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Stella Young
6 quotes
“Ladies and gentlemen, I’m afraid I’m going to disappoint you dramatically. I am not here to inspire you. I am here to tell you that we have been lied to about disability. Yeah, we’ve been sold the lie that disability is a Bad Thing, capital B, capital T. It’s a bad thing, and to live with a disability makes you exceptional. It’s not a bad thing, and it doesn’t make you exceptional.”
Stella Young (1982–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“These images, there are lots of them out there, they are what we call inspiration porn. And I use the term porn deliberately, because they objectify one group of people for the benefit of another group of people. So in this case, we're objectifying disabled people for the benefit of nondisabled people. The purpose of these images is to inspire you, to motivate you, so that we can look at them and think, "Well, however bad my life is, it could be worse. I could be that person.”
Stella Young (1982–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are more disabled by the society that we live in than by our bodies and our diagnoses.”
Stella Young (1982–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I learn from other disabled people all the time. I'm learning not that I am luckier than them, though. I am learning that it's a genius idea to use a pair of barbecue tongs to pick up things that you dropped. I'm learning that nifty trick where you can charge your mobile phone battery from your chair battery. Genius. We are learning from each others' strength and endurance, not against our bodies and our diagnoses, but against a world that exceptionalizes and objectifies us.”
Stella Young (1982–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That quote, "The only disability in life is a bad attitude," the reason that that's bullshit is because it's just not true, because of the social model of disability. No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp. Never.”
Stella Young (1982–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want to live in a world where we don't have such low expectations of disabled people that we are congratulated for getting out of bed and remembering our own names in the morning. I want to live in a world where we value genuine achievement for disabled people.”
Stella Young (1982–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source