By Annaham on 16 November, 2010
Peggy Orenstein for the New York Times Magazine: The code-words of breast cancer awareness Fast-forward to today, when, especially during October, everything from toilet paper to buckets of fried chicken to the chin straps of N.F.L. players look as if they have been steeped in Pepto. If the goal was “awareness,” that has surely been [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged age, asexuality, awareness, birth control, breast cancer, cerebral palsy, chronic pain conditions, coming out, fibromyalgia, fraud, homeopathy, medicine, mental illness, normality, post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, queer
By s.e. smith on 11 June, 2010
Irish novelist Marian Keyes recently came out about her depression and just published an update for her fans. The decision to openly discuss her depression is being widely covered in a lot of circles, as any disclosure of mental illness by a prominent figure tends to attract attention. Stephen Fry is also a public figure [...]
Posted in media and pop culture, mental health, social attitudes | Tagged coming out, depression, publishing
By lauredhel on 11 October, 2009
[This post was originally posted at Hoyden About Town on May 4, 2007.] This is my first personal post about being sick. A “coming-out”, to some of my online friends. And a whole lot of elaboration, for those who know I’m sick, but don’t know the details. It’s taken me ages to write, and I [...]
Posted in accessibility | Tagged accessibility, cfids, cfs, cfs/me, chronic fatigue syndrome, coming out, disclosure, invisible disabilities, invisible disability, me, medical care, misdiagnosis, narrative, parking, parking permit, passing, spoon theory, spoons, university
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