August 2010
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By Ouyang Dan on 31 August, 2010
Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth series, recommended to me by The Guy, my partner of several years now, whom I thought loved me, seemed innocuous enough. I thought it a simple fantasy series woven with a love story (“woven” here should read more like a nice cudgel to the head), which I was looking for. [...]
Posted in books, disability activism, intersectionality, oyd rants, representations | Tagged ableism, Adie, Ayn Rand Lite, blind characters, books, disability, intersectionality, media and pop culture, myths and misconceptions, Objectivsm, OYD Book Reviews, pop culture, problematic attitudes, Sword of Truth series, Terry Goodkind
By Annaham on 31 August, 2010
Pamela Paul for the New York Times: Can Preschoolers be Depressed? In the winter of 2009, when Kiran was 5, his parents were told that he had preschool depression, sometimes referred to as “early-onset depression.” He was entered into a research study at the Early Emotional Development Program at Washington University Medical School in St. [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged children with disabilities, depression, disabled parents, gender, media and pop culture, medical care, medicine, mental health concerns, parents with disabilities, representations, sex, sexuality
By s.e. smith on 31 August, 2010
A reader wrote in to ‘Since you asked…’ on Salon last month about her 90 year old mother; I’m going to summarise her letter, because it’s a bit long. The letter writer’s mother has some health conditions and is living independently with a little bit of assistance from the family, but has recently been diagnosed [...]
Posted in age, autonomy, Dear Imprudence | Tagged Cary Tennis, declining medical treatment, older adults, since you asked
By Ouyang Dan on 30 August, 2010
I received an email from my Primary Care Manager the other day. She responded to my message that I needed refills even though it wasn’t time for me to come back in for a visit yet to let me know she had arranged for all of my scripts. At the end was something that winds [...]
Posted in life changes, military, oyd rants | Tagged bad sports metaphors, chronic illness, chronic pain, chronic pain conditions, disability, health care is an accessibility issue, military, pain management
By Ouyang Dan on 30 August, 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 ableism, abuse, accessibility, barriers to access, disability, exclusion, gaming, intersectionality, media and pop culture, myths and misconceptions, privilege, problematic attitudes, service animals, social treatment, things people say
By Staff on 30 August, 2010
Disclaimer: None of the jobs in these round-ups are endorsed by anyone at FWD. We can’t answer any questions about them. United States: The Perkins Institute for the Blind has a list of job opportunities. The ones that specifically came to my attention were Director, Perkins International Program and Director of International Resource Development. Hungary: [...]
Posted in job roundup
By Ouyang Dan on 29 August, 2010
Astrid, of Astrid’s Journal, has agreed after much consideration to host the September edition of the Disability Blog Carnival, and we at FWD/Forward are enthusiastic to support that decision! Astrid has chosen the theme “Identity”: Think of it as broadly as you want. Posts relating to transforming identities, are of course especially welcome, as they [...]
Posted in disability activism, Event Roundups, identity, intersectionality, signal boost | Tagged blog carnival, disability blog carnival, identity, intersectionality
By Ouyang Dan on 29 August, 2010
Reader Astrid informs me that The Disability Blog Carnival is up and on the go for August at Brilliant Mind, Broken Body, courtesy of Kali. This Month’s theme is “distance”: I think distance is an interesting concept because we use the same word to mean so many different things – the space between ideas, the [...]
Posted in disability activism, Event Roundups, signal boost | Tagged blog carnival, disability blog carnival
By Annaham on 28 August, 2010
I consider myself to be a dyed-in-the-wool liberal, at least in the way that the term is commonly defined in the United States. Hesitant as I am to list all of my “liberal” qualifications, let’s just get some things out of the way: I am unapologetically feminist, pro-LGBQTIA rights, and am actively working to be [...]
Posted in 101, normality, othering, politics | Tagged abled privilege, color me unsurprised, it's about you, liberal ableism, privilege, privilege-check
By s.e. smith on 27 August, 2010
This week’s livechat with Prudence featured a question that seems to crop up endlessly, like, pretty much whenever a person with a disabled parking placard pulls up to a parking space and gets out of ou car: Q. Parking Lot Etiquette: I live in an apartment that overlooks the building’s handicapped parking spots. I have [...]
Posted in 101, Dear Imprudence | Tagged Dear Prudence, disabled parking, Emily Yoffe, parking, policing
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