diff --git a/content/session/disabilityinthepandemic.md b/content/session/disabilityinthepandemic.md index da5cee5..b10dfef 100644 --- a/content/session/disabilityinthepandemic.md +++ b/content/session/disabilityinthepandemic.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ images: ["/topic/coronanotes/care_curve.jpg"] --- -# A history of struggle against the disposability of lives +# A history of struggle against the disposability of disabled lives People with disabilities or chronic illnesses have been long subject to a denial of care. No matter where we are, we had to contend with the shortfalls in medical treatment, adaptation of built environment, access to assistive technologies, personalised assistance and many other unmet requirements. However, we have equally been subject to imposition of care. We had to wrestle our autonomy away from familial overprotection, forced institutionalisation and segregation in specialised institutions. There is a long history of our communities organising and struggling to overcome this double -- objective and subjective -- disablement.