About kaninchenzero
Kaninchen Zero is a woman-focused social justice activist, queer, trans, poly, kinky, atheist, socialist, a gamer, happy in a legal interracial same-sex marriage in Texas, and nearly forty. She has an overlookable physical disability (she can walk but slowly, painfully, and with a limp) and mental illnesses she can't hide any more. Other blog-ish type stuff can be found at her LiveJournal, her Dreamwidth, and her Tumblr. Short-form fiction is mostly at her story blog. The official short form of her handle is k0, pronounced kaynull or kaynought. The avatar is her own drawing.
Website: http://kaninchenzero.livejournal.com/
Contact: kaninchenzero @ disabledfeminists.com
Posts by kaninchenzero
By kaninchenzero on 13 August, 2010
This is gonna be short ’cause I hurt and it’s hard to think and type and all that shit what’s good for writing. Another parent of disabled children has killed ou children. Ou regrets having done it and immediately notified police of ou actions. Responses of shock and horror from media and across internets. But. [...]
Posted in blaming, deaths, justice, representations, social attitudes, violence | Tagged autism, barriers to access, privilege, problematic attitudes, social treatment
By kaninchenzero on 23 June, 2010
My [biggest] fandom is White Wolf’s Exalted. I’ve complained about it before and I’ll complain about it again. I build characters because it’s fun and I often spend a lot of time working at it trying to make a person rather than a collection of attributes. Right now I’m working on a character who I [...]
Posted in accessibility, creative work, i'm right here, intersectionality, language, othering, representations, social attitudes | Tagged ableism, exclusion, media and pop culture, problematic attitudes, social treatment
By kaninchenzero on 3 June, 2010
On 1 June 2010, E. Fuller Torrey MD wrote an op-ed column for the New York Times, “Make Kendra’s Law Permanent.” Dr Torrey is the founder of the Treatment Advocacy Center (TAC), a nonprofit group whose sole purpose is to lobby states for the passage of so-called assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) laws like Kendra’s Law [...]
Posted in blaming, class issues, justice, mental health, news, othering, policy, politics, poverty, representations, social attitudes, violence | Tagged accessibility, mental illness, myths and misconceptions, problematic attitudes, social treatment
By kaninchenzero on 21 April, 2010
Y’all may know I’m mentally ill. I have mentioned a time or eighteen. It’s a thing I do, talking about my experiences with mental illness and mental health care, trying to provide an anecdote to do with the data. What I talk about somewhat less is having cognitive variations and learning disabilities. Which I do. [...]
Posted in introspective | Tagged autism, communication, disability, exclusion, identity, mental illness, personal, problematic attitudes
By kaninchenzero on 15 March, 2010
[This here is a warning that the author has written a post about, amongst other things, being depressed and suicidal. For this reason there is a clicky thing. Use it in whatever health you got. Also please note that with respect to my wife and our marriage you are getting exactly one perspective--mine--and everything is [...]
Posted in introspective, life changes, mental health, normality | Tagged communication, employment, health care, me, mental illness, social treatment
By kaninchenzero on 10 March, 2010
There’s a lot of really good stuff out in the blogoamorphia1 about sexual assault on uni campuses. The focus is specifically on USian colleges and universities though Rape Culture exists pretty much everywhere with only slight variation. It’s worth reading, if you’re up to reading about sexual assault at all. (I’m not always.) Predators are [...]
Posted in activism, class issues, disability activism, feminism, gender, intersectionality, justice, othering, reproductive justice, shaming, social attitudes, violence | Tagged abuse, exclusion, feminism, intersectionality, myths and misconceptions, privilege, problematic attitudes, social treatment
By kaninchenzero on 4 March, 2010
I’m not linking to the original source because the specifics don’t matter. This isn’t about the individual people or the individual documents involved. This is just an example of how the use of ableist language harms disabled people. Sometimes our posts on ableist language are on the abstract side, so here’s something real concrete. The [...]
Posted in invisibility, justice, language, othering | Tagged ableism, abuse, communication, exclusion, language, personal, privilege, problematic attitudes, social treatment
By kaninchenzero on 8 December, 2009
I hope you feel better. They mean well. They always do. It’s what people say when they hear someone they know is in pain or ill or uncomfortable. I’ve learned that tears and “Why would you say that to me?” while an accurate reflection of how it makes me feel is pretty much guaranteed to [...]
Posted in blaming, language, normality, resistance, social attitudes
By kaninchenzero on 20 November, 2009
Today, 20 November 2009, marks the Eleventh Annual International Transgender Day of Remembrance. It’s the day that we set aside to commemorate the lives of people murdered due to trans hate and discrimination and prejudice. This year, we know of one hundred sixty-two persons who have been killed because they were trans* or were perceived [...]
Posted in Uncategorized
I’d Rather Be Dead
By kaninchenzero on 24 November, 2009
I didn’t think I’d need to do this but it has come up: This post is not a place to discuss the merits of assisted suicide. Many disabled people, including me, find it really unsettling. In the context of able-bodied and neurotypical people telling us our lives aren’t worth living it is especially inappropriate. Comments [...]
Posted in blaming, disability activism, From the comments, i'm right here, justice, normality, representations, resistance, shaming, social attitudes, violence