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- Bad Behavior, continued: More on School Discipline
- Recommended Reading for July 7, 2010
- Recommended Reading for July 6, 2010
- Ableist Word Profile: Special
- Signal Boost: Call for submissions: Occupied Bodies
- Investigating Disability Hate Crimes in the United Kingdom
- Call for Papers: Disability And Media
- Recommended Reading, July 5
- Dear Imprudence: So Close, Yet So Far
- Today In Journalism: Do You Feel Special? Well? Do You?!
- Depictions of Disability That Make Us Happy
- Recommended Reading, July 2
- Yes, I have a limp, and no, it’s not really any of your business
- Florida Court Ruling: Community-based Services, Not Institutionalisation
- When She Was Bad
- Recommended Reading, July 1
- (My) Crush of the Week: Zach Anner
- Creative Work: AXIS Dance Company
- Recommended Reading, June 30
- On Cure Evangelism
- Recommended Reading for June 29, 2010
- Wii Fit Making Exercise More Accessible?
- Recommended Reading, June 28
- Once-a-week Job Search Roundup
- The Second Summer of the Sisterhood: Choosing How to Fight Your Own Demons
- Dear Imprudence: The Questions You Don’t Get To Ask
- Electronic Medical Records
- Interpreters and Emergency Rooms
- Recommended Reading for Friday, 25 June 2010
- The Inner Critic
- Quick Hit: The Horrors of Solitary Confinement
- Bad Behaviour: Disabled Students and Discipline Disparities
- Recommended Reading, June 24 2010
- Crowdsourcing: Graphic novels! edition
- Damn Y’all White Wolf
- Recommended Reading for Wednesday, 23 June 2010
- Quick Hit: The Relationship Between Disability and Poverty, Part 1,293,495,594 in a continuing series
- Water and Access: Arsenic in Bangladesh
- Recommended Reading for June 22, 2010
- A conversation
- Quick Hit: In US, Women Hit Hardest by Medical Debt
- Recommended Reading for June 21, 2010
- US Signal Boost: New ADA & section 508 regulations – public comments due today June 21
- Once-a-Week Job Search Roundup
- Where There is No Pain
- Open Post: Helen Keller Mythbusting Blogswarm Day!
- Chatterday! Open Thread.
- Recommended Reading for 18 June, 2010
- AWP: “The Disabled”
- Quick Hit: Discussion and Writing Group for Women of Color Living with Disabilities in Seattle, US
- The High Price of Industry: Cancer Villages in China
- Avoidance
- Recommended Reading for June 17, 2010
- Videos: Creative Work
- Disability in Pop Culture: I know where the Black Stork Comes From
- Recommended Reading for Wednesday, June 16, 2010
- US Action Item: Support House Resolution 3101/Senate Resolution 3304
- Doing just fine
- Recommended Reading for June 15, 2010
- You Can’t Legislate Ableism Away
- Doctor Who: The Doctor and Disability
- Recommended Reading for Monday, June 14
- Bloggy Housekeeping Tasks
- I Bet It’s Exactly Like That!
- Announcing: Helen Keller Mythbusting Blogswarm!
- Chatterday! Open Thread
- Coming Out In a Dangerous World
- Recommended Reading for Friday June 11
- Quoted: Audre Lorde
- Disability-Centered Writing Wanted!
- Why My Disability Makes Me a Better Employee
- Recommended Reading for Thursday, June 10, 2010
- This Is Not Education: Abuse of Autistic Students in Pennsylvania
- Recommended Reading for Wednesday June 9, 2010
- Disability Rights Activist Jacob F Baldwin dies
- Dear Imprudence: I’ll Tell the Doctor On You!
- New VA Research Could Explain Lasting Effects of PTSD
- Recommended reading for June 8, 2010
- Kids these days! The “Generation Y” panic, privilege, and erasure
- Caption This
- Recommended Reading for Monday, June 7, 2010
- Dear Imprudence: Thank You for (Proving) Your Service!
- Signal Boost: Interview Subjects Needed in Phnom Penh
- Feasting the Eyes: Visual Art Created by Disabled Artists
- Signal Boost: Questionnaire about UN Convention on Rights of Disabled
- Chatterday! Open Thread.
- Fighting To Get Back And Other Cute Metaphors
- Recommended Reading for 4 June, 2010
- On Jeff Lindsay’s Dexter: It’s not ok for police to immobilise PWD for questioning
- Who Is The Victim Here?
- Recommended Reading for June 3, 2010
- Where About Us But Without Us Leads
- Call to Action: Tell Parliament to Stop Discrimination against people with disabilities who immigrate to Canada
- Recommended Reading for Wednesday, June 2, 2010
- Military Docs Treat Pain in New Ways and Shame in All the Old Ways
- What Is Justice? Incarceration of Mentally Ill Youth in the United States
- International Disabilities Alliance Disability Rights Bulletin May 2010
- Recommended Reading for June 1, 2010
- Signal Boost: Online Web Study on How People Give Route Instructions
- Recommended Reading for Monday, May 31
- Injuries to mobility-impaired kids: researchers suggest “consider avoiding stairs”
- Dear Imprudence: Food Policing, Ordinary Parenting, or Pathology?
