Guest Post: Staring Down Ableism

How We Talk About Bodies and Blemishes

This week we get to Leviticus 21—more specifically, to 21:16-24, which begins:

God spoke further to Moses: Speak to Aaron and say: No man of your offspring throughout the ages who has a

Ugh. The word is “defect”

shall be qualified to offer the food of his God.

It then goes down a list of disqualifying conditions—some of which are still highly stigmatized …