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By Anna on 8 December, 2010
I’ve been so behind in my reading this month that I missed entirely The Blog Carnival of Mental Health Issue 1: Diagnosis Welcome to the first Blog Carnival of Mental Health. I’m a day late, but I’m going to share with you an interesting if small collection of posts. I must say that it’s rather [...]
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By Anna on 7 December, 2010
I think that this trope, like yesterday’s one about Crazy Roommates, comes from an exaggeration of the natural fear of being forced into medical treatments you don’t want because somehow you’ve lost control. The problem with this particular trope is it’s not based on fiction: this is the real experience of thousands of psychiatric patients and survivors. This is frightening to me because it’s true, and I wish that particular truth wasn’t used as fodder for genre shows to add depth to their characters.
Posted in media and pop culture, mental health, movies
By Anna on 6 December, 2010
Today is December 6th, which in Canada is the anniversary of the Montreal Massacre [link opens with sound, CBC]. I wrote about it last year. It’s been a very long year. There are things I said then that I might not say now, but I do wonder, always, about a memorial for our dead. A [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged blog carnival, epilepsy, female sexual disfunction, media, mental health, multiples, multiplicity, normality, seizures, service animals
By Anna on 6 December, 2010
Don and I went to see a movie the other night, and gosh, we had fun! I mean, there’s nothing funner than going out for a nice evening with your husband and being confronted straight on with the knowledge that one of the scariest things some people can imagine is being forced to live with someone like you! Yay, fun times for everyone!
Posted in anna rants, blaming, Education, media and pop culture, mental health, movies, othering, representations, shaming
By Anna on 5 December, 2010
I know I’m not alone in being aware that there are people who still insist – despite all evidence to the contrary – that disability rights activism sprung into existence the moment they were first irritated by someone saying “He, that’s ableist”. I like that editors at Wikipedia have worked hard to develop the disability portal, and that Wikipedia’s policies about editing mean that anyone can edit to expand and clarify disability-related articles.
Posted in language, media and pop culture, meta, representations | Tagged wikipedia
By Anna on 4 December, 2010
The video is subtitled. Transcription: Title Image: Reflections from MIUSA’s WILD2010 Wild Women with Disabilities Speak Out Global Fund for Women [Drumming] Narrator: In August, I had the privilege of representing the Global Fund for Women at the Women’s Institute on Leadership and Development, or WILD, a three-week program hosted by Mobility International USA. Women [...]
Posted in autonomy, disability activism, global | Tagged disability rights organizations, global fund for women, NGO, video, wild women with disabilities
By Anna on 3 December, 2010
When we first discussed keeping a record of the names of people with disabilities whose murders or mysterious deaths had made the news, we thought it would be something we’d post four times a year. We started gathering the names with the expectation the first posting would be in December.
We realised very quickly there were too many names.
Posted in deaths, Record of the Dead
By Anna on 2 December, 2010
Trigger warning for discussion of murder and abuse of people with disabilities. This month’s list also includes disabled people who were victims of sex-based crimes before their deaths.
Posted in deaths, Record of the Dead | Tagged murder, sexual abuse, suicide
By Anna on 30 November, 2010
I haven’t even had time to process this yet – I just found out when my friend called me to ask if I had heard the news. Donna Jodham has won her case against the Canadian Government – Government websites will now have 15 months to follow their own accessibility guidelines. Canada must make Web [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged accessibility, anna throws a party and everyone's invited, canada, donna jodham, web content
By Anna on 29 November, 2010
As it is late and dinner is calling, I’m going to cheat and just C&P what Penny says over at Disability Studies. Penny: For All Your Disability Blog Carnival (And Disability History) Needs! The November edition is up at Modus Dopens, and it’s a good solid collection of links, around the theme of intersections. Go, [...]
Posted in signal boost | Tagged blog carnival, disability blog carnival, have I mentioned I love Penny lately? Because I do
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