“The privilege that I’d experienced for most of my life had not only oriented me to see access and convenience as normal, but it completely invisibilized the experience that one in five Americans have when they’re confronted by a system that is designed to ignore and exclude them. Disability is not located in the individual’s body and mind but in the world. It is a construct: a product of a toxic culture that defines normal in the form of beauty, performance, productivity and obedience.”
