About Annaham
Annaham is a feminist with several disabilities who occasionally updates her personal blog, as well as her cartoon site. If you are so inclined, you can also check out her Tumblr. She lives in central California with her partner, and a silly little dog named Winston. She is currently getting her Master’s in Women and Gender Studies; her research interests include disability and cultural/social attitudes surrounding it, the body, gender, nontraditional media, art of all kinds, and social justice. You can reach her by emailing annaham at disabledfeminists dot com. (Avatar art: dollhouse miniature ham with fruit by Kim Burke.)
Website: http://whotookthebomp.blogspot.com
Contact: Annaham @ disabledfeminists.com
Posts by Annaham
By Annaham on 5 March, 2010
Question Time is a series in which we open up the floor to you, commenters. We invite you to share as you feel comfortable.
Are there any “shortcuts” to save time/energy/et cetera that you make use of in daily life? How did you discover or hear about them? How do they help with your condition(s), if [...]
Posted in Question Time | Tagged question
By Annaham on 22 February, 2010
Hello. I am Annaham (yes, I have a name). I am the person who posted a critique of Evelyn Evelyn on this website, which kicked off something of an internet controversy. For those who’ve just joined us, I made a post about Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley’s side project Evelyn Evelyn, Lauredhel made another post [...]
Posted in activism, bodies, creative work, feminism, i'm right here, identity, intersectionality, invisibility, justice, marketing, media and pop culture, meta, normality, othering, representations, social attitudes, Uncategorized | Tagged communication, evelyn evelyn, feminism, intersectionality, media and pop culture, pop culture, privilege, problematic attitudes, social inclusion, social treatment, things people say
By Annaham on 18 February, 2010
The hits just keep on comin’, thanks to Slate. Earlier this month in Dear Prudence, we got to read this winner:
Dear Prudence:
My husband had a stroke 18 months ago. At first he was unable to speak and his right side was paralyzed. He regained his speech and, with a lot of work, got full use [...]
Posted in autonomy, bad advice, gender, life changes, normality, shaming, social attitudes | Tagged ableism, family, myths and misconceptions, problematic attitudes
By Annaham on 9 February, 2010
Let’s get something out of the way: I say this out of love and respect. I say this as a fellow artist (albeit an unknown one). I also very much doubt that the people involved in this project have created it with any bad intentions. That said, however, intentions don’t equal a free pass for [...]
Posted in bodies, creative work, language, media and pop culture, normality, othering, representations, social attitudes | Tagged characters with disabilities, culture, dehumanisation, disability, fetishizing disability, language, media and pop culture, myths and misconceptions, pop culture, privilege, social treatment, this all sounds awfully familiar
By Annaham on 2 February, 2010
So everyone can get to know our contributors a bit better, we’ve decided to run a series called “Meet a Contributor”. Each Contributor will be interviewed by the others in turn.
[Description: Black-and-white, low-angle photograph of a smiling white woman with shoulder-length, light brown hair. She wears a tank top with a long-sleeved print shirt over [...]
Posted in creative work, meet a contributor | Tagged chronic pain, fibromyalgia, meet a contributor
By Annaham on 30 January, 2010
The following appeared in Slate’s “Dear Prudence” advice column chat-room supplement fairly recently:
Chicago: We have a close friend who is prone to embarrassing malapropisms that surpass even the best Norm Crosby bit. These are not innocent and simple mispronunciations—but ugly mangling of words including misuse and lack of understanding of the meaning of some words. [...]
Posted in language, normality, representations, shaming, social attitudes | Tagged advice, communication, language, privilege, social treatment, word use
By Annaham on 14 January, 2010
Question Time is a series in which we open up the floor to you, commenters. We invite you to share as you feel comfortable.
Do you use any personal care items–”frivolous” things included–as part of your self-care? If so, what do you use? How have these items helped you with your condition(s)? Please feel free to [...]
Posted in Question Time | Tagged personal, self-care
By Annaham on 13 January, 2010
Author’s Note: This was originally written two years ago, when I was working as a sales clerk at a boutique shop in an extremely privileged area of Los Angeles. As you will probably be able to tell, I did not like this job very much. Looking back, I’m struck that I engaged in a fair [...]
Posted in bodies, class issues, gender, i'm right here, identity, introspective, normality, social attitudes | Tagged ableism, chronic pain conditions, disability, disability movement, fibromyalgia, identity, pain, privilege, problematic attitudes, social treatment
By Annaham on 9 January, 2010
The second-wave radical feminist theologian and professor Mary Daly died earlier this month, and there has been a veritable outpouring of eulogies from various feminist blogs.
Few of these eulogies have acknowledged Daly’s transphobia and racism.
I do not deny that Daly was an important figure in second-wave feminism, but to mourn her passing without a nod [...]
Posted in activism, autonomy, blaming, bodies, feminism, gender, identity, intersectionality, justice, language, normality, politics, shaming, social attitudes | Tagged ableism, chronic fatigue syndrome, disability is a feminist issue, disabled women, exclusion, feminism, i thought you were supposed to be my ally, intersectionality, LGBQTAI, privilege, problematic attitudes, social treatment
By Annaham on 4 January, 2010
Everything healed up
but in a very strange way
Years later
when it was very obvious
that something was very wrong with my face
everyone
said one or more of the following:
It’s the Lord’s will.
Just learn to live with it.
It’s all in your imagination.
Don’t be so self-centered.
Shut up and do your homework.
Other people are worse off than you.
[Full text available in [...]
Posted in autonomy, blaming, bodies, creative work, disability activism, justice, language, normality, Quotations, resistance, sexuality, social attitudes | Tagged ableism, exclusion, identity, justice, LGBQTAI, personal, poetry, quote, social treatment
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