By Anna on 31 December, 2010
My friend Capriuni passed along to me this awesome YouTube video of “Your Brains” (original song by Jonathon Coulton). In and of itself, that’s not really note worthy – Capriuni is my source for many cool things in YouTube’s Deaf communities. The video itself is subtitled for the ASL-impaired. That’s where things got interesting, because [...]
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By Anna on 26 December, 2010
CBTish reminds us all that the Carnival of Mental Health #2 is coming up! This is a reminder that the next Blog Carnival of Mental Health will be published here on December 31. Thank you to Nyx and Kaie, who have already submitted their blogs for this carnival. If you have a post to submit, [...]
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By Anna on 8 December, 2010
I’ve been so behind in my reading this month that I missed entirely The Blog Carnival of Mental Health Issue 1: Diagnosis Welcome to the first Blog Carnival of Mental Health. I’m a day late, but I’m going to share with you an interesting if small collection of posts. I must say that it’s rather [...]
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By Ouyang Dan on 30 November, 2010
I have a love of cooking that often times taps me all the way to the bottom of my silverware drawer. I will often borrow tomorrow’s spoons to finish what I want to do today… I am sure that some of this is drawn of my stubborn and bullheaded nature. To assist me in my [...]
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By Anna on 30 November, 2010
I haven’t even had time to process this yet – I just found out when my friend called me to ask if I had heard the news. Donna Jodham has won her case against the Canadian Government – Government websites will now have 15 months to follow their own accessibility guidelines. Canada must make Web [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged accessibility, anna throws a party and everyone's invited, canada, donna jodham, web content
By abby jean on 25 November, 2010
As promised, here is a post and a place to discuss policies and procedures about language interpreting in a health care context. Unfortunately, it is going to be a slap dash post as I’m knee deep in a number of things, both professional and personal, including preparing to clean ALL THE THINGS and cook a [...]
Posted in accessibility, medical practice, Uncategorized | Tagged abby talks policy, interpretation, limited english proficiency, wonk time
By Ouyang Dan on 12 November, 2010
[The scene sets with OYD, a slightly pale yet never-the-less still quite indigenous woman, sitting down to her trusty Macbook Pro, a laptop named "Lappy", who has seen better days. She sets down and opens up her "drafts" tab under FWD/Forward, where she notices that egads! she has been working on this book review for over [...]
Posted in books, intersectionality, media and pop culture, poverty, race, Uncategorized | Tagged -ist language, ableist language, books, diability, disability and poverty, poverty, race, Sherman Alexie, stereotypes, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
By abby jean on 2 November, 2010
I recently changed my health insurance provider, which means I changed doctors and medical systems, which means I have to re-set up all of my care. (That must sound so funny to people with nationalized health care systems!) This mainly means I have to get new prescriptions. I was able to get a three month [...]
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By abby jean on 12 October, 2010
It’s true. I am a policy wonk. I am endlessly interested in it. I read about it, think about it, talk about it and … write about it. (As in, what I’m doing right now.) And I do all of this because I think it’s immensely important. Crucially important. Vitally important. Public policy is how [...]
Posted in activism, make the world a better place, policy, Uncategorized | Tagged abby talks policy, wonk time
By abby jean on 11 October, 2010
Gentle reader, be cautioned: comments sections on mainstream media sites tend to not be safe and we here at FWD/Forward don’t necessarily endorse all the opinions in these pieces. Let’s jump right in, shall we? Dorianisms - A Different Kind of Coming Out Today is (Inter)national Coming Out Day. It happens on October 11th every year, [...]
Posted in identity, media and pop culture, movies, recommended reading, Uncategorized
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