Posted on 03/26/2023 9:02:26 AM PDT by Rummyfan
During a Mar. 6 panel discussion, professor Sami Schalk of the University of Wisconsin-Madison gave an account of an epiphany she had while researching disability studies.
Schalk realized 'there was a part of [her] that knew' she had a disability, similar to her self-realization that she was queer.
During a Mar. 6 panel discussion, professor Sami Schalk of the University of Wisconsin-Madison gave an account of an epiphany she had while researching disability studies. Before conducting this research, she did not think of herself as disabled. After, however, Schalk realized “there was a part of [her] that knew” she had a disability, similar to her self-realization that she was queer.
Schalk, besides being a professor of Gender & Women's Studies, describes herself as “polyamorous and a pleasure activist.” She has also "twerked" with Lizzo.
Schalk spoke with Vilissa Thompson, a social worker, on the CUNY Graduate Center YouTube channel about Schalk’s research and book titled “Black Disability Politics.”
“So I took this [disability studies] class, and it blew my mind. Just fireworks going off in my brain … I had spent so much time thinking about race and gender and class and sexuality, and I had just not been thinking about disability with the same critical lens,” Schalk said of her first experiences encountering the discipline in college.
“I had to grapple with my own privilege within the disability system, because at the time I didn’t understand myself as disabled,” she continued. She then added, “[T]here was a part of me that knew, just like there was a part of me that knew I was queer."
Schalk did not specify in the panel discussion in what way she considers herself disabled....
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I have two friends who are alums of UW-Madison, both borderline geniuses. This is extremely disappointing to find about the university.
I scrolled back up to confirm the Babylon Bee credit while chuckling to myself.
Nope, this is from Campus Reform. Babylon Bee has to be struggling to come up with content these days.
She came to realize that she was indeed a Darwinian mutant.
Looking at her picture, she definitely has a eating disorder...She don’t know when to stop....
Mental Disabilities in people are very sad.
I hope she gets quality care after she resigns her post.
Oh... My... Gawd.
no matter what happens to democRATS, it’s always somebody else’s fault,
it’s their families fault, it’s society’s fault, etc,
and it’s their therapists job, to help them identify who’s it is...
The nut does not fall far from the tree. She is a crack pot. I can see the family rolling their eyes when she leaves the holiday dinners.
“When Satire Becomes Reality: Nearly 100 Babylon Bee Pieces Have Become Fulfilled Prophecies”
The American Psychological Association. Making lives better since 1892! /sarc
So when her victimhood as “queer” or “black” or “female” does not work, she can claim her victimhood as “disabled”.
In truth, while she demonstrates the nature of her “disability” is some mental issues she has, that self-admission shows a demonstrative disservice to the truly disabled - people born with great physical or mental handicaps, such as blindness, para-or-quadraplegic, dwarfism in some fashion, autism, or bon with aspergers syndrome or downs syndrome, for instance.
Life is turning into one big Monty Python sketch.
Mentally disabled and should be isolated and committed for treatment.
“Mental Disability” or “Retarded.” Most assuredly. Normal people would be ashamed to make such a ridiculous assertion public and would be shunned by other normal people.
Sounds like reading-induced hypochondria to me, much like the psychology students who discover they have a psychological condition they never knew they had before reading their textbooks. After all, two forms of victim-hood are better than one.
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