About lauredhel
Lauredhel is a forty-something Australian woman with a disability. As well as blogging about disability, her bloggy interests include feminism, reproductive justice, freedom from violence, the use and misuse of language, medical science, language and linguistics, her vegetable garden, and whatever else pops into her head.
Lauredhel also blogs at Hoyden About Town and at her dreamwidth journal, Selective and Arbitrary.
Website: http://hoydenabouttown.com
Contact: Lauredhel @ disabledfeminists.com
Posts by lauredhel
By lauredhel on 12 March, 2010
Since I couldn’t do a Rec Reading yesterday – my spoons were needed elsewhere – here’s a bumper edition for today.
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 [...]
Posted in recommended reading
By lauredhel on 11 March, 2010
So I stumble across this at Diabetes.co.uk: Mobility Scooters Can Increase Your Risk of Developing Daibetes and Heart Disease
“O really?”, thought I, “I wonder how well-controlled that scoldy little piece of disability panic was?” So I read on.
However, recent research suggests that mobility scooters can do more harm than good by heightening the risk of [...]
Posted in accessibility, autonomy, bad advice, blaming, i'm right here, medical practice | Tagged aids, american journal of cardiology, blood glucose, cohort, concern trolling, control, control gropup, decision-making, diabetes, disability, disability aids, discrimination, doctors' egos, funding, health, immobilisation, immobilization, independence, mobility, mobility scooter, newsflash, power trip, quality of life, risk, scooter, subsidy, we're right here
By lauredhel on 10 March, 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. I attempt to provide extra warnings for material like extreme violence/rape; however, [...]
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By lauredhel on 9 March, 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. I attempt to provide extra warnings for material like extreme violence/rape; however, [...]
Posted in recommended reading
By lauredhel on 9 March, 2010
In the USA, Black women have the highest mortality from breast cancer of any other group, despite the rate of diagnosis of breast cancer being highest in White women. Hispanic women have a lower breast cancer diagnosis incidence than either, but mortality rates are disproportionately high in Hispanic women also. Here are the CDC incidence [...]
Posted in accessibility, intersectionality, medical practice, poverty, race | Tagged black, bmj, breast cancer, cancer, cancer treatment, chemotherapy, delay, delays in treatment, hispanic, incidence, local recurrence, mortality, race, racism, radiotherapy, recurrence, recurrent, research, surgery, treatment, USA, white
By lauredhel on 8 March, 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. I attempt to provide extra warnings for material like extreme violence/rape; however, [...]
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By lauredhel on 5 March, 2010
This is our weekly Chatterday! open thread. Use this open thread to talk amongst yourselves: feel free to share a link, have a vent, or spread some joy.
What have you been reading or watching lately (remembering spoiler warnings)? What are you proud of this week? What’s made your teeth itch? What’s going on in [...]
Posted in chatterday
By lauredhel on 5 March, 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. I attempt to provide extra warnings for material like extreme violence/rape; however, [...]
Posted in recommended reading
By lauredhel on 4 March, 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. I attempt to provide extra warnings for material like extreme violence/rape; however, [...]
Posted in recommended reading
By lauredhel on 3 March, 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. I attempt to provide extra warnings for material like extreme violence/rape; however, [...]
Posted in recommended reading
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