October 2010
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By s.e. smith on 31 October, 2010
A recent Ask Amy column featured a letter from a reader with a problem I suspect at least some FWD readers (and contributors) can sympathise with: Handling food allergies when you’re invited to a friend’s for dinner. Dear Amy: My neighbor recently hosted a very nice dinner party with food and entertainment. I attended and [...]
Posted in Dear Imprudence | Tagged Amy Dickinson, Ask Amy, entertaining, food allergies
By Anna on 30 October, 2010
So, share your thoughts! What books would you recommend? Do you see any books on this list that you want to gush about, or point out as a problem? Anything you’d love to discuss with other readers? Feel free to link reviews of the books (your own or someone else’s), especially if they specifically mention the disability-related aspect.
Posted in media and pop culture, reading list, representations | Tagged books, fiction, young adult books
By abby jean on 29 October, 2010
Hello! And welcome to Recommended Reading! Let’s start with the “stupid and outrageous shit” portion: Chicago Tribune – Parents told to leave disabled kids at shelters Indiana’s budget crunch has become so severe that some state workers have suggested leaving severely disabled people at homeless shelters if they can’t be cared for at home, parents [...]
Posted in recommended reading
By s.e. smith on 29 October, 2010
There’s been a significant push towards deinstitutionalisation in the United States over the last few years, in no small part due to the Olmstead decision, a major ruling by the Supreme Court that I discussed in a bit more detail here. Short version: Unnecessary confinement of people with disabilities has been deemed a civil rights violation. [...]
Posted in mental health, policy | Tagged deinstitutionalisation, Georgia, United States
By Annaham on 29 October, 2010
As s.e. wrote about in a post earlier this week, I am a cartoonist in addition to all the other crap that I do. I’ve been drawing (and writing) for most of my life, and finding the perfect pen has been something of a wild turkey-chase with mixed results. I know that an entire post [...]
Posted in comics, creative work, media and pop culture | Tagged art, artwork, cartooning, creative work, pens, writing
By Anna on 29 October, 2010
This actually went up a few days ago, and it is awesome. Sharon’s hosted the First Assistance Dog Blog Carnival at After Gadget. From the tremendous response of the AD blogging community, it seems as if I’m not the only one who is excited to share an AD “First” with our readers. In fact, the [...]
Posted in signal boost | Tagged assistance dog, carnival
By Guest on 28 October, 2010
Diane Shipley is a freelance writer obsessed with feminism, US TV, memoirs and pizza. She writes about those things and more at her blog, the imaginatively-named Diane Shipley Blogs (http://blog.dianeshipley.com) and is almost always on Twitter (username: @dianeshipley). You’re intelligent, personable, and get good grades. It might look like higher education is a given. But [...]
Posted in Education, guest post | Tagged accessibility, barriers to access, education, guest post, higher education, personal stories, university
By Ouyang Dan on 28 October, 2010
Readers beware! Not every link is a guaranteed trip to a safe space, and the commentary is not necessarily the opinions of myself or others here at FWD/Forward, but have been included to provide you with a variety of reading that is possibly relevant to your interests (or perhaps to mine). The comments in the [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged caregiver abuse, disability, drugs are bad mmm'kay, FSD, Kendra's Law
By Anna on 28 October, 2010
I think it would be awesome instead of telling me how much they cared, they’d show it. And one way of doing that would be subtitling their ads, so everyone can know what their message is.
Posted in accessibility, how to be accessible, invisibility, technology, television | Tagged accessibility, canada, canadian politics, captioning, closed captions, conservative party of canada, Deaf, disability, green party of canada, hard of hearing, invisible disability, liberal party of canada, NDP, new democratic party, political ads, subtitles, voting
By Anna on 27 October, 2010
The Chief Justice specifically focused on the case of Byron DeBassige, reading from the Toronto Star article I linked above. She went on to state that she believes that the police wouldn’t have shot DeBassige over two lemons and a knife had they known he was ill. In light of the other cases I’ve linked to, I don’t agree with her – in several of those cases the police were firmly and repeatedly told the person they killed was mentally ill. I don’t believe police officers as a whole have risen above the ableist prejudices that lead to psychophobia (fear of people with mental health conditions), simply because there’s been no real attempt in Canada to combat it.
Posted in autonomy, justice, policy, politics, violence | Tagged Ashley Smith, Beverley McLachlin, Byron DeBassige, canada, Howard Hyde, legal system, police violence, Reyal Jensen Jardine-Douglas, Robert Dziekanski, taser deaths
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