Posts by abby jean
By abby jean on 21 June, 2010
From a post at Change.org: According to a study (pdf) by the Commonwealth Fund, in 2007, 33 percent of working-age women, compared to 25 percent of men, faced medical bills that left them unable to pay for food, rent or heat; caused them to take out a mortgage on their home or take on credit card [...]
Posted in class issues, feminism, gender, intersectionality, policy, poverty
By abby jean on 21 June, 2010
Brine and Kath traveled from Land’s End, England, at the very southern tip of the UK, to John O’Groats, at the very northern tip of Scotland, the two settlements in Britain that are furthest apart, by hand-pedaled wheelchair and bike, arriving in John O’Groats on the summer solstice. A Voice For Neli [this site is [...]
Posted in accessibility, autonomy, language, mental health, news
By abby jean on 18 June, 2010
Via a Facebook friend: ~~~Discussion and Writing Group for Women of Color Living with Disabilities ~~~ We are two women of color* living with disabling chronic illness. We want to connect with others women of color who are living with disabilities in the greater Seattle area to talk and write about our experiences. Being women [...]
Posted in race | Tagged seattle, washington, writing group
By abby jean on 17 June, 2010
Building on what Chally talked about in her post about doing fine, I wanted to discuss some of the disability aspects of my recent semi-absence. Sometimes I feel like thinking about, reading about, writing about, arguing about, disability issues can become overwhelming for me. I feel that there are so many problems – ableist policies [...]
Posted in activism, disability activism, domestic violence, For Cereal?, identity, intersectionality, introspective, invisibility, mental health | Tagged argh, grr
By abby jean on 10 June, 2010
As people may have noticed, I’ve been a bit quiet lately, mainly due to being totally snowed in and overwhelmed at work. I’ve had a major project with a hard deadline and have been devoting nearly every waking moment to either working about it or just worrying about it. That worry and constant fretting is [...]
Posted in identity, introspective, mental health, work | Tagged advantages, anxiety
By abby jean on 3 June, 2010
Service puppies in training!! Miami Herald – Embedded therapists protect National Guard members’ mental health Roger Duke is a Vietnam veteran, a retired Marine lieutenant colonel and a licensed marriage and family therapist. Since 2006, he’s spent at least one weekend a month embedded with a California National Guard unit. Duke, 57, wasn’t deployed with [...]
Posted in class issues, mental health, military, news, policy, recommended reading, Uncategorized | Tagged confusion, puppies
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 abby jean on 27 May, 2010
I mean, where does the time go?! Second-harmonic generation microscopy image of a primary cultured Aplysia neuron stained with the membrane dye DHPESBP. The signal is modulated by membrane potential and was found to be capable of recording action potentials with 0.6 µm and 0.833 msec spatiotemporal resolution. The high-resolution and deep tissue imaging capability [...]
Posted in class issues, global, intersectionality, news, recommended reading, Uncategorized
By abby jean on 22 May, 2010
I love looking at pictures of cute animals on the internet. Cats, dogs, monkeys, dolphins, turtles, otters – whatever. And I find that skimming through a few LOLcat macros during the workday can do wonders to perk up my mood or give me a smile before diving back into work. Which is part of why [...]
Posted in activism, For Cereal?, language, media and pop culture, mental health, representations
By abby jean on 20 May, 2010
“….” by mataikan, seen at binary canvas. Ghana News Agency – Mental Health System on the verge of collapse Dr Akwasi Osei, Chief Psychiatrist of the Ghana Health Service, on Monday said the mental health system would soon collapse if the Mental Health Bill was not passed to correct the abuses and injustices in mental [...]
Posted in activism, class issues, disability activism, intersectionality, justice, mental health, policy, politics, poverty
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