By Anna on 14 June, 2010
Reminder! Helen Keller Mythbusting Blogswarm! Adoption, Race, Disability and the Vaule of People You see, my parents got a discount on my adoption for two reasons. The first one was that I am black. Black babies weren’t as popular in 1990, so I was in foster care for a while. The other reason they got [...]
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By Anna on 11 June, 2010
Photo by Grant Neufeld, used under a Creative Commons License. Disability Disclosure Online We have all heard stories about people who have lost their jobs because of pictures that surfaced on the Internet that show their after-hours behavior. A similar, but unfortunate tale is the one of the individual with a disability who is denied [...]
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By Anna on 10 June, 2010
Photo by Justin A. Wilcox, used under a Creative Commons License. [Redacted] Trigger warning. I have [redacted]. I am a clinically depressed woman who doesn’t always take her antidepressants or go to the doctor when scheduled or do what she’s supposed to, and I have [redacted]. [Redacted] is one of those things where, if you [...]
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By Annaham on 8 June, 2010
Becky CK at Happy Bodies: Why do we apologize for our bodies? Why do feel the need to apologize for our bodies’ needs and justify the choices we make about them? As I continue to incorporate body positivity into my life, I still find myself listing off what I ate all day to justify why I’m [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged bodies, bodily autonomy, chronic pain conditions, derailing, fibro, fibromyalgia, marginalisation, medicine, mental illness, myths and misconceptions, neuroatypical, neurotypicality, rape, schizophrenia, sexual assault, sexual violence, social justice, social treatment
By Anna on 7 June, 2010
Description: Bright yellow button: Disabled People Want Jobs! Employment Equity Now! PSA: Opt-Out Required to Prevent Your Yahoo! Mail Contacts From Being Used for Social Network Earlier this week, Yahoo! announced a plan to try to leverage its Yahoo! Mail users’ contacts into a social network of friends who will receive your Yahoo! Updates. Once [...]
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By s.e. smith on 4 June, 2010
Warning: Offsite links are not safe spaces. Articles and comments in the links may contain ableist, sexist, and other -ist language and ideas of varying intensity. Opinions expressed in the articles may not reflect the opinions held by the compiler of the post and links are provided as topics of interest and exploration only. I [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged accessibility, discrimination, funding, government programs, incarceration, institutionalisation, law, medical practice, mental illness, personal stories, policy, work
By abby jean on 3 June, 2010
Service puppies in training!! Miami Herald – Embedded therapists protect National Guard members’ mental health Roger Duke is a Vietnam veteran, a retired Marine lieutenant colonel and a licensed marriage and family therapist. Since 2006, he’s spent at least one weekend a month embedded with a California National Guard unit. Duke, 57, wasn’t deployed with [...]
Posted in class issues, mental health, military, news, policy, recommended reading, Uncategorized | Tagged confusion, puppies
By Annaham on 1 June, 2010
fiction_theory (LJ): The internet IS real life The problem with impeaching someone’s anti-racism based on attendance at a specific march or even public rallies and protests in general is that it assumes that a) attending such events is a more real, valid, and important means of expressing anti-racism than any other means, specifically online and [...]
Posted in bodies, identity, intersectionality, news, politics, recommended reading, social attitudes, technology | Tagged accessibility, activism, anti-racism, barriers to access, chronic pain, communication, community, critique, fandom, fibromyalgia, internet, Internet use, intersectionality, invisible disability, media critique, mental health, race, reading, science, sleep, social networking, trichotillomania
By Anna on 31 May, 2010
Description: A Canadian quarter (25 cents) showing a woman wheelchair curling. Photo by flickr user zzd, used under a creative commons license. Comics and disability: XKCD and dyslexia, Natalie Dee and Tourette’s syndrome [I strongly recommend checking the comments on this one] I’m not an expert in either of these disabilities. But I know enough [...]
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By s.e. smith on 28 May, 2010
Warning: Offsite links are not safe spaces. Articles and comments in the links may contain ableist, sexist, and other -ist language and ideas of varying intensity. Opinions expressed in the articles may not reflect the opinions held by the compiler of the post and links are provided as topics of interest and exploration only. I [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged airport security, assistance dog, Census, institutionalisation, language, ms, multiple sclerosis, personal stories, politics, security theatre, service animal
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