By kaninchenzero on 15 March, 2010
[This here is a warning that the author has written a post about, amongst other things, being depressed and suicidal. For this reason there is a clicky thing. Use it in whatever health you got. Also please note that with respect to my wife and our marriage you are getting exactly one perspective--mine--and everything is [...]
Posted in introspective, life changes, mental health, normality | Tagged communication, employment, health care, me, mental illness, social treatment
By kaninchenzero on 4 March, 2010
I’m not linking to the original source because the specifics don’t matter. This isn’t about the individual people or the individual documents involved. This is just an example of how the use of ableist language harms disabled people. Sometimes our posts on ableist language are on the abstract side, so here’s something real concrete. The [...]
Posted in invisibility, justice, language, othering | Tagged ableism, abuse, communication, exclusion, language, personal, privilege, problematic attitudes, social treatment
By Annaham on 22 February, 2010
Hello. I am Annaham (yes, I have a name). I am the person who posted a critique of Evelyn Evelyn on this website, which kicked off something of an internet controversy. For those who’ve just joined us, I made a post about Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley’s side project Evelyn Evelyn, Lauredhel made another post [...]
Posted in activism, bodies, creative work, feminism, i'm right here, identity, intersectionality, invisibility, justice, marketing, media and pop culture, meta, normality, othering, representations, social attitudes, Uncategorized | Tagged communication, evelyn evelyn, feminism, intersectionality, media and pop culture, pop culture, privilege, problematic attitudes, social inclusion, social treatment, things people say
By s.e. smith on 20 February, 2010
I recently heard an interesting report on Jefferson Public Radio (JPR), the radio station I listen to, about the Oregon Virtual Academy (OVA), an online public school in Oregon. Oregon legislators are apparently concerned about the regulation of online schools and there’s a proposal to place a two year freeze on making new online schools [...]
Posted in policy | Tagged communication, education, learning
By s.e. smith on 10 February, 2010
I was in the grocery store recently when I spotted my friend Karen1 with another woman. We met up with each other in the yoghurt section, and I said hello to Karen, but Karen didn’t introduce me to her companion. Which, normally, I would have thought was rather odd. But Karen works as an aide [...]
Posted in i'm right here | Tagged communication, social inclusion, social treatment
By Annaham on 30 January, 2010
The following appeared in Slate’s “Dear Prudence” advice column chat-room supplement fairly recently: Chicago: We have a close friend who is prone to embarrassing malapropisms that surpass even the best Norm Crosby bit. These are not innocent and simple mispronunciations—but ugly mangling of words including misuse and lack of understanding of the meaning of some [...]
Posted in Dear Imprudence, language, normality, representations, shaming, social attitudes | Tagged advice, communication, language, privilege, social treatment, word use
By s.e. smith on 19 January, 2010
Today, a tale from my past which I think illustrates some interesting social attitudes about “intelligence,” social expectations, and children. When my father and I returned to the United States from Greece, he was informed that I would need to be assessed by a child psychologist before I could be placed in school. Although I [...]
Posted in i'm right here, normality, social attitudes | Tagged communication, education
By kaninchenzero on 29 October, 2009
On the way home from work the other day, the classical music station in Dallas, WRR 101.1*, played a really good performance of Beethoven’s Bagatelle for Piano in A minor, WoO 59 “Für Elise”. It’s pretty, of course, which is all it needs to be. But every performance (and every work of art and every [...]
Posted in introspective, normality | Tagged communication, difference, happiness, identity, media and pop culture, mobility, normality, participation, personal, pride, social inclusion, stories
By amandaw on 21 October, 2009
Amanda flags a great post by Anne C at Existence is Wonderful, which catalogues “three different ways of looking at autism — in terms of neurological structure, in terms of lived experience, and in terms of outward behavior.” And Anne does such wonderful things with this delineation. Click through to read the whole post, which [...]
Posted in bodies, normality, Uncategorized | Tagged autism, body image, communication, conceptions of disability, difference, disability, language, mislabelling, myths and misconceptions, normality, research, science, self-acceptance, social treatment, symptoms
By lauredhel on 19 October, 2009
[This post was originally published on October 3, 2008 at Hoyden About Town.] *trigger warnings apply to this post: descriptions of abuse and sexual assault against women with disabilities** “This young woman [“Caroline”] has cerebral palsy, is wheelchair bound, totally dependent on carers for her personal and daily living activities, and non-verbal. Cognitively very aware, [...]
Posted in justice, violence | Tagged abuse, australia, communication, justice, law, rape, report, sexual assault, sexual violence
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