- Saturday Poetry
- Chatterday! Open Thread.
- Recommended Reading for Friday, 28 May 2010
- Ableist Word Profile: Crazy (to describe political viewpoints or positions)
- It’s Always More Complicated: The “Justified” Abortion
- Signal Boost: Canadian Post-Secondary Institutions & Liberated Learning Youth Iniative
- Why History?
- Recommended Reading for I Can’t Believe May is Almost Over!
- How Many Straws?
- Come and Take A Spin With Me…
- Unexpectedly reassuring website of the day: WebMD
- Recommended Reading for Wednesday, May 26, 2010
- Deaf and Hard of Hearing California State Employees Sue For Workplace Accommodations
- Recommended Reading for May 25th, 2010
- AWP: Why writing about Language Isn’t Enough
- What is “healthcare”? A tale of a murderer, a victim, and a tattoo.
- Ableist Word Profile: Why I write about ableist language
- Recommended reading for Monday, May 24 2010
- Crude Violations: Oil, Human Rights, and Environmental Devastation in Nigeria
- For Cereal, Internet?: I Has A Hotdog edition
- Internet Use and Happiness
- Chatterday! Open Thread.
- Recommended Reading for Friday, 21 May: Flying While Crip Edition
- Why Don’t Non-Disabled People Trust People With Disabilities Anyway?
- Slam After Slam For People With Disabilities in California’s New Budget
- Dear Imprudence: Have You Considered Violating Your Son’s Bodily Autonomy Today?
- Recommended Reading for Thursday May 20 2010
- Why I Am Not a Libertarian
- Jenny McCarthy & Autism Part III: Spokesperson
- Dancing With Gaga
- In Which Rape Makes Me Angry
- Recommended Reading for May 18, 2010
- Guest Post from RMJ: Ableist Word Profile: Crazy
- Abuse of Intellectually Disabled Workers at Iowa Meatpacking Plant
- Recommended Reading for May 17, 2010
- Signal Boost: Participants Needed For Study On Women With Learning Disabilities In College
- Not-Quite-Recommended Reading for Saturday, May 15
- Representations: Dr. Gabriel Fife on Private Practice
- Chatterday! Open Thread.
- Dear Imprudence: Can I Stick My Aging Parent In A Nursing Home Yet?
- Recommended Reading for Friday, 14 May 2010
- Carer hits PWD on the head in public; World points and laughs
- Grey’s Anatomy Ableism: “How Insensitive”
- Recommended Reading for May 13, 2010
- Slam after slam for people with disabilities in Australia’s new Budget
- Recommended Reading for Wednesday, May 12, 2010
- Guest Post by Tasha Fierce: A Matter of Strength? Meds Vs. No Meds
- Psychiatric Hospitals and Music Videos: Part 2
- What’s the Big Deal With Pop Culture? (And Why Do You Keep Talking About it?)
- Science Says ‘Go Outside and You’ll Feel Better!’
- Recommended reading for May 11, 2010
- Guest Post by Lightgetsin: The one where I shout about able-bodied technology privilege for a while
- American Apparel, Meet American Able
- Recommended Reading for May 10, 2010
- Dear Imprudence: Do Conversational Redirects Actually Work?
- Social Campaigns Based on Ableism
- Chatterday! Open Thread.
- UK Signal Boost: Study about Disability & Benefits at the University of Leeds
- An Open Letter to Ms Magazine Blog
- Recommended Reading for Friday, 7 May 2010
- Signal Boost: Disenfranchisement at its Worst
- Party Time!
- Recommended Reading for Thursday, May 6
- Signal Boost: Feminism and Mental Health – Call for Submissions
- I Can’t Decide What I Think of This
- What’s The Big Deal With Pop Culture?
- Canadian Signal Boost: NEADS’ 2010 Conference Call for Speakers
- Recommended Reading for May 5, 2010
- Psychiatric Hospitals and Music Videos: Part 1
- Chocolate, Correlation, Causation, and Depression
- The One Damned Sock…
- Recommended reading for May 4, 2010
- BADD: Why I Write
- Recommended Reading for May 3, 2010
- Guest Post by Laura Overstreet: Book Review – Dancing at the River’s Edge: A Patient and her Doctor Negotiate Life with Chronic Illness
- Go educate yourself (please!)
- BADD: A Screenshot’s Worth A Thousand Words
- I can’t count on anybody to understand. (Blogging Against Disablism Day 2010)
- Chatterday! Open Thread.
- Blogging Against Disablism Day 2010: Do You Need Assistance?
- BADD: How can I support Blogging Against Disablism Day?
