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By s.e. smith on 21 July, 2010
As soon as I saw the headline ‘Local overcomes disabilities‘ pop up, I knew this article would be worthy of a ‘Today In Journalism’ feature at FWD, because, folks, this article has it all. I’m not going to blame Judy Sheridan, the author, for the title, because most journalists don’t write their own headlines1; the [...]
Posted in For Cereal?, language, media and pop culture | Tagged ableism, disability tropes
By s.e. smith on 11 July, 2010
Content note: This post discusses ableist humour that involves psychiatrisation and belittling of ADHD. There’s an oh-so-witty joke that has been making the rounds lately. It keeps popping up again and again, even at sites that I would expect to pass on this type of ‘humour.’ Amazingly, no one’s emailed a tip on it to [...]
Posted in For Cereal? | Tagged ableism, hipster ableism, online communities, social networking
By s.e. smith on 6 July, 2010
Ableist Word Profile is an ongoing FWD/Forward series in which we explore ableism and the way it manifests in language usage. Here’s what this series is about: Examining word origins, the way in which ableism is unconsciously reinforced, the power that language has. Here’s what this series is not about: Telling people which words they [...]
Posted in 101, Ableist Word Profile, identity, language | Tagged ableism, disability euphemisms, special, special needs
By Ouyang Dan on 1 July, 2010
Moderatrix Note: This is a post from my “Summer of Buffy” series (or “Season of Buffy” for my Southern Hemisphere friends, who want to be MONSTERS and have different seasons and ruin my pun, but you are my favourite people EVAH and I love you!), which I thought was appropriate for cross posting, due to [...]
Posted in intersectionality, media and pop culture, mental health, television | Tagged Buffy the Vampire Slayer, coping, death pisses Buffy off, depression, Joss Whedon, media and pop culture, mental health, mental illness, pop culture, television, When She Was Bad
By Anna on 18 June, 2010
People with disabilities/the disabled are not a collective group that all agree on anything. Asking what “the disabled” want or “the disabled” are doing is exactly like asking what “women” want and what “women” are doing. Women are individuals. Some of them are women with disabilities! We don’t all want the same things, but grouping everyone under the same umbrella, as though we are a Collective rather than Individuals With Opinions and Needs is… well, it’s pretty damned ableist, as well as being arrogant, ignorant, and irritating.
Posted in Ableist Word Profile, anna rants, i'm right here, identity, media and pop culture, normality, othering, representations
By Ouyang Dan on 12 June, 2010
[Trigger Warning for descriptions of violent thoughts of self harm] Oh, by now, faithful readers, you know where we are about to go. We are about to go on a little journey into my mind, the scary place that it is, where I open the floor to discussion about the ways that, once again! Stars [...]
Posted in intersectionality, language, media and pop culture, mental health, military, news, othering, oyd rants | Tagged ableism, i am not your metaphor, intersectionality, invisible disabilities, language, media and pop culture, mental health, mental illness, military, things people say, word use, words mean things
By abby jean on 28 May, 2010
Ableist Word Profile is an ongoing FWD/Forward series in which we explore ableism and the way it manifests in language usage. Here’s what this series is about: Examining word origins, the way in which ableism is unconsciously reinforced, the power that language has. Here’s what this series is not about: Telling people which words they [...]
Posted in Ableist Word Profile, blaming, justice, language, mental health, news, policy, politics, representations, shaming, social attitudes | Tagged abby rants
By Anna on 25 May, 2010
I get why people talk about language, and I agree that language is important. But I’m not giving cookies out for publicly declaring your ally-status by saying you won’t (or will try not to) use ableist language anymore. That’s a great first step. Now move on.
Posted in Ableist Word Profile, intersectionality, language, social attitudes
By Anna on 24 May, 2010
When someone writes something like “Wow, those anti-immigrant people are r#tarded idiots!” [I made this example up] or giggles about seeing Dick Cheney “wheelchair bound” because “it couldn’t happen to a more deserving person!” [I did not make this example up], I bring up the ableism, and my activity in the disability rights movement, as a way of reminding them that we’re here. We’re reading. We’re participating. And it’s more than a little-bit alienating to see social justice bloggers using our experiences and oppressions as their go-to for “insulting people we don’t agree with”.
Posted in Ableist Word Profile, intersectionality, language, social attitudes
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Fabulousness From the Comments
By Staff on 10 July, 2010
It has been entirely too long since we featured some awesome comments, and we have gotten some really good ones lately, so without further ado: AWV, on ‘Ableist Word Profile: Special‘: [snipped for brevity] In general, I guess I don’t get why we can’t just say disability. Like, why can’t special education just be called education [...]
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