By s.e. smith on 1 December, 2010
Happy Wednesday, y’all! I can’t believe the (Gregorian) year is almost over. Here are some things I’ve read lately and found interesting; the usual caveats re:comments sections, etc. apply! Photo of a protester at an ADAPT action taken by Flickr user sissyboystud, creative commons license. C.L. Minou on The Guardian: Comment is free: Trans people [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged comedy, deinstitutionalisation, disabled actors, environmental health, health care, humour, oil spill, pollution, social attitudes, transgender, United Kingdom
By Anna on 26 November, 2010
Again, these are physical barriers that prevent people with disabilities from accessing health services. They’re not deliberate, but they have long-term consequences that are easy to forget.
Posted in accessibility, bodies | Tagged health care, health care is an accessibility issue
By Annaham on 9 November, 2010
John Keilman for the Los Angeles Times: Technology opens new horizons for disabled Yet for all of technology’s promised advances, some worry that the cost will keep helpful devices out of many people’s reach. Others are concerned that governments, schools and institutions might think that high-tech gadgetry has relieved them of their responsibility to serve [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged assistive technology, bipolar disorder, Deaf, depression, education, gender, global, health care, health policing, independence, mental health, mental illness, patriarchy, recommended reading, schizophrenia, sexism, social construction, structural vs. individual, technology
By Annaham on 14 September, 2010
Astrid van Woerkom at Astrid’s Journal: “Exercise For Mental Health!” Bakker forgets the barriers to exercise that some people encounter. Due to the construction going on, I cannot take walks on grounds unaccompanied anymore. I cannot navigate the busy gym during fitness class. If I want to bike, I need to go on a tandem. [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged accessibility, asperger syndrome, awareness, awareness campaigns, barriers to access, body, body image, daily life, exercise, fat, health care, health care is an accessibility issue, identity, illness, invisible disabilities, invisible disability, medical care, medicine, mental health, race, recommended reading
By Ouyang Dan on 26 August, 2010
Some of you may know that most of us here are FWD/Forward lurk around at other places doing other things when we are not toiling on the backend here at the humble blog. I happen to spend a bit of my time writing under my actual name over at Change.org’s Women’s Rights blog as the [...]
Posted in military, oyd rants, reproductive justice, signal boost | Tagged ableism, barriers to access, disability, exclusion, health care, health care is an accessibility issue, high risk insurance pools, intersectionality, military, military abortion ban, military women, privilege, women in uniform
By Ouyang Dan on 26 August, 2010
Warning: Offsite links are not safe spaces. Articles and comments in the links may contain ableist, sexist, and other -ist language and ideas of varying intensity. Opinions expressed in the articles may not reflect the opinions held by the compiler of the post and links are provided as topics of interest and exploration only. I [...]
Posted in i'm right here, identity, intersectionality, military, normality, othering, race, recommended reading, shaming | Tagged ableism, chronic illness, disability, exclusion, health care, intersectionality, male breast cancer, medical care, mental health, military, myths and misconceptions, social treatment, things people say
By Ouyang Dan on 11 August, 2010
Courtesy of amandaw I bring you this stellar article that once again rubs in my face how brilliantly miserable the VA is scratching the surface of realizing what is wrong with they way they even see women veterans. If you read along carefully you can even see the lightly sugar-coated condescension artfully woven in TIME [...]
Posted in accessibility, disability activism, intersectionality, invisibility, justice, medical practice, military, oyd rants, policy, violence | Tagged abuse, Department of Veterans' Affairs, disability, disabled veterans, Eric K. Shinseki, exclusion, health care, health care is an accessibility issue, intersectionality, Military Sexual Trauma, myths and misconceptions, problematic attitudes, PTSD, social treatment, the dogdamned VA, things people say
By Ouyang Dan on 2 June, 2010
Gentle readers! I know! I am going to worsen my hernia by reading this stuff every day! I can’t help myself! It’s like tearing myself away from a Star Wars Marathon and a free case of Guinness and Harp on New Years Eve Back when I was child free and in college! Did you ever [...]
Posted in medical practice, military, news, oyd rants, shaming | Tagged chronic pain conditions, drugs are bad mmm'kay, health care, health care is an accessibility issue, medical care, military, pain management, problematic attitudes, Stars and Stripes Newspaper, things that are going to tear my hernia
By Ouyang Dan on 27 May, 2010
I know that I am not 18 any more. One of my doctors kindly pointed that out to me recently. What I mean is that I can no longer demand of my body what I once did. And I know this, as I embrace the things that come with years gone by. Aging is a [...]
Posted in bodies, introspective, life changes, military | Tagged chronic illness, chronic pain conditions, disability, drugs are bad mmm'kay, fibromyalgia, health care, invisible disabilities, military, personal, self-acceptance, when does it stop?
By Annaham on 4 May, 2010
RMJ: Disability and birth control, part 1 Widespread (rather than individual) centralization of birth control in feminism alienates and marginalizes their already problematized bodies: trans women, intersex women, older women, women with disabilities that affect their reproductive system, asexual women, women who want to get pregnant. Not to mention the loaded history of otherwise non-privileged [...]
Posted in autonomy, bodies, class issues, gender, global, introspective, invisibility, justice, medical practice, mental health, news, policy, race, recommended reading, representations, reproductive justice, resistance, work | Tagged bad science, communication, depression, global, health care, health care is an accessibility issue, intersectionality, invisible disability, news, race, racism, reproductive justice, reproductive rights, science, social inclusion, work
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