years of undoing internalized shame and, often, the misogyny, racism, classism, and ableism that's linked to that, too.
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It is overlaid with and shaped by the equally structuring forces of racism, and capitalism, and ableism, and cis-heterosexuality.
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Too often, both the lack of accessibility in public spaces and the ingrained ableism of many nondisabled people bars my way.
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These are just a few variations on the sort of ableism that people with physical conditions like mine face every day.
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I had little idea then about ableism, the marginalization, typecasting and dismissal of disabled people, how unknowingly it's learned and internalized.
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Ableism is discrimination, whether individual or structural, against those who, in their body and mind, deviate from what we perceive as normal.
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There needs to be major consequences for people who sexually harass others, exhibit racism, sexism, ableism, transphobia and other forms of discrimination.
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Ableism, if you are unfamiliar with the term, is a set of beliefs that devalues people with physical, intellectual, or psychiatric disabilities.
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This is true across -isms; the "mocking Spongebob" meme has been criticized for its ableism; the "Ugandan Knuckles" meme is racist trash.
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In a world where ableism is a real threat, the last thing our community needs is to be judged for our weight.
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The far more likely explanation is that, once again, Trump's words highlight his deep-seated ableism -- that pervasive prejudice against people with disabilities.
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We talk about this a lot in our home, about the issues affecting the intersecting oppressions we encounter, whether ableism, racism or sexism.
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They have raised the ordinary frictions of daily affairs into a melodrama of microaggression, heteronormativity, and ableism, and Trump won't respect the new rules.
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It felt like: whose march is this really if we're not actually tackling racism, ableism, transphobia, Islamophobia, and homophobia without becoming defensive, ya know?
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Navigating the world as a black woman is difficult, but I refuse to give up the fight to dismantle structural racism and structural ableism.
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Designs for Different Futures, currently on exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, disappointingly offers more favoring of today's ableism in disabled people's futures.
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This isn't about you having a sister or a disabled friend that makes sexism or ableism unacceptable—speaking inclusively is important for work culture, period.
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Ableism does not always involve malicious intent; one of the most common manifestations is when individuals who are neurodiverse or disabled are simply not acknowledged.
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Sexism, racism, ageism, ableism, homophobia, fatphobia, and transphobia were all banned from Afropunk, as designated by large banners draped at each side of the stages.
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Ableism is at work when disability is not an inclusive part of the design process, where the space flows and is welcoming to all bodies.
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That's why the struggle against ableism, which involves discrimination against people with disabilities, has taken its place alongside struggles against sexism, racism and the like.
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It mirrors what some other bars and organizations are doing, and boils down to no racism, no homophobia, no sexism, no ableism, and no transphobia.
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Ableism leads authority figures to force neurodiverse people to be "normal," a method that of course always fails, so coercion just becomes punishment for perceived abnormality.
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Leveraging ableism to achieve electoral goals is no more acceptable than using racism, sexism, anti-gay sentiment, anti-Islamic sentiment, or any other form of prejudice.
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Sexism, racism, ageism, ableism, homophobia, fatphobia, and transphobia were all banned from the space, as designated by large banners draped at each side of the stages.
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There's a rule against screenshots, another advocating for trigger warnings (but only sometimes), and another advising members to check their posts for racism, sexism, and ableism.
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We're not going to get anywhere using evidence-free ableism (that is, discrimination in favor of people without disabilities) as a tool to fight gun violence.
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Rothschild-Cross travels the country each summer to interpret at festivals and concerts, while fighting against audism, a form of ableism that discriminates against deaf people.
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But forcing someone to carry a pregnancy to term against their will does nothing to tackle underlying and systemic ableism and discrimination against people with disabilities.
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It will definitely take a while for some of these ideas to be fully internalized but start learning about anti-racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, and ageism.
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This is what we need to do for each other: Come together to fight not just anti-Semitism but racism, misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, ableism, Islamophobia, and xenophobia.
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The gender binary would still stand, and so would every structural system of oppression with which it works in tandem, from classism to ableism to white supremacy.
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The notion that you need to abide by respectability politics or that you have to meet certain criteria — that's usually drenched in ableism, classism, ageism — is bullshit.
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Many intersectional vegan ecofeminists have also pointed out that the disdain for veganism's empathy for other animals also has deep roots in misogyny, white supremacy, ableism, etc.
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I think when it comes to social justice issues, when I'm writing my comics, the four main ones I focus on are race, gender, class, and ableism.
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Sexism, racism, ageism, ableism, homophobia, fatphobia, transphobia and hatefulness are all banned for both attendees and performers, made explicit by giant banners posted around the festival grounds.
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The fact of the matter is that calling out racism is a politically polarized act, in a way that calling out anti-Semitism and ableism are not.
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From desirability politics — how racism, misogyny, fatphobia, ableism, and more impact how we think about sex, attraction, humanity, and certain people's prescribed roles — to masturbation and sex toys.
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As Grrrrl Justice we're here to talk about ongoing racism, sexism, colonialism, ableism—all these systems of oppression that are interconnected and that impact the lives of women.