- BADD: A Thousand Words
- Harry Wieder, LGBT rights, transportation, and disabilities advocate, killed
- De’VIA
- Crowd Sourcing Counter-Arguments: You’re Easily Offended and People with Disabilities Can’t Act Anyway
- Recommended Reading for Friday, 30 April 2010
- Guest Post by Sasha Feather: Book Review of The Rejected Body
- Smile! (Your Face Is Making People Unhappy)
- Recommended Reading for whatever day it is now
- Food.
- Dear Imprudence: Sexual Assault By Any Other Name
- Guest Post from RMJ: Athletes with Disabilities: Arm-Wrestlers as Exceptions and Inspirations
- Recommended Reading for April 28, 2010
- Quoted: Francisco X. Stork in ‘Marcelo in the Real World’
- Recommended Reading for April 27, 2010
- When Accommodations Conflict (Continued)
- Signal Boost: Customer Service for PWD Survey
- Recommended Reading for April 26, 2010
- Lean On Me
- No, Actually, Cracks About Mental Illness Don’t Make Me Want to Donate to Your Organisation
- Get Your Dance On
- Why SF’s Proposed Sit/Lie Laws Are a Terrible Idea
- Chatterday! Open Thread.
- When Accommodations Conflict
- Recommended Reading for April 23, 2010
- Dear Imprudence: I Can Totally Police My Friends, Right?
- Bullying – How Can We Stop It?
- Recommended Reading for April 22, 2010
- Recognition
- Recommended Reading for Wednesday, 21 April
- Occupational Hazards: Dangerous Conditions in the US Mining Industry
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief — The Special Thing About You
- ‘Normal’ and the Dominant Narrative
- Recommended Reading for April 20, 2010
- This Terrifies Me
- Whose Voices?
- Recommended Reading for April 19, 2010
- Shades of Grey, Colour, and Visual Perception
- Dance Party It All Again!
- Dr. Drew – Stop Policing Other People!
- Chatterday! Open Thread.
- Recommended Reading for 16 April, 2010
- An OYD Airline Rant
- Quoted: David Levithan in ‘Will Grayson, Will Grayson’ on ‘Mental Health Days’
- Recommended Reading for April 15, 2010
- Question Time: Community
- On refusing to tell you my name
- Recommended Reading for 14 April, 2010
- Figuratively
- Idaho Revises State Laws to Remove Ableist Language
- Disability Representation in Music (Video), You’re Doing It Right: Janelle Monae’s “Tightrope”
- Recommended Reading for April 13, 2010
- Criticism and the Vatican, Part Two: Adventures in Bad Reporting
- Quick Press — Professional Sports and “Disabled Lists”
- Recommended Reading for April 12, 2010
- All Those Healthy Eating “Rules” are Just Guesses, Really
- Criticism and the Vatican, Part One: You Really Want To Go There?
- Chatterday! Open Thread.
- Guest Post: Storytime
- Recommended Reading for Friday, 9 April: Special FWD Contributors Elsewhere Edition!
- QuickPress: Launch of UKDPC Manifesto for 2010
- Words, Language, Context
- Recommended Reading for April 8, 2010
- Quickhit: Kelly Vincent elected to Upper House in South Australia!
- Relocating while disabled
- The Importance of Being Bellatrix Lestrange
- Recommended Reading for April 7, 2010
- Anger as a Constructive Force
- Lost on the Way Out of Broca’s Area? Depicting Differing Modes of Communication on Television
- Dear Carolyn Hax: Thank You
- Recommended Reading for April 6, 2010
- Post-Secondary Students, I am looking for your stories
- Jenny McCarthy & Autism Part 2: Let’s All Be Normal (Acting)
- Let me tell you all about my disability super powers
- Recommended Reading for April 5, 2010
- Finally, a Dear Prudence column that isn’t rage-inducing!
- Glee: Poster Children for DisabilityFail
- Innovative Methods for Health Access: The Breathmobile
- Chatterday! Open Thread.
- Recommended Reading for April 2, 2010
- My cane
- No, It’s Not As Easy As You Think
- The New York Times Tackles Teens and Cancer
- Recommended Reading for April 1, 2010
- Making “Invisible Women” even more invisible
- Happy Cesar Chavez Day!
- Recommended Reading for March 31, 2010
- Keeping up appearances
- Dance Party! (Again!)
- Recommended Reading for March 30, 2010
- Jenny McCarthy & Autism Part 1: If we shame parents enough, maybe autism can be cured!
- Back to the Pharmacy
- Stigma Kills: A Concrete Example
- Recommended Reading for March 29, 2010
- Picturing Disability
- For Cereal, Time?
- Chatterday! Open Thread.
- Quick Hit: ‘Women, Disability, and Feminism: Intersections and Activism’ Event in Washington, DC on 31 March
- Recommended Reading for Friday, 26 March
- Value Added
- Mental Health Care in Post-Quake Haiti
- Recommended Reading for March 25, 2010
- The Balkans: They Call It Balkan Syndrome: War, Terrible Legacies, and Pointing Fingers
- Recommended Reading for March 24, 2010
- Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
- Aware of what exactly?
