By Staff on 30 August, 2010
Disclaimer: None of the jobs in these round-ups are endorsed by anyone at FWD. We can’t answer any questions about them. United States: The Perkins Institute for the Blind has a list of job opportunities. The ones that specifically came to my attention were Director, Perkins International Program and Director of International Resource Development. Hungary: [...]
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By Staff on 22 August, 2010
Canada: (This one came over an email list I’m on specifically looking for people with disabilities or ties to the disability community.) In this newly created position, Flight Centre Accessible Travel is seeking an ambitious Business Development Manager to join their dedicated team in Vancouver. In this unique role, the successful candidate will use their [...]
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By Staff on 16 August, 2010
Jobs in Toronto and Bangkok.
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By Staff on 10 August, 2010
Brussels: European Disability Forum The European Disability Forum is looking for a dynamic policy officer with good knowledge in social, employment policies and human rights. You are committed to a human rights and social model approach to disability, and you have an understanding of social policy in relation to disability policies. You work in both [...]
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By Staff on 28 June, 2010
Here’s a list of potential jobs that explicitly seek people with disabilities/disabled people, or are explicitly invited to apply, that have come across my desk this week. Please note: I have no knowledge of these jobs, don’t endorse them, and can tell you nothing about them. United States: Jobs for College Grads with Disabilities is [...]
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By Staff on 21 June, 2010
Here’s a list of potential jobs that explicitly seek people with disabilities/disabled people, or are explicitly invited to apply, that have come across my desk this week. Please note: I have no knowledge of these jobs, don’t endorse them, and can tell you nothing about them. European Network on Independent Living (Policy) Intern Dublin, Ireland: [...]
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By Staff on 11 May, 2010
Content note: This post is the result of a collaboration between a group of FWD contributors, abby jean, Annaham, Anna, and s.e. smith, which is why it is credited to ‘Staff.’ This is part two in a two part series. What happens when you, as a blogger, delve into pop culture? A lot of unpleasant [...]
Posted in media and pop culture, meta, representations | Tagged art, media critique, social justice, structural issues
By Staff on 5 May, 2010
Content note: This post is the result of a collaboration between a group of FWD contributors, abby jean, Annaham, Anna, and s.e. smith, which is why it is credited to ‘Staff.’ This is part one in a two part series. One thing has been clearly established: Something guaranteed to attract absurd amounts of traffic is [...]
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By Staff on 17 December, 2009
For all of you who subscribe to comments via email: Thanks to a reader who emailed us to let us know, we are aware that the “manage subscriptions” page where you are supposed to be able to manage your email subscriptions is all borky (unless black on black is your thing). We are working on [...]
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Fabulousness From the Comments
By Staff on 10 July, 2010
It has been entirely too long since we featured some awesome comments, and we have gotten some really good ones lately, so without further ado: AWV, on ‘Ableist Word Profile: Special‘: [snipped for brevity] In general, I guess I don’t get why we can’t just say disability. Like, why can’t special education just be called education [...]
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