Disgust

Disgust is the emotion quietly weaponised against mothers—especially disabled mothers—who advocate too clearly, too often, or without the expected softness. It is the recoil beneath the smile, the clipped tone in the meeting, the refusal to respond to emails written in full sentences and moral clarity. In schools, disgust often replaces dialogue when a woman refuses to perform helplessness. When she insists that her child’s disability will not vanish. When she says, again and again, that temporary success is not recovery, and that support must be sustained. This tag gathers writing on the institutional and gendered politics of disgust—how it is aimed at those who speak too fluently, grieve too visibly, or arrive already knowing.