- Videos: Dance Party!
- Integrating Primary and Mental Health Care
- Recommended Reading for March 23, 2010
- Recommended Reading
- QuickPress: [Ontario-only] CWDO CONTEST: “Accessibility Means…” An Exhibition
- Pop Quiz: What’s Wrong With This Promotional Still For Glee?
- The Community First Choice Option
- No title for this one.
- Thoughts On A Book: Scott Westerfeld’s ‘Uglies’
- Chatterday! Open Thread.
- Dear Imprudence: The Unmannerly Doctor
- Recommended Reading
- Film Review: The Music In Me
- For your Tool-kit: Letter to my University Residence Coordinator
- Recommended Reading
- For Cereal, Stars and Stripes? Mocking “Paranoia” is Headline-Worthy?
- Yeah, what *about* your free speech “rights”?
- Recommended Reading
- Question Time: Disability Activists
- Creating Accessible Campuses
- Bake Sales for Chemo
- Oh Canada: This week in Canada & Disability
- Recommended Reading
- Quick Hit: 2010 Paralympic Games
- Recommended Reading
- Tasting Fear
- Stuck
- Photos from Mental Health Institutions in Indonesia
- Chatterday! Open Thread.
- QuickPress: E-Library for Women with Disabilities in Africa
- Dear Imprudence: Polydactyly and the Single Person
- Recommended Reading
- QuickPress: Wheelchair Figure Skating
- Doctor Who and the Evil Wheelchair Users of Evil
- Am J Cardiol concern-trolling: “But mobility aids will stop them EXERCISING!”
- Accessibility Policies Done Right: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
- Recommended Reading for Décadi, 20 Ventôse CCXVIII
- We Need to Consider More than Universities
- Judge Orders New York to Move Mentally Ill Out of Adult Homes
- Recommended Reading for JD 2455264.5
- Black, Hispanic, Poor people wait longer for breast cancer treatment, experience more recurrences
- International Women’s Day: Subverting the Narrative
- Recommended Reading for Stardate 63649.1
- On standing up, but not for myself
- Quick Hit — 4D Plexes
- Singing in Sign
- Question Time: Shortcuts
- Chatterday – Open Thread.
- A Conversation in the Lunch Room
- Recommended Reading for Gimpuary 151st
- This is Why We’re Always on about Language
- Kettleman City, California: Low Income, Cleft Palates, and “Nothing Unusual”
- Recommended Reading for February 4th
- Quick Hit: The Food Police Are In My Asparagus!
- Healthy Obligations
- Recommended Reading for March 3rd
- Question Time: Accessibility
- How to Frame the Accommodations Debate
- Recommended Reading for March 2nd
- Accessibility Policies Done Right: The Legion of Honor in San Francisco
- “Defiant Birth”: Impolite Women Who Didn’t Make History
- Recommended Reading for March 1st
- QuickPress: Con_or_Bust!
- Feminism Objectifies Women
- Quickquote: Clare Hemmings on emotion and feminist stories
- A Conversation With a Pharmacist
- Chatterday! Open Thread.
- QuickPress: Event at McMaster University in Canada
- I Can’t Handle Celebrity Suicides
- Erasing History
- Recommended Reading for February 26th
- QuickPress: Asian Women’s Carnival!
- Iraq: Depleted Uranium, Political Turmoil, and Disability
- I’m not here for your inspiration
- Recommended Reading for February 25th
- Shame and Blame with African-Americans and Mental Health: Let the Circle Be Unbroken
- Internet Use and Depression
- Disability Blog Carnival #63: Relationships is Up at the Dreamwidth Disability Community!
- Recommended Reading for February 24th
- Trust Me
- Parking spaces – Daily Mail Fail
- Recommended Reading for February 23rd
- The perfect trifecta. And by “perfect”, I mean…
- Come filk with us – “Special Treatment” for PWD
- Who Killed Civil Discourse? Evelyn Evelyn, Marginalization, and Internet Discussion
- Recommended Reading for February 22nd
- A Saturday sketch
- Education and Communication: Online Schools in Oregon Under Threat
- It’s Hard to Know What to Say
- Chatterday! Open Thread.
- The Island That Heals: Lost, John Locke, and Disability
- Recommended Reading for February 19th
- For Cereal, Jessica at Jezebel? PTSD after obstetric assault is “hysterical”?
- Dear Imprudence: A “Tired Wife” Strikes Back?
- Quickhit: “From Cool to Crippled” in advertising
- We are not to be believed
- Why I Am Not Riled About Every Instance of Crip Drag
- Recommended Reading for February 18th
- How Stigma Undermines Good Policies
- “Saying conjoined twins are disabled is insulting!”: Evelyn Evelyn, redux
- Recommended Reading for February 17th
- QuickPress: Carnival of Feminist Parenting
- A program on disability rights in Australia
- Quoted: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson on staring
- Financial Planning For People With Disabilities
- Recommended Reading for February 16th
- Interview: Sex & Disability
- Another Moment In the Grocery Store
- Recommended Reading for February 15th
- Pop Culture: The Good Wife & Disability
- Recommended Reading for February 14th
- What Is ‘splainin’? And Why Should I Care?
