Stella Young Quotes

Paralympic sport and other disability sport can and should be celebrated in its own right.
People are uncomfortable about disability, and so interactions can become unintentionally uncomfortable.
People get all up in arms when I describe myself as a crip because what they hear is the word 'cripple,' and they hear a word you're not allowed to say anymore.
People with disabilities are simply part of diverse communities in the U.S.
Personally, I like a generous side of wheelchair access with my cities.
Physical access is one of the very first issues disability rights activists of the 1960s and '70s fought for.
Self esteem and a healthy body image for people with disabilities are so often hard-fought.
The battle to find a workplace that's wheelchair accessible is a feat in itself, let alone an employer who's going to be cool about employing someone with a disability in a job you actually want to do.
The killing of a disabled person is not 'compassionate'. It is not 'euthanasia'. It is murder.
The magnitude of discrimination and stigma faced by people with disability in Australia cannot be underestimated. People do not understand disability, and people fear what they don't understand.
The mere suggestion that not speaking for a day can give you an appreciation of the social isolation that comes with the experience of disability, particularly those whose impairments prohibit them from communicating verbally, is insensitive at best.
The Paralympics have for too long been considered the poor cousin of the Olympics. It's always run after the main games and rarely gets anything like the media coverage.
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.
The purpose of our justice system is to reflect the values of our society and to punish those who violate our standards.
The sentiment of those suggesting the Olympics and Paralympics be combined is no doubt well intentioned. But it also echoes the myth that disabled people want to be other than what we are - that we'd like nothing more than to be 'allowed in' with the able-bodied competitors.
The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you.
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.
Too often, we fall into the trap of thinking 'equal' means 'the same' and that we achieve equality by treating everyone identically.
We all learn how to use the bodies we're born with, or learn to use them in an adjusted state, whether those bodies are considered disabled or not.
We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect.
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Stella Young
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BirthDate
24 February, 1982
DeathDate
06 December, 2014
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Australia
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