“All bodies are unique and essential. All bodies have strengths and needs that must be met. We are powerful, not despite the complexities of our bodies, but because of them. All bodies are confined by ability, race, gender, sexuality, class, nation state, religion, and more, and we cannot separate them.”
From “What is Disability Justice” (Adapted from Patty Berne’s “Disability Justice – A Working Draft”, Published in Skin, Tooth, and Bone: The Basis of Movement is Our People, A Disability Justice Primer, Second Edition.
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Everything about the way the disabled are treated is stupid and doesn’t save money. For instance if they had more physiotherapy appointments to start with I wouldn’t have ended up so disabled in the first place. But they’d rather save a bit of money by providing fewer appointments. It’s the same with every medical thing in the UK. Cut the NHS down to save money but then people end up sicker, more disabled, can’t work and rely on disability benefits. So cut disability benefits. People become homeless and hungry and end up in hospital with malnutrition and hypothermia, and eventually have to be put in a bed and breakfast, and this is all more expensive than just continuing their benefits.
But this isn’t even a short term saving or anything, they ALREADY HAVE THE GIZMO. It’s already in the building! They’ve got people trained to use them. They aren’t and can’t get rid of the machine or the training!
They’re just being cocks for the sake of it!