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.).