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Accommodation is Not “Special Treatment”

By s.e. smith on 30 November, 2009

“Treat us like you would anyone else.” It’s a common catchphrase you hear in some spheres of disability rights activism when an able bodied person asks about how to behave around people with disabilities. Pretty simple, right? Treat us like you would anyone else. Acknowledge that we are human beings. That we have a right [...]

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Reading List: Mental Health Diversion Courts

By abby jean on 30 November, 2009

Yes, this looks like our daily Recommended Reading posts that Anna does for us every day – but it’s different. Reading List is a selection of links around a single issue or topic, as a start for those interested in exploring it further. The initial edition, on mental health diversion courts, was sparked when I [...]

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Recommended Reading for November 30

By Anna on 30 November, 2009

Recommended Reading for November 30, 2009

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Some Thoughts on The Time Traveler’s Wife

By Chally on 29 November, 2009

This post contains spoilers for the book and the film. The other day I went to see the film version of my favourite book, Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife. I was expecting a more gooey version of the book, and was a little apprehensive about the treatment of disability, but I wasn’t expecting what [...]

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Dear Imprudence: Getting It Right

By s.e. smith on 28 November, 2009

After our inaugural Dear Imprudence column, in which I called out some bad advice, I thought it might be nice to go to the other side of the spectrum, and check out some good advice offered up in an advice column. After all, advice columnists do get it right now and then. As it turns [...]

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“Cast Offs” – A Warning for Rape-threat Content

By lauredhel on 28 November, 2009

Cast Offs is a new British TV show. This scripted fake-reality show aims to spoof Survivor-type shows by placing six people with different disabilities (all physical or sensory) on an island. All are played by actors with a disability. The show also shows a series of flashbacks, with each episode focusing on one of the [...]

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I’m Not Supernatural, I’m Disabled

By s.e. smith on 27 November, 2009

(This post does not contain plot specific spoilers, beyond a very broad overview of the concept behind the Sookie Stackhouse novels and the characterization of Sookie Stackhouse.) I’ve loved the Sookie Stackhouse novels ever since a friend put one of them into my hot little hands because, well, it was hot and I was far [...]

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Chatterday! Open Thread. And planned outage on Monday.

By lauredhel on 27 November, 2009

This is our weekly Chatterday! open thread. Use this open thread to talk amongst yourselves: feel free to share a link, have a vent, or spread some joy. What have you been reading or watching lately (remembering spoiler warnings)? What are you proud of this week? What’s made your teeth itch? What’s going on in [...]

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Recommended Reading for November 27

By Anna on 27 November, 2009

via Elizabeth Kissling at re:Cycling: Mental Illness in Academe The first question you must ask yourself is whether to tell your chair and dean. I can think of arguments both in favor of that, and against. One of the pluses would be the psychological benefits of not having a secret and being able to be [...]

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QuickPress: “Success” of Automatic Captioning on YouTube

By Anna on 27 November, 2009

It is, of course, new technology, so we’ll see what happens in the future, but check this picture from Codeman38: Description: A screen capture of a YouTube vid showing a person rock climbing. The auto caption reads: “for doing what I mean as well as democrats”. Codeman38 has captioned it: Google auto-caption fail. What was [...]

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