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dyani 🫠 (dyani@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 21:07:07 JST dyani 🫠

The definition of #ableism by Talila A. Lewis 👏🏻
We all experience ableism. It is oppression, which is the system we live under. It is the judgment poisoning our thoughts.
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1. Able-ism (noun). A system of assigning value to people's bodies and minds based on societally constructed ideas of normalcy, productivity, desirability, intelligence, excellence, and fitness. These constructed ideas are deeply rooted in eugenics, anti-Blackness, misogyny, colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism. This systemic oppression leads to people and society determining people's value based on their culture, age, language, appearance, religion, birth or living place, "health/wellness", and/or their ability to satisfactorily re/produce, "excel" and "behave." You do not have to be disabled to experience ableism. working definition by @TalilaLewis, updated January 2022, developed in community with disabled Black & negatively racialized folks. Read more: bit.ly/ableism2022
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