By Anna on 23 November, 2010
Frankly, this is shitty behaviour, and I am outraged both on behalf of Eliza, who deserved far better treatment than this, and on behalf of the students in her class who were used as an excuse and a shield by the university who then promptly ignored everything the students said in response.
Posted in Education, normality, othering, resistance | Tagged ableism, disabled youth, disableism, down syndrome, education, Eliza Schaaf, post-secondary education, SOU, Southern Oregon University, university, why i hate people today
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 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 [...]
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
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