By kaninchenzero on 23 June, 2010
My [biggest] fandom is White Wolf’s Exalted. I’ve complained about it before and I’ll complain about it again. I build characters because it’s fun and I often spend a lot of time working at it trying to make a person rather than a collection of attributes. Right now I’m working on a character who I [...]
Posted in accessibility, creative work, i'm right here, intersectionality, language, othering, representations, social attitudes | Tagged ableism, exclusion, media and pop culture, problematic attitudes, social treatment
By s.e. smith on 18 June, 2010
Warning: Offsite links are not safe spaces. Articles and comments in the links may contain ableist, sexist, and other -ist language and ideas of varying intensity. Opinions expressed in the articles may not reflect the opinions held by the compiler of the post and links are provided as topics of interest and exploration only. I [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged ableism, athletes, bad medicine, bioethics, creative work, dance, disaster preparedness, FEMA, manifestos, sexual assault, technology, triathlons
By Annaham on 15 June, 2010
dhobikikutti (DW): This is also needed: A Space In Which To Be Angry And what I have realised is that there is a sixth component to zvi‘s rules, and that is that complaining about and calling out what you do not like does help, slowly, painfully, get rid of it. Every time I see friends [...]
Posted in activism, medical practice, normality, othering, politics, poverty, race, recommended reading, representations, social attitudes | Tagged ableism, anger, anti-racism, appropriation, art, cfs, cfs/me, chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic pain, creative writing, derailing, disabled artists, fandom, identity, media, medical practice, medicine, othering, political media, race, self-help, spina bifida, tv, vaccine, visual art
By Ouyang Dan on 12 June, 2010
[Trigger Warning for descriptions of violent thoughts of self harm] Oh, by now, faithful readers, you know where we are about to go. We are about to go on a little journey into my mind, the scary place that it is, where I open the floor to discussion about the ways that, once again! Stars [...]
Posted in intersectionality, language, media and pop culture, mental health, military, news, othering, oyd rants | Tagged ableism, i am not your metaphor, intersectionality, invisible disabilities, language, media and pop culture, mental health, mental illness, military, things people say, word use, words mean things
By Annaham on 7 June, 2010
Recently, I read this odd article, penned by Judith Warner, in the New York Times–one in a stream of many that detail how excessively awful the current generation of young people (read: young workers) is at putting its collective nose to the grindstone, sucking it up, and generally not acting like a bunch of brats, [...]
Posted in accessibility, age, autonomy, blaming, politics, social attitudes, work | Tagged ableism, chronic pain, disabled youth, education, erasing, higher education, invisibility, labor, mental illness, myths and misconceptions, paid work, personal, privilege, problematic attitudes, right to work, university, we're right here, work, workplace accommodations
By Annaham on 18 May, 2010
Pharaoh Katt at Something More Than Sides: I Dreamed That I Was Normal I dreamed the world made sense, That people never tried To delve into my psyche and redefine my mind. Gauntlet at Tumblr: Janet Street-Porter shares her thoughts on depression… I think maybe what we are seeing here, is women who have a [...]
Posted in autonomy, bodies, class issues, creative work, gender, identity, invisibility, politics, recommended reading, shaming, social attitudes | Tagged ableism, children, children with disabiltiies, government benefits, identity, invisible disabilities, mental health, mental illness, myths and misconceptions, problematic attitudes, social treatment, things people say, work
By Annaham on 11 May, 2010
sqbr at Poking at Thorns (with gloves on): Disability in Speculative Fiction: Monsters, mutants and muggles Fiction reflects social attitudes, and the social attitudes to disabled people tend to suck. Disabled people are presented as scary, pathetic, exotic, demanding, laughable, etc. But some tropes are popular/unique to SF. It’s not all bad: speculative fiction allows [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged ableism, accessibility, disability in fiction, disability is a feminist issue, feminism, fiction, gender, independence, medical, medical care, mental health, mental illness, pain, pregnancy, science fiction
By s.e. smith on 7 May, 2010
Warning: Offsite links are not safe spaces. Articles and comments in the links may contain ableist, sexist, and other -ist language and ideas of varying intensity. Opinions expressed in the articles may not reflect the opinions held by the compiler of the post and links are provided as topics of interest and exploration only. I [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged ableism, abuse, accessibility, customer 'service', discrimination, education, fat, job opportunities, labour rights, law, mental health, reclamatory language, size
By lauredhel on 2 May, 2010
More for Blogging Against Disablism Day. I just poked around the entry for “Ableism” on Wikipedia. On the Talk page, I found a box placing the Ableism article within WikiProject Sociology: “This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project’s importance scale.” Ableism of low importance within Sociology? Erm, ooookay. Let’s have a closer [...]
Posted in disability activism, i'm right here, intersectionality | Tagged ableism, badd, blogging against disablism day, disablism, importance, intersectionality, low-importance, oppression olympics, racism, sexism, sociology, wikipedia
By amandaw on 1 May, 2010
(Cross-posted at three rivers fog. See more BADD 2010 at Goldfish’s blog.) I’m pretty open about my health issues. To be honest, I don’t know any other way to be. I know how to strategically hide my disabilities from strangers in passing interactions, but from the people with whom I interact on a daily basis? [...]
Posted in accessibility, invisibility, small stories, social attitudes, work | Tagged ableism, accessibility, assholes, badd, badd 2010, chronic illness, chronic pain, disability, disclosure, head asplode, health, migraines, myths and misconceptions, pain, pain management, pain triggers, passing, personal, problematic attitudes, social treatment, stories, things people say, welcome to my life, work
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