manifests in the social attitudes that stigmatize disability, the architectural barriers that impede access, the complex set of power relations and structural arrangements that privilege certain bodies or minds as normal while marking others as deviant, dangerous, and despised. One of the ways ableism operates? It fashions speed and stamina as a threshold condition for basic belonging. Ableist values intertwine with capitalist pressures to laud those who work at a punishing pace. One of the lies ableism tells us? You only matter if you can keep up.
