On this week's Person of the Week pod, activist and author Eddie Ndopu opens up about how disability helped him rethink excellence. Listen:
In it, he writes about how people with disabilities are often expected to achieve excellence in order to be treated with dignity.One of the things that struck me most about my conversation with Ndopu is his radical clarity about the value of human life. His work upends established assumptions about ability and excellence, and instead argues that our deepest vulnerabilities can actually be our greatest strengths., and join us as we continue to explore the minds that shape our world.
The thing that has been labeled as a deficit, as a weakness, as a source of tragedy, has actually been the foundation of an irrevocable sense of self. So I would go back and tell myself that I am enough, that I am fine just the way I am, and that that is gonna be where my superpower lies.Ableism as a concept really refers to the ways in which we organize society, and it implicates everybody.
We don’t talk about what it means when you scale the mountain, and you think you’ve arrived at what is the summit or the peak, when in fact that’s just base camp of yet another mountain to climb.
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