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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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Crowd Sourcing Counter-Arguments: You’re Easily Offended and People with Disabilities Can’t Act Anyway

By Anna on 30 April, 2010

If you have the time/energy/inclination to do so, please join in the comments there to counter these arguments. I ask because I hope, sincerely, that if there is a discussion right there that takes on this oft-repeated belief that disabled people are just not able to act or perform in any way, or that what we are is “easily offended” rather than pointing out a problematic form of discrimination, maybe drive-by comments repeating it over and over will stop.

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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 [...]

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From the Comments

By s.e. smith on 22 November, 2009

Y’all just can’t keep the awesome contained. Here’s Kaz, on “Disabled Sexuality and Disempowerment Through Fetishization“: I am not your cheeseburger, okay. (Read the rest, it’s terrific.) Lis, on “Guest Post: Sex and Scoliosis” This made me laugh. My scoliosis is very minor, but I have three fingers on one hand; when somebody asks if [...]

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From the Comments

By Anna on 19 October, 2009

I wanted to take a bit of time to highlight some awesome comments that you may have missed on last week’s posts. I originally intended to go through all the posts last week and pull up interesting comment discussions, but so much interesting comment discussion has gone down that I’m just going to highlight a few from the earliest part of the week.

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