Skip to content | Skip to sidebar | Skip to footer

FWD/Forward
FWD (feminists with disabilities) for a way forward
  • Home
  • About
    • Contributors
    • Further Reading
    • Books of Interest
  • Comments Policy
  • Contact
  • Archives
    • Index tags
  • Blogroll
  • Sitemap
  • Subscribe
Browse: Home / disclosure

disclosure

Yes, it DOES make a difference

By amandaw on 23 October, 2009

(Cross-posted at three rivers fog.)
I wrote this yesterday in an extreme fog and do not have the spoons to rework and polish it. Apologies for the brainspill, but these days it’s the only option I have.
***
For background, see Ouyang Dan’s post on the problematic aspects of the TV show House. Don’t tell me that people [...]

Posted in blaming, i'm right here, media and pop culture, shaming, social attitudes, Uncategorized | Tagged ableism, abuse, addiction, causation, characters with disabilities, chronic illness, chronic pain, chronic pain conditions, disability, disability in fiction, disabled characters, disclosure, drugs are bad mmm'kay, erasing, fibromyalgia, House M.D., invisibility, invisible disabilities, invisible disability, life, me, medications, myths and misconceptions, pain management, passing, personal, pop culture, privilege, problematic attitudes, shaming, social treatment, stereotypes, stories, television, things people say, work | 8 Responses

Time and Energy, or Lack Thereof

By Annaham on 17 October, 2009

This amazing post and its follow-up by Anna at Trouble in China (she is also a contributor here, as you may have noticed) got me thinking. [In the interest of full disclosure, my Shakesville post is in there as an example of the problematic nature of inclusiveness.]
Whenever I mention my personal blog in, say, a [...]

Posted in accessibility, activism, bodies, feminism, introspective, normality | Tagged barriers to access, chronic pain conditions, communication, disclosure, internet, participation, privilege | 2 Responses

Email Q&A: What About Womanists?

By kaninchenzero on 13 October, 2009

We’re not even a week since the roll-out, but the response so far has been tremendous. Along with the excellent discussion in comments, we’ve gotten some really great questions, like this one (which we’ve paraphrased from the original email):
Why is the name of the blog Feminists With Disabilities? Wouldn’t it be more inclusive, especially of [...]

Posted in administrivia, feminism, identity, intersectionality, introspective, language | Tagged communication, disclosure, feminism, identity, intersectionality, racism, word use | 1 Response

Who hates to hear they look great?

By amandaw on 12 October, 2009

(Originally posted July 2007 at three rivers fog)
Over half of the chronically ill*:
In a recent survey of 611 chronically ill individuals, done by the National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week committee, 53.27% of the respondents said that the most frustrating or annoying comment people make about their illness is “But you look so good!”
“Although telling [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged cfids, cfs, chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic pain conditions, communication, disclosure, fibro, fibromyalgia, illness, illness beliefs, invisibility, invisible disabilities, invisible disability, myths and misconceptions, passing, social treatment, things people say | 16 Responses

Stop and think: invisible access for invisible disabilities

By lauredhel on 11 October, 2009

[This post was originally posted at Hoyden About Town on May 4, 2007.]
This is my first personal post about being sick. A “coming-out”, to some of my online friends. And a whole lot of elaboration, for those who know I’m sick, but don’t know the details. It’s taken me ages to write, and I haven’t [...]

Posted in accessibility | Tagged accessibility, cfids, cfs, cfs/me, chronic fatigue syndrome, coming out, disclosure, invisible disabilities, invisible disability, me, medical care, misdiagnosis, narrative, parking, parking permit, passing, spoon theory, spoons, university | 6 Responses

Choose Text Size

Subscribe

  • via RSS, LJ, DW, Email

Latest Comments

  • The Community First Choice Option  3
    Adelaide Dupont, abby jean, Annaham
  • Chatterday! Open Thread.  24
    Quijotesca, Kaitlyn, sarahj, Lizzibee, Norah, minna [...]
  • No title for this one.  6
    hsofia, codeman38, kaninchenzero, kc, Ariel, Nance
  • Dear Imprudence: The Unmannerly Doctor  9
    Jayn, Ang, Rebecca, Milli, Quijotesca, Quijotesca [...]
  • Thoughts On A Book: Scott Westerfeld's 'Uglies'  9
    CJ, Isabel, notemily, Deborah, Kaitlyn, fois [...]
  • On standing up, but not for myself  38
    Jonquil, hsofia, WER, hsofia, Dogged, WER [...]
  • Recommended Reading  11
    Kowalski, Norah, jeneli / aegflota, lauredhel, Kowalski, AWV [...]
  • For Cereal, Stars and Stripes? Mocking "Paranoia" is Headline-Worthy?  3
    JoSelle, minna, JoSelle
  • Latest Posts
  • Authors
  • Archives
  • The Community First Choice Option
  • No title for this one.
  • Thoughts On A Book: Scott Westerfeld’s ‘Uglies’
  • Chatterday! Open Thread.
  • Dear Imprudence: The Unmannerly Doctor
  • Recommended Reading
  • Film Review: The Music In Me
  • For your Tool-kit: Letter to my University Residence Coordinator
  • Recommended Reading
  • For Cereal, Stars and Stripes? Mocking “Paranoia” is Headline-Worthy?
  • abby jean
  • amandaw
  • Anna
  • Annaham
  • Chally
  • Guest
  • kaninchenzero
  • lauredhel
  • meloukhia
  • Ouyang Dan
  • Staff
  • March 2010
  • February 2010
  • January 2010
  • December 2009
  • November 2009
  • October 2009

Blogroll Random 10

  • Poking at thorns (with gloves on)
  • Sweet Perdition
  • Laurentius Rex
  • Furious Seasons
  • three rivers fog
  • Zero at the Bone
  • Daughter of the Ring of Fire
  • AmpuTeeHee
  • FACES OF FIBRO
  • Accessibility Fail

~Back to Top~

Copyright © 2009-2010 FWD/Forward | Log in

Powered by WordPress, Hybrid, and Leviathan | Customised by VIVidWeb