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If anything, the experience taught me that many mass LGBTQ+ nonprofit organizations, despite using a philanthropic veneer as a shield, were subject to systemic racism, transphobia, and ableism.
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" After all, she points out, "fat oppression is operating in racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, classism — and, in who we have as president of the United States right now.
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What we don't automatically think of are things like ableism and discrimination against people with disabilities, which are rampant in society, to be sure, but sometimes get overlooked.
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Unpacking the societal baggage that contributes to racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and ableism, for example, means that leaders will find themselves taking stands that challenge the status quo.
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Evans told The Huffington Post that he created the hashtag in response to his activist friends constantly asserting that ableism does not exist, devaluing his personal experiences with bias.
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Learning about the various forms of ableism and discrimination faced by my friends and colleagues with disabilities, and how to effectively fight this oppression, ultimately has changed my life.
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The existence of systemic racism, sexism, heterosexism, classism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism and anti-semitism makes it so that the American Dream will never come true for so many people.
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"Women's March exists to fight all forms of oppression and bigotry, including anti-Semitism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, racism, white supremacy, ableism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, classism, and ageism," Women's March Inc.
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While these apps certainly help, they also highlight the pervasiveness of ableism in society and the measures people with vision impairment have to take to better survive a seeing world.
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They may be disabled but not willing to claim the identity; their own internalized ableism may prevent them from claiming; or they may have concerns about safety and/or stigma.
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And now actress Olivia Wilde is the latest to join the ranks of celebrities making it loud and clear that they stand with those against xenophobia, racism, sexism and ableism.
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The structure of ableism also struggles to cope with people with disabilities who want to work out on their own terms rather than in line with or towards this ideal.
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I always try to make the reader care about the status of public education and how its destruction contributes to continued classism, racism, segregation, gentrification and ableism within the country.
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" As she does at the beginning of every event, McRaven read LA LAW's manifesto: "As an organization, we reject and resist sexism, racism, transphobia, homophobia, ableism, fatphobia, ageism, and classism.
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For example, disabled people experience environmental ableism—like being denied straws or inhalers under the guise of climate activism—and are also most at-risk for dying of the coronavirus.
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Assuming that critics and curators are not part of the population sensitive to strobe lights leads to a lack of accommodation that reinforces ableism and exclusion within the art world.
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Morgann Freeman is an intersectional feminist and pro-Black activist who writes, blogs, speaks, and posts about Blackness, feminism, and intersectionality; LGBTQIA+ issues, ableism, and other social ills that oppress people.
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Most immediately, this means working together to combat the increased dangers that now threaten those who have been targeted by the new regime's white suprematism, xenophobia, misogyny, homophobia, ableism, and nativism.
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Racism and ableism, which is individual and systemic discrimination against people based on their disability, intersect to make encounters like the one that took place Monday in North Miami very dangerous.
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Whether it's through the Vessel or the accessibility of galleries, by not sufficiently supporting the neurodiverse and disabled communities, the art world is inadvertently reinforcing the ableism that pervades American society.
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It's a space primarily for black people, though inclusive of all races and ethnicities, to be free from sexism, racism, ableism, ageism, homophobia, fat phobia, transphobia and hatefulness—essentially, it's paradise.
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"Colonization, racism, immigration, native rights, sexism, ableism, queer-, trans-, intersex-phobia, and econ justice are scientific issues," an organizer tweeted, just one of many expressions of solidarity with other identity-based groups.
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And narratives that presume that white people moving back to white spaces will solve a national identity problem ignore the realities of the racism, transphobia, homophobia, and ableism that exist across America.
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Some readers additionally pointed out that the take had elements of racism and ableism, and some argued that everything, including films in your native language, should come with subtitles as a default option.
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There have been moments when I've desperately needed help but have been unable to get it because of what I believe is internalized ableism and a societal lack of understanding surrounding high-functioning depression.
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"She went on to say in another post: "This is just one more example of the type of ableism that people with disabilities face every day and it's something I'm constantly trying to change.
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The MTA—which has been sued over accessibility by residents and disability organizations numerous times—has been accused of ableism, classism, ageism, and racism in its failure to make the subway usable for all NYC residents.
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The alt-light figures that became celebrities during this period made their careers exposing the absurdities of online identity politics and the culture of lightly thrown claims of misogyny, racism, ableism, fatphobia, transphobia and so on.
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With eight tenets, from "Our bodies are our own," to "We reject racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, and transphobia," the project was meant to re-inspire the fight for reproductive rights and healthcare in the United States.
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Some took to Twitter to commend CoorDown's work: But others used social media to rally against the PSA's perceived message of ableism: The criticism against the PSA reveals an important tension in how we discuss disabilities.
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Those are kind of the two main pillars, but within that, encompassed, it also comes with being anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-ableism, anti-transphobia, anything like that and just protecting people who are marginalized and oppressed.
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Ableism in the art world has become a global issue with conversations developing about everything from the presence of benches in galleries to how cultural institutions have failed to accommodate disabled and neurodiverse communities within their walls.
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Many of us possess good intentions about disabilities — but if we really want to solve ableism in America, we have to watch our patterns of speech (even jokes) and consider taking action instead of just hitting repost.
