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By Anna on 28 February, 2010
I should have mentioned earlier! For the second year in a row, the Con_or_Bust fundraiser is running. Organized by Kate Nepveu, it’s a fundraiser to help fen of colour make it to WisCon, the world’s largest Feminist Science Fiction/Fantasy Convention. Learn more about the fundraising auction. How fen of colour can request assistance. The auction [...]
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By Anna on 26 February, 2010
“Supporting access to post-secondary education and employment for students with disabilities” All Abilities Awareness Week will take place at McMaster University, The Pulse centre, from March 1st to March 5th. The week has been designed to promote active living for people with disabilities, increase awareness in the general campus population of disability issues and provide [...]
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By Anna on 26 February, 2010
Yes, of course Darnton. You describe a life of abject misery and back-breaking labour, so obviously people faked being disabled all the time.
Posted in anna history rants, history | Tagged history
By Anna on 26 February, 2010
Went up on the 15th. asian women blog carnival #5: who i am when i’m (not) with you One of the big things for me in presenting as an Asian woman is that when I think of my identity, and of my performativity, I don’t think ‘Asian,’ I think ‘Chinese’ and I think ‘Malaysian’ and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged carnival
By Anna on 25 February, 2010
I think I upset one of the newer employees at my favourite tea shop today. Most of the staff are used to my cynical reactions to newspaper discussions of how inspiiiiiiiiiiring people with disabilities are at this point.
But let me begin at the beginning.
Actually, no, let me begin with something important, since recent events have told me one cannot be too careful.
There is a certain way news media prefers to talk about people with disabilities. They like to tell our stories in a way that’s “inspiring”, that’s about making non-disabled people feel better about stuff. “Oh, look at how brave that person is, being all alive and stuff despite having a disability! I would rather be dead! That person/their parents/their loved ones are so brave and inspiring! I will now put issues of accessibility and disability out of my mind, because I have been inspired!”
Posted in anna rants, autonomy, bodies, media and pop culture, othering, social attitudes | Tagged ableism, disability, exclusion, family, inspiring, media and pop culture, myths and misconceptions, news media, problematic attitudes, social treatment, things people say
By Anna on 18 February, 2010
This post is going to talk in non-explicit ways about the sexual abuse of children with disabilities, and the inclination of people to not believe them. Writing about the history of people with disabilities is often a process of reading between the lines. Surviving records tend to be written by non-disabled people in positions of [...]
Posted in shaming
By Anna on 17 February, 2010
The Ninth (already! Awesome!) Carnival of Feminist Parenting is up at Mothers for Women’s Lib. It has a huge variety of links focusing around parenting & motherhood from a feminist perspective!
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged carnival
By Anna on 15 February, 2010
WARNING: This post is likely NSFW, and talks about sex. If you do not want to know anything about my sex life, you don’t want to read it. I was recently interviewed for an article about sex & disability.
Posted in sexuality, social attitudes | Tagged sex, sexuality
By Anna on 14 February, 2010
About two or three weeks ago, I finally got around to noting the existence of the show The Good Wife. And then I watched every episode I could, as quickly as I could, because wow is this show good. It’s one part legal drama, one part family drama, and one part mysterious conspiracy theory drama. [...]
Posted in bodies, feminism, representations, television | Tagged media and pop culture, television, the good wife
By Anna on 12 February, 2010
Last week I attended a meeting at my university campus regarding sustainable transportation options for the next five to ten years. We’re at an interesting point in time here, as both the transit routes and the university are putting in long-term planning, so we may have a chance to push for real, useful, interesting change [...]
Posted in accessibility, autonomy, politics, social attitudes
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