What's this? What's this?! A new page on the #Bywgraffiadur website presenting our growing list of names and some info on the #Diversity project?
If you fancy writing a short biographical article about any of the people included in the list, or would like to suggest new additions, please get in touch!
Who produced the idea of "people with disabilities"? People who made a living working for advocacy groups that spoke for disabled people, which however well intentioned, is infantilising and patronising, or groups led by and for disabled people?
Who needed to invent linguistic constructions to remind themselves disabled people were human? The dominant majority of the oppressed minority?
Thank you for the compliment that you find my argument odd. If the positions were different and I was telling you your ideas about sexism and lived experience were odd and confusing, I would consider my behaviour patronising.
I wish you many more encounters with disabled people who challenge your implicit bias from a position of power.
@LutherBlissett13@_bydbach_@academicchatter I’ve worked with many for over 20 years and had this experience myself. It’s not patronizing to say I find your argument to be ahistorical and therefore inaccurate. It’s your position, which is fine, but you’re imposing it as the only way to think and talk. That’s patronizing. Many people with disabilities don’t even agree (or find these arguments silly). Disagreeing doesn’t mean I have an implicit bias.
The possibly by far most unexpected find in my search for new names to add to our list of new articles for the #Bywgraffiadur is probably the Reverend Peter Jones, or by his birth name KahkewAquonaby. He was born in 1831 to a Mississauga Ojibwe woman and a Welsh father. Following his conversion to Methodism, he became a missionary, preaching in Ojibwe and English.
We're collecting names of historical Black, Asian and Minority-Ethnic individuals and groups of all sorts who have a significant link with #Wales for potential future inclusion in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography as part of our Anti-Racist Wales Action Plan project.
I'm currently compiling a list of suitable candidates, one of which are the many Italian Welsh families who have left a massive culinary imprint on Welsh cuisine and coffee culture.
If you have a name you'd like added -- or want to write about yourself, please get in touch!