- Accessibility & Sustainable Transportation
- Chatterday! Open Thread.
- Either/Or – Both/And
- Recommended Reading for February 12th
- Quick Hit: Call for Participants: Panel Discussion on Feminism and Disability (Washington, DC)
- Vegetative States and Terrifying Implications
- Recommended Reading for February 11th
- In which you are given information you may be able to use to help a few thousand disabled students out!
- How are you?
- A Moment In the Grocery Store
- Recommended Reading for February 10th
- Cambodia: Landmines, Disability, and Social Stigma
- Recommended Reading for February 10th
- Evelyn Evelyn: Ableism Ableism?
- Question Time: Odd Questions
- Newsflash: Poverty is Bad for Your Health
- Recommended Reading for February 9th
- Ask Me No Questions and I’ll Tell You No Lies
- Recommended Reading for February 8th
- What is the Real Goal of Fraud Investigations?
- Chatterday! Open Thread.
- Who Shall Remain Nameless: The Othering of PWD
- Recommended Reading for February 5th
- Gender, health, and societal obligation
- Question Time: Small Talk
- Battlestar Galactica: Disability In Space
- Recommended Reading for February 4th, editorialising edition
- For Cereal, Yahoo?
- Guest Post: Temporarily Able-Bodied: Useful, but not always true
- Recommended Reading for February 3rd
- Meet a Contributor: Annaham
- Recommended Reading for February 2nd
- Question Time: Intersections
- ACTION ITEM (United States): Ask your rep to co-sponsor the Technology Bill of Rights for the Blind
- Recommended Reading for February 1st
- Only you know your own experience
- Disability & Fiction: After the Dragon by Sarah Monette
- Recommended Reading for January 31st
- Recommended Reading for January 30th
- Dear Imprudence: Oh No, It’s the Pronunciation Police!
- Chatterday! Open Thread.
- A Letter for your Toolbox: How to ask for transcripts and subtitles
- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: A Discussion That Always Happens From Outside
- Recommended Reading for January 29th
- Open Letter to the Mainstream News Media
- Recommended Reading for January 28th
- The Opposite of “Disabled” is Not “Employable”
- Give Teens With Disabilities Access to Sexual Education
- The Cult of Busy: Introductory Thoughts
- Recommended Reading for January 27th
- A Difference in Perspective: Experiencing Avatar Exceeds the Marketing
- Recommended Reading for January 26th
- For Cereal, Cute Overload?
- Invisible Identities, Part 3: The Privileges and Pains of Passing
- Avatar: The New York Times Has Found Itself Some Straw Feminists
- Recommended Reading for January 25th
- Some snappy answers for your stockpile
- Sex Workshops Can Be For Everyone
- Do you REALLY trust women?
- Chatterday! Open Thread.
- Accessibility and the Good Cripple
- Recommended Reading for January 22nd
- Question Time: Three Words
- Disability in Rwanda
- Recommended Reading for January 21st
- Call for Submissions is out for Disability Blog Carnival #63: Relationships
- FWD’s New Look
- On writing about disability
- Seven reactions to reviews of Rachel Axler’s “Smudge”
- Recommended Reading for January 20th
- Well, Wasn’t That Exciting?
- In Which I Confuse a Child Psychologist
- Disability is not your analogy
- Signal Boost: Leonard Cheshire Disability
- The New York Times Tells You How To Eat
- Signal Boost: Feminism and Mental Health (Call for Submissions)
- Recommended Reading for January 18th
- Meet a Contributor: Lauredhel
- Recommended Reading for January 17th
- Haiti
- Question Time: Changing Experiences
- Chatterday! Open Thread.
- Admit Two: Australian Companion Card scheme up and running
- Recommended Reading for January 15th
- Stigma Hurts Everyone
- Feminist Icons
- Question Time: Personal Care Items
- Recommended Reading for January 14th
- An open letter
- Oh, Feminists, Can You Stop Telling People With Disabilities How To Take Care Of Their Bodies?
- Recommended Reading for January 13th
- Dear Imprudence: Dan Savage, Savage Love, and “That’s Retarded” (Hint, Dan, “Leotarded” Is Just As Unacceptable)
- The Space Between…
- Recommended Reading for January 12th
- Tell Us About Your Visit…
- Crossing My Fingers For The Future
- Special Ecclectic Recommending Reading Post of Email Backlog
- Why “being nice” isn’t enough
- Recommended Reading for January 10th
- Recommended Reading for January 9th
- Lines in the Sand: Daly, Showalter and Tactics of Exclusion
- Chatterday! Open Thread.
