Nursing homes spend $6 per day to feed residents and $60 per day to give them medication. I've done dialysis on people on ventilators, persistent vegetative states, no quality of life. It's all for money. We should ask people when they are 40 if they want feeding tubes when they can no longer talk or recognize people and look unhappy all the time. Do they want to have procedures and appointments when they can no longer move, communicate, or eat. Versus supporting someone to remain at home and let them stop eating when they no longer want to eat.
Really appreciate this critique. I only made contact with Marta shortly before her death and I regret not doing so much sooner. I share much of her approach as a disabled Marxist. Currently, I'm writing a critique of the British Disabled People's Movement which declined due to ignoring the basic nature of capitalist social relations in creating and maintaining disablement and disablism. Totally agree with Kevin Gotkin.
I am so grateful for this post. It gives me language to describe how a focus on culture, identity, and representation just isn't cutting it in disability activism, how it actually plays into the hands of the systems we need to transform. It helps me name the rage I feel when most news stories I encounter about COVID-19 are tied in some way to an economic measure that's supposed to be a most reliable index. It makes me wonder how we can take up the calls you put here to support campaigns like #CareCantWait and how we can introduce more political economic analysis into disability arts and culture. Beatrice, thank you.
Nursing homes spend $6 per day to feed residents and $60 per day to give them medication. I've done dialysis on people on ventilators, persistent vegetative states, no quality of life. It's all for money. We should ask people when they are 40 if they want feeding tubes when they can no longer talk or recognize people and look unhappy all the time. Do they want to have procedures and appointments when they can no longer move, communicate, or eat. Versus supporting someone to remain at home and let them stop eating when they no longer want to eat.
Really appreciate this critique. I only made contact with Marta shortly before her death and I regret not doing so much sooner. I share much of her approach as a disabled Marxist. Currently, I'm writing a critique of the British Disabled People's Movement which declined due to ignoring the basic nature of capitalist social relations in creating and maintaining disablement and disablism. Totally agree with Kevin Gotkin.
I am so grateful for this post. It gives me language to describe how a focus on culture, identity, and representation just isn't cutting it in disability activism, how it actually plays into the hands of the systems we need to transform. It helps me name the rage I feel when most news stories I encounter about COVID-19 are tied in some way to an economic measure that's supposed to be a most reliable index. It makes me wonder how we can take up the calls you put here to support campaigns like #CareCantWait and how we can introduce more political economic analysis into disability arts and culture. Beatrice, thank you.