By s.e. smith on 21 July, 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 asl, chronic disease, Deaf, exclusion, HIV/AIDS, jury service, medical practice, mental illness, patient care, race, racism, self-advocacy
By s.e. smith on 25 May, 2010
The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), passed in 1990, is often pointed to as an example of progressive legislation in the United States that magically solves the problem of discrimination against people with disabilities. It’s a Federal civil rights law that is designed to outline and protect basic rights for people with disabilities for people [...]
Posted in accessibility, work | Tagged California, Deaf, hearing impaired, right to work, state employees, workplace accommodations
By s.e. smith on 6 May, 2010
I’m leading off today’s dance videos with a lovely solo ballet piece: Performers in Sweden Signing and dancing: More performers using Teckenspråk, Swedish Sign Language: Gestim, a Deaf dance group, performing in Bulgaria:
Posted in creative work | Tagged ballet, dance, Deaf, Deaf dance, Sign
By Anna on 30 April, 2010
I’m still learning about De’VIA, as my particular studies are in nineteenth century d/Deafness. What I like about what I’ve seen is looking at art that is not only explicitly political, but is explicitly about being Deaf. In Toronto, the current exhibit is paintings of Sign Language.
Posted in creative work, disability activism, identity, language | Tagged art, artwork, De'VIA, Deaf, identity, media and pop culture
By Anna on 11 December, 2009
It seems difficult for nondisabled people to write about disability without reflexively imagining what disabled people are missing or how difficult their lives must be. Rod Michalko, a sociologist who is blind, writes that sighted people typically conceive of “blindness in terms of ‘lack’-lack of sight. But this conception does not really help us understand [...]
Posted in Quotations | Tagged blind, Deaf, quote
By Anna on 9 December, 2009
But still. Lane didn’t write the first book about deafness from the POV of actual deaf people (Lane is Hearing – he cites Jack R Gannon’s book as the first history written by someone who was Deaf), but he wrote the one that launched a thousand ships, so to speak. He challenged, quite viciously, the idea that deafness was something to be “conquered”, and argued that a deaf-focused history was necessary.
Posted in anna history rants | Tagged Deaf, history
By Anna on 5 November, 2009
Crip Drag is when a character has a disability, but the actor playing that character doesn’t have whatever disability they are portraying. Recent examples that come to mind are Kevin McHale, who plays Artie on Glee, any wheelchair-using villain you see in Doctor Who, and whoever got the role of Eleanor Perry in the Stargate: Universe episode “Sabotage”.
Posted in media and pop culture, social attitudes, Uncategorized | Tagged blind, broadway, crip drag, Deaf, helen keller, marlee Matlin, media and pop culture
By Anna on 28 October, 2009
Recommended Reading for October 28, 2009
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged accessibility, closed captioning, Deaf, female sexual disfunction, FSD, label, labelling, media and pop culture, pop culture, self-identification, tools
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