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Stella Young

Australian

February 24, 1982

Comedian

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Yooralla is a people pleaser with a very powerful PR machine.

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Apologies are great, but they don't really change anything. You know what does? Action.

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Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.

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Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit.

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I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals.

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Physical access is one of the very first issues disability rights activists of the 1960s and '70s fought for.

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I used to think of myself in terms of who I'd be if I didn't have this pesky old disability.

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Too often, we fall into the trap of thinking 'equal' means 'the same' and that we achieve equality by treating everyone identically.

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The purpose of our justice system is to reflect the values of our society and to punish those who violate our standards.

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There are real-world, devastating consequences for disabled women marginalised by the kinds of attitudes that deny them full agency over what happens to their bodies.

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For me, in some ways, my whole life is a bit performative and always has been - because I'm stared at and looked at everywhere I go.

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The problem for many people with disabilities is not that we are not able to work a certain number of hours a week. It's that no-one will let us.

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I identify very proudly as a disabled woman. I identify with the crip community. I didn't invent the word 'crip'. It's a political ideology I came to in my late teens and early 20s.

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We often hear that people mean well: that so many just don't how to interact with people with disabilities. They're unsure of the 'right' reaction, so they default to condescension that makes them feel better in the face of their discomfort.

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It is nothing short of baffling to me how a city like Melbourne, where I struggle to find accessible facilities on a very regular basis, could be considered the most livable city in the world. I suppose it all depends on what makes a city 'livable' for you.

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