By Annaham on 19 December, 2010
As some of you may know, I am a cartoonist and graphic novel fan in addition to my regular duties blogging here at FWD. While I don’t get the “HEY ANNAHAM WHAT COMICS AND STUFF DO YOU LIKE TO READ?” query too often, I thought it might be useful to give an overview of graphic [...]
Posted in creative work, gender, happy posts | Tagged artists, autobiography, cartooning, comics, media and pop culture
By Annaham on 14 December, 2010
K__ at Feminists with FSD: Notes on MTV’s True Life: I Can’t Have Sex Actual, proper terminology was used throughout the show. Chronic pelvic pain conditions were named, but some conditions that overlap were not mentioned at all (interstitial cystitis, for example, was not explored in this episode. This is a shame – interstitial cystitis [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged alternative medicine, asperger syndrome, autism, bipolar disorder, breast cancer, cancer, cancer treatment, chronic pain, death, female sexual disfunction, fraud, media and pop culture, pain, personal stories, reality tv, sexuality, television, the secret, tv, vulvodynia
By Annaham on 9 December, 2010
I have an ongoing peeve that relates to medication and social attitudes surrounding it: often, for some people on various sides of the political spectrum, trashing Big Pharma translates into trashing people who use prescription medications at all, for a variety of health conditions — especially for chronic conditions, both of the mental health and [...]
Posted in gender, marketing, media and pop culture, medical practice, normality | Tagged advertising, Big Bad Pharma, depression, drugs, drugs are bad mmm'kay, fibro, fibromyalgia, gender, media and pop culture, medicine, prescriptions, wtf
By Annaham on 2 November, 2010
Siddharta Mukherjee for the New York Times Magazine: The Cancer Sleeper Cell In fact, this view of cancer — as tenaciously persistent and able to regenerate after apparently disappearing — has come to occupy the very center of cancer biology. Intriguingly, for some cancers, this regenerative power appears to be driven by a specific cell [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged cancer, Deaf, depictions of disability, dissociative identity disorder, identity, media and pop culture, medical treatment, medicine, personal, schizophrenia
By Anna on 5 October, 2010
Another fast & furious recommended reading today, folks! Yay for busy schedules all around, right? I am glad I try to keep up with the news, though, because I learned that legislation passed in the US that will enforce captioning and descriptive audio! I don’t actually have a t.v., but the last time I stayed [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged ableism in the classroom, ADAPT, bus stop call system, canada, captioning, descriptive audio, Disability Living Allowance, media and pop culture, National Disability Employment Awareness Month, Ontario, post-secondary education, protest, United States
By Chally on 1 October, 2010
Gentle reader, be cautioned: comments sections on mainstream media sites tend to not be safe and we here at FWD/Forward don’t necessarily endorse all the opinions in these pieces. Let’s jump right in, shall we? First up, something close to my heart as a user of Sydney public transport from Jo Tamar at Wallaby: Accessibility [...]
Posted in language, media and pop culture, recommended reading, representations, social attitudes | Tagged australia, Ireland, media, media and pop culture, Paralympics, transportation, United Kingdom, United States
By Annaham on 21 September, 2010
Natasha Tracy at Breaking Bipolar: Stop Minimizing Mental Illness: Worst Things To Say I feel, sometimes, that I am at war with the mentally-well world. This isn’t to say that many of them aren’t lovely or that I have a desire to harm anyone, but I do feel embroiled. And it’s mostly because the well [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged abuse, age, asexuality, government benefits, media and pop culture, media critique, mental health concerns, mental illness, privilege, problematic attitudes, race, things people say, white privilege
By Annaham on 7 September, 2010
Lisa Harney at Questioning Transphobia: QT and Posting and My Inability to be Consistent Oh, and a lot of neurotypicals learn about ADHD symptoms, and they think “I lose my keys sometimes? I lose my train of thought! I miss deadlines!” And you know, it’s true. Everyone does these things occasionally. But the difference is [...]
Posted in bodies, recommended reading | Tagged activism, ADHD, book review, chronic pain, disability rights activists, health insurance, media and pop culture, medical practice, medications, medicine, mental health, mental health concerns, pain medicine, paul longmore, reviews
By Ouyang Dan on 31 August, 2010
Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth series, recommended to me by The Guy, my partner of several years now, whom I thought loved me, seemed innocuous enough. I thought it a simple fantasy series woven with a love story (“woven” here should read more like a nice cudgel to the head), which I was looking for. [...]
Posted in books, disability activism, intersectionality, oyd rants, representations | Tagged ableism, Adie, Ayn Rand Lite, blind characters, books, disability, intersectionality, media and pop culture, myths and misconceptions, Objectivsm, OYD Book Reviews, pop culture, problematic attitudes, Sword of Truth series, Terry Goodkind
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