June 2010
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By abby jean on 27 June, 2010
Ezra Klein, a columnist in the Washington Post who focuses on United States health policy, recently wrote a post about electronic medical records, arguing that it is absurd that we have not yet adopted their use: The fact that it’s 2010 and we’re having a conversation about how to move records from paper to computers [...]
Posted in policy
By abby jean on 26 June, 2010
I recently came across a news article about a lawsuit by several d/Deaf or hard of hearing people who were denied interpreter services in emergency rooms. It sounds both infuriating and terrifying: One deaf hospital patient in Jacksonville Beach said she was given a stuffed monkey instead of the sign-language interpreter she requested for hours. [...]
Posted in accessibility, activism, disability activism, intersectionality, medical practice, race
By s.e. smith on 25 June, 2010
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 the opinions held by the compiler of the post and links are provided as topics of interest and exploration only. I [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged Arkansas, discrimination, enfranchisement, Europe, human rights, institutionalisation, language, law, new york, nothing about us without us, Vietnam, voting
By Annaham on 25 June, 2010
[Warning for possibly triggering content regarding mental health, specifically depression.] I’ve been reading a fair number of how-to creativity books (yeah, I know, creativity is not something you can “learn” from a book) recently in preparation for a long-term project, and one thing I have noticed about some of these books–and a lot of the [...]
Posted in art, bad advice, creative work, mental health | Tagged art, creative work, creative writing, depression, inner critic, mental health, mental illness, social treatment
By abby jean on 25 June, 2010
When I first saw this post on the ACLU’s blog about solitary confinement for juvenile girls in criminal detention, I was so horrified that I opened it in a tab and then couldn’t look at it again for several days. When I read through the entire post, I cried. I believe that when the United [...]
Posted in age, autonomy, justice, mental health, resistance
By s.e. smith on 24 June, 2010
I wrote recently here about the abuse of autistic students in Pennsylvania, and highlighted the fact that abusive ‘discipline’ is distressingly common for disabled students. In the interests of writing a post that for once does not need a content warning, I’m going to refrain from providing details of the kinds of actions that are [...]
Posted in events | Tagged disabled students, education
By abby jean on 24 June, 2010
Static Nonsense at I am Not – Exceptionally Creative [discussing the new study concluding that creativity and schizophrenia are related] Awareness, be it of mental illness or physical disability, includes all of the effects, not just positive or negative. To ignore one in favor of the other strips the depth from the experience, and strains [...]
Posted in recommended reading
By Annaham on 24 June, 2010
Here’s the scoop: Despite the fact that I am sort of a cartoonist and “into” graphic art, I am, sadly, not totally on the up-and-up when it comes to comics and graphic novels! So, I need recommendations from you fine FWD commenters for a project that I will be starting on rather soon. I am [...]
Posted in art, books, creative work, media and pop culture, meta | Tagged art, biography, comics, creative work, reading
By kaninchenzero on 23 June, 2010
My [biggest] fandom is White Wolf’s Exalted. I’ve complained about it before and I’ll complain about it again. I build characters because it’s fun and I often spend a lot of time working at it trying to make a person rather than a collection of attributes. Right now I’m working on a character who I [...]
Posted in accessibility, creative work, i'm right here, intersectionality, language, othering, representations, social attitudes | Tagged ableism, exclusion, media and pop culture, problematic attitudes, social treatment
By s.e. smith on 23 June, 2010
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 the opinions held by the compiler of the post and links are provided as topics of interest and exploration only. I [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged art, creative work, disabled actors, disabled students, education, mental health, Sign, signal boost
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