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By Anna on 22 December, 2010
Hi All! My laptop is broken, woe, and thus I am more scattered than even the last month might lead you to believe. (Repair will take a few days, I haven’t lost anything important, and it won’t even cost much to fix, so don’t fret!) Hand to Mouth: Lilliput touchscreen monitor review: a pleasant surprise [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged accessible tech, activism, autism, childbirth, fucking meds, medication, protest, rants, tech review, UK, uk uncuts
By Anna on 20 December, 2010
Oh, happy day. They were testing the fire alarms in my building. For two hours. Yes, they work. I have no idea how Don slept through them. Also, this is going to be a bit of a massive edition of Recommended Reading because I have open many many tabs and want to close them. Bipolar [...]
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By Anna on 16 December, 2010
Talulah Mankiller at Life Under a Rock: Just the Facts, Ma’am (via Kiri) (post mentions domestic violence but doesn’t describe) Even when I was very sick and had no idea what was wrong, I always had two versions of reality in my head: what I logically knew was actually probably going on, and what I [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged abuse, australia, crazy, deaf-blind, depression, kentish sign language, kiri brings the awesome, mental health condition, neglect, Sign Language, violence
By Anna on 15 December, 2010
Jody McIntyre: Student Protests, Part Three From the corner of my eye, I spotted one of the policemen from the earlier incident. He recognised me immediately. Officer KF936 came charging towards me. Tipping the wheelchair to the side, he pushed me onto the concrete, before grabbing my arms and dragging me across the road. The [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged abuse, Disability Living Allowance, DLA, institutions, irish sign language, jody mcintyre, mexico, police abuse, UK, uk protests
By Anna on 15 December, 2010
We mentioned this when the first Call came out for proposals, but I wanted to mention it again because I think it’s a good opportunity for the “new generation” of people with disabilities to get their thoughts and voices out there. (Also, I want to read it when it is done, so people submitting to [...]
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By Anna on 14 December, 2010
Interviewer: There’s a suggestion that you were rolling towards the police in your wheelchair. Is that true?
JM: I think justifying a police officer pulling a disabled person out of a wheelchair and dragging them across a concrete road is quite ridiculous and I’m surprised that you’ve just tried to do so.
Interview: So that’s not true, you were not wheeling yourself towards the police.
JM: Well I can’t physically use my wheelchair myself. My brother was pushing me. I think it’s quite obvious from the footage that I was 100% not a threat to anyone.
Posted in activism, blaming, media and pop culture, news, resistance, Videos, violence | Tagged budget cuts, cuts, jody mcintyre, police violence, transcript, tuition increase, UK
By Anna on 13 December, 2010
You are Here: Safety Haiku: Automatic Captions This is the reason why you should not send me breathless, excited emails about the wonders of automated speech-to-text. You see the “CC” button and you think you and I will both enjoy the same media. This is what I actually get. (On the other hand, in a [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged abuse of people with disabilities, auto-captions, birth stories, Deaf, Disability Living Allowance, DLA, everything in the UK is going to hell, hard of hearing, history, history of lobotomy, howard dully, lobotomies, marfan syndrome, mocking autocaptions because they're terrible, subtitles, UK
By Anna on 9 December, 2010
I suppose this is technically correct. Howard’s death was not because he was mentally ill, his death was because the police were ill-equipped to deal with someone having a mental health crisis. I don’t have statistics about the number of men having mental health crises that are murdered by police officers every year, but I do know that I can’t go a whole month without at least one report, and it’s an issue that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada feels needs to be addressed.
Posted in blaming, deaths, justice, news, politics, social attitudes, violence | Tagged abuse, canada, halifax, Howard Hyde, hyde inquiry, mental health, murder, nova scotia, police violence, schizophrenia
By Anna on 9 December, 2010
I hate this time of year because I live in the Northern Hemisphere and it’s dark really early. At least we’ve been avoiding the snow-dumps I hear are all over central Canada, but it’s only a matter of time. Civil Rights Now!: Civil Rights Now! speech at Dec10 CLAS Forum on UN Convention on the [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged abuse, autism, British Columbia, canada, civil rights now!, DLA, heating costs, UK
By Anna on 8 December, 2010
My hearing has finally recovered! Now I know why I was sleeping so much – I couldn’t hear all the construction starting up at 7 a.m. *sigh* Arbitrary Constant: DLA reform consultation: Great Expectations, Word Apprehensions The coalition government today published its consultation on the reform of Disability Living Allowance (DLA). The headline is that [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged ASL video, cognitive disabilities, Deaf, DLA, hearing, include me, inclusion, It Gets Better, ORAD, UK
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