By Chally on 21 March, 2010
I wanted to draw your attention to this article from the Los Angeles Times, Police fatally shoot unarmed man in Koreatown: Los Angeles Police officers shot and killed a man in Koreatown early Saturday morning after he reached into his waistband for what officers believed was a weapon, authorities said. The man was twenty-seven year [...]
Posted in news, violence
By kaninchenzero on 10 March, 2010
There’s a lot of really good stuff out in the blogoamorphia1 about sexual assault on uni campuses. The focus is specifically on USian colleges and universities though Rape Culture exists pretty much everywhere with only slight variation. It’s worth reading, if you’re up to reading about sexual assault at all. (I’m not always.) Predators are [...]
Posted in activism, class issues, disability activism, feminism, gender, intersectionality, justice, othering, reproductive justice, shaming, social attitudes, violence | Tagged abuse, exclusion, feminism, intersectionality, myths and misconceptions, privilege, problematic attitudes, social treatment
By abby jean on 8 January, 2010
Recently a link was making the rounds on Tumblr about how SSRI anti-depressants caused violent and homicidal reactions in people (h/t to the lovely Cara for making sure we saw it). I was largely ignoring it because, frankly, there’s a lot of unproductive discussions about whether SSRIs, or anti-depressants in general, or even psychotropic drugs [...]
Posted in blaming, medical practice, mental health, policy, shaming, violence
By s.e. smith on 7 January, 2010
According to a 1997 study which I see cited in a lot of places but can’t actually find a copy of, unfortunately, 85% of women with disabilities in the United States have experienced domestic violence. Other studies pinpoint the rate at lower levels, but seem to generally agree that women with disabilities are at least [...]
Posted in accessibility, domestic violence, intersectionality, social attitudes, violence | Tagged crisis centers, disability is a feminist issue, intimate partner violence, trans
By abby jean on 6 January, 2010
**TRIGGER WARNING FOR DISCUSSION OF SELF-HARM** I’ve been under some significant emotional stress lately, more so than usual. And I’ve had a couple of incidents when I received some very upsetting news. Of course I’ve cried. Sobbed, even. And reached out to my friends and family and cared for myself in all the healthy and [...]
Posted in bodies, identity, introspective, mental health, violence
By Anna on 6 December, 2009
Last year I attended Halifax’s first “Not So Silent Vigil”. Instead of focusing on the murders in Montreal, this vigil was for all the women in Canada who have been victims of domestic violence. Speakers, singers, dancers, and even a hilarious feminist comedienne took on the subject of violence and sexism. There was a moment of silence, in memory of our dead. There was a moment of screaming, for the women who cannot or will not scream.
Posted in activism, bodies, introspective, social attitudes, violence | Tagged charles-antoine blais, chelsea craig, december 6th, katie-lynn baker, marc lepin, murder, tracy latimer, violence, violence against women
By abby jean on 6 December, 2009
The FBI recently released the 2008 Hate Crimes Statistics report, summarizing hate crime data from over 13,000 law enforcement agencies in the United States. The Attorney General is required to compile and report on this data yearly. Although the majority of hate crimes are based on race, it includes reporting on crimes “motivated by disability [...]
Posted in justice, normality, politics, violence
By lauredhel on 28 November, 2009
Cast Offs is a new British TV show. This scripted fake-reality show aims to spoof Survivor-type shows by placing six people with different disabilities (all physical or sensory) on an island. All are played by actors with a disability. The show also shows a series of flashbacks, with each episode focusing on one of the [...]
Posted in media and pop culture, violence
By abby jean on 6 November, 2009
As you may have heard, this afternoon at Fort Hood in Texas, a shooter killed 12 and wounded 31 people. The shooter, Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, was killed during the incident. While this is not a breaking news blog, my initial reaction was fear that the shooter had or could be construed to have [...]
Posted in mental health, military, violence
I’d Rather Be Dead
By kaninchenzero on 24 November, 2009
I didn’t think I’d need to do this but it has come up: This post is not a place to discuss the merits of assisted suicide. Many disabled people, including me, find it really unsettling. In the context of able-bodied and neurotypical people telling us our lives aren’t worth living it is especially inappropriate. Comments [...]
Posted in blaming, disability activism, From the comments, i'm right here, justice, normality, representations, resistance, shaming, social attitudes, violence