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March 12th, 2010

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Chatterday! Open Thread.

By lauredhel on 12 March, 2010

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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QuickPress: E-Library for Women with Disabilities in Africa

By Anna on 12 March, 2010

I received this via a mailing list I’m part of. Check out http://www.nawwd.co.za for an e-Library developed to support Women with Disabilitiies in Africa In September 2009 the Secretariat of the African Decade of Persons with Disabilities (SADPD) commissioned Disability Action Research Team (DART) and CBR Education & Training for Empowerment (CREATE) to strengthen the [...]

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Dear Imprudence: Polydactyly and the Single Person

By s.e. smith on 12 March, 2010

The Dear Prudence column for 4 March included the following letter from a reader: Dear Prudie, I’m almost ready to settle down and have kids, but I have a bit of a problem. I was born with an extra toe on each foot and part of an extra finger. Surgery when I was 1 year [...]

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Recommended Reading

By lauredhel on 12 March, 2010

Since I couldn’t do a Rec Reading yesterday – my spoons were needed elsewhere – here’s a bumper edition for today. Warning: Offsite links are not safe spaces. Articles and comments in the links may contain ableist, sexist, and other -ist language and ideas of varying intensity. Opinions expressed in the articles may not reflect [...]

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QuickPress: Wheelchair Figure Skating

By Anna on 12 March, 2010

Watch it on YouTube! It’s a video of a pairs figure-skating routine where the male half of the pair is in a wheelchair, and it is awesome.

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