Olivia Novais
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Olivia Novais
I feel a little bitter that most non-disabled people do not have this dilemma of whether they will exchange their privacy to be seen as human.
Alice Wong • Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People
Accessibility rights
presume everyone, regardless of an identified disability, is competent.
Christopher Bugaj • The New Assistive Tech: Make Learning Awesome for All!
Most disabled people are not allowed to immigrate to become a citizen in other nations.6 Disability automatically casts you as a burden, making you ineligible for permanent citizenship or residency in many countries.
Ashley Shew • Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (A Norton Short)
As King said: “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent."
Polina Pompliano • The Transformational Power of Books
“Energy management beats time management.”
― Katherine Morgan Schafler
All desire is a desire for being.”
We think we want things, but every desire points to a way of life, a kind of person we long to become. Objects seduce us not with their utility but with their promise of transcendence—status, attention, belonging.
We think we want things, but every desire points to a way of life, a kind of person we long to become. Objects seduce us not with their utility but with their promise of transcendence—status, attention, belonging.
When you make something, when you improve something, when you deliver something, when you add some new thing or service to the lives of strangers, making them happier, or healthier, or safer, or better, and when you do it all crisply and efficiently, smartly, the way everything should be done but so seldom is—you’re participating more fully in the
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