By Anna on 1 April, 2010
Shit I Hate: Models as the Face of ED Survivorhood Let me be clear – I do not hate models who are suffering from eating disorders, have come out as ED sufferers or survivors, or who have turned to advocate for other sufferers. That is a good thing to do, it comes from a place [...]
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By Anna on 31 March, 2010
One the arguments about why it is difficult to center the voices of women with disabilities seems to be that there just aren’t that many of us writing. Or maybe we don’t write in an easy-to-understand way. Or maybe we don’t write in a way that’s clear to people are currently non-disabled. Or maybe there just aren’t that many of us writing, so finding a good example of writing by women with disabilities to highlight is just very difficult.
Or so I’ve been told.
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By Anna on 31 March, 2010
Having an Answer: Yes ladies and gentleman there are people in the world of rehab and fitness who actually give a hoot about you the person not just you the underlying diagnosis. You just have to find the right people. And when you do, life just rocks a little bit more. I hate to write [...]
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By Anna on 30 March, 2010
The Summer of Nadia I remember the doctor talking about my diagnosis that day in the summer of Nadia, and what would likely happen. Terms like “swan-necked fingers” and “hammer toes” were thrown around. I remember he never looked at me as he spoke, though he used my various body parts to demonstrate. Nor did [...]
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By Anna on 30 March, 2010
The reason I don’t like the methods that McCarthy is advocating for are, at the heart, simply this: I think it harms parents of children born with disabilities, and I think it harms people with disabilities.
I want to start with parents of children who are born with disabilities, and then will talk about the harms to children born with disabilities (and the adults they become) in a later post.
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By Anna on 29 March, 2010
Anna’s note: Hi! I’m going to be included a link or two a day for the next couple of weeks that isn’t explicitly related to disability. I will also be increasing the number of links I put up a day – you may have noted that I lean towards 5 as my number – so [...]
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By Anna on 26 March, 2010
I’ve spent a lot of time over the past few weeks advocating with various people about issues regarding students with disabilities. (You may have noticed an upswing in posts from me about exactly this – now you know why.) Part of that has involved asking pointed questions about students with disabilities, and some of it [...]
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By Anna on 25 March, 2010
Some reasons to provide transcripts Transcripts are often framed as an accessibility issue for people who are Deaf or hard of hearing. This is certainly the case; if you post a video or audio clip without a transcript or captions, people who are Deaf or hard of hearing will not be able to access it. [...]
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By Anna on 24 March, 2010
Vaginismus and biofeedback on Dr. Oz Unlike a few months ago when Dr. Oz did vulvodynia, this time he did not have a representative from a vaginsimus awareness organization on the show. Perhaps this is because there is no such nationally recognized vaginismus organization (that I’m aware of,) as there is with the National Vulvodynia [...]
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By Anna on 24 March, 2010
Ada Lovelace Day is a celebration of women inventors & women in the sciences. It is also a poorly-disguised excuse for me to history geek at everyone around me, since, of course, we can celebrate awesome scientists both past & present. I know that this list is fairly quick & dirty – the history of [...]
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