I worked with a wheelchair-bound, spastic, paralytic, cerebral palsy woman. She was my boss for most of last year in between tours. She doesn't speak – and she's a genius. She uses a laser-pointer attached to a visor to build a shorthand out of a letter-board, and the laser-pointer also works with a laptop. ... She's an activist for the sexuality of the disabled, and for the gay community in the disabled world and beyond. And the workshops she'd give to wheelchair-bound paralytics, without speaking ... were put on the blacklist for one of the Focus on the Family Christian-right groups. Her story and her courage in the face of this hateful world of evangelical Christian-right groups trying to demonize and criminalize sexuality and differently abled people – they think the disabled should be ... eunuchs, that they shouldn't have their own sexuality. "Failed State" made me think about organized religion, and the song ... talks about freeing yourself from that kind of bondage.
Quoting Thomas Barnett:
I worked with a wheelchair-bound, spastic, paralytic, cerebral palsy woman. She was my boss for most of last year in between tours. She doesn't speak – and she's a genius. She uses a laser-pointer attached to a visor to build a shorthand out of a letter-board, and the laser-pointer also works with a laptop. ... She's an activist for the sexuality of the disabled, and for the gay community in the disabled world and beyond. And the workshops she'd give to wheelchair-bound paralytics, without speaking ... were put on the blacklist for one of the Focus on the Family Christian-right groups. Her story and her courage in the face of this hateful world of evangelical Christian-right groups trying to demonize and criminalize sexuality and differently abled people – they think the disabled should be ... eunuchs, that they shouldn't have their own sexuality. "Failed State" made me think about organized religion, and the song ... talks about freeing yourself from that kind of bondage.