By Anna on 27 December, 2010
Dale Mitchell, Ethos Executive Director. He looks to me like he’s a white man in his 40s.: We’ve heard about homemakers going in, taking out a bible and having the elder pray, and asking for forgiveness.
Lisa Krinsky. She’s a white woman in an office surrounded by files, and works for LGBT Aging Project,: And to be cured. It’s not too late for you to be cured of this. They go back in the closet. She might misstreat me or abuse me.
Posted in age, disability activism, gender, intersectionality, life changes, relationships, sexuality, social attitudes, Videos | Tagged aging, documentary, Gen Silent, LGBT, transcript
By Ouyang Dan on 1 September, 2010
Gentle Readers! It has been a long time and I know you were afraid that I had forgotten to read and review Ann Brashares’ third installment of the much beloved YA series The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants! Well, fear not! I managed to fit it in whilst chewing my way through Terry Goodkind’s Sword [...]
Posted in books, intersectionality, media and pop culture | Tagged ableism, aging, Ann Brashares, caregivers, disability, Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhod, intersectionality, pop culture, privilege, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
By Ouyang Dan on 12 August, 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, Uncategorized | Tagged ableism, aging, barriers to access, disability, intersectionality, military, myths and misconceptions, PTSD, religion, sports injuries
By Annaham on 22 June, 2010
Ken Reibel at Huffington Post: Teen With Asperger’s Arrested: Were Callers Racial Profiling? Neli, as his family calls him, is 18 and has Asperger’s, a mild form of autism. Three Mondays ago, he rose early and left home without telling his mother. “When I entered his room at 6:30 am and didn’t see him, I [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged age, aging, asperger syndrome, autonomy, bodies, clothes, community, creative writing, fandom, gender, health police, law enforcement, media and pop culture, race, writing
By Guest on 3 February, 2010
We have the highest respect for the use of TAB and “temporarily
able-bodied.” Using it is a way for a disability activist (or anyone
discussing disability) to quickly and effectively bring all of her/his
listeners into one group: some of us are disabled now and many of us
will be sooner or later. It’s a phrase that builds community, that
reminds people that the needs of some are really the needs of
everyone. It’s akin to
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_design">“universal
design” as a phrase reminding us of what brings us together,
rather than what separates us.
Posted in age, bodies, guest post, language, social attitudes | Tagged ability, activism, aging, body image, body impolitic, disability, TAB, temporarily able-bodied
By Guest on 1 December, 2009
Living in our bodies is a day-by-day, minute-by-minute experience. In our experience, and the experience of our friends who are our ages or older, aging does entail additional maintenance time and energy. More small things about our bodies need attention than they did 25 years ago. We go to doctors more often. We have more routine tests. We have excellent memories, but we lose words more often than we used to.
Posted in bodies, guest post, intersectionality | Tagged age, aging, body impolitic, disability, fact activism, fat, stereotypes, stereotyping
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