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January 21st, 2010

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Disability in Rwanda

By abby jean on 21 January, 2010

Nobody knows how many people with disabilities there are in the world. In doing some basic research, I saw estimates ranging from 300 to 600 million. This is partly a definitional issue – it’s hard to get people to agree what “disabled” means – but mostly is because nobody has ever tried to figure it [...]

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Recommended Reading for January 21st

By lauredhel on 21 January, 2010

Warning: Offsite links are not safe spaces. Articles and comments in the links may contain ableist, sexist, and other -ist language of varying intensity. Opinions expressed in the articles may not reflect the opinions held by the compiler of the post. I attempt to provide extra warnings for certain material present in articles, but your [...]

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Call for Submissions is out for Disability Blog Carnival #63: Relationships

By lauredhel on 21 January, 2010

The call for submissions is out for the 63rd disability blog carnival, which will be held at the Dreamwidth disability community. PWD and allies are welcome to submit. The theme is “relationships”. Avendya explains: This does not necessarily mean romantic relationships – how has your disability affected your relationship with your family? How do you [...]

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FWD’s New Look

By s.e. smith on 21 January, 2010

Thanks to lots of hard work on the part of Viv, FWD/Forward has a new look, as you can probably tell! As with all projects of this nature, it’s hard to tell how things will work out until we set them loose in the wild. So, it’s important to note that things are still very [...]

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