This originally was posted on Mastodon as a thread.
The social model of disability and beyond:
Is Autism a Disability? Are Autistics Disabled? (Are These the Same Question?)
https://autisticacademic.com/2014/09/22/autism-and-the-complication-of-the-disabilityimpairment-binary/
It’s also important to remember that…
When a social justice movement becomes a threat, opponents and opportunists swoop in to appropriate and water down the movement’s core messages:
https://rewire.news/article/2018/02/09/siri-love-problem-neurodiversity-lite/
What the Neurodiversity Movement Does—And Doesn’t—Offer
Liberation is going to look like different things to different people, and as such, there is no such thing as a “one size fits all” liberatory approach.
https://twitter.com/AisjaMahmood/status/1028272187919228928
i don’t mean to be rude about #TakeTheMaskOff but… like… have you ever been autistic & black in public?
taking the mask of is going to get mans arrested or detained & i’m not on that flex i’ve been there done that. not liberation like you think it is.#AutisticWhileBlack
— nix (@silverswansong) August 6, 2018
I'm sorry if i've missed it but one thing i haven't seen much talk about in the #TakeTheMaskOff discussion is the intersection of trans masking and POC which differ but highlight to me the society overlap in why masking is still so necessary in many situations
— Lexi Orchard (@TheLexiOrchard) August 5, 2018
#TakeTheMaskOff doesnt touch on the intersectionality of also being black. And the disparities we face in our own community being different. This affected my mental health the most for i wasnt accepted by my peers or my people
— Chaos (@JoyChaos) August 8, 2018
Assuming that liberation is “just a public stim away”, and that there’s no cost extracted for resistance by oppressors, is how people in liberation movements get shot.
Liberation doesn’t just happen, there’s always a cost. “Power concedes nothing without a demand”, and the forces against us are numerous and well-connected. This should shock nobody.
Working against that cost, and utilizing it to an oppressed community’s advantage, is where organizing tactics and strategy comes in.