Steven BachelorSep 6, 2023
The Museum of Care (museum.care) is partnering with esteemed anthropologist Keith Hart (credited with coining the terms "informal economy" and the "human economy") to create a new series titled Conversation of Care. We are casting a wide net in search of folks who are interested in being on the steering committee. Please reach out to me at the following email address, [email protected], if you are interested in helping.
Show threadShaeSep 6, 2023
@stevenbachelor It's been astonishing to discover how entirely disengaged MOC is from Disability Justice work & related matters & am wondering if this will change?
Doesn't seem to me that any meaningful exploration of the broad topic of care can heppen with this hole at the centre.
Show threadSteven BachelorSep 6, 2023
@Gnomibis I agree with you. Would you be interested in participating in a new room on Disability Justice?
Show threadShaeSep 6, 2023
@stevenbachelor I'm not able to at this time & no longer get involved with anything where a certain amount of initial work has not been done already - it's hard to describe how vast the absence of awareness is - as though people are trying to mix colours without red & refusing to acknowlege it's existance.
Not trying to put anyone down, this is a primary flaw in our culture & systems & violent, deterimined erasure spans the political spectrum.
Show threadSteven BachelorSep 6, 2023
@Gnomibis as someone who is neurodivergent and the father of an autistic child, I know exactly what you mean. I'm going to put in work on this issue.
Show threadShaeSep 6, 2023
@stevenbachelor That's good to hear. There's much misinformation & misapropriation around neurodiversity, also the civil rights aspect gets erased. This will be good: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745348667/empire-of-normality/
The continuing tradition of Disability Justice work in the US, much of it from Black women & centering on the topic of care, which ppl tend to put in a special seperate disinfected creepy box when it comes to disability. The word itself is so distorted & loaded it's a problem.
Empire of Normality

'Groundbreaking ... [provides] a deep history of the invention of the 'normal' mind as one of the most oppressive tools of capitalism. To read it is to see t...

Pluto Press
Show threadSteven Bachelor
@Gnomibis thank you for the book recommendation. It looks amazing
Sep 6, 2023 at 6:25pmWeb
Show threadShaeSep 6, 2023

@stevenbachelor Iinteresting stuff happening round ND movement & scholar activists.

https://autonomous-press.myshopify.com/products/neuroqueer-heresies

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.727542/full

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Damian-Milton

Neuroqueer Heresies

Show threadSteven BachelorSep 7, 2023
@Gnomibis thank you for these. They look great.
Show threadShaeSep 12, 2023

@stevenbachelor
The DNS is essential reading.

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/government-side-stepping-un-examination-shows-contempt-for-disabled-people/

Government side-stepping UN examination ‘shows contempt for disabled people’

The UK government has been accused of showing contempt for disabled people after it refused to give evidence on its progress since being found guilty of “grave and systematic” violations of the UN’…

Disability News Service
Show threadSteven BachelorSep 12, 2023
@Gnomibis thank you for this. I reached out to Terra Vance at NeuroClastic and Gyasi Burks-Abbott to see if they would be willing to present at the Museum of Care
Show threadShaeSep 12, 2023
@stevenbachelor
It's immensely complicated terrain in addition to the obstacles neuromajority people have in comprehending & empathinsing with those who have significant diffenences in how they think & experience the world. There's much going on politically that is not transparent -
Gold rush & backlash, astroturfuing, power struggles etc...
I'm not sure about those choices.
There are these folks:
https://www.sinsinvalid.org/blog/10-principles-of-disability-justice
connected to US Disability Justice movement.
10 Principles of Disability Justice — Sins Invalid

Click here for a plain-text PDF of the ten principles and their brief descriptions . For an updated version of the 10 Principles with more in-depth explanations, please go to tinyurl.com/DJ10Principles . For more information about Disability Justice including the 10 Principles and much more

Sins Invalid
Show threadShaeSep 12, 2023
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Show threadShaeSep 12, 2023
@stevenbachelor Useful terms are much misappropriated (such as Neurodiversity, Disability Justice).
Too tired & busy to suggest more, only that it is truly astonishing how much ableism underpins & is a principle weapon of supremacy & how the common human experience of what is called disability is erased aggresively from people's consciousness. Horrific treatment of disabled people is largely how we got to where we are. This was the eye of a storm before.
Show threadShaeSep 12, 2023
@stevenbachelor
Why is so much effort & money being expended on persecuting, supressing & killing disabled people?
Why is erasure of this so ubiquitous & determined along the political scale? - Try to find one mention of disabiliity from Owen Jones & his ilk.
The boom in TESCREAL ideologies is important in respect of this.
There seems to be a consensus that it's expedient to drop disabled people off a cliff, that this is a minor issue when in fact it's central to all of us.
Show threadShaeSep 12, 2023

@stevenbachelor
It's weird how disabled ppl are literally fighting to keep one another alive while the world turns it's face away.

https://www.akpress.org/carework.html

Care Work

In this collection of essays, longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all.

Show threadShaeSep 12, 2023
@stevenbachelor
Bourgeois voices are the ones speaking.
They do not know the half of it.
It is incredibly hard, in fairness for people to understand what is some of our most profound conditioning.
Malcolm X was right about white liberals.
Show threadShaeSep 12, 2023
@stevenbachelor I wonder if David Graeber would have got his head round this. Fear of the bottom of the pyramid makes bullshit jobs & more possible. It's a huge shift of learning & awareness to make & I'm not sure it happens without experiencing disablement & with it the becoming of an un person. Fear, instinct & taboo interweave with our ableist conditioning, it's a giordian knot.
Here are some loose threads.
Show threadSteven BachelorSep 13, 2023
@Gnomibis thank you for this thread and links