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Health and Wellness @ CC! - Coggle Diagram
Health and Wellness @ CC!
Disability Visibility:
Alice Sheppard
reframes her relationship with her chair: "my chair is my body" (165). stop consciously separating body from object
challenging belief that wheelchairs are limiting: it allows her to do more things
acceptance and the ways Sheppard sees her relationship with her crutches and wheelchair
her body/mind bodymind (the whole person) as an important way of being
intersectional thinking: that disability and Blackness and womanhood are all interrellated, and the intersectional position is important to empowerment
Liz Moore
why might "overcoming" a disability or only seeing disability as something in need of a cure be a problem?
erase the disability (and therefor those disabled people)
there are important perspectives that can come from people with disabilities (and that might remain invisible to folks)
"in need of cure" creates harm
overrelying on a cure/looking for a cure inhibits the present liveability of the life: "the price is simply too high to live chasing cures, because in doing so, I'm missing living my life" (81)
creates the conditions wherein people with disabilities are not embracing their disabilities/being at war with oneself
continues to erase humanity; making people with disabilities seen as less than/other/sub-human
but also, like, it's not
"I'm tired of doctors who do not listen, blaming fatness for my disability" (76)
it also reframes cure as a capitalist opportunity for medical industrial complex; turns disability into a profit margin/commodity
How do you take care of yourself at CC?
Accessibility Resources! (Go talk with Sara Rotuno):
https://www.coloradocollege.edu/offices/accessibilityresources/
Wellness Resource Center:
https://www.coloradocollege.edu/other/wellness/
take time and you don't have to explain yourself to anyone else