By s.e. smith on 18 July, 2010
A number of people have drawn my attention to the USA show Covert Affairs that recently started airing in the United States, and a few days ago I sat down with the pilot and gave it a whirl. The show centres around Annie Walker (Piper Perabo), a woman who has just joined the Central Intelligence [...]
Posted in media and pop culture, representations | Tagged blind characters, Covert Affairs, disabled characters
By s.e. smith on 9 July, 2010
Last night, a young Black man with epilepsy was admitted to a hospital in Louisiana after a suicide attempt. He declined to don a hospital gown and ‘attempted to leave his examination,’ at which point security stepped in. According to witnesses, security officers punched the young man in the lip and pulled out several of [...]
Posted in media and pop culture, race | Tagged epilepsy, police brutality, Tasers
By Annaham on 8 July, 2010
Director Matthew Galkin’s documentary Kevorkian (aired on HBO on June 28th; also available on YouTube; ETA: as codeman38 points out below, the YouTube version is, unfortunately, not closed-captioned) is one of those documentaries that I felt nervous about watching, mostly because I was extremely skeptical that it would be anything other than a massive apologia [...]
Posted in autonomy, bodies, deaths, media and pop culture, movies, othering, representations, social attitudes, television | Tagged assisted suicide, documentary, jack kevorkian, medical practice, medicine
By Annaham on 6 July, 2010
jadelennox (DW): How to fight ableism: some easy steps So I thought it might be valuable to gather together some ways in which able-bodied people can do something about ableism in the world. Then, next time a person is feeling frustrated about ableism, and is thinking about doing some signal boosting of, say, some crappy [...]
Posted in activism, bodies, media and pop culture, movies, race, recommended reading, representations, social attitudes, work | Tagged ability, ableism, accessibility, activism, advertising, conceptions of disability, disability, intersectionality, language, movies, personal stories, pop culture, privilege, protest, race, racism, social attitudes, social inclusion, writing
By s.e. smith on 3 July, 2010
Content warning: This post includes a discussion of an article that frames disability in extremely patronising, offensive, and infantalising objectifying (note) terms. There will be selections from said article quoted for the purpose of criticism and discussion. I’ve been noticing an uptick in really, really bad articles about disability lately. I was puzzling last night [...]
Posted in For Cereal?, media and pop culture, othering, social attitudes | Tagged bad journalism, depictions of disability, disability in the media, disability tropes
By Ouyang Dan on 2 July, 2010
We took The Kid to the base theatre on Wednesday night to see Dreamwork’s How to Train Your Dragon, which is loosely adapted from a YA Book series of the same name. [Tame OYD Review with mild SPOILERS ahead] It is a story of a teen boy, Hiccup, who lives in the Viking village of [...]
Posted in media and pop culture, movies, Uncategorized | Tagged depictions of disability, disability, Dreamworks, How to Train Your Dragon, intersectionality, media and pop culture, pop culture
By Ouyang Dan on 1 July, 2010
Moderatrix Note: This is a post from my “Summer of Buffy” series (or “Season of Buffy” for my Southern Hemisphere friends, who want to be MONSTERS and have different seasons and ruin my pun, but you are my favourite people EVAH and I love you!), which I thought was appropriate for cross posting, due to [...]
Posted in intersectionality, media and pop culture, mental health, television | Tagged Buffy the Vampire Slayer, coping, death pisses Buffy off, depression, Joss Whedon, media and pop culture, mental health, mental illness, pop culture, television, When She Was Bad
By s.e. smith on 30 June, 2010
I’m a bit late out of the gate on this one because I actually read about Zach last week, but didn’t have time to write about him until this week. For those who don’t breathlessly follow US pop culture, Zach Anner is a man with cerebral palsy who is participating in a competition sponsored by [...]
Posted in events, media and pop culture, television | Tagged people, traveling while disabled
By Ouyang Dan on 29 June, 2010
I read recently in an issue of Family Circle Magazine (DON’T JUDGE ME!) (There was a fried chicken recipe I wanted to try out!) that “Japanese research” (could they be any more vague and list any fewer resources?) indicates that using a Wii Fit burns just as many calories as doing moderate exercise. There was [...]
Posted in accessibility, bodies, media and pop culture, technology, video games/gaming | Tagged accessibility, disability, disability movement, exercise, games, media and pop culture, pop culture, privilege, video games, Wii Fit
By Ouyang Dan on 28 June, 2010
Oh, Young Adult Lit you are my Bravo Foxtrot Foxtrot. A while back I read and reviewed Ann Brashares’ The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants here. I loved it, and proceeded to immediately read the sequel, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, but neglected to write anything about it. I have come to you, dearest [...]
Posted in books, media and pop culture, mental health | Tagged Ann Brashares, depression, intersectionality, media and pop culture, Second Summer of the Sisterhood, suicide, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, YA Lit, young adult books
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