- SSRIs, Violence, Walking, and Dogs
- Quick Hit: Parenting and Ableist Language
- Recommended Reading for January 8th
- Question Time: Disability Quotes
- Cycles Are Hard To Break: Disability and Domestic Violence
- Recommended Reading for January 7th
- Why I don’t think it’s funny to use Limbaugh’s drug abuse as a punchline.
- It Will Always Be The First Thing I Think Of
- Recommended Reading for January 6th
- Two things I have lost, three things I have gained
- Wanted: Young, Healthy Organs for Transplant
- QuickPress: Book List
- Less Than / More Than – My complicated thoughts on reproductive rights & feminist discussions
- Signal Boost: Sexuality & Access Project Survey
- Recommended Reading for January 5th
- Quoted: Karl Michalak, “Face Value” (excerpt)
- Backscatter X-ray scanners, security theatre, and marginalised bodies
- Happy World Braille Day!
- Recommended Reading for January 4th
- Film Review: Beyond Words
- Interlude: Cat toy edition
- Chatterday! Open Thread.
- Ableist Word Profile: Moron
- Recommended Reading for January 1st
- Question Time: Disability and the New Year
- Promoting James Cameron’s Avatar: Let’s Talk Jake Sully and Disability
- Recommended Reading for December 31
- Question Time: Thinking About Website Accessibility
- Let’s Bust Some Myths: People with disabilities just want to sue the world into compliance
- Recommended Reading for December 30: Bumper midweek edition
- Quickpress: Upcoming Carnivals!
- Veterans Find Self Expression and Therapy
- The Other 90%
- Recommended Reading for December 29
- Glee: The Halfway Point: Wrap Up
- Recommended Reading for December 28
- Does Outright Speculation Make This Disabled Feminist Angry?
- Subtitles in Assassin’s Creed II and Ubisoft’s Pledge
- Kudos to the Others
- Medicaid: I’m Sorry, Did You Want Social Services With That?
- Anything is possible, except an end to these sorts of stories
- Chatterday! Open Thread.
- Recommended Reading for December 25
- Question Time: Gender and Disability
- Glee: The Halfway Point: Disability and Sexuality On Glee
- Recommended Reading for December 24
- One Sided
- Recommended Reading for December 23
- Talking down disability while talking down to young people
- Suggestive Sell
- Guest Post: Puppies and Pills Part 2
- Recommended Reading for December 22
- Guest Post: Future of Portrayals of Disability in Movies? Cameron’s Avatar
- Glee: The Halfway Point: Women and Race on Glee
- Recommended Reading for December 21
- On Speculation and Boundaries…
- Question Time: What Do You Like to Read?
- QuickPress: Disability Carnival!
- The Perils of Social Media: How Insurance Companies Use Twitter, Facebook, and the Rest of the Internet to Deny Benefits
- A Weird Moment
- Chatterday! Open Thread.
- Glee: The Halfway Point: The Introduction
- Recommended Reading for December 18
- Quick Bug Note
- For Cereal, Internet?
- “Bad Activist” moments
- Recommended Reading for December 17
- Disabled & Sick: We’ll Manage
- Question Time: Spoon-saving Wee Web Widgets
- Recommended Reading for December 16
- The Cautionary Tale of the Kehoe Twins: Is This About Surrogacy, or Whether or Not Disabled Women Can Parent?
- Recommended Reading for December 15
- Why ‘What People Think’ Matters
- It’s a scooter, not a Mack truck
- Depictions of Disability That Make Us Happy
- Recommended Reading for December 14
- Inertia
- Question Time: Positive Experiences with Abled People
- Quotation: Why We Do Disability History
- Quotation: “Disability & Sentimentality”
- The frustration of incremental progress
- Chatterday Open Thread.
- Quote: Not a lack
- Injury versus disability
- Recommended Reading for December 11
- Book Review: Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich
- Quote: “Who are ‘the Disabled’?”
- Needs Are Not Special
- Recommended Reading for December 10
- Invisible Identities, Part 2: The Default Human
- QuickPress: 9th Feminist Blog Carnival is up!
- The Brain Is Still A Giant Mystery
- Recommended Reading for December 9
- Anna History Rants: Harlan Lane
- Question Time: The Holidays
- Recommended Reading for December 8
- I Hope You Feel Better
- Meet a Contributor: Chally!
- Anna History Rants: Introduction
- On the Bus
- Recommended Reading for December 7
- Not So Silent
- Hate Crimes against PWD
- I Don’t Trust Myself
- Chatterday! Open Thread.
- Ableist Word Profile: Spaz/Spak
- Recommended Reading for December 4
- Which Is Worse: Reality TV or the commentary on it?
- Disability 101: Treatment Suggestions and Why They Are Not a Good Idea
- Recommended Reading for December 3
- Guest Post: Book Review: Everything Beautiful
- Jetstar, AGAIN – this time they refused passage to woman with guide dog
- Budget Cuts Work in Funny Ways
- Question Time: Eating for PWD
- Recommended Reading for December 2
- Poetry!