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And while Iris Apfel's career indicates a cultural shift toward self-acceptance, authenticity, and body positivity, her success story also highlights the ageism, ableism, sexism, and racism that has been prevalent in the industry for so long.
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We've also seen the President's blatant ableism when he mocked a New York Times reporter and, just last week, in his tweet about Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old with Asperger's and Time's Person of the Year.
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This lack of accommodation reinforces ableism within the art world in a manner similar to neglecting to provide closed captions for videos, or failing to note if an exhibition or event is wheelchair accessible on a website.
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Overcoming discrimination—specifically ableism—can make it hard to even date, especially when people may need to rely on apps or websites because their health [and] a lack of accessibility doesn't let them go out to bars, etc.
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I can't tell you how many times people with whom I've had productive conversations about Deaf culture and ableism then suddenly turn up on my Facebook feed thrilled about a video of a hearing person signing a song.
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During a time when discussions about inclusion in retail have often focused on size, gender, or race, the emergence of technology like Aira underscores the importance of challenging ableism by making shopping more accessible for people with physical impairments.
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By allowing other characters to argue and advocate on behalf of JJ without precluding his ability to do so for himself, Speechless walks the line between combating ableism and ensuring that audiences see JJ as any other high schooler.
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"[Endless Screaming] comes up in my feed constantly, after news stories about the world's total, unabashed embrace of white supremacy or before personal stories from people I care about talking about their experiences with transphobia and ableism," they tell Broadly.
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Though issues such as homophobia, anti-fascism, transphobia and sexism are regularly discussed in punk spaces, little thought is given to racism and how individuals might play a part in it (let alone to ableism, which warrants its own piece altogether).
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As the national conversation about police use of force surges again, going viral on social media, seizing the attention of our news organizations, and even becoming a presidential political issue, we need to think about the deadly intersections of racism and ableism.
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Sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, and hate in general runs rampant in online gaming communities, and any stance against this rhetoric can be seen as extremely divisive to those who engage in this kind of talk — or as they often frame it: humor.
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In electronic music, events are usually called "safe spaces" when they promote a set of values best summarized by a banner that hangs at Brooklyn's Afropunk festival every year: no sexism, no racism, no ableism, no ageism, no homophobia, no fatphobia, no transphobia, no hatefulness.
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One of the proudest moments of her career, she said, was publishing a book this past summer, "Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law," in which she discusses ableism, the discrimination against those with disabilities, and how this intersects with sexism and racism.
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"Violence against people with disabilities is a national problem, regardless of Zip Code," she said, adding that we can only address such violence by engaging the many ways that stigma and discrimination against disabled people (ableism) intersect with other forms of hate like racism, sexism, or homophobia.
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" (Even if one were to interpret Blackman's views on DACA as racist or xenophobic, it's unclear what he has to do with transphobia, ableism or ageism.) When Blackman told the students that he supported congressional legislation to give protections to current DACA recipients, one protester shouted, "Gaslighting!
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The music and art festival centers on black performers and organizations, and its rules—"No Sexism, No Racism, No Ableism, No Ageism, No Homophobia, No Fatphobia, No Transphobia, and No Hatefulness"—encourage a space that fosters meaningful connections, bolstered by a powerful, profound soundtrack over Brooklyn's Commodore Barry Park.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads PHILADELPHIA — Designs for Different Futures, organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Walker Art Center, and currently on exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, disappointingly offers more favoring of today's ableism in disabled people's futures.
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There's a sense that you are literally gaining energy and strength from the earth, whether it's associated directly with witchcraft or not — like women in this psychiatric hospital in Rwanda who turn to gardening for rehabilitation or this woman who says magic helped her through trauma, ableism and chronic pain.
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Although it makes sense that some people are able to "shed their defense mechanisms" and feel completely encouraged to be themselves in these spaces, it's hard to believe that the realities of racism, sexism, transphobia, ableism, economic exploitation within capitalism, and their attendant forms of discrimination stop at the gates to the rave.
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It is clear, too, when we look at who is targeted and profiled by law enforcement — black, brown, indigenous, and LGBT community members, unhoused people, people with disabilities, people experiencing mental health crises, and people living in poverty — that these protections serve to uphold racism, ableism, anti-trans sentiment, poor-bashing, and white supremacy.
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One of the few festivals to try tackle this effectively is Afropunk (which came to London for the first time last year)—fair enough, its "No Sexism, No Racism, No Ableism, No Ageism, No Homophobia, No Fatphobia, No Transphobia, No Hatefulness" mission statement is printed on 30-foot banners and hoisted above the stages.
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"In the case of Malaysia Goodson's death, we're seeing a systemic problem—ableism in public transit design and infrastructure, alongside a lack of financial investment in public services—interfere with her right to parent her child safely," says Megan Magray, reproductive rights advocate and creator of The Pill, a weekly newsletter on sexual and reproductive health and rights.
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In "Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist," out May 22, she mines her own errors and condenses what she's learned into a sort of manual on social justice, complete with a glossary of terms like ableism (discrimination against people with disabilities) and ally (someone who defends the rights of marginalized groups to which they do not belong).
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