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Guest Post From Jesse the K: 20 Years and a Day for the Americans with Disabilities Act

By Guest on 30 July, 2010

Jesse the K hopes you can take a disabled feminist to tea this month. I’d hoped to have a delicious thinky post about the difference 20 years of the Americans with Disabilities Act has made for the world, the nation, the state, and me. Meditating on those topics proved so depressing I didn’t even leave [...]

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If CNN Won’t Do It, I Guess I Will: Transcripts of CNN’s ADA Coverage

By s.e. smith on 30 July, 2010

As I discussed yesterday, CNN apparently doesn’t think captioning online content is important. When that content is coverage of the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, that’s pretty offensive. Since CNN hasn’t responded to repeated requests for captioning, I decided to help them out with full transcripts of their content. I know they’re [...]

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Recommended Reading for 30 July 2010

By Ouyang Dan on 30 July, 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 [...]

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Book Review: Wicked by Gregory Maguire

By Chally on 30 July, 2010

[Cross-posted at Zero at the Bone.] This post is about the book version of Wicked, not the musical (they’re quite dissimilar). There’s one minor spoiler for the musical, and I’ve tried to minimise the spoilers about the book, though this is a book review so watch out! Wicked is concerned with the story of the [...]

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