{"id":1205,"date":"2019-03-21T17:26:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T17:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2019-03-21T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T17:27:00","slug":"morgans-notes-for-3-21-readings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/uncategorized\/morgans-notes-for-3-21-readings\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan&#8217;s Notes for 3\/21 Readings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\n\nNotes on Working Together<br><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not sure what to say about this poem. The title seems apt, and the poetic speaker and their caretaker do seem to be actually working together rather than one working against the other. The poetic speaker doesn\u2019t seem to appear nonverbal, if they can communicate when to stop, when something is too hot, whatever it means by saying the caretaker can do. What is the speaker telling their caretaker they can actually do? \u201cTell her she can.\u201d Can what? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The poetic speaker works with their caretaker, rather than against, which is\u2026 Good? I know if it were someone like my grandfather, it wouldn\u2019t appear quite so reciprocal. He had full knee replacement surgery a couple years ago, and he\u2019s one of those people that if he can do it himself, he will, and he absolutely hates asking for help unless he has no choice, and trying to take care of him when he\u2019s sick or laid up with injury is a veritable keysmash of frustration. He\u2019s crotchety and insufferable when he can\u2019t do something he\u2019s normally able to do. If we\u2019d had an outside caretaker for his knee recovery, he probably would have driven them insane and then away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Notes on Plato, Again<br><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cSuch things happen to people with disabilities, more often than many would like to believe.\u201d<\/em><br>Normally I don\u2019t like to read introductions or end notes when reading a piece for a class, because I feel like it colors my perceptions before I can begin to make my own judgments, but this end note can apply to other marginalized communities as well, often in conjunction with disability. For example, Virginia is one of 31 states where it\u2019s still legal to discriminate based on sexuality. It\u2019s legal to get married in all 50 states, but 31 still have discriminations in place \u2013 VCU fired a volleyball coach in 2012 because he was a married gay man. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While it may not make for a \u201cgood story\u201d or a \u201cgood narrative,\u201d if a person in real life happened to experience the situation in the short story, they could potentially fight the decision with the ADA or even the ACLU, couldn\u2019t they? Someone like me wouldn\u2019t be able to, at least in over half the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Notes on MitchSny Biopolitics Introduction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p3. <em>\u201cIn tandem with queer, \u2018crip\u2019 identifies the ways in which such bodies represent alternative forms of being-in-the-world when navigating environments that privilege able-bodied participants as fully capacitated agential participants within democratic institutions. Such alternative modes of interaction made available by crip\/queer lives create capabilities that exceed, and\/or go unrecognized within, the normative scripts of biopolitics. It is in these spaces of cultural production that disabled people offer alternatives to what Robert\u00a0\u00a0McRuer calls \u2018compulsory able-bodiedness\u2019: \u201cthe assumption that able-bodied identities, able-bodied perspectives, are preferable and what we all, collectively, are aiming for.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Compulsory anything is toxic and potentially damaging in the long-term, e.g. compulsory heterosexuality: I thought I was broken for 10 years because I wasn\u2019t into all the relationships that my middle & high school peers were getting into. I was 22 years old when I first learned the word \u201casexual\u201d and it was like the world lifted off my shoulders. I mean, sure, I\u2019m still going to face a lot of difficulties, especially in the state of Virginia for being LGBT+, but knowing that there was a word for me and that I wasn\u2019t alone was a huge relief. The same thing with physical disabilities (of which I do not have) and mental illnesses (of which I do have, and I get frustrated every time someone tells me to just DO something as if it were so easy and I didn\u2019t have to jump through the hoops of anxiety, poor attention span, imposter syndrome, etc.)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p4 <em>\u201cInclusion has come to mean an embrace of diversity-based practices by which we include those who look, act, function, and feel different; yet our contention here is that inclusionism obscures at least as much as it reveals.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>While inclusion is important so that we can teach children that we exist and we\u2019re not that much different from other people, and that it\u2019s even okay to be different, we need to be careful that we\u2019re not including just for brownie points. We\u2019re more than a brief unit of study. We\u2019re more than a month and done. Marginalized communities are more than February (Black History Month), March (Women\u2019s History Month), June (Pride Month), etc. (And speaking of units of study, Pride Month is never \u201ctaught\u201d in a school unit because it\u2019s the month of June, which American Public Schools have summer vacation during, so we don\u2019t get even a small \u201cunit of study\u201d).\u00a0<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p6 <em>\u201cRight now, disability studies and global disability rights movements find themselves having to argue that disabled people must be allowed to pursue their lives much as able-bodied people do in order to prove worthy of acceptance and as recipients of equality of treatment [\u2026] such a goal is too small and often further solidifies the unchallenged desirability of normative lives.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>While it\u2019s true that we should be able to pursue our lives how we want without being told what we can or can\u2019t do, there\u2019s still that underlying whisper of what is normative by ableist standards. And that we\u2019re overcoming our disability\/mental illness. Or that we\u2019re succeeding in spite of it. I know I\u2019ve had people ask me why I want to go into the high stress job of teaching (high school) when I have anxiety and sometimes have even shut down because of that anxiety. I\u2019ve been outright called insane for wanting to teach on the high school level, not just with my anxiety but just because\u2026 I want to teach high school? Because apparently wanting to teach elementary school is SO much easier and more desirable. It\u2019s like they don\u2019t think I can do it. But I think I can. In fact, I AM doing it. I can\u2019t even begin to imagine what it\u2019s like for people with physical\/more visible disabilities.\u00a0<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p18 <em>\u201cdisabled people want to e treated like everyone else and in such a way that their disabilities are not defining their value as human beings.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>My ADHD is a part of me. It comes with depression, anxiety, insomnia, etc. Sometimes it makes life difficult. But it\u2019s not who I am. It doesn\u2019t define me. My sexuality is part of me. Sometimes it colors my perceptions. I won\u2019t be in a sexual relationship, probably ever, and that\u2019s fine with me because I can have the romance and the intimacy without sex. It\u2019s a part of me and my life. This still doesn\u2019t define me. My PCOS can sometimes get in the way of me living my life, like when I\u2019m in so much pain I can\u2019t get out of bed. I get out of bed and go to work anyway. It does not define me.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes on Working Together Not sure what to say about this poem. The title seems apt, and the poetic speaker and their caretaker do seem to be actually working together rather than one working against the other. The poetic speaker doesn\u2019t seem to appear nonverbal, if they can communicate when to stop, when something is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/uncategorized\/morgans-notes-for-3-21-readings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Morgan&#8217;s Notes for 3\/21 Readings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-section-02"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/papJgd-jr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1206,"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions\/1206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}