[Description: Annie with short blue hair looking downward, a photo on the foreground of an ambulance and people dressed in blue scrubs]
My Response to the Attack on Disabled Lives at Tsukui Lily Garden [CC]
TW: content involves ableism and violence
“This Tuesday, July 26th 2016... 19 disabled people were murdered and 26 injured in a mass knife attack in their sleep because the attacker thought “it was pointless for people with severe disabilities to keep on living”...
The silence on this matter right now is what is most upsetting to me. When it comes to activism and the fight for equality, for a lot of people disability is an afterthought or just not on the radar at all, and this needs to change.”
My written piece on the attack: Ableism, Mass Murder, and Silence by Annie Segarra http://bit.ly/2ajMMef
Other written pieces on the attack:
Violence, Disability, and the Lessons of Sagamihara by David Perry
This Is What Disability Erasure Looks Like by Emily Willingham
Japan knife attack: stabbing at care centre leaves 19 dead by Justin McCurry
ABLEISM, VIOLENCE & SAGAMIHARA by Alice Wong
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