tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-401303964563152307.post155234115241819155..comments2024-03-28T03:35:52.176-04:00Comments on Love That Max : The dad who turned kids with diseases and disabilities into superheroesEllen Seidmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01433429847255621203noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-401303964563152307.post-50978808468521277322017-08-31T18:28:27.394-04:002017-08-31T18:28:27.394-04:00True ... true! The marginalisers and the marginali...True ... true! The marginalisers and the marginalised and who we are at different times and places.<br /><br />Technologically aware young people do integrate the insults of the day, Kathryn.<br /><br />Even things like "robot" in a slacker school environment have the implication of "slave" or "worker" or "striver".<br /><br />As for me, in the late 2000s Ju Gosling had for ten years described "My life as a cyborg" about the technology which empowered her. [She has muscular-skeletal stuff going on - Scheremann's - in the back]. And she developed "Abnormal" - "the scientific view of disability" which was awesome for all the nerds and the geeks in the back [and, yes, these are ableist too - setting one or a narrow set of abilities as the norm for a group of people and/or for society].<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ju90.co.uk/cylife.htm" rel="nofollow">Ju Gosling's MY NOT SO SECRET LIFE AS A CYBORG</a> Seven pages of cyborg life<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ju90.co.uk/cylife4.htm" rel="nofollow">From Borg to Cyborg</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.ju90.co.uk/cylife7.htm" rel="nofollow">Cyborg Life Today</a><br /><br /><a href="http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/376/499" rel="nofollow">Freaks in Control: Representations of Sexuality in British Disability Art</a> - this might be an idea for the artist on where to go next.<br /><br /><a href="https://statweb.blogspot.com/2012/04/phd-research-methodology.html" rel="nofollow">Cyborg Performance Art in StatWeb</a><br /><br />Probably the first "reclamations" I was exposed to was NOBODY NOWHERE where Donna Williams and her dust jacket cover listed all the names her society and community had called her - ever.<br /><br />Someone else who claims "cyborg" is Lady Renegade.<br /><br />Claims and counter-claims.<br /><br /><a href="http://thesecretworldofladyrenegade.blogspot.com.au/search?q=cyborg" rel="nofollow">Cyborg in the life and writing of Lady Renegade</a><br /><br /><a href="http://thesecretworldofladyrenegade.blogspot.com/2017/09/on-empathy.html" rel="nofollow">Empathy as a Superpower</a>Adelaide Duponthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01490123934889071074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-401303964563152307.post-75122763325884858492017-08-31T10:38:13.959-04:002017-08-31T10:38:13.959-04:00I think disabled people can reclaim the terms used...I think disabled people can reclaim the terms used against them-even as simply as saying disabled instead of something like "differently abled". As long as the person with the marginalized identity is in control of the language they identify as/with, all is good. Kathrynnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-401303964563152307.post-4005781625336764492017-08-31T09:59:20.206-04:002017-08-31T09:59:20.206-04:00This is awesome! I would love to get one done of m...This is awesome! I would love to get one done of my daughter cruising in her wheelchair!<br /><br />Paige<br />http://thehappyflammily.comPaige Flammhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12611640192527041942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-401303964563152307.post-6723203981271109532017-08-31T08:58:47.300-04:002017-08-31T08:58:47.300-04:00Ah. I am sorry you experienced that. I wonder if t...Ah. I am sorry you experienced that. I wonder if there is something to be said about people with disability owning some of those terms that have traditionally been used against them--I'm thinking of "spaz," I know PWD who use that term. Ellen Seidmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01433429847255621203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-401303964563152307.post-44974826419443802862017-08-31T07:22:54.284-04:002017-08-31T07:22:54.284-04:00I do hope it is realized that not all disabled peo...I do hope it is realized that not all disabled people who use some adaptive equipment whether it be prosthetics or a hearing aid(like me) like being called a cyborg. I know that for some people it's probably a jokey label but it was something that I was called as an insult. Kathrynnoreply@blogger.com