By Annaham on 18 October, 2009
[Author's note: I'd been meaning to submit this piece somewhere since earlier this year, but never got around to it. I know we're almost finished with 2009--so focusing on a charity calendar may seem a bit old meme, at least in internet time--but some of the issues that this campaign raises are, as they say, [...]
Posted in bodies, feminism, intersectionality, media and pop culture, normality, Uncategorized | Tagged body image, chronic pain conditions, feminism, fibromyalgia, media and pop culture
By s.e. smith on 18 October, 2009
abby jean’s post, “How Do We Understand This Experience?,” spun my brain off on a tangent about how disability issues are framed in the media and pop culture. Specifically, I read her post and then picked up a book I was in the process of reading and I came across the line “I couldn’t breathe. [...]
Posted in language, media and pop culture | Tagged disability in fiction, word use
By Staff on 18 October, 2009
Readers may have noted today that the appearance of the site shifted around a bit (often between loading pages, in some cases). That’s because we’re working on making the text size more accessible, as part of our overall commitment to accessibility at FWD/Forward. To that end, we’ve implemented two changes which matter to readers: There [...]
Posted in administrivia
By Chally on 18 October, 2009
A few months ago, there was a wonderful conversation in the blogosphere about gender presentation and disability. Jumping off from bfp’s what is butch? (check out the comments for some interesting disability discussion) a range of commenters and bloggers had something to say, and it evolved to have a strong disability focus. Here are extracts [...]
Posted in bodies, intersectionality | Tagged disability, gender presentation
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