{"id":4924,"date":"2022-02-25T16:13:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T15:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svjmedia.nl\/internationaljournalism\/?p=4924"},"modified":"2022-03-21T13:30:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T12:30:59","slug":"disability-the-forgotten-checkmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svjmedia.nl\/internationaljournalism\/4924\/disability-the-forgotten-checkmark\/","title":{"rendered":"Disability: the forgotten checkmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Do you want to be at the top of society? Then you have to be: white, male, university educated etc. etc.. At least according to the theory Dutch journalist Joris Luyendijk describes in his book about privilege: <em>The Seven Checkmarks<\/em>. However, within his story he forgets a major aspect: the privilege of not being disabled. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Luyendijk\u2019s book has been one of the more controversial topics in Dutch media since the start of 2022. In summary: Luyendijk wrote a book about the theory of \u2018the seven checkmarks\u2019 which indicate your privilege. You have to be white, male, straight, university educated, have at least one Dutch parent and one highly educated parent and have had classical education in high school. If you can tick off all of these checkmarks, you are the most privileged, according to Luyendijk. However, a similar theory has existed for a long time under the name: intersectionality. A lot of people don\u2019t agree with Luyendijk telling this story and subsequently taking the focus away from the Black women who invented it, because Luyendijk is a \u2018seven-checkmark\u2019 person himself.<\/p>\n\n\n[aesop_quote  type=&#8221;block&#8221; background=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; text=&#8221;#646262&#8243; width=&#8221;50%&#8221; align=&#8221;left&#8221; size=&#8221;1&#8243; quote=&#8221;&#034;Disabled people being forgotten is almost the default&#034;&#8221; cite=&#8221;Lisa Jansen&#8221; parallax=&#8221;off&#8221; direction=&#8221;left&#8221; revealfx=&#8221;off&#8221;]\n<p>Another point of criticism that hasn\u2019t come to attention as much, is that Luyendijks list isn\u2019t complete. There are a lot of other aspects that play a part in privilege, for example: having a disability. \u201cI almost cracked up when I read about it, as a sort of coping mechanism,\u201d Lisa Jansen, speaker, activist and co-founder of Studio Stoofpot, says. \u201cIt\u2019s not funny, but it makes you think: \u2018Of course, again. How could I have thought we would be mentioned this time?\u2019 It makes me feel ready to fight but also sad and bitter.\u201d Jansen, a disabled person herself, isn\u2019t surprised that this aspect didn\u2019t make the list. \u201cDisabled people being forgotten is almost the default. When people organize an event for example, they rarely think about access beforehand. The struggle is in the most regular and small things. You are always 0-1 behind, because society is not wired for you. It is a sort of invisible battle, that you mostly fight on an individual level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n[aesop_image  img=&#8221;https:\/\/svjmedia.nl\/internationaljournalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2022\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-02-21-at-10.39.12.jpeg&#8221; panorama=&#8221;off&#8221; imgwidth=&#8221;40%&#8221; credit=&#8221;Photo by: Lisa Jansen&#8221; align=&#8221;right&#8221; lightbox=&#8221;on&#8221; captionsrc=&#8221;custom&#8221; captionposition=&#8221;left&#8221; revealfx=&#8221;off&#8221; overlay_revealfx=&#8221;off&#8221;]\n\n<p>The Netherlands counts more than two million disabled people. According to research by <a href=\"https:\/\/handicap.nl\/blog\/handicaps-in-nederland-sterk-onderschat\/#:~:text=E%C3%A9n%20op%20de%20acht%20Nederlanders,lichte%20of%20ernstige%20verstandelijke%20beperking.\">HandicapNL<\/a>, 18 percent of the participants in their survey don\u2019t know how to act around psychically disabled people. With mentally disabled people, this percentage is 29. Jansen believes that this uncomfortableness with disability is one of the reasons why people overlook it so easily. Jansen: \u201cI think a lot of people are a little bit scared. They don\u2019t want to think about what would happen if they got sick or disabled, so they push it away.\u201d According to Jansen people think a healthy body is makable. \u201cBut it\u2019s not always like that, some handicaps can\u2019t be fixed by eating healthy, doing a work-out or taking medicine.\u201d Jansen is certain that being disabled should have been added to the list since it plays a big part in privilege, but the way you are treated as a disabled person also depends on a lot of other factors. \u201cWere you born that way or did you become disabled? Do you have a visible or invisible handicap? Are you a man or a woman or perhaps non-binary or genderqueer? Cisgender or transgender? Skinny or fat? Of colour, black, white?\u201d Jansen sums up. \u201cAll of these factors come into play.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[aesop_quote  type=&#8221;block&#8221; background=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; text=&#8221;#646262&#8243; width=&#8221;50%&#8221; height=&#8221;200px&#8221; align=&#8221;left&#8221; size=&#8221;1&#8243; quote=&#8221;&#034;Let disabled people take the lead\u201d&#8221; cite=&#8221;Lisa Jansen&#8221; parallax=&#8221;off&#8221; direction=&#8221;left&#8221; revealfx=&#8221;off&#8221;]\n<p>To stand up for disabled people, you have to listen first, says Jansen. \u201cThere are already a lot of things written, recorded and made by disabled people to educate others. The only thing you have to do is listen.\u201d Jansen thinks that this would already make a lot of difference in making disabled people more visible: \u201cIt would be nice if people would take a more active part in being allies without talking over us. Let disabled people take the lead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Besides not being disabled as a \u2018checkmark\u2019, Jansen thinks a lot of other privileges could be added. \u201cThink about: being neurotypical (ed. not having autism, ADHD, dyslexia etc.) or being skinny. Things like that are always forgotten,\u201d thus Jansen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want to be at the top of society? Then you have to be: white, male, university educated etc. etc.. At least according to the theory Dutch journalist Joris Luyendijk describes in his book about privilege: The Seven Checkmarks. However, within his story he forgets a major aspect: the privilege of not being disabled. 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