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Recommended Reading for November 23

By Anna on 23 November, 2009

Recommended Reading for Monday, November 23, 2009

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International Transgender Day of Remembrance 2009

By kaninchenzero on 20 November, 2009

Today, 20 November 2009, marks the Eleventh Annual International Transgender Day of Remembrance. It’s the day that we set aside to commemorate the lives of people murdered due to trans hate and discrimination and prejudice. This year, we know of one hundred sixty-two persons who have been killed because they were trans* or were perceived [...]

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60th Disability Blog Carnival: Intersectionality

By Anna on 19 November, 2009

Welcome to the 60th Disability Blog Carnival! Thank you to Penny at Disability Studies, Temple U for continuing to host the Disability Blog Carnival.

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Disability History Education Video

By Chally on 18 November, 2009

I wanted to share this Disability History Education video by the Disabled Young People’s Collective. The DYP is based in North Carolina, USA, and is made up of people between the ages of fifteen and twenty-eight. See the DYP website for more. The video is mostly captioned, but the captions can be a bit difficult [...]

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Dear Disney & Pixar: Closed Captioning and Audio Descriptions are not “special features”

By Anna on 18 November, 2009

Codeman38 has been bringing people’s attention to the lack of accessibility features available in the rental version of Up: However, Disney (the film’s distributor) released a special rental-only version of the DVD to the three above-mentioned rental chains, which lacks the bonus shorts from the retail DVD, the descriptive audio track, and the captions and [...]

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Final Carnival Reminder!

By Anna on 17 November, 2009

Today is the deadline for submissions for the Disability Carnival. If you emailed something to carnival at disabledfeminists.com and didn’t get some variation of “I got your submission! Thank you!”, then I haven’t received it. The alternate address is anna@annaoverseas.com. The optional theme is intersectionality. However, any posts you’ve written about disability that you’d like [...]

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Cast in Bronze

By Ouyang Dan on 12 November, 2009

Yeah, I know that this guy’s uniform is jacked up. I know you can’t wear your collar standing up like that no matter how cold it is, and that your pockets are decorative only. Were I doing an inspection, The Lone Sailor here would probably not pass. He would be called to re-inspect later. But [...]

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Friendly Reminder! 9 days to Disability Carnival!

By Anna on 10 November, 2009

Just a friendly reminder that it’s 9 days until we host the Disability Carnival here at FWD/Forward, so it’s 7 days until your links are due! Email them in to carnival@disabledfeminists.com. Our optional theme is Intersectionality.

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Appealing the Indecision

By Ouyang Dan on 8 November, 2009

Moderatix note: This post will be United States Military centric, as that is the perspective I offer, and the broken system within which I currently exist and attempt to navigate.  Other voices are welcome and experiences appreciated within the context of the conversation, since I can not pretend to know every thing about every military [...]

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The Labor of…

By Ouyang Dan on 6 November, 2009

Moderatrix Note: “The Labor of…” is a somewhat intermittent series to re-explore things in daily life taken for granted before living with chronic pain and/or disability.  This is a space to share experiences. Dressing. I was never, and am not now a fashionista by any stretch of the imagination or definition of the word.  I [...]

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