By Anna on 8 April, 2010
My point isn’t that people with disabilities need to use different words or that currently non-disabled people need to use different words. It’s that words come with context.
Posted in language, normality, social attitudes
By Anna on 8 April, 2010
Description: A white person’s right arm in a (self-described) terminator-esque arm brace. It has thick black straps supporting the upper arm, a huge dial on the elbow, and more thick straps on the lower arm Daily Access Irritations: The Moan Meme I thought I’d rant a little about the access irritations I encountered today. Today [...]
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By Anna on 7 April, 2010
Another short one today – the stuff in my personal life is ongoing. I’m sorry. The cost of art As I know that with Palmer’s projects and statements, there are things I might miss because I am able bodied, because I am privileged as Palmer is herself. I know that I have been made to [...]
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By Anna on 6 April, 2010
I was so pleased when s.e. brought Carolyn Hax’s advice to a grandparent of an autistic girl to my attention. Here’s a clip of the letter Carolyn is responding to: The mother of my grandgirls is making life a problem. The middle girl is extremely autistic and has not been taught the social rules we [...]
Posted in Dear Imprudence
By Anna on 6 April, 2010
I’m sorry this is short today – something came up in my personal life. Assumptions: Unfair & Not Unfair This is an ethics professor discussing the ethics of caring for patients whose injuries were, in our view as physicians, “brought upon themselves”, or for patients whom we don’t necessarily like. Racist, Sexist, and Homophobic I [...]
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By Anna on 5 April, 2010
Are you, or have you been, a post-secondary student with a disability? What have been your experiences with navigating your institution as a disabled student? Is/was there a Student Accessibility Services office, and how effective were they in assisting you? If you are willing to talk about what happened – good or bad – please [...]
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By Anna on 5 April, 2010
But children are very aware of the pressure to be normal. And when people like Jenny McCarthy and her ilk push “cures” for disability out there, not only are parents asked why they aren’t administering these cures, children are, either directly or indirectly, asked why they aren’t cured, too.
Posted in bodies, normality, social attitudes | Tagged family, family dynamics
By Anna on 5 April, 2010
The number of times I see a person with a disability in pop culture with some form of super-power versus the number of times I’ve seen someone with a disability portrayed somewhat realistically is… Well, there isn’t really a lot of the latter, and there sure is a lot of the former.
Posted in media and pop culture
By Anna on 5 April, 2010
Power The media world hasn’t stopped writing bad articles about disability in general and disability and dance in particular. I will run right over the next person who uses the “inspiring” word. There have been some truly shocking things — things that should call us as moral humans to action — but for some reason, [...]
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By Anna on 2 April, 2010
Accessible Information is Understandable You can present information in Braille, large print, Sign Language, or easy read, but it will still be useless if it cannot be understood. Once again we are talking about clear and straightforward communication, familiar language, jargon free text and information that is well structured and easy to follow. This is [...]
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