By Ouyang Dan on 16 April, 2010
I won’t apologize for her actions and I’m not sorry for what happened to you. It’s not in our contract to assist passengers with their luggage and we reserve the right to refuse assistance to anyone. If that’s what you need, then perhaps in the future, you should make other travel arrangements. Well, to say [...]
Posted in accessibility, feminism, justice, oyd rants, policy | Tagged ableism, abuse, accessibility, barriers to access, chronic pain conditions, disability, drugs are bad mmm'kay, invisible disabilities, justice, problematic attitudes, racism, social treatment
By Annaham on 7 April, 2010
Note: This is kind of an old post, but I think it’s still useful. I’m sure that many of you have heard variations on the following: “You’re just too angry. Your anger alienates people/potential allies and might make them afraid to associate with you! They won’t want to be on your side because of your [...]
Posted in activism, feminism, identity, introspective, invisibility, justice, mental health, othering, politics, resistance, social attitudes | Tagged anger, disability, exclusion, personal, privilege, problematic attitudes, social justice, social treatment, things people say
By s.e. smith on 26 March, 2010
The Younger Women’s Task Force: DC Metro Chapter invites you to “Women, Disability, and Feminism: Intersections and Activism” Join us on Wednesday, March 31st for a panel discussion on “Women, Disability, and Feminism: Intersections and Activism.” This important conversation will focus on topics including: how disability issues and ableism affect women; the intersections between feminism [...]
Posted in activism, events, feminism
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 lauredhel on 1 March, 2010
[WARNING for this post: ableism within and without the medical system, pregnancy/baby losses mentioned] Defiant Birth: Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics, by Melinda Tankard Reist, is a book about women. It is a book about families. It is a book about resistance. It is a book about women who refuse to be told what they [...]
Posted in autonomy, bodies, feminism, medical practice, reproductive justice, resistance, social attitudes | Tagged ableism, ablist, abortion, achondroplasia, asthma, birth, cerebral palsy, defiant birth, disability, disability and pregnancy, disabled, down syndrome, down's syndrome, dwarfism, eugenics, genetic counselling, genetic screening, healthcare, lupus, mctd, medicine, melinda tankard reist, obstetrics, phocomelia, pregnancy, prenatal diagnosis, pro-choice, pulmonary hypertension, reist, reproductive justice, scheurmann's disease, termination of pregnancy, thalidomide, trisomy 21, wheelchair
By s.e. smith on 25 February, 2010
It is difficult to find demographic statistics on Iraq. The population has experienced considerable upheaval as a direct consequence of the war my government started there, and it was already tremendously unstable before the United States invaded in 2003 with the ostensible goal of “fighting terrorism.” Seven years later, we are still in Iraq, and [...]
Posted in feminism, global, politics | Tagged cancer, chemical weapons, depleted uranium, dioxins, DU, Gulf War, Iraq, Iraq war, mental health, nuclear waste, pollution
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 Anna on 14 February, 2010
About two or three weeks ago, I finally got around to noting the existence of the show The Good Wife. And then I watched every episode I could, as quickly as I could, because wow is this show good. It’s one part legal drama, one part family drama, and one part mysterious conspiracy theory drama. [...]
Posted in bodies, feminism, representations, television | Tagged media and pop culture, television, the good wife
By s.e. smith on 12 February, 2010
The Younger Women’s Task Force: DC Metro Chapter (YWTF: DC), a grassroots organization working to create a community for conversation and action among younger women and their allies, is planning a panel discussion on feminism and disability to be held in Washington, DC in late March. YWTF: DC is currently looking for panel members for [...]
Posted in activism, feminism
By amandaw on 5 February, 2010
Kate Harding, writing at Broadsheet: “If you ask us,” say Glamour editor Cindi Leive and Arianna Huffington, “the next feminist issue is sleep.” Personally, I never would have thought to ask those two what the next feminist issue is, but they make a pretty good case. “Americans are increasingly sleep-deprived, and the sleepiest people are, you [...]
Posted in bodies, feminism, gender, identity, intersectionality, language, media and pop culture, representations, shaming, social attitudes, Uncategorized | Tagged body image, chronic illness, community, control, culture, disability, family, feminism, health, privilege, social construction
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