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KamaAina

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2. Truth.
Sun Jan 25, 2015, 01:53 PM
Jan 2015

A friend who is part of the Society for Disability Studies:

http://disstudies.org

outed herself as a normate (person without a disability) at the SDS conference a couple of years ago, as follows: "As a fat, black, queer woman, I had acquired so much otherness that I only felt comfortable around you guys."

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