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Some ‘sorry’ is rooted in, relies on, and a reflection of, Canada’s brand of ableism. An enormous aspect of being disabled in Canada is being sorry you exist & your needs are unmet by the ‘universal’ system we’re taught to be grateful for. But being not sorry crip isn’t rewarded. https://twitter.com/nolore/status/1345110102207057921
You should take notice of the profoundly different culture of disability activism in US for example, compared to the guilt and shame you into being sorry & silent for not being a supercrip culture of Canada.
Even many prominent ‘advocates’ in Canada will say they don’t want to be like US activists because they’re ‘too demanding’ and not sorry enough.
Not for nothing this relates too to #BillC7
Disabled people here have been denied examples of unapologetic crips.
Not for nothing this relates too to #BillC7
Disabled people here have been denied examples of unapologetic crips.
I also think ‘universal’ (in name only) healthcare plays into this. Many of us have been called selfish for not being sufficiently sorry and for daring to demand what we need.
The only models we have beyond sorry is ‘overcome’ or ‘doesn’t define me’ & both are individualism.
The only models we have beyond sorry is ‘overcome’ or ‘doesn’t define me’ & both are individualism.
I tweeted this in 2016 and it only becomes more true with every passing day. https://twitter.com/mssinenomine/status/721244325825216512
Today I spoke with one of the most unapologetic women I have ever known. I’m often called intimidating - she legit intimidates me. Not in the bs insult way ppl usually mean but in an inspiring respect way. She’s older now and disabled. She was sorry. My heart broke.
She said what I suspect she thought was the right thing to say - about not wanting to use healthcare younger people need. I mentioned the upside down half pyramid of past to present hospital beds per capita - and how it’s narrowed to almost a tip.
I said how they knew to prepare but decided not to. I said how there is no freaking ‘deserving index’ in universal.
And the person I’d known started to re-emerge.
Her: I’m going to get them to change my order!
Me: yes do that!
And the person I’d known started to re-emerge.
Her: I’m going to get them to change my order!
Me: yes do that!
But I worry what will happen when/if she gets sick and they tell her when she’s alone ‘you’re taking a bed from someone younger, ‘healthier.’
I know what I had to summon inside me to face that ‘selfish burden’ down. Spoken out loud. The Heaps of sorry I had swallow. I worry.
I know what I had to summon inside me to face that ‘selfish burden’ down. Spoken out loud. The Heaps of sorry I had swallow. I worry.
If you decide to martyr yourself to their neoliberal healthcare scarcity bs you’re not a hero to me. You are scab labour. You are giving validity to their lie - to their crime. Be angry. Demand. Refuse. Reject. Don’t give this lie an alibi.
know it’s very un-Canadian to draw a line in the sand but I said what I said. What fuels me is not selfishness when they try to guilt me to be sorry, it’s the opposite of selfishness.
That’s why I can draw that line.
That’s why I can draw that line.
Receipts. You have to keep hitting “see more” repeatedly to see how the number really shrank since neoliberalism https://www.statista.com/statistics/831668/density-of-hospital-beds-canada/
“Hospital beds include inpatient beds available in public, private, general, and specialized hospitals and rehabilitation centers. In most cases beds for both acute and chronic care are included.” https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/hospital-beds-per-1-000-people-wb-data.html
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