About Annaham
Annaham is a feminist with several disabilities who occasionally updates her personal blog-slash-cartoon-site. If you are so inclined, you can also check out her Tumblr. She lives in central California with her partner, and a silly little dog named Winston. She is currently getting her Master’s in Women and Gender Studies; her research interests include disability and cultural/social attitudes surrounding it, the body, gender, nontraditional media, art of all kinds, and social justice. You can reach her by emailing Annaham at disabledfeminists dot com. (Avatar art: dollhouse miniature ham with fruit by Kim Burke.)
Website: http://whotookthebomp.blogspot.com
Contact: Annaham @ disabledfeminists.com
Posts by Annaham
By Annaham on 24 July, 2010
To begin, rather pithily: I have had very mixed experiences with medical professionals throughout my life. Some have been fantastic. Some have been middle-of-the-road. And, as you might expect to hear from a person with a chronic pain condition, some have been absolutely awful. Recently, I had a fantastic experience in a consultation with the [...]
Posted in happy posts, medical practice, small stories, social attitudes | Tagged cerebral palsy, doctors, fibromyalgia, medical care, medications, pain management, personal stories, surgery
By Annaham on 21 July, 2010
Research has found that students of color, especially African-Americans, are disproportionately likely to be classified and labeled as learning disabled and placed in special education programs. This is especially the case for more subjective categories of disorder and disability, like emotional disturbance, rather than for medically diagnosable disabilities. The tendency to categorize students of color [...]
Posted in class issues, gender, intersectionality, Quotations, race | Tagged education, race, racism, school, special education
By Annaham on 20 July, 2010
Emily Bazelon at the New York Times Magazine: The New Abortion Providers This abortion-rights campaign, led by physicians themselves, is trying to recast doctors, changing them from a weak link of abortion to a strong one. Its leaders have built residency programs and fellowships at university hospitals, with the hope that, eventually, more and more [...]
Posted in recommended reading
By Annaham on 13 July, 2010
Problem Chylde at Feministe: Storytelling as a Radical Act They won’t speak out for fear of losing something: losing a relative, losing control of their lives, or losing their stories. To them, it’s not a myth that their stories will be repeated without their names to guide them. Anyone can pick up a textbook and [...]
Posted in activism, recommended reading | Tagged abnormal, activism, chronic pain, chronic pain conditions, creative work, dance, disability activism, equality, exercise, normal, normalcy, normality, race
By Annaham on 8 July, 2010
Director Matthew Galkin’s documentary Kevorkian (aired on HBO on June 28th; also available on YouTube; ETA: as codeman38 points out below, the YouTube version is, unfortunately, not closed-captioned) is one of those documentaries that I felt nervous about watching, mostly because I was extremely skeptical that it would be anything other than a massive apologia [...]
Posted in autonomy, bodies, deaths, media and pop culture, movies, othering, representations, social attitudes, television | Tagged assisted suicide, documentary, jack kevorkian, medical practice, medicine
By Annaham on 6 July, 2010
jadelennox (DW): How to fight ableism: some easy steps So I thought it might be valuable to gather together some ways in which able-bodied people can do something about ableism in the world. Then, next time a person is feeling frustrated about ableism, and is thinking about doing some signal boosting of, say, some crappy [...]
Posted in activism, bodies, media and pop culture, movies, race, recommended reading, representations, social attitudes, work | Tagged ability, ableism, accessibility, activism, advertising, conceptions of disability, disability, intersectionality, language, movies, personal stories, pop culture, privilege, protest, race, racism, social attitudes, social inclusion, writing
By Annaham on 2 July, 2010
I have dealt with disability, in various capacities, for my entire life — this started when I was born three months prematurely and was affected by cerebral palsy (left hemiplegia, if anyone really wants to know) as a result. I know what you might be thinking: You cannot possibly have CP, Annaham! CP is always [...]
Posted in bodies, i'm right here, identity, normality, othering, small stories | Tagged bodies, cerebral palsy, hemiplegia, movement, pride
By Annaham on 29 June, 2010
sasha_feather at access_fandom (DW): Institutionalized Access So for disabled people, suddenly the world is a lot harder to navigate because it is not designed for people with disabilities. It is designed for the “default” or unmarked human. This is a practical concern but it also sucks because it is discrimination. But this does not have [...]
Posted in recommended reading
By Annaham on 25 June, 2010
[Warning for possibly triggering content regarding mental health, specifically depression.] I’ve been reading a fair number of how-to creativity books (yeah, I know, creativity is not something you can “learn” from a book) recently in preparation for a long-term project, and one thing I have noticed about some of these books–and a lot of the [...]
Posted in art, bad advice, creative work, mental health | Tagged art, creative work, creative writing, depression, inner critic, mental health, mental illness, social treatment
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Question Time: Creativity
By Annaham on 29 July, 2010
Question Time is a series in which we open the floor up to you, commenters. We invite you to share as you feel comfortable. Do you do any creative things (artwork, web design, creative writing, photography, playing a musical instrument or instruments, crafts, knitting) for fun? If so, what are they, and what do you [...]
Posted in art, creative work, Question Time | Tagged art, comments, creative work, go commenters go!, question | 3 Responses