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Midterm Project-- Our Natural Limits: Disability and the Environment

By calmelephant
March 20, 2025 - 10:17
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Hey everyone! This is the URL to the website I created for the midterm project: https://sites.google.com/haverford.edu/our-natural-limits/disability-and-the-environment

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Submitted by adancerwhocandance on March 20, 2025 - 13:49

Dear calmelephant,

I really enjoyed reading your revolution of environmental sustainability being an approach for disability justice and sustaining our bodyminds by valuing disabled bodyminds, acknowledging and valuing our limitations. This kind of topic is very important especially with how people think activism should be approached and what being active is. Also, your use of the website was very well done and accessible. 

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Submitted by meals on March 24, 2025 - 20:44

Thank you so much for this rich resource! I love how you reference the 10 priniciples of disability justice both excplitily (discussing sustainability) and implicitly (in the project's practice of intersectionality between environmental justice and disability justice). I thought your point on the myth of the perfect sustainable lifestyle was particularly insightful. I liked how you highlighted the "idealized" nature of such a lifestyle because it reminded me of our conversation earlier on in the semester on how disability has often been defined against the myth of the "ideal" body. Additionally, this environmental "perfectionism" is something I have encountered in many environmental activist spaces. While it comes from a good place, and I believe that it's important to hold your peers accountable, I often feel as though this sustianability competition keeps the goals of environmentalism narrow, and keeps the movement highly inaccessable.