- Guest Post: Disability and Aging
- Recommended Reading for December 1
- Accommodation is Not “Special Treatment”
- Reading List: Mental Health Diversion Courts
- Recommended Reading for November 30
- Some Thoughts on The Time Traveler’s Wife
- Dear Imprudence: Getting It Right
- “Cast Offs” – A Warning for Rape-threat Content
- I’m Not Supernatural, I’m Disabled
- Chatterday! Open Thread. And planned outage on Monday.
- Recommended Reading for November 27
- QuickPress: “Success” of Automatic Captioning on YouTube
- I don’t have a “real” mental health condition, I’m just weak, and other bad self-talk
- Recommended Reading for November 26
- Question Time: Fantasy Assistive Devices
- Invisible Identities, Part 1: Invisible to Whom?
- Denial of Access In the Name of “Historic Preservation”
- Recommended Reading for November 25
- Guest Post: Hanging Up the Cane
- No, Actually, “Eat a Sandwich” is Not “Feminist Activism”…
- An Introduction to Gender Terminology
- I’d Rather Be Dead
- Recommended Reading for November 24
- Amusing Answers to Clueless Questions
- On Language, Again
- Guest Post: Puppies and Pills Part 1
- Recommended Reading for November 23
- Meet a Contributor: abby jean!
- From the Comments
- Warning: Site Tweaks
- James Cameron’s Avatar: Watch Some -isms This December!
- This is something I avoid thinking about
- Disability 101: What is Able-Bodied or Abled Privilege?
- Chatterday – Open Thread.
- A brief PSA on language
- Guest Post: Learning to Write About Disability
- International Transgender Day of Remembrance 2009
- Why are they so angry at her?
- 60th Disability Blog Carnival: Intersectionality
- “Bad Cripple”
- An Expansion On What the Ableist Word Profile Is and Is Not
- Disability History Education Video
- Recommended Reading for November 18
- Ableist Word Profile: Wheelchair Bound
- Dear Disney & Pixar: Closed Captioning and Audio Descriptions are not “special features”
- Disabled Sexuality and Disempowerment Through Fetishization
- Recommended Reading for November 17
- Guest Post: Cerebral Palsy Humor? Not so Much.
- Final Carnival Reminder!
- Jordan’s Principle
- Question Time: Assistive Devices
- Ableist Word Profile: -wit
- Recommended Reading for November 16
- Glee: “That’s why we call it dismissing legitimate concerns instead of acting”
- More Tales From the Good Doctor Files
- A Few Relevant Posts on “Glee”
- Quoted: Paulo Freire
- Your Chilling Fact For The Day
- Guest Blogging at Bitch Magazine!
- Guest Post: Sex and Scoliosis
- Chatterday! Open Thread.
- Recommended Reading for November 13
- Power and Responsibility
- Getting Through College with a Mental Disability
- Recommended Reading for November 12
- Keiko Fukuda: Be Strong, Be Gentle, Be Beautiful
- Campaigning: A (brief) Guide for Inclusion
- Cast in Bronze
- Recommended Reading for November 11
- Veterans Day
- Guest Post: Davros, Daleks, and Disability
- Recommended Reading for November 10
- Disability Activsm: Reading Rights
- Friendly Reminder! 9 days to Disability Carnival!
- Quoted: Barbara Smith
- What I Am Is…
- Limits
- Recommended Reading for November 9
- Guest Ableist Word Profile: Crutch
- Appealing the Indecision
- Meet a Contributor: Anna!
- The Retrospectoscope: Pinel, On Insanity
- In which homework is assigned
- A Patient’s Guide to Lithium
- Made You Look! Magazine from Don’t DIS my ABILITY
- Chatterday! Open Thread.
- It’s not progress if we’re going backwards
- Guest Post: Disability and Asexuality
- Recommended Reading for November 6
- Let’s talk about the weather
- The Labor of…
- Fort Hood Shootings
- Hipster Ableism
- Recommended Reading for November 5, 2009
- Mental Health Coverage Makes Economic Sense
- And if this keeps up, there won’t be any
- Ableist Word Profile: Scab
- Guest Post: To Whom It May Concern
- Advocacy in Flawed Systems: Using Shackling Language to Help a PWD?
- Some Partially Formed Thoughts On Size and Disability
- Recommended Reading for November 4
- Getting It Wrong: Rate Your Students and Ableism
- The International Symbol of Acceptance
- Dear Imprudence: How Not To Give Advice
- Recommended Reading for November 3
- Reclamation: thoughts from a fat hairy uppity lame bitch
- Policing Disability
- Quiz: Representations of Disabled Bodies in Logos
- Ableist Word Profile: Weak
- Friendly Reminder: Disability Carnival!
- Invisible Illness and Disability Bingo 1.0
- Recommended Reading for November 2
- The Invisible Disability
- The Disabled Label
- The TRICARE Pharmacy and the Second Shift
- So, There’s This Conversation With My Pharmacist…
- The Labor of…
- Chatterday! Open Thread.
