Bud Bartlett -- December 27, 1937 - February 8, 2010

Dear Family and Friends,

Today began very early. About 2:30am, I received a call from Kaiser telling me that Bud had been transferred to ICU after going into full cardiac arrest. His condition was very critical and unstable. At approximately 12:30pm, he went home to be with the Lord. I am so glad that he was still at Kaiser getting excellent care until the last.

Thank you for all of your prayers and friendship at this difficult time. Details of his memorial service will come later.

Sadly,
Vicky

Kynn,

Thank you for the additional feedback. I will definitely share it with the planning team. I know that this will be a concern that we will continue to talk about. Given your clear passion for the topic, I would love to invite you to be part of the planning team for next year. Please consider it. Again, we need all the help and support we can get!

Talk to you soon,

Jennifer Hoefle
Program Director for LGBTQ Affairs
Student Union, Room 404

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This can also be a problem within the disabled community, as we can too often lose focus of who we are without focusing on our oppression by able-bodied individuals. Instead of defining our group experience around the oppression we've faced (and note that I am not at all denying that oppression exists), it might be healthier to focus on who we are. In that light, I'd like to explore who we, the disabled, are in terms of where our limits come from, instead of who our oppressors are.

To be disabled means that most of our limits are bodily: whether physical, mental, or emotional.

I see two advantages to thinking about disability this way. The first is that it offers us an identity without making able-bodied people into a THEM. The second is that it gives us a way to relate to non-disabled people: they are people whose limits come primarily from without instead of from within (for example, from society, class, gender, finances, etc.).