By Anna on 11 January, 2010
Hi folks! If you’ve been following my Dreamwidth account, you may know that I’ve been cleaning out a huge backlog of email. And that huge backlog of email has included links for recommended reading that I hadn’t seen previously because they got eaten in my inbox. I apparently am not actually always available by email. [...]
Posted in recommended reading, social attitudes
By Anna on 10 January, 2010
This is why I’m displeased that my country doesn’t have even a token-effort federally mandated accessibility law. The mall, which can mandate things like “required to follow fire codes” and “required to open during mall hours” cannot (or chooses not to – I suspect the latter, frankly) require the same stores to follow an accessibility policy.
Posted in accessibility | Tagged accessibility, anna rants, myth-busting
By Anna on 5 January, 2010
I’ve added a new page to the site: Books of Interest. If you check it out, you’ll notice very quickly that it’s almost all history books at the moment. We’ll fix that over time. I just found that I was procrastinating putting anything up out of fear that it was not the Perfect Ideal Book [...]
Posted in Uncategorized
By Anna on 5 January, 2010
It pains many other women who, for a variety of reasons, are discouraged or outright prevented from having children they want. That, in North America, these women are overwhelmingly women of colour, lower class, disabled, queer – that they’re often women who have been institutionalised in some way, be it a “medical” institution or a “criminal” one – is not a coincidence.
Posted in 101, bodies, class issues, feminism, intersectionality, introspective, justice, reproductive justice, resistance, social attitudes | Tagged ableism, abortion, children, exclusion, feminism, intersectionality, problematic attitudes, things people say
By Anna on 5 January, 2010
Sexuality and Access Project Survey The Sexuality and Access Project is looking for people who use attendant services as well as attendants to participate in an anonymous survey. The survey is part of this two-year project, funded by the Ontario Trillium Foundation. The goal of the project is to give Ontarians with disabilities greater control [...]
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By Anna on 4 January, 2010
Today is World Braille Day!
Were I a more organized person, I would now present you with a scrupulously researched history of Braille, deep insights into the so-called “War of the Dots”, and a wonderful interlude on the use of raised text in the Halifax School for the Blind.
Posted in history | Tagged blind, braille, history
By Anna on 30 December, 2009
There are two big problems with this theory. First, and most obvious to me, is that none of these Nice Able-Bodied Folks seem to be concerned that one needs to sue (or otherwise threaten with legal action) in order to get into buildings, get written material presented in a way you can read it, get captioning, get… well, get all sorts of “little things” that people with a variety of disabilities need in order to fully interact with the world.
Posted in 101
By Anna on 29 December, 2009
11th Carnival of Feminists, focusing on Gender Across Borders, is accepting submissions until January 5! The 62nd Disability Blog Carnival will be at Uppity Crip/Finding My Way, and the theme is holidays! Deadline for submissions is January 11th. The 5th Asian Women’s Blog Carnival, with the theme of Who I Am When I’m (not) With [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged carnival
By Anna on 25 December, 2009
Hey, able-bodied folks. Why the heck are you not overcoming adversity and becoming an Olympic-caliber athlete? It’s so easy, right? If you just “realize most of your limitations in life are self-imposed”, you, too can do anything!
Posted in anna rants | Tagged sports, stereotypes, supercrip
By Anna on 19 December, 2009
Oh yay! I missed this earlier in the week, but The 61st Disability Blog Carnival is up at Writing Mental Illness! As a writer who helps others write about their experiences with mental illness I’ve thought long and hard about what it means to tell about disability. Because there are many facets (many ways to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged carnival
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