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#67933 - 05/21/06 07:43 AM Re: Disability Pride Parade Film Festival in Chicago
john55555
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Loc: "'cross the alley from the Ala... 		Xuxan..

Think they might hold one again next year?

Thnx..J.
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#67935 - 05/21/06 11:39 AM Re: Disability Pride Parade Film Festival in Chicago
ParaDude
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Loc: United Provinces of America 		All you crips who are proud to be disabled...please stand up (not literally of course)
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#67936 - 05/21/06 01:05 PM Re: Disability Pride Parade Film Festival in Chicago
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Loc: a box on the table 		i never got what the whole "disability pride" thing was all about either.
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#67938 - 05/22/06 01:19 AM Re: Disability Pride Parade Film Festival in Chicago
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#67939 - 05/23/06 10:25 AM Re: Disability Pride Parade Film Festival in Chicago
StarlightAngel
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Originally posted by Xuxan:
Disability pride isn't about being proud of the the impairment your body has - it is about being proud of the cultural and historical contributions of people with disabilities, it is about celebrating the ability of (atleast some of us)people from diverse backgrounds and abilities to work together. It is about being in a place (the parade) where having a disability is ordinary. It has very little to do with any individual person. It is about being part of an extended family - not a family you were born into - but a family you share some similar characteristics with.
isn't that why we have NM? :p
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#67941 - 05/24/06 08:14 PM Re: Disability Pride Parade Film Festival in Chicago
Blueonetime
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Posts: 136 		I'm very confused by this whole disability parade thing. Why parade something that (I personally find) is very negative?

It's something that happened, I try to live with it, minimize it, and have the best life possible...but parade it? I don't get it.
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#67943 - 05/25/06 10:42 AM Re: Disability Pride Parade Film Festival in Chicago
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Loc: new york 		wtf's proud to be disabled?
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#67944 - 05/25/06 11:08 AM Re: Disability Pride Parade Film Festival in Chicago
Greg
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Posts: 10000 		oh darn, thought it was a gay/lesbo, drag queen parade, the one in Toronto is a hoot
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#67945 - 05/25/06 12:37 PM Re: Disability Pride Parade Film Festival in Chicago
StarlightAngel
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Loc: a box on the table 		a lesbian friend in NYC keeps inviting me out to see the NY GLBT parade, but it's in july and usually really hot so i never go.

maybe one day i should make it a point, esp. if sodapop shows up too...

[edited for typo]
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#67947 - 05/25/06 02:56 PM Re: Disability Pride Parade Film Festival in Chicago
sodapop
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Originally posted by Xuxan:
Teh Gay Pride parade in NYC is wonderful. Not to be missed if you get a chance. If you ever thought you were weird - there is going to be someone at that parade who is weirder.
xuxan's right about the parade.
Xobext!
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#67948 - 05/25/06 08:56 PM Re: Disability Pride Parade Film Festival in Chicago
katka
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Quote:
Originally posted by Xuxan:
Disability pride isn't about being proud of the the impairment your body has - it is about being proud of the cultural and historical contributions of people with disabilities, it is about celebrating the ability of (atleast some of us)people from diverse backgrounds and abilities to work together. It is about being in a place (the parade) where having a disability is ordinary. It has very little to do with any individual person. It is about being part of an extended family - not a family you were born into - but a family you share some similar characteristics with.
If you think a whole group of people with disabilities parading to be considered "ordinary"
you are incredibly naive.
The able bodied community would, undoubtly, wonder why you on one hand expect to be treated as everyone else yet you want a parade to be celebrate your difference.
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#67949 - 05/25/06 09:20 PM Re: Disability Pride Parade Film Festival in Chicago
flicka
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Originally posted by katka:
If you think a whole group of people with disabilities parading to be considered "ordinary"
you are incredibly naive.
I think Susan meant that one feels "ordinary" when surrounded by so many others with disabilities. Have you ever been in a crowd of people with disabilities? It's a fearfully "normal" feeling.
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#67951 - 05/26/06 02:31 AM Re: Disability Pride Parade Film Festival in Chicago
dowdy
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Posts: 3344 		I have a friend Tony Doyle who is a film maker, here in Australia is it to late for him to enter a film?
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#67952 - 05/26/06 08:45 AM Re: Disability Pride Parade Film Festival in Chicago
Wheelchair_diva
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Loc: NJ 		I do not get the whole semantics of the “Disability Pride”. I think that the word pride is just used as a catchy line, but I doubt that some people are proud of something that caused them so much physical pain and social problems.
I can be proud of my achievements as a disabled person, but not about my disability. I am not ashamed of my physical limitations either, and I don’t know if I would like to be any different.

I agree with Dorothea Lange; she said about her disability….
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"I think it was perhaps the most important thing that happened to me. If formed me, guided me, instructed me, helped me, humiliated me, all those things at once. I've never gotten over it, and I am aware of the force and power of it."
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#67954 - 05/26/06 10:03 AM Re: Disability Pride Parade Film Festival in Chicago
StarlightAngel
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Originally posted by flicka:
Have you ever been in a crowd of people with disabilities? It's a fearfully "normal" feeling.
it's actually a traffic jam of wheelchairs. which is one reason why i prefer to do the crip solidarity thing online.

i also don't see the point of parading it down the street tho.
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