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The effect of Aids
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that aids had
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on the culture in the sense i mean
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people don't talk about anymore but when
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people did talk about
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it uh they talked about like what
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artists were lost
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but they never talked about this
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audience that was lost you know when
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people talk about like
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why would you know why was new york city
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that aids had
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on the culture in the sense i mean
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people don't talk about anymore but when
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people did talk about
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it uh they talked about like what
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artists were lost
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but they never talked about this
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audience that was lost you know when
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people talk about like
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why would you know why was new york city
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An audience with a high level of connoisseurship is as important to the culture as artists
At camp I didn’t have to worry about what I needed, or how much help I could ask for at one time. I didn’t have to secretly rank what I needed in order of importance so as not to ask for too much at once. I didn’t have to feel that bad feeling I got when something was inaccessible and someone said no to something I knew I could have done myself if
... See moreJudith Heumann • Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
there was a such a high level of
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connoisseurship
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of everything that that that that people
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like this were interested in
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you know of everything that made the
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culture better you ca
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you know a very discerning audience a
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very you know
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an audience with a high level of
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connoisseurship um
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connoisseurship
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of everything that that that that people
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like this were interested in
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you know of everything that made the
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culture better you ca
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you know a very discerning audience a
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very you know
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an audience with a high level of
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connoisseurship um
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is as important to the culture as
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An audience with a high level of connoisseurship is as important to the culture as artists
As the Black feminist writer Mia Birdsong wrote, “Leaving is just not an option for most people. And the people who have the resources to leave will be leaving others behind who will be less positioned to fight back.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha • The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs
The prosperity of the community grows from the flow of relationships, not the accumulation of goods.
Robin Wall Kimmerer • The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
I feel simultaneously intensely insignificant and hyperaware of how important everyone is.
Emily Austin • Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead: A Novel
I mean the sense that there are a bunch of disabled people in a city, and my network might be me and three other people I depend on, who also depend on me. When people say “Just leave!” or say that staying and not abandoning our people is “martyring ourselves” or that “you can’t do anything for anybody if you’re dead,” trust me, I think those
... See moreLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha • The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs
Our disabled communities grow in ecosystems, some of whose roots are state laws that enable our lives, and some of which are delicately pieced together quilts of tiny places of care. We do not have the abled luxury of picking up and leaving them easily.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha • The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs
The concept of interdependence—that all people have needs, that none of us can get through the world solely on our own, and that having needs was not weak or bad or shameful—was an exciting and revolutionary part of the work, a break from and add-on to the disability rights movement’s ideas of independence.