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- Chatterday! Open Thread.
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- De’VIA
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- Chatterday! Open Thread.
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- Chatterday! Open Thread.
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- Question Time: Community
- On refusing to tell you my name
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- Chatterday! Open Thread.
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- Chatterday! Open Thread.
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- Recommended Reading
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- Chatterday – Open Thread.
- A Conversation in the Lunch Room
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- Recommended Reading for February 4th
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- Healthy Obligations
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- Question Time: Accessibility
- How to Frame the Accommodations Debate
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- Chatterday! Open Thread.
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- Recommended Reading for February 26th
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- Recommended Reading for February 25th
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- Recommended Reading for February 24th
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- 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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