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Recommended Reading for June 22, 2010

By Annaham on 22 June, 2010

Ken Reibel at Huffington Post: Teen With Asperger’s Arrested: Were Callers Racial Profiling? Neli, as his family calls him, is 18 and has Asperger’s, a mild form of autism. Three Mondays ago, he rose early and left home without telling his mother. “When I entered his room at 6:30 am and didn’t see him, I [...]

Posted in recommended reading | Tagged age, aging, asperger syndrome, autonomy, bodies, clothes, community, creative writing, fandom, gender, health police, law enforcement, media and pop culture, race, writing

Healthy Obligations

By s.e. smith on 3 March, 2010

Even the President of the United States, it appears, is not free of an obligation to be healthy. Society is even conveniently provided with the means of policing him, in the form of ample news stories about his latest physical. The Guardian had three stories up about it at the same time! A British paper, [...]

Posted in blaming, social attitudes | Tagged food police, health police, mediaspolsion, President Obama, privacy

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