Allie Pauld
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Sociology and sexuality graduate trying to change the world. Nothing more, Nothing less.
Montreal based disabled, LG[B]TQ+, Pro-Black Feminist.
You can find me at @allie.pauld on Instagram.
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Crip Love
So much about having a physical disability can feel like a toxic relationship one has with their body. Asking your body for more than it can give you, and resenting it, sometimes hating it for not complying. And I realize that at times I am the abusive one. It must not be easy for my body to live with me. To cohabitate with this person who pressures you, who makes you feel small, puts you in danger.
By Allie Pauld26 days ago in Poets
Universal Design Saves Lives. Content Warning.
Content Warning: Medical Assistance in Dying A month ago, on November 2nd, the Montreal mayoral race was concluded with as a winner Soraya Martinez Ferada. A key issue the main four parties discussed at length during their campaign was related to the housing crisis which has for many Quebecers gotten worse over the last few years. Whether that be on the news or at the Quebec Assembly, housing is discussed quite a lot, however, rarely do those conversations include the specific preoccupations of disabled renters.
By Allie Pauldabout a month ago in Humans
Confessions of a grieving disabled workaholic
My trip to San Francisco was supposed to be the greatest trip of my life. In some ways it was and in others it wasn’t. As I grow older, as my disability progresses and as my grief deepens, it sometimes feels like I’m constantly under attack. Like no place is safe for my body and no hands are safe for my heart. Grief is not something you overcome, it’s a tide you pray won’t crash onto you at the worst possible moment, and when it does, you learn to deal with it. Or at least I suppose, I’m not there yet.
By Allie Pauld5 months ago in Poets
Making Survival Accessible
Many have researched climate change and its impacts on the human experience as the state of the earth worsen. However, like many fields of study, the concept of intersectionality is often missing, meaning certain point of views are not included, such as the ones of people with disabilities. The text below will look at the reasons why disabled people are likely to be more vulnerable to the consequences of climate change, reasons such as the ableist vision of disability as fatal, and the overall deepening of already existing inequalities created by climate change. The text will also examine the way the Human rights of disabled people are likely to be affected as the situation worsen, specifically their right to food, shelter, safety, and movement.
By Allie Pauld4 years ago in Earth
The Racial Line and its Inhabitants
Religion in the Americas can hardly be separated from the concept of race since they are two of the pillars of the post-colonial societies created onto these lands. Anti-Blackness specifically as a long history in the United States and those beliefs were laced into Christian religions as well as in the tropes created to embody those racist myths about Black people. This essay will look at the ways the line between Blackness and Whiteness was handled by some religious denominations as well as by the justice system, giving a special attention to how the trope of The Tragic Mulatt* falls into it, considering mixed race bodies fall onto this line. Finally, I will also make links between the trope and certain religious groups.
By Allie Pauld4 years ago in The Swamp
5 things not to say to a disabled person
Being disabled and vocal about it brings people to respond to you differently. Non-disabled people, able-bodied people, usually have those things they say in hopes that they will make us feel better but very often, they miss they miss the point, completely. This text will bring up 5 things you should not say to disabled people. While I know I am not the only one because I have heard disabled people bring up some of those points before, feel free to take this with a grain of salt if that makes you feel better. Overall, I want you to think about the reasons why you say these things, what are your true intentions and hopefully you will understand why they are ableist.
By Allie Pauld4 years ago in Humans
The Brown copy and paste
One of the crucial parts of sexuality representation is the study of the people it actually includes. Black women being portrayed as hypersexual beings has been part of the White imaginary for a long time, this belief spreading onto many stereotypes such as the Jezebel. While those are old, they persist in our society, including films, through a remolding of those racist and misogynistic ideas. This essay will touch on the ways that, due to the limited representation of Black female sexuality in cinema, the few examples available could hold more weight, including the stereotypical ideas they contain, such as the resemblance to the Jezebel stereotype and how their ‘‘promiscuous’’ sexuality affects the rest of their life.
By Allie Pauld5 years ago in Viva
VIP: Very Inaccessible Places
Nightlife venues can be inaccessible in terms of architecture meaning they lack structures like enlarged doors, adapted bathrooms and sinks or elevators when the venue is not on the ground floor, but also when prejudices make it hard for people with reduced mobility to feel welcomed. Usually, both work hand in hand because the latter justifies the former and the former reinforces the latter in the mind of able-bodied people and disabled people alike. I am a disabled young woman in my early twenties and eventually I won’t be able to go out in Montreal because of how inaccessible it is for people with reduced mobility, but I already feel the impacts of this exclusion. The first is sexual and gender related, hindering the sexual and gender development of disabled young adults, especially young women, and the second is social, the strengthening of negative stereotypes about disabled people.
By Allie Pauld5 years ago in Longevity
Lana Del Rey and White Clumsiness. Top Story - May 2020.
I will start by saying that I absolutely love Lana. Discovering her discography in high school truly felt like an enlightenment, and her album Ultraviolence is, to this day, one of my favorite albums of all time. However, miss Lana dropped the ball a few days ago, severely. In an attempt to confront her critics and haters, she, in the eyes of many people, shaded a handful of female artists who are either Black, part Black, part of an ethnic minority or… Ariana Grande. While I don’t think her intention was to be racially insensitive, there were several missteps in her rant, and we will take a look at them in this piece.
By Allie Pauld6 years ago in The Swamp
