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None of this is to say disability discourse, thought, and action are for abled people. Disabled people are the ones disproportionately harmed and targeted by our systems of oppression and exploitation, and they should always be at the center and the lead on issues that affect them.

Ironically, though, abled people benefit when we respect, center, and act in solidarity with disabled people. We are all harmed by systems that make us exploitable and vulnerable. That makes us allies, not in the sense that abled people are doing disabled people favors out of the goodness of our hearts, but in the sense that we have a common enemy in this social machinery of death and a common interest in ending it.