About s.e. smith
s.e. smith is a recalcitrant, grumpy person with disabilities who enjoys riling people up, talking about language, tearing apart poor science reporting, and chasing cats around the house with squeaky mice in hand. Ou personal website can be found at this ain't livin'.
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Contact: meloukhia @ disabledfeminists.com
Posts by s.e. smith
By s.e. smith on 30 November, 2010
There’s something that keeps happening to me. Maybe it keeps happening to you too. I use a website. I get attached to it. I start relying on it for the services it provides. And then, there’s a redesign or they roll out a new feature, and suddenly I can’t use it anymore. Because the site [...]
Posted in accessibility | Tagged web development, websites
By s.e. smith on 29 November, 2010
The 35th Annual TASH Conference will be in Denver, Colorado – December 7- 11, 2010. The conference will focus on encouraging inclusion of individuals with disabilities in the workplace, at school and in the community. The conference will include several half-day workshops such as, “Supporting all Young Children within Inclusive Early Child Programs,” “Designing Individualized [...]
Posted in signal boost | Tagged Colorado, conferences, United States
By s.e. smith on 29 November, 2010
If you have a mobility impairment and limitation, you may be eligible to participate in a new research project. This research aims to understand how people with mobility impairments and limitations accomplish job tasks, how their environment affects their worksite participation, and what, if any, help they need to complete employment activities. Eligibility requires that [...]
Posted in signal boost | Tagged employment, survey
By s.e. smith on 29 November, 2010
It’s been a busy year in advice columns. Normally, I don’t like writing retrospective columns in November, let alone being so bold as to name the advice column of the year this early. Who knows what could come in the next month, right? But I am 100% certain that this advice column cannot be beat [...]
Posted in Dear Imprudence | Tagged invasive questions, Judith Martin, Miss Manners
By s.e. smith on 26 November, 2010
Usually I relish picking apart a crappy article in the news for this feature, but today, I want to take a moment to rant about a phenomenon so widespread in the media that I don’t feel fair singling out one poor journalist for my ire. I’m cruel, but not unreasonably so. Also, I had a [...]
Posted in 101, language, media and pop culture | Tagged journalism, stop doing this
By s.e. smith on 24 November, 2010
The Tennessee Disability MegaConference is Tennessee’s largest disability-specific conference for individuals with disabilities, families, and professionals. At the conference, people share the latest information and innovations on many topics including housing, employment, education, health care, recreation and leisure, mental health, and others. Continuing education credits are offered in many categories. People attending make new friends [...]
Posted in events, signal boost | Tagged conferences, Tennessee, United States
By s.e. smith on 23 November, 2010
Everybody, I have found my new art crush. Yinka Shonibare, MBE is a British-Nigerian artist with an impressive list of awards, publications, and gallery exhibitions on his resume. And I am all kinds of in love with his work, from his art installations to his gallery pieces. I do love an artist with flexibility who [...]
Posted in art, creative work | Tagged art installations, colonialism, disabled artists, race, sculpture
By s.e. smith on 22 November, 2010
Gregory Hlibok, for those who do not know (and there’s no particular reason you should!) is a Deaf attorney who was just appointed to head the disability rights office at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the United States. This is news for two important reasons. 1. The FCC is responsible for regulating communications in [...]
Posted in events | Tagged FCC, United States
By s.e. smith on 19 November, 2010
Affirmative action has to be among one of the most contentious, controversial, and misunderstood social policies. I encounter all kinds of bizarre attitudes when it comes to talking about affirmative action, not least of which is people who insist on calling it ‘reverse discrimination’ in some sort of backhanded attempt at suggesting it’s just as [...]
Posted in 101, policy, social attitudes, work | Tagged affirmative action, education, preferential hiring
By s.e. smith on 18 November, 2010
*** HEARING THURSDAY *** Landrieu to Chair Hearing To Examine Regulatory Burdens Facing Small Businesses WASHINGTON – United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., Chair of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, will hold a hearing Thursday, November 18, 2010 entitled “Next Steps for Main Street: Reducing the Regulatory and Administrative Burdens on [...]
Posted in accessibility, signal boost | Tagged ADA, americans with disabilities act, Congress
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