By Anna on 23 December, 2010
I don’t have a t.v. at home so I don’t actually watch a lot of advertisements, but when I do, there’s one thing I notice: Unlike the rest of my life, advertisements only include people with evident disabilities when they want to make some sort of point.
I’m really bothered by this. I know, I know, it’s advertising. We also don’t get excited about brighter brights in our laundry and aren’t followed around by wind machines when we get new shampoo. It’s certainly not supposed to represent “real life” in any way, because it’s all fantasy to sell you stuff. But part of what advertising sells us is ideas about people. And part of what I think it sells us is that disability is a punishment, a novelty, a metaphor, or a joke.
Posted in gender, invisibility, media and pop culture, representations, television, Videos | Tagged advertisements, advertising, disability, self esteem
By Annaham on 1 November, 2010
Feminist organizations have become more aware of the need to make their activities accessible to women who use wheelchairs, women who need written material in alternative formats, and women who need Sign Language translation, but much feminist practice still assumes a consistently energetic, high-functioning body and mind, and certainly not a body and mind that [...]
Posted in Quotations | Tagged activism, disability, feminism, feminist theory, feminist work, gender, parenting, second shift, work
By Ouyang Dan on 28 October, 2010
Readers beware! Not every link is a guaranteed trip to a safe space, and the commentary is not necessarily the opinions of myself or others here at FWD/Forward, but have been included to provide you with a variety of reading that is possibly relevant to your interests (or perhaps to mine). The comments in the [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged caregiver abuse, disability, drugs are bad mmm'kay, FSD, Kendra's Law
By Anna on 28 October, 2010
I think it would be awesome instead of telling me how much they cared, they’d show it. And one way of doing that would be subtitling their ads, so everyone can know what their message is.
Posted in accessibility, how to be accessible, invisibility, technology, television | Tagged accessibility, canada, canadian politics, captioning, closed captions, conservative party of canada, Deaf, disability, green party of canada, hard of hearing, invisible disability, liberal party of canada, NDP, new democratic party, political ads, subtitles, voting
By Ouyang Dan on 25 October, 2010
I have a little bit of a problem with people being handed down a mandate that insists they behave in a certain way or adhere to a certain set of guidelines for which they are not provided the means to do so. Usually, these rules or mandates are set by people whose lives the rules [...]
Posted in activism, blaming, bodies, disability activism, intersectionality, invisibility, medical practice, oyd rants, social attitudes | Tagged abled privilege, ableism, accessibility, barriers to access, blaming, cancer treatment, chronic illness, disability, health care is an accessibility issue, intersectionality, medical care, radiation, Representative Edward Markey, social treatment, thyroid cancer
By Ouyang Dan on 18 October, 2010
I’ve been in hiding. I admit it. I’ve been shoving myself headlong into activities that keep my busy, and exhausted. Still I always feel This strange estrangement Nothing here is real, nothing here is right* “Wow! Aren’t you Supermom?” Well, not really. It just keeps me occupied. Just hoping no one knows That I’ve been* [...]
Posted in introspective | Tagged chronic pain conditions, coping, disability, personal
By Ouyang Dan on 16 October, 2010
I read a post at Crazy Mermaid’s Blog recently that neatly summarized some things that I have been struggling with lately. Friends and loved ones of those with a mental illness have a hard time understanding noncompliance with medication. Why, they reason, if the drug helps control the symptoms of the mental illness, doesn’t the [...]
Posted in intersectionality, introspective, life changes, relationships | Tagged choices, disability, family, intersectionality, mental health, personal, side effects
By Ouyang Dan on 14 October, 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 ableism, abuse, accessibility, disability, intersectionality
By Ouyang Dan on 1 October, 2010
Overarching Moderatrix Trigger Warning for Strong Language. And by “Strong Language” I mean that I swear a lot. I pretty much knew that my life was going to get fucked up when my doctor had a Permanent Change of Station (PCS). I knew this, because according to the laws of karma to which I tend [...]
Posted in accessibility, i'm right here, intersectionality, military, oyd rants, social attitudes | Tagged ableism, accessibility, barriers to access, chronic pain conditions, disability, drugs are bad mmm'kay, for your own good, health care is an accessibility issue, intersectionality, military, myths and misconceptions, pain management, personal, problematic attitudes, social treatment
By Sasha Feather on 30 September, 2010
“A diagnosis is just a tool to get you what you need,” said a good friend of mine, by way of his therapist. His statement particularly resonated for me because for a long time I’ve been a woman without a diagnosis. This article is about why I am finally OK with that. First of all, [...]
Posted in guest post, identity | Tagged acceptance, chronic pain, diagnosis, disability, guest post
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