By Amadi on 28 September, 2010
When it comes accessibility, where it exists, it seems that it often begins and ends with some accommodation for wheelchair users. And it seems, at least in my experience, that this is especially so in the case of the travel industry. Several weeks ago, my air conditioning at home died and my house was hovering [...]
Posted in accessibility, guest post | Tagged hotels, othering, social attitudes, travel, traveling while disabled
By amandaw on 19 August, 2010
A long time ago, I decided to start up a series. I lacked a catchy title, so I went with the mere truth: Things That Make My Life Easier. What I meant by that is, of course, things that make my life with a disability easier. Disability can introduce certain complications to a life — [...]
Posted in normality, othering, social attitudes | Tagged ability, assistive, disability, identity, needs, othering, pain, social construction, speak up, treatment
By Annaham on 15 June, 2010
dhobikikutti (DW): This is also needed: A Space In Which To Be Angry And what I have realised is that there is a sixth component to zvi‘s rules, and that is that complaining about and calling out what you do not like does help, slowly, painfully, get rid of it. Every time I see friends [...]
Posted in activism, medical practice, normality, othering, politics, poverty, race, recommended reading, representations, social attitudes | Tagged ableism, anger, anti-racism, appropriation, art, cfs, cfs/me, chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic pain, creative writing, derailing, disabled artists, fandom, identity, media, medical practice, medicine, othering, political media, race, self-help, spina bifida, tv, vaccine, visual art
By lauredhel on 17 February, 2010
[Cross-posted to Hoyden About Town] Something that has really struck me about the conversations around Evelyn Evelyn is the reaction that “Conjoined twins don’t have a disability! To say they do is insulting!” Not all commenters make the link between the two statements – some stop at the first – so I’ll take these two [...]
Posted in bodies, identity, justice, language, media and pop culture, normality, social attitudes | Tagged able-bodied stare, abnormal, amanda palmer, conjoined twins, crip drag, cripdrag, definition of disability, disability, disabled, evelyn evelyn, exploitation, gaze, jason webley, neil gaiman, normal, normalcy, objectification, othering, spectacle, stare, twins
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