Terri, a disability advocate and nurse, on language, specifically the r-word:
Change already.
Why?
Because the people we exist to SERVE have asked us to. They assure us that those words hurt them.
That is enough of a reason.
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another shapeshifter living among the digital masses
About the Blogger
Cripchick is a powerchair-roaring, young queer disabled woman of color. She grew up on an army base in the South for 18 years and continues to live (and love) North Carolina. She has been a disability/crip youth organizer since high school. Cripchick is crushing hard on popular education, radical women of color feminism, and people practicing liberation & interdependence.
