By Anna on 6 December, 2010
Today is December 6th, which in Canada is the anniversary of the Montreal Massacre [link opens with sound, CBC]. I wrote about it last year. It’s been a very long year. There are things I said then that I might not say now, but I do wonder, always, about a memorial for our dead. A [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged blog carnival, epilepsy, female sexual disfunction, media, mental health, multiples, multiplicity, normality, seizures, service animals
By Annaham on 16 November, 2010
Peggy Orenstein for the New York Times Magazine: The code-words of breast cancer awareness Fast-forward to today, when, especially during October, everything from toilet paper to buckets of fried chicken to the chin straps of N.F.L. players look as if they have been steeped in Pepto. If the goal was “awareness,” that has surely been [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged age, asexuality, awareness, birth control, breast cancer, cerebral palsy, chronic pain conditions, coming out, fibromyalgia, fraud, homeopathy, medicine, mental illness, normality, post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, queer
By Annaham on 26 October, 2010
firecat at Party in my head (DW): How To Be Sick I went to this talk because I have chronic health conditions that affect my mobility and energy levels, and I am a caregiver for my mother, who has Alzheimers. I’m a Buddhist and my study of Buddhism has helped me work through grieving over [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged ADHD, bodies, cfs/me, chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic illness, disability is a feminist issue, female sexual disfunction, feminism, gender, intelligence, invisible disability, mental health, normality, parenting, social attitudes, spirituality, things people say
By Annaham on 21 October, 2010
As I’ve mentioned previously, I have fairly mild cerebral palsy that mostly affects the left side of my body, and my left leg and foot in particular. I’ve had sort of a strange relationship with my left side, and the foot attached. Because my left leg is a few inches shorter than my right one, [...]
Posted in bodies, identity, normality | Tagged cerebral palsy, mental health, movement, normality, personal, personal stories
By Annaham on 13 July, 2010
Problem Chylde at Feministe: Storytelling as a Radical Act They won’t speak out for fear of losing something: losing a relative, losing control of their lives, or losing their stories. To them, it’s not a myth that their stories will be repeated without their names to guide them. Anyone can pick up a textbook and [...]
Posted in activism, recommended reading | Tagged abnormal, activism, chronic pain, chronic pain conditions, creative work, dance, disability activism, equality, exercise, normal, normalcy, normality, race
By Annaham on 13 April, 2010
Renee Martin: I’m not a Feminist (and there is no but) Blogs run by traditionally marginalised women do not attract the same attention by the media. When feminists are pulled from the internet for interviews, it is routinely the same white feminist voices representing the broad perspectives that are visible on the internet. Flora: Guest [...]
Posted in news, recommended reading | Tagged bodies, female sexual disfunction, feminism, gender, heteronormativity, justice, language, medical care, medical model, normalcy, normality, politics, sexuality, transportation
By kaninchenzero on 29 October, 2009
On the way home from work the other day, the classical music station in Dallas, WRR 101.1*, played a really good performance of Beethoven’s Bagatelle for Piano in A minor, WoO 59 “Für Elise”. It’s pretty, of course, which is all it needs to be. But every performance (and every work of art and every [...]
Posted in introspective, normality | Tagged communication, difference, happiness, identity, media and pop culture, mobility, normality, participation, personal, pride, social inclusion, stories
By amandaw on 22 October, 2009
(Originally posted April 2008 in two parts at three rivers fog.) this is new to me. this idea that i should love my body. not hate it. it’s funny, because i was about to say “this isn’t a post about body image.” but it is, isn’t it? let’s cut to the point. i’m not talking [...]
Posted in bodies, identity, normality | Tagged body image, disability, identity, normality, self-acceptance
By amandaw on 21 October, 2009
Amanda flags a great post by Anne C at Existence is Wonderful, which catalogues “three different ways of looking at autism — in terms of neurological structure, in terms of lived experience, and in terms of outward behavior.” And Anne does such wonderful things with this delineation. Click through to read the whole post, which [...]
Posted in bodies, normality, Uncategorized | Tagged autism, body image, communication, conceptions of disability, difference, disability, language, mislabelling, myths and misconceptions, normality, research, science, self-acceptance, social treatment, symptoms
By Annaham on 16 October, 2009
The singer Martha Wainwright has a song entitled “Bleeding All Over You” that begins with the following set of lyrics: There are days when the cage doesn’t seem to open very wide at all I know it sounds negative, but some days, I can definitely relate. Maybe it’s the fact that I pass fairly regularly [...]
Posted in bodies, identity | Tagged chronic pain conditions, fibromyalgia, invisible disabilities, normality, passing
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