Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

by Rebekah Taussig

“Instead of fixating on disability as The Problem, the social model focuses on the experience of disability, the context of disability, the environments creating disabling moments. The social model looks at this image and says, ‘Let’s shift our focus from the woman in the wheelchair to the building with only one point of access. How limiting!’

A group is marginalized because society marginalizes them. Society also has the power to change that. What would it mean for disabled folks if society saw us as acceptable, equal, valuable parts of the whole?

teachers’ fists are full of seeds, and we spend our days throwing them across the concrete pavement, never knowing when or where one of those seeds will take root or what plant might start pushing its way through the cracks.

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this is what I’ve learned about teaching: it will consume anything you allow it to touch—every cell in your body, piece of your brain, corner of your heart, minute of your waking life.