A girl needs a stick
Feb. 25th, 2019 09:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kestrelland it should be whichever fucking stick she wants. More comments after the link.
https://nfb.org/sites/default/files/publications/bm/bm19/bm1902/bm190207.htm
This story reminds me of when I was doing time at the Carroll Center, and I was walking along, bouncing my cane off objects to identify them --bang! trash can tang! newspaper dispensor thwong! bike rack-- and the mobility instructor told me I was doing it all wrong, that the point of a white cane was for the blind person to gently sweep it back and forth in order to alert sighted people that she was blind.
Seriously, how is a person supposed to respond to that?? I'm a goddamn blind Jedi and she thinks I should be selling pencils.
*"A girl needs a stick" is my riff on a song by the Flash Girls titled "A Girl Needs a Knife." I added some of my own lyrics including, A girl needs an accessible flamethrower, A girl needs a Death Star, and, thank you John Varley, A girl needs a sentient talking black hole.
https://nfb.org/sites/default/files/publications/bm/bm19/bm1902/bm190207.htm
This story reminds me of when I was doing time at the Carroll Center, and I was walking along, bouncing my cane off objects to identify them --bang! trash can tang! newspaper dispensor thwong! bike rack-- and the mobility instructor told me I was doing it all wrong, that the point of a white cane was for the blind person to gently sweep it back and forth in order to alert sighted people that she was blind.
Seriously, how is a person supposed to respond to that?? I'm a goddamn blind Jedi and she thinks I should be selling pencils.
*"A girl needs a stick" is my riff on a song by the Flash Girls titled "A Girl Needs a Knife." I added some of my own lyrics including, A girl needs an accessible flamethrower, A girl needs a Death Star, and, thank you John Varley, A girl needs a sentient talking black hole.
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Date: 2019-02-25 09:32 pm (UTC)Did you tell then that only reading books with black ink on white paper was also a "crutch"? That he should be reading all his words in pale grey ink on slightly less pale grey paper?
(And speaking as someone with a mobility impairment -- Why are crutches a bad thing, when the alternative is not getting from one side of the room to the other, at all?)
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Date: 2019-02-25 10:06 pm (UTC)Re canes: one time I was in a really crowded mall with a former housemate, and I'm slightly ahead of her, winging my cane and clearing a path, and I heard this little girl ask, "Mommy, can I have a cane?" and her mom did the really embarrassed trying to shush her noises, but I thought it was pretty cool.
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Date: 2019-02-26 12:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-02-26 11:45 pm (UTC)"Yes! You can have a cane! You can have what you want when you speak up for it!"