Why we are angry: What is in a Skiza tune?
Fuck your ableism!Series ‘Hello, the girl they asked for her hand in marriage for you is physically disabled. You have not seen her she is physically disabled on one side. Oh my God, they have asked for a bad girl’s hand in marriage for you.’ This is a loose translation of a Skiza tune by Abbas Comic, a comedian from the Borana Community. Skiza tunes refer to a service from mobile phone companies where a caller is entertained with some tunes/messaging before a call is picked up or disconnected. In this particular Skiza tune by Abbas Comic, and in what is supposed to be humour, the Comedian is telling a story of a woman with disability whose hand in marriage has been sought. How this is expressed is supposed to come out as humour and express a shock reaction, that, ‘Oh my God, the girl that you are going to marry is a bad girl’. Violence towards girls and women with disabilities is not new to us as women with disabilities. It is getting increasingly visible more so in on