By lauredhel on 1 March, 2010
[WARNING for this post: ableism within and without the medical system, pregnancy/baby losses mentioned]
Defiant Birth: Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics, by Melinda Tankard Reist, is a book about women. It is a book about families. It is a book about resistance. It is a book about women who refuse to be told what they “should” [...]
Posted in autonomy, bodies, feminism, medical practice, reproductive justice, resistance, social attitudes | Tagged ableism, ablist, abortion, achondroplasia, asthma, birth, cerebral palsy, defiant birth, disability, disability and pregnancy, disabled, down syndrome, down's syndrome, dwarfism, eugenics, genetic counselling, genetic screening, healthcare, lupus, mctd, medicine, melinda tankard reist, obstetrics, phocomelia, pregnancy, prenatal diagnosis, pro-choice, pulmonary hypertension, reist, reproductive justice, scheurmann's disease, termination of pregnancy, thalidomide, trisomy 21, wheelchair
By lauredhel on 17 February, 2010
[Cross-posted to Hoyden About Town]
Something that has really struck me about the conversations around Evelyn Evelyn is the reaction that “Conjoined twins don’t have a disability! To say they do is insulting!”
Not all commenters make the link between the two statements – some stop at the first – so I’ll take these two separately.
A [...]
Posted in bodies, identity, justice, language, media and pop culture, normality, social attitudes | Tagged able-bodied stare, abnormal, amanda palmer, conjoined twins, crip drag, cripdrag, definition of disability, disability, disabled, evelyn evelyn, exploitation, gaze, jason webley, neil gaiman, normal, normalcy, objectification, othering, spectacle, stare, twins
By amandaw on 4 November, 2009
Full disclosure: There is a discount offer at the end of this post (for 3ELove’s merchandise featuring their symbol). However, I have been meaning to write about this design for some time; it has such deep significance for me, and I hope it will gain prominence as more people are introduced to it.
And for more [...]
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