There He Is

Becoming more comfortable with little illegal activities makes you more comfortable with bigger more important illegal activities. Additionally, it is crucial to build a wall of silence. Nobody talks everybody walks.

People who give out food without a permit, hold a march without a permit, grow a garden without a permit, are more likely to be people you could turn to to work with on preventing an eviction, or keeping people out of cop hands, or helping your friend Jane get crucial healthcare when it’s not legal in your state.

Communities comfortable with these acts won’t call the cops, and then nobody knows that it’s happening.

This is not me saying that speech therapy doesn’t work because it absolutely can and does help people cope with their impediments. It still doesn’t fix anyone though. When you go to therapy for your depression or anxiety, are you magically fixed? Most of the time when I see people claiming that speech therapy “cures” impediments, they’re doing that to absolve themselves of the guilt of making fun of us. Because if therapy fixes impediments then it’s the person’s own laziness or unwillingness to go to therapy that causes their impediment and, therefore, they’ve brought it upon themselves and making fun of them is fair game. It’s a way to invalidate speech impediments as a disability. So yes, speech therapy can help impediments. No, it’s not a cure.

This post is for ugly, fat (FAT!!!!! FAT FAT FAT, NOT MAGAZINE PLUSSSS FAT), disabled, intersex, trans people and people of color who are tired of the body positivity movement being a fucking farce. Fuck the rest of you.