By Anna on 16 March, 2010
It’s been an interesting week or so in Canada regarding issues around disability. “Interesting” here means hit and miss.
Posted in anna rants, autonomy, bodies, disability activism, invisibility, representations, television | Tagged ableism, accessibility, barriers to access, canada, disability, exclusion, politicians, politics, social inclusion, social treatment
By kaninchenzero on 10 March, 2010
There’s a lot of really good stuff out in the blogoamorphia1 about sexual assault on uni campuses. The focus is specifically on USian colleges and universities though Rape Culture exists pretty much everywhere with only slight variation. It’s worth reading, if you’re up to reading about sexual assault at all. (I’m not always.) Predators are [...]
Posted in activism, class issues, disability activism, feminism, gender, intersectionality, justice, othering, reproductive justice, shaming, social attitudes, violence | Tagged abuse, exclusion, feminism, intersectionality, myths and misconceptions, privilege, problematic attitudes, social treatment
By Ouyang Dan on 7 March, 2010
Our local theater in South Korea has one of the first and only 4D Plexes in the world (and it is currently showing Avatar, so I could possibly be entertained and annoyed and over-stimulated all at once! Whee!). “The way the company finally cornered that elusive fourth dimension is by engaging all five senses: moving [...]
Posted in accessibility, media and pop culture | Tagged accessibility, barriers to access, exclusion, media and pop culture, pop culture, social inclusion
By kaninchenzero on 4 March, 2010
I’m not linking to the original source because the specifics don’t matter. This isn’t about the individual people or the individual documents involved. This is just an example of how the use of ableist language harms disabled people. Sometimes our posts on ableist language are on the abstract side, so here’s something real concrete. The [...]
Posted in invisibility, justice, language, othering | Tagged ableism, abuse, communication, exclusion, language, personal, privilege, problematic attitudes, social treatment
By Anna on 25 February, 2010
I think I upset one of the newer employees at my favourite tea shop today. Most of the staff are used to my cynical reactions to newspaper discussions of how inspiiiiiiiiiiring people with disabilities are at this point.
But let me begin at the beginning.
Actually, no, let me begin with something important, since recent events have told me one cannot be too careful.
There is a certain way news media prefers to talk about people with disabilities. They like to tell our stories in a way that’s “inspiring”, that’s about making non-disabled people feel better about stuff. “Oh, look at how brave that person is, being all alive and stuff despite having a disability! I would rather be dead! That person/their parents/their loved ones are so brave and inspiring! I will now put issues of accessibility and disability out of my mind, because I have been inspired!”
Posted in anna rants, autonomy, bodies, media and pop culture, othering, social attitudes | Tagged ableism, disability, exclusion, family, inspiring, media and pop culture, myths and misconceptions, news media, problematic attitudes, social treatment, things people say
By Ouyang Dan on 29 January, 2010
My addiction to YA literature has moved on to another series. I decided to check out Ann Brahsares The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Aside from the fact that I am going to really milk this series for review fodder, I really enjoyed it, for many reasons. Seldom do I find stories written by women [...]
Posted in books, media and pop culture | Tagged cancer, chronic illness, exclusion, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Very Special Lessons, women's stories, young adult books
By Anna on 27 January, 2010
And then things get internalized. “I don’t have a job. I’m not contributing. I’m not important. I better make myself small and inoffensive in some way so that no one thinks I’m a burden. I don’t really have a lot of worth as a person because I’m not contributing.
Posted in social attitudes | Tagged ableism, cult of busy, exclusion, life, problematic attitudes, social treatment
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 Anna on 5 January, 2010
It pains many other women who, for a variety of reasons, are discouraged or outright prevented from having children they want. That, in North America, these women are overwhelmingly women of colour, lower class, disabled, queer – that they’re often women who have been institutionalised in some way, be it a “medical” institution or a “criminal” one – is not a coincidence.
Posted in 101, bodies, class issues, feminism, intersectionality, introspective, justice, reproductive justice, resistance, social attitudes | Tagged ableism, abortion, children, exclusion, feminism, intersectionality, problematic attitudes, things people say
By Annaham on 4 January, 2010
Everything healed up but in a very strange way Years later when it was very obvious that something was very wrong with my face everyone said one or more of the following: It’s the Lord’s will. Just learn to live with it. It’s all in your imagination. Don’t be so self-centered. Shut up and do [...]
Posted in autonomy, blaming, bodies, creative work, disability activism, justice, language, normality, Quotations, resistance, sexuality, social attitudes | Tagged ableism, exclusion, identity, justice, LGBQTAI, personal, poetry, quote, social treatment
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