- Ableist Word Profile: I Feel Your Pain!
- Quotations
- Recommended Reading for October 30
- How to Be a Good Doctor
- “Please, Keep Us Updated On Your Health”
- Recommended Reading for October 29
- Finding Myself in Unexpected Places
- Law & Order: “Dignity”, Worth, and the Medical Model of Disability
- New Blog: You Make Me Feel Less Alone
- Ableist Word Profile: Mongoloid
- Ableism and the Aussie Battler
- Guest Post: Negotiating Disableism
- Recommended Reading for October 28
- Why I Identify As Disabled
- Guest Post: Why I Say I’m Okay
- Recommended Reading for October 27
- Scooterblogging: I’m Right Here
- Ableist Word Profile: Invalid
- Disability Blog Carnival 59 is up!
- Recommended Reading for October 26
- Umbrella Terms
- Focusing on College Students’ Mental Health (For the Benefit of the Neurotypical)
- How Do I Say “My Brain Is Not Like Yours”?
- Disability and Sexuality 101, or, Do disabled people have sex?
- Disability Is …?
- Congratulations, Chally!
- Where Are All the People With Disabilities?
- A bit of disability humour to brighten your day
- Chatterday! Open Thread
- Depending on narcotics
- A Delayed Deployment of Care
- Recommended Reading for October 23
- This is Hard
- Ableist Word Profile: Intelligence
- Yes, it DOES make a difference
- You don’t have to be normal.
- Shifting the Responsibility for Disability in Uniform
- Guest Post: Disability Dismissed
- Recommended Reading for October 22, 2009
- CFS/ME and “faulty illness beliefs”: The incredible hubris of the psychiatro-patriarchal complex
- Disability, Gender, and Poverty
- Barbara Moore: Feminist, Lawyer, Writer & Grad Student of the U of Melb. 1953-2009
- The Negative Side of Positive Thinking
- Ableist Word Profile: Vegetable
- The Pain of House
- Conceptualizing disability
- Why can’t disorder be beautiful?
- Blub/gush, or You Guys Rule
- Guest Post: “There’s something wrong with Esther”: Disability, deception, and Orphan
- Recommended Reading for October 20, 2009
- Samples
- “What can I do?”
- What does it mean to heal?
- From the Comments
- Ableist Word Profile: You’re so OCD!
- Television: Bloody Torchwood
- Barriers to justice when rapists attack women with disabilities: Australian report
- Recommended Reading for October 19, 2009
- “But what do we CAAAALL them?”: The language of shackling
- Calendar Girls: Sexification Strikes Yet Another Serious Health Condition
- Understanding and Your Experience
- Accessibility Notes: FWD/Forward: Now With Bigger Fontification!
- Gender presentation, disability and intersections
- Time and Energy, or Lack Thereof
- Activism suggestion: How about shade for “accessible” parking spots?
- Please, Tell Me More
- Recommended Reading for October 16, 2009
- It’s…. Chatterday!
- Ableist Word Profile: Retarded
- Pain and Public Spaces
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Language
- BADD: The radical notion that people with disabilities are people, and Australia’s 2020 Summit
- Ill
- Feminists With Disabilities Love Their Bodies
- Quotations
- Recommended Reading for October 15, 2009
- More Research Like This, Please!
- Recommended Reading for October 14th, 2009
- Second Shift for the Sick
- Rant: Your Logic is SO Faulty!
- Ableist Word Profile: What’s Your Damage?
- Disability Is a Feminist Issue
- This is what an activist looks like
- Why Do I Care What the Families Think?
- Ableist Word Profile: Hysterical
- Email Q&A: What About Womanists?
- Portrayals in Pop Culture: Adam
- Recommended Reading for October 13, 2009
- Psychiatrists see reasonable adaptations to CFS, label it “cause” and “maladaptation”
- Guest Post: Why I didn’t celebrate “World Mental Health Day”
- Who hates to hear they look great?
- Ableist Word Profile: Lame
- Mental Health Services and the Welfare System
- Television & Disability: Joan of Arcadia
- Recommended Reading for October 12, 2009
- On ambient intimacy and assistive devices
- The Bystander Effect
- Outrageous pre-existing conditions
- Why I’m Not At the National Equality March
- Ableist Word Profile: Idiot
- Stop and think: invisible access for invisible disabilities
- Transparency and Feedback
- Ableist Word Profile: Cretin
- Awareness
- Where I jump in and defend pills…
- Telegram to TABs, on Spoon Theory
- Devaluing the Disabled Body
- Lucky for us, there’s money to be thrown
- How Do We Understand This Experience?
- Why Inclusionary Language Matters
- Disability 101: Defining Disability
- It’s Your Fault: Socially Acceptable Disability and Popular Causes
- Welcome to FWD/Forward: Feminists With Disabilities For a Way Forward
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