Jon Henner

@jmhenner.bsky.social

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Deaf. Enduring Stage 4 Melanoma. | Professor | Disability Linguistics | I guess I do language stuff? And education stuff? | Skeets in own capacity | he/👉

‘Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?’
Some days my bad crip feelings are felt so cripply that I live in a heap of tears and blankets. Sometimes I feel despair—total, fucking despair. While a part of me is tempted to read these days and times as aberrations, temporary departures from the longer oeuvre of my affectivity that is, perhaps, less intensely pessimistic, I want to honor the depth of my bad crip feelings as no more or less aberrant than the bouts of optimism I feel at other times.
Eunjung Kim calls curative vio­lence. Kim uses this term to describe “the physical and material vio­lence against ­people with disabilities that are justified in the name of cure.”29 Cure ­here refers broadly to any attempt to lessen or eliminate illness or disability. Thus, curative vio­lence recognizes that society’s ableist obsession with curing disabled and chronically ill ­people can often be damaging, resulting in further disability, debilitation, or even death.
A tired white cat wears a drawn yarmulke
08:53 C I a Post 1 7 0 ∞ 9 Jon Henner @imhenner.bs... - 6m Obviously there's scale here. But functionally we're talking about what kinds of discrimination are we willing to accept and to what degree. Some inaccessible content? No inaccessible content? All accessible content? 7 0 Parker Molloy • 59s @parkermolloy.com Nope. I'm out. Not going to do this crap where you accuse me of "discrimination." especially as I DO use alt text. Bye. Jun 27, 2023 at 08:51 1 like 7 Write your reply
A woman in a bikini on the beach crawls away from a dingo biting her ass
The drawn cartoon character Doug. He has a green sweater vest and khaki shorts.
The cartoon character Doug. He had scratch hair and big nose and a green sweater vest.
The animated character Doug. He has scratch line hair. And a green sweater vest.
A white balloon person baymax hugs hiro, an Asian boy.
A white haired viera with white bunny ears stares out. She wears red armor.
A very blurry pic of a white man starting to dance (Numa numa 2004)
A white man with a pink headband lays in a red couch. A grey cat lays on top of him.
A white man with long brown hair and a black kn95 leans in a brown chair. There is an Iv machine with chemo in the bag. A steam deck is on his lap
A picture of a large muscular doge with a city background. The doge is holding a crown. You dropped this queen
Two cats are on a kilted lap. One is white with black spots and the other is ginger.
A ginger cat curled up on a green and black plaid kilt.