By Anna on 22 December, 2010
Hi All! My laptop is broken, woe, and thus I am more scattered than even the last month might lead you to believe. (Repair will take a few days, I haven’t lost anything important, and it won’t even cost much to fix, so don’t fret!) Hand to Mouth: Lilliput touchscreen monitor review: a pleasant surprise [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged accessible tech, activism, autism, childbirth, fucking meds, medication, protest, rants, tech review, UK, uk uncuts
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 s.e. smith on 2 October, 2010
A (hopefully!) large group of disabled people will be protesting against the proposed benefits cuts outside the Tory Party conference tomorrow, Sunday 3rd October 2010. For details of where, times, etc, please see Disabled People Protest. If, like me, you’re unable to go due to a lack of money and/or a lack of spoons then theUnited Front [...]
Posted in activism, policy, signal boost | Tagged England, online protest, protest
By Annaham on 6 July, 2010
jadelennox (DW): How to fight ableism: some easy steps So I thought it might be valuable to gather together some ways in which able-bodied people can do something about ableism in the world. Then, next time a person is feeling frustrated about ableism, and is thinking about doing some signal boosting of, say, some crappy [...]
Posted in activism, bodies, media and pop culture, movies, race, recommended reading, representations, social attitudes, work | Tagged ability, ableism, accessibility, activism, advertising, conceptions of disability, disability, intersectionality, language, movies, personal stories, pop culture, privilege, protest, race, racism, social attitudes, social inclusion, writing
By lauredhel on 22 February, 2010
Paul Kelly, if you’re not familiar with him, is a bloody marvellous Australian singer-songwriter. Some consider him the “poet laureate of Australian music”. He writes everything from fun-but-pointy ballads – Every Fucking City is one of my favourite anti-hero pieces – to political protest music. You can read a little about him here at Debbie [...]
Posted in accessibility, othering, politics, race, social attitudes | Tagged aboriginal, indigenous, marginalisation, paul kelly, protest, protest song, resistance, special treatment
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