By abby jean on 2 March, 2010
The concept of accommodations for employees with disabilities is one that exists all over the world. The basic principle of these laws is that an employee with a disability is entitled to changes to accommodate specific needs created by their disability in order to work. These can be changes in policies (changing a policy prohibiting [...]
Posted in accessibility, activism, autonomy, identity, justice, language, normality, othering, representations
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 abby jean on 19 February, 2010
Sometimes I have a hard time thinking of anything to say here. In large part because it still feels, to me, that writing anything here is an act of such unimaginable daring that I should immediately take down everything I’ve already posted and get to work scrubbing cached files of any mention of my name.
I’ve [...]
Posted in identity, introspective, language, meta
By lauredhel on 17 February, 2010
[Cross-posted to Hoyden About Town]
Something that has really struck me about the conversations around Evelyn Evelyn is the reaction that “Conjoined twins don’t have a disability! To say they do is insulting!”
Not all commenters make the link between the two statements – some stop at the first – so I’ll take these two separately.
A [...]
Posted in bodies, identity, justice, language, media and pop culture, normality, social attitudes | Tagged able-bodied stare, abnormal, amanda palmer, conjoined twins, crip drag, cripdrag, definition of disability, disability, disabled, evelyn evelyn, exploitation, gaze, jason webley, neil gaiman, normal, normalcy, objectification, othering, spectacle, stare, twins
By meloukhia on 7 February, 2010
In “How Do I Say ‘My Brain Is Not Like Yours’?” I discussed a lot of the frustrations I experience as a neuroatypical when I’m in social situations and attempting to navigate human interactions. Nowhere is this more difficult to me than in settings which people regard as “casual” and “low stress,” because these are [...]
Posted in i'm right here, identity, shaming, social attitudes
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 guessed [...]
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
By Chally on 25 January, 2010
Previously:
Invisible Identities, Part 1: Invisible to Whom?
Invisible Identities, Part 2: The Default Human
Note:
I’m told that in the American context, when speaking about race, the term “passing” is most associated with black people due to a pretty loaded history. This is not the case where I live, simply because that’s not the history we have with [...]
Posted in bodies, identity, race | Tagged invisible disability, life, personal, race, racism, rethinking social norms
By Annaham on 13 January, 2010
Author’s Note: This was originally written two years ago, when I was working as a sales clerk at a boutique shop in an extremely privileged area of Los Angeles. As you will probably be able to tell, I did not like this job very much. Looking back, I’m struck that I engaged in a fair [...]
Posted in bodies, class issues, gender, i'm right here, identity, introspective, normality, social attitudes | Tagged ableism, chronic pain conditions, disability, disability movement, fibromyalgia, identity, pain, privilege, problematic attitudes, social treatment
By Annaham on 9 January, 2010
The second-wave radical feminist theologian and professor Mary Daly died earlier this month, and there has been a veritable outpouring of eulogies from various feminist blogs.
Few of these eulogies have acknowledged Daly’s transphobia and racism.
I do not deny that Daly was an important figure in second-wave feminism, but to mourn her passing without a nod [...]
Posted in activism, autonomy, blaming, bodies, feminism, gender, identity, intersectionality, justice, language, normality, politics, shaming, social attitudes | Tagged ableism, chronic fatigue syndrome, disability is a feminist issue, disabled women, exclusion, feminism, i thought you were supposed to be my ally, intersectionality, LGBQTAI, privilege, problematic attitudes, social treatment
By abby jean on 6 January, 2010
**TRIGGER WARNING FOR DISCUSSION OF SELF-HARM**
I’ve been under some significant emotional stress lately, more so than usual. And I’ve had a couple of incidents when I received some very upsetting news. Of course I’ve cried. Sobbed, even. And reached out to my friends and family and cared for myself in all the healthy and productive [...]
Posted in bodies, identity, introspective, mental health, violence
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