By Anna on 15 December, 2010
Jody McIntyre: Student Protests, Part Three From the corner of my eye, I spotted one of the policemen from the earlier incident. He recognised me immediately. Officer KF936 came charging towards me. Tipping the wheelchair to the side, he pushed me onto the concrete, before grabbing my arms and dragging me across the road. The [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged abuse, Disability Living Allowance, DLA, institutions, irish sign language, jody mcintyre, mexico, police abuse, UK, uk protests
By Anna on 13 December, 2010
You are Here: Safety Haiku: Automatic Captions This is the reason why you should not send me breathless, excited emails about the wonders of automated speech-to-text. You see the “CC” button and you think you and I will both enjoy the same media. This is what I actually get. (On the other hand, in a [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged abuse of people with disabilities, auto-captions, birth stories, Deaf, Disability Living Allowance, DLA, everything in the UK is going to hell, hard of hearing, history, history of lobotomy, howard dully, lobotomies, marfan syndrome, mocking autocaptions because they're terrible, subtitles, UK
By Anna on 9 December, 2010
I hate this time of year because I live in the Northern Hemisphere and it’s dark really early. At least we’ve been avoiding the snow-dumps I hear are all over central Canada, but it’s only a matter of time. Civil Rights Now!: Civil Rights Now! speech at Dec10 CLAS Forum on UN Convention on the [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged abuse, autism, British Columbia, canada, civil rights now!, DLA, heating costs, UK
By Anna on 8 December, 2010
My hearing has finally recovered! Now I know why I was sleeping so much – I couldn’t hear all the construction starting up at 7 a.m. *sigh* Arbitrary Constant: DLA reform consultation: Great Expectations, Word Apprehensions The coalition government today published its consultation on the reform of Disability Living Allowance (DLA). The headline is that [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged ASL video, cognitive disabilities, Deaf, DLA, hearing, include me, inclusion, It Gets Better, ORAD, UK
By Anna on 20 October, 2010
Good Day, all. It’s been a stressful week at Chez Anna (I’m putting this together at 5 a.m. my time) so forgive me for oversights, please. Kali at Brilliant Mind, Broken Body: I am not your metaphor This is something that has bothered me for a long time, and actually led to one of the [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged abuse, australia, birth stories, braille, canada, Deaf, Disability Living Allowance, disability metaphors, DLA, down syndrome, protests, self-acceptance, stigma, tourism, u.k., work
By Annaham on 12 October, 2010
Darshak Sangavi at Slate: Should you crowdsource your medical problems? To be sure, many patients with complex or poorly understood medical problems like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis congregate in large virtual communities such as PatientsLikeMe, where they share details of their medical treatments and symptoms with each other—and occasionally even launch their own unregulated and informal [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged accessibility, communication, DLA, female sexual disfunction, gender, government benefits, information and communication technology, internet, Internet use, medical practice, technology
By Anna on 19 October, 2009
Recommended Reading for October 19, 2009
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged disability 101, DLA, health care, health care is an accessibility issue, health care reform, internet, intersectionality, mental health, mental health concerns, mental illness, resources
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