By Anna on 30 October, 2009
Recommended Reading for October 30, 2009
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged abuse, asperger syndrome, autism, canada, family, family dynamics, media and pop culture, mental health, mental illness, murder, poverty, sex, sexuality, social assistance
By amandaw on 24 October, 2009
(Originally posted July 2009 at Feministe, three rivers fog.) We had a really good discussion about nondisability. It got derailed, a bit, because it depended on our ability to reasonably define disability. And it’s a subject that has come up in every discussion we’ve had these couple weeks. What is it? I advocate an intentionally [...]
Posted in identity | Tagged ableism, accessibility, autism, cfids, cfs, chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic illness, chronic pain conditions, conceptions of disability, difference, disability, disability movement, exclusion, fibromyalgia, identity, intersectionality, invisibility, invisible disabilities, invisible disability, isolation, language, mental illness, models of disability, participation, passing, privilege, self-identification, self-perception, social inclusion, social model, social treatment, symptoms
By Anna on 19 October, 2009
Recommended Reading for October 19, 2009
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged disability 101, DLA, health care, health care is an accessibility issue, health care reform, internet, intersectionality, mental health, mental health concerns, mental illness, resources
By kaninchenzero on 15 October, 2009
The topic of mental illness came up again with the latest large-scale hate crime against women to make national news. It’s a nice easy narrative for George Sodini to be a psycho, to be crazy, to be mentally ill because then we don’t have to understand him. We don’t have to relate, because we’re not [...]
Posted in 101, activism, blaming, identity, intersectionality, language, mental health | Tagged autism, chronic pain conditions, fibro, language, mental illness, racism
By kaninchenzero on 13 October, 2009
In August the wife and I saw Adam, a romance featuring a person with Asperger’s Syndrome and a neurotypical. And it was really rather good, especially measured against other portrayals of autistic persons in popular culture. It is always astonishing how much of myself I see in depictions of people with AS, even when the [...]
Posted in identity, intersectionality, media and pop culture, mental health | Tagged ableism, autism, media and pop culture, mental illness
By Anna on 13 October, 2009
Recommended Reading for October 13th.
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged accessibility, ADA, ashley X, autism, breast cancer, cancer, health care, health care is an accessibility issue, intersectionality, mental health concerns, mental illness, movies, pop culture, reproductive health
By amandaw on 12 October, 2009
(Originally posted a month ago at three rivers fog; in the meantime, news also came out that things like acne were considered pre-existing conditions as well: consider any and all further outrage well and fully included in the subject of this post.) You’ve undoubtedly heard the news already. A history of domestic violence or C-section [...]
Posted in accessibility, blaming, feminism, intersectionality, justice, medical practice, social attitudes | Tagged ableism, asthma, autism, chronic illness, chronic pain conditions, difference, disability, exclusion, feminism, health care, health care is an accessibility issue, health conditions, illness, intersectionality, justice, medical care, mental illness, privilege, problematic attitudes, social policy, social treatment, things people say
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