{"id":26384,"date":"2013-07-04T00:33:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T00:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/07\/04\/anarchist-communities-often-value-and-revere-back\/"},"modified":"2013-07-04T00:33:28","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T00:33:28","slug":"anarchist-communities-often-value-and-revere-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/07\/04\/anarchist-communities-often-value-and-revere-back\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Anarchist communities often value and revere \u201cback to the land” attitudes. They fetishize a world after the industrial collapse where we are all riding our bikes everywhere and growing our own food. But that\u2019s not a world I can live in. As a person with a disability, I depend on technology to keep me alive. I depend on my hearing aid, and my mobility chair. I depend on my perscription (sic) drugs to keep my immune system from destroying my spine. I can\u2019t afford to \u201cfuck cars and ride my bike.” Anarchist communities who celebrate able bodies, have bonding and strategizing events in inaccessible locations, adopt mantras like \u201cracism is a DISEASE” and \u201cThe revolution will not be motorized” are not welcoming or safe places for me. These ideas of what revolution mean are exclusive, and borrow heavily from eugenicist idealogy. They are rarely criticized, because PWDs (people with disabilities) are humiliated by dominant culture AND by most anarchist culture. It\u2019s not a revolution unless everyone is invited.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Wren A.<\/p>\n

THIS SO MUCH THIS<\/p>\n

bless<\/p>\n

(via affairofthepoisons<\/a>)<\/p>\n

This is basically the killer argument against primitivism – their ideology is really incompatible with having autonomous and mobile disabled people.<\/p>\n

(caveat: my idea of revolution doesn\u2019t require \u201ceveryone” to be invited, but \u201cdisabled people” is obv not an exclusion I want!)<\/p>\n

wow this is a super fucking important point and not something that gets talked about nearly enough<\/p>\n

(via ratkingxvx<\/a>)<\/p>\n

yooo and this applies to people who have serioud conditions that require medications like asthma or diabetes.<\/p>\n

(via northeastdakota<\/a>)<\/p>\n

This is my problem with those \u201cIf everyone would just put down their cell phones and WAKE UP\u2026” mantras. \u00a0Because so many of rely on technology for our health. \u00a0For some of us that means physical aide, and for some it means that thanks to technology we can finally communicate and make ourselves heard. \u00a0Disabled people are empowered by technology in away that never existed before. \u00a0And I refuse to buy into any movement that wants to take that away from people.<\/p>\n

(via missingagloe<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Not to mention some of us need modern technology to breathe, either some or all of the time. Especially high quads. I don\u2019t see losing that going over well with full time vent users, given they\u2019d die instantly and horribly. And it doesn\u2019t go over with me that well given I use supplemental oxygen and stuff, not to mention bipap at night and sometimes day too. Although I\u2019d usually be fine for a little while, but might end up in hospital after awhile.<\/p>\n

(via youneedacat<\/a>)<\/p>\n

And the fact that SO MUCH modern medication relies on plastics and technology for its manufacture.\u00a0 I\u2019d really like for my girlfriend to continue to NOT be suicidal all the time, thanks.<\/p>\n

And antibiotics.\u00a0 And vaccines.\u00a0 And autoclaves for surgical equipment.\u00a0 It was not all that long ago that THE SON OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES DIED OF BLOOD POISONING BECAUSE A BLISTER ON HIS HEEL GOT INFECTED<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0And SERIOUSLY PEOPLE WE DID THE MIDDLE AGES ALREADY AND IT WAS MISERABLE.\u00a0 FUCKING THINK.<\/p>\n

(Those who do not read history are doomed to repeat it while those who do beat their heads against the wall.)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anarchist communities often value and revere \u201cback to the land” attitudes. They fetishize a world after the industrial collapse where we are all riding our bikes everywhere and growing our own food. But that\u2019s not a world I can live in. As a person with a disability, I depend on technology to keep me alive. … Continue reading <\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26384"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}