By Annaham on 26 August, 2010
Dear abled/non-disabled people without disabled parking placards who use disabled parking spaces anyway, I don’t care if you want to use the space “because it’s so convenient.” I don’t care if you only “need” to use the space “just for a minute.” I especially don’t care if you back up your illegal use of said [...]
Posted in 101, accessibility, class issues, i'm right here, identity, invisibility, policy, politics | Tagged ableism, accessibility, accessible parking, conceptions of disability, disabilityfail, disabled parking, fail, it's about you, legislation, parking permit, problematic attitudes, TAB, things people say, transit, transportation, wtf
By s.e. smith on 23 August, 2010
Last night, The Learning Channel in the United States aired a special on JoAnne Fluke, a dancer from Kansas. Since I’m writing about this on FWD/Forward, I think you can guess that JoAnne Fluke is a disabled woman. Fluke has caudal regression syndrome, a congenital condition of the lower spine. She was given a prognosis [...]
Posted in 101, bodies, i'm right here, media and pop culture, normality | Tagged wheelchair dancing
By s.e. smith on 22 July, 2010
Every day, millions of people around the world glance at their fuel gauges, realise they are low, and pull into a fueling station to fill their tanks. Some of those millions of people are disabled, and thus, I wonder why it is that fueling stations are designed so inaccessibly when relatively simple design changes could [...]
Posted in 101, accessibility | Tagged driving, independence
By s.e. smith on 6 July, 2010
Ableist Word Profile is an ongoing FWD/Forward series in which we explore ableism and the way it manifests in language usage. Here’s what this series is about: Examining word origins, the way in which ableism is unconsciously reinforced, the power that language has. Here’s what this series is not about: Telling people which words they [...]
Posted in 101, Ableist Word Profile, identity, language | Tagged ableism, disability euphemisms, special, special needs
By s.e. smith on 29 June, 2010
Note: This post was written primarily with nondisabled readers in mind. Cure evangelism is a scourge which seems unlikely to vanish any time soon, so we may as well address it and have a little chat about what it is, why it is problematic, and what you, personally, can do about it. This is not [...]
Posted in 101, autonomy, bad advice, blaming, bodies | Tagged cure evangelism, this is not helpful
By Annaham on 2 May, 2010
[Image via Tlönista in this comment thread at Flip Flopping Joy. Description: A shocked-looking cat perches on a chair, staring straight at the camera. Text reads: "Concerned cat is just looking out for your best interests when she says that your tone might be alienating well-intentioned potential allies who just need a little polite education."] [...]
Posted in 101, activism, blaming, bodies, disability activism, feminism, gender, i'm right here, identity, intersectionality, justice, othering, politics, race, shaming, social attitudes | Tagged ally, ally work, anti-racism, derailing, disability 101, education, exclusion, feminism, intentions, internet, intersectionality, marginalisation, myths and misconceptions, privilege, problematic attitudes, race, racism, social treatment, things people say, this all sounds awfully familiar, white privilege
By s.e. smith on 1 May, 2010
It’s Blogging Against Disablism Day 2010, and I would highly recommend checking in at Diary of a Goldfish to see other posts on the theme! A question that I get from a lot of nondisabled folks as they are starting to explore ableism and interacting with people with disabilities is ‘I really can’t stand it [...]
Posted in 101, make the world a better place, small stories | Tagged badd, badd 2010, blogging against disablism
By abby jean on 5 March, 2010
I was sitting in the lunch room at work with a group of co-workers, flipping through the newspapers. I came to an article on the suicide of Marie Osmond’s son, which led to the whole table discussing the incident. And it was immediately underlined for me how little most people know about mental illness and [...]
Posted in 101, i'm right here, invisibility, mental health, othering, relationships, representations, social attitudes, Uncategorized
By Chally on 19 January, 2010
The book we’re reading at present in the online bookclub to which I belong (Radical Readers, go check it out!) is The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy. I almost threw it across the room when I reached the following on page 233: The historical censorship of discussion about sex has left [...]
Posted in 101, language, social attitudes | Tagged language, problematic attitudes, words mean things
By Anna on 5 January, 2010
It pains many other women who, for a variety of reasons, are discouraged or outright prevented from having children they want. That, in North America, these women are overwhelmingly women of colour, lower class, disabled, queer – that they’re often women who have been institutionalised in some way, be it a “medical” institution or a “criminal” one – is not a coincidence.
Posted in 101, bodies, class issues, feminism, intersectionality, introspective, justice, reproductive justice, resistance, social attitudes | Tagged ableism, abortion, children, exclusion, feminism, intersectionality, problematic attitudes, things people say
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