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Ableist Word Profile: Weak

By s.e. smith on 2 November, 2009

Welcome to Ableist Word Profile, a (probably intermittent) series in which staffers will profile various ableist words, talk about how they are used, and talk about how to stop using them. Ableism is not feminism, so it’s important to talk about how to eradicate ableist language from our vocabularies. This post is marked 101, which [...]

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Friendly Reminder: Disability Carnival!

By Anna on 2 November, 2009

Just your weekly reminder that we’ll be hosting the 60th Disability Blog Carnival here at FWD/Forward on November 19th. Our optional theme is Intersectionality – how does identifying as being disabled intersect with being a woman? With being queer? With being of colour? With all of those things? Of course, feel free to submit other [...]

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Invisible Illness and Disability Bingo 1.0

Invisible Illness and Disability Bingo 1.0

By Annaham on 2 November, 2009

Author’s note: This is a revised version of a bingo card that I made some time ago. While I don’t feel like I should be required to justify the lowermost right square, there was some confusion and pretty ooky pushback when I posted version 1 on my own blog. I’ll explain that square anyway, for [...]

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Recommended Reading for November 2

By Anna on 2 November, 2009

Recommended reading for November 2, 2009

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The Invisible Disability

By Ouyang Dan on 2 November, 2009

Moderatrix Note: Originally posted at random babble… on 15 September 2009.  At the time the movie was just out over the previous summer. Because of the new movie that is out I am currently re-reading Jodi Piccoult’s My Sister’s Keeper.  I read it about five years ago, but I read that the screenwriter for the [...]

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