By Guest on 30 April, 2010
If you are at all interested in Disability Studies (DS), I strongly recommend this book. I felt like I had a kind, clear teacher and friend leading me by the hand through basic and advanced concepts in DS, especially relating to feminism and ethics. It is the most accessible and worthwhile academic text I’ve ever read– I don’t have a good track record for reading non-fiction books or textbooks, and I was riveted to this book. Partly this is because The Rejected Body speaks so directly to my own life experience as a person with a chronic illness. Susan Wendell also has a chronic illness, ME/CFS, which is what led her into DS from Women’s Studies.
Posted in bodies, books, identity, life changes, representations
By s.e. smith on 19 April, 2010
There seems to be a bit of a theme these days of nondisabled people writing about the disabled people in their lives for the mainstream media. We had Sue Blackmore writing about her daughter Emily, who has anorexia, and Anne Miller writing about her husband, Michael Davoli, for example, and I’m sure there were countless [...]
Posted in i'm right here, identity, media and pop culture, othering, representations, social attitudes | Tagged advocacy, dominant narratives, self-advocacy
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 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. [...]
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 [...]
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 s.e. smith 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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in bodies, identity, race | Tagged invisible disability, life, personal, race, racism, rethinking social norms
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