By Chally on 7 December, 2010
This piece contains lots of spoilers. I wanted to love this book, I really did. I have enjoyed the couple of Julie Ellis novels I’ve read, but this one just tipped the charming/not happening scale a bit far. It has a really strong heroine in Vicky, who escapes the Russian pogroms to build a new [...]
Posted in books, feminism, gender, media and pop culture, race, relationships, representations, sexuality | Tagged book review, disability in fiction, disabled women, fiction, problematic attitudes, reviews, sex, wheelchair users, women
By s.e. smith on 25 October, 2010
Riva Lehrer is a disabled painter who produces, among many other things, depictions of disabled bodies: For Lehrer, the disabled body is intensely beautiful—memorable, unexpected, and lived in with great self-awareness. These are not bodies that are taken for granted or left unexplored. This beauty has often stayed unseen despite the constant, invasive public stare. [...]
Posted in art | Tagged depictions of disability, disabled women, painting
By Annaham on 9 January, 2010
The second-wave radical feminist theologian and professor Mary Daly died earlier this month, and there has been a veritable outpouring of eulogies from various feminist blogs. Few of these eulogies have acknowledged Daly’s transphobia and racism. I do not deny that Daly was an important figure in second-wave feminism, but to mourn her passing without [...]
Posted in activism, autonomy, blaming, bodies, feminism, gender, identity, intersectionality, justice, language, normality, politics, shaming, social attitudes | Tagged ableism, chronic fatigue syndrome, disability is a feminist issue, disabled women, exclusion, feminism, i thought you were supposed to be my ally, intersectionality, LGBQTAI, privilege, problematic attitudes, social treatment
By s.e. smith on 21 December, 2009
This is post two of four in a multipart series on Glee. The previous post was the introduction. Glee‘s core message about women seems to be that they are all manipulative, evil, lying sneaks. The show includes not one but two deceptive pregnancy plots, interspersed with numerous depictions of women as nags, from Quinn pressuring [...]
Posted in media and pop culture, television | Tagged disabled women, glee, television, violence against women
By s.e. smith on 16 December, 2009
Note: This post has been edited to include Amy Kehoe’s correct diagnosis, which was erroneously stated as schizophrenia in an earlier version. I apologize for the error and for not fact checking more thoroughly before publishing. -meloukhia A story is brewing in Michigan. Amy and Scott Kehoe wanted babies, but couldn’t have them on their [...]
Posted in autonomy, blaming, justice, mental health, social attitudes | Tagged disabled parents, disabled women, parenting, psychotic disorder not otherwise specified
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