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If we say PoC or people of colour instead of “coloured people”, oughtn’t we also be saying people with disabilities instead of “disabled people”? Or no, is that not the same? Or it it used and I’ve just never heard it?



  1. iambecauseiwrite reblogged this from themindislimitless and added:
    I referenced PoC terms as a PoC myself, but yes, this is super helpful and I appreciate it, so thank you.
  2. farawaymooncall reblogged this from themindislimitless and added:
    Person-first language is preferable in Australia, at least in the disability sector we are taught to use it. I am unsure...
  3. queerblackandproud said: People with differing abilities is the preferred term, from everything I’ve been reading lately. Even the term ‘people with disabilities’ can get a bit ableist, so the point is to avoid having one be ‘ability’ and one be ‘disability’ altogether.
  4. amethystarcher said: I don’t think disabled has been used in the same type of dehumanizing context as colored. Ableism has served to dehumanize and hurt people but in complex ways that are often different from and linked to racism. I also don’t know enough about this.
  5. indigocrayon said: I’ve seen ‘people with disabilities’ a lot, acronmyized as PWD. like that no-longer-running website, FWD (feminists with disabilities)
  6. mayflowrs said: I like people with disabilities more. The other way sort of abases the individual claiming he/she is wholly disabled instead of having a disability… does that make sense?
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