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  • Jen just turned round and yelled after him something like "yeah its not like they get weekends off and suddenly stop being ablebodied on a friday night needing the wheelchair again on Monday morning."

    I pursue taboo love, reasons to wear corsets and girls with knives Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • Their level of ability is so far outside my experience, they might as well be ablebodied.

    Illness, disability, ability, identity. Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • His buses, emblazoned DIG TO VICTORY, traverse the cafe quarters, scooping up ablebodied men for trench duty-deputy ministers as well as singers and actors.

    Crossing An Invisible Line 2008

  • Them -- the ablebodied, the hearing and seeing majority, the Normals, as some of us call them today.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Kay Olson 2007

  • Second: A few people, both ablebodied and disabled, have suggested this distinction between “fundamental” and non fundamental rights.

    The Ashley Treatment: A Feminist and Disability Rights Issue? 2007

  • The regular crew's quarters take up the remaining third of the length of the ship — 36 feet — but into it are crammed 41 of the surviving ablebodied seamen and midshipmen from the original ship's muster of 44.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • Intra-group conflicts - such as between different Jews about Judaism - are different in kind from an extra-group conflict - such as between a disabled woman and leering ablebodied “helpful” men.

    Link Farm and Open Thread #9 2006

  • There are a bunch of other things that matter too - body type, ablebodied or not, queer or not, trans or not, etc - as well.

    This Is Not Tawana Brawley 2006

  • But that some inequalities generally happen more to women than to men to the disabled than to the ablebodied, to American Indians than to whites, and so on is something that serious people can legitimately discuss and be concerned with.

    In Defense Of Generalizations and “Petty” Complaints 2006

  • But that some inequalities generally happen more to women than to men to the disabled than to the ablebodied, to American Indians than to whites, and so on is something that serious people can legitimately discuss and be concerned with.

    Alas, a blog » 2006 » May 2006

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