Living with Disabilities in Austere Times
Submitted on September 16, 2011
By Kelly White - Infoshop News
People living with disabilities know that their experiences of interdependence, of society and its power relationships, could not be less important to politicians. Instead, their lives and experiences are commonly reduced to essentialized biomedical limitations. The disabled and their allies know that the experience of disability can best be described as a process enacted through social relations; that every service society provides us with is the result of a fight — a refusal to accept less.
