Things That May Be Bigger Posts One Day...

- As a disabled person, it can be difficult to read 'My Year of Rest and Relaxation" but not because it is a dark and twisted send-up of a chick-lit genre that, much as I sincerely enjoy the best it has to offer, can be ripe for parody. The problem for a disabled reader is that the hibernation undertaken by the unnamed main character strikes me as kind of a disgusting version of the way the worst ableists think we live all the time: cut off from the world, with simple needs that someone else pays for and enabled by unscrupulous and flaky doctors. It is still funny, though, but probably more disruptive for me than for an able-bodied reader.It is still strange to me to experience art differently on a disability culture basis, since my family tried to teach me that I was like every other white girl, just one that sits all day or something.

-I think Adam McKay should adapt and direct an adaptation of "Confessions of A Union Buster" and that the older actor from "Veep" with the reading glasses could play the part of the union buster..

Kudos to Bruce Darling from Adapt for the sincere apology after his remarks concerning the treatment of folks at the border and disabled people. In some ways, I think I know what he might have been getting at in two ways; I think many disabled people, myself included, feel that we have a somewhat abridged citizenship, or at least unfair limitations on our "pursuit of happiness". I also think that if the people rounded up had been disabled people and the camps dressed up to have some vocational and training "purpose" the outcry would be much smaller and more ambivalent. America wants a firm hand on disabled people, even as it likes to pretend its collective attitude is all hugs at the Special Olympics.
HOWEVER, it was absolutely wrong to imply that we shouldn't fight on both fronts(and, indeed, there are disabled migrants and we shouldn't lose sight of them)
The whole movement yelled at Bruce yesterday, and he deserved it, but I hope he gets the chance to learn from his mistakes.