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[sasha_feather]

I was interviewed for this great article by s.e. smith at xojane.com:

Where are all the disabled scientists?

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

The article is awesome, and I also totaly love that my colleagues in gimpdom cheerfully warn me away from the comments. I started to read them out of habit but the two exclamation marks above did their business and stopped me before I got stuck in the swamp.

Thanks for speaking out on your experience!

[sasha_feather]

I waded into the comments and there is a) a lot of privileged defensiveness and b) a lot of concern about getting sued by "assuming" people might have a disability in a university setting. Ugh.

[meloukhia]

Ugh, SERIOUSLY. Those comments make no sense to me. Have these people not heard of universal access?!

[trouble]

It really pained me because access is for EVERYONE.

[sasha_feather]

I think part of it is the culture of scientists treating their bodies like robotic machines.