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Recommended Reading for October 6, 2010

By Annaham on 6 October, 2010

RMJ at Deeply Problematic: A feminist reading of Achewood, part one: disability and Roast Beef (trigger warning for discussion of ableist jokes) Roast Beef’s depression is a major theme of his character and the strip. At the outset of his appearance in the Achewood universe, he expresses the wish to commit suicide repeatedly, though he [...]

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Florida Court Ruling: Community-based Services, Not Institutionalisation

By s.e. smith on 1 July, 2010

In 2007, Florida resident Michele Haddad was involved in a motorcycle accident with a drunk driver. She incurred a spinal cord injury that led to quadriplegia, and lived at home until she lost her caregiver and Medicaid informed her that she would only qualify for the services she needed if she spent 60 days in [...]

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Recommended Reading for June 22, 2010

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 [...]

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Recommended Reading for June 1, 2010

By Annaham on 1 June, 2010

fiction_theory (LJ): The internet IS real life The problem with impeaching someone’s anti-racism based on attendance at a specific march or even public rallies and protests in general is that it assumes that a) attending such events is a more real, valid, and important means of expressing anti-racism than any other means, specifically online and [...]

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Question Time: Community

By Chally on 15 April, 2010

Question Time is a series in which we open up the floor to you, commenters. We invite you to share as you feel comfortable. How important is being in community with other disabled people to you? Where do you find community with other disabled people? How do these communities fit in with other ones in [...]

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Gender, health, and societal obligation

By amandaw on 5 February, 2010

Kate Harding, writing at Broadsheet: “If you ask us,” say Glamour editor Cindi Leive and Arianna Huffington, “the next feminist issue is sleep.” Personally, I never would have thought to ask those two what the next feminist issue is, but they make a pretty good case. “Americans are increasingly sleep-deprived, and the sleepiest people are, you [...]

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