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Ableist language around mental health is everywhere. It feels like the one area of language where very little progress has been made.
The heading from the Junedays website is awful
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@atikusdesign Such language will be much harder to change than inaccessible websites.
Especially when global variations come into play. See: Lizzo and Beyoncé vs the non-US world recently. At least Lizzo apologised, though.
I’ve already formed a mental picture of the team who produced that heading. I’m not imagining any non-white or non-disabled people, or people from an under-privileged background. Of course, I could be wildly wrong, but that’s how it comes across to me.