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More broadly anything to do with ableism in identity politics would be interesting as well.

I went to a uni student run disabilities conference. Being uni, rife with ID pol. Most of the time was spent fielding "anonymous" grievances because someone said something alphabet soup. One was someone getting seriously pissed when a younger woman with CP said she was tired of being viewed as asexual and wanted to be viewed as a sexual woman despite her disability. Complaint stated that the person needed "educating" about LGBT issues, as asexual people can be completely sexual. It ended with half of us leaving to run our own sessions because disability advocacy totally needs peer support to learn how to do this shit. There isn't as much of a "guide book" on this. If you were running the womens collective, there's almost a text book saying what events you should be doing, and the splits just come between rad v lib.