“I’ll Pick You Up By Your Back Brace and Throw You Like a Suitcase”: On Naming Discrimination Against Disability
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Disability, Discrimination, Ableist/Ableism
Abstract
What word is there for discrimination practiced against disability? In the following essay, I will explore—through personal narrative—incidents of discrimination in the academic, non-academic, and reader-text environments. Then I will discuss the various meanings of the word ableist and the importance of placing a name for discrimination against disability in the public domain.
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Jillian Weise, Fred Chappell Fellow, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
JILLIAN WEISE is the Fred Chappell Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her creative work appears in The Atlantic Monthly, Chelsea, Puerto del Sol, Salt Hill, and others. She is the recipient of the Academy of American Poets John MacKay Shaw award.
Correspondence regarding this manuscript should be sent to Jillian Weise, 1013 A7 North Elm Street, Greensboro NC 27401, (336) 209-1259, weisej@bellsouth.net, www.jillianweise.freeservers.com.