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10 Year Old Disabled Child Doused with Gasoline and Set on Fire by Classmates

October 7, 2016February 7, 2019

This story is so awful that I can’t quite process it exists. A child with a hearing aid and lisp was a frequent target of bullying in school in San Antonio. Then his classmates set him on fire. UPDATE: The other children are saying it was an accident. Please exercise care if you go read … Continue Reading10 Year Old Disabled Child Doused with Gasoline and Set on Fire by Classmates

Multiple Marginalization – Bullying of Disabled LGBT+ people.

February 3, 2016February 7, 2019

Shared by many of my friends, this is a sad, but important, articulation of the ways that oppressive forces intersect in individuals who have more than one marginalized identity. While over half of children who identify as LGBT have experienced homophobic, biphobic or transphobic bullying, this drastically increases among disabled LGBT people.A survey found that … Continue ReadingMultiple Marginalization – Bullying of Disabled LGBT+ people.