By s.e. smith on 23 November, 2010
Everybody, I have found my new art crush. Yinka Shonibare, MBE is a British-Nigerian artist with an impressive list of awards, publications, and gallery exhibitions on his resume. And I am all kinds of in love with his work, from his art installations to his gallery pieces. I do love an artist with flexibility who [...]
Posted in art, creative work | Tagged art installations, colonialism, disabled artists, race, sculpture
By Ouyang Dan on 12 November, 2010
[The scene sets with OYD, a slightly pale yet never-the-less still quite indigenous woman, sitting down to her trusty Macbook Pro, a laptop named "Lappy", who has seen better days. She sets down and opens up her "drafts" tab under FWD/Forward, where she notices that egads! she has been working on this book review for over [...]
Posted in books, intersectionality, media and pop culture, poverty, race, Uncategorized | Tagged -ist language, ableist language, books, diability, disability and poverty, poverty, race, Sherman Alexie, stereotypes, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
By Annaham on 19 October, 2010
Corina Becker at No Stereotypes Here: Real Communication Shutdown I was recently asked by a person on Twitter to participate, and I responded that there wasn’t much of a point, since I am Autistic, and do not require to learn about difficulties that I myself face in communicating. kaz at Kaz’s Scribblings (DW): trials and [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged asthma, autism, awareness, communication, education, internet, language, learning, marginalisation, medications, mental health, personal, privilege, race, trans, transgender
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 14 September, 2010
Astrid van Woerkom at Astrid’s Journal: “Exercise For Mental Health!” Bakker forgets the barriers to exercise that some people encounter. Due to the construction going on, I cannot take walks on grounds unaccompanied anymore. I cannot navigate the busy gym during fitness class. If I want to bike, I need to go on a tandem. [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged accessibility, asperger syndrome, awareness, awareness campaigns, barriers to access, body, body image, daily life, exercise, fat, health care, health care is an accessibility issue, identity, illness, invisible disabilities, invisible disability, medical care, medicine, mental health, race, recommended reading
By Annaham on 24 August, 2010
Wheelchair Dancer: Body Matters, Edges, and Disability We all experience limitations and restrictions. Not all of those — like not being able to speak a second language — are disabilities. The second language example is a true comment, and I would have thought that it was a pretty obviously bad comparison. But it and other [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged abled privilege, autism, cancer, conceptions of disability, disability 101, exercise, feminism, fibromyalgia, gender, news, news media, race, technology, temporarily able-bodied, white privilege, whiteness
By Annaham on 17 August, 2010
Sarah Fenske at the Phoenix New Times: ‘Til Death Do Us Part: They Got Married. Then Everything Changed This is a love story, albeit one with a medical twist. Unbeknownst to anyone — including Kevin himself — there was a tumor the size of a Granny Smith apple pressing onto Kevin’s brain. Kevin didn’t need [...]
Posted in art, race, recommended reading, social attitudes | Tagged activism, cancer, cancer treatment, chronic pain, chronic pain conditions, creative work, feminism, gender, mental health, mental illness, pain, privilege, race, relationships, social attitudes, theater
By Annaham on 10 August, 2010
Wheelchair Dancer at Feministe: On the Cover [trigger warning for discussion of violence] Regardless of how disability plays out in Aisha’s world, the vast majority of readers of TIME live in a culture that understands disability as tragedy. As shocking. As among the worst things that can happen to you (bar death). Mainstream American culture [...]
Posted in gender, global, intersectionality, justice, mental health, normality, othering, politics, race, recommended reading | Tagged bullying, disability is a feminist issue, education, gender, global, hoarding, intersectionality, journalism, media and pop culture, mental health, mental illness, news media, photography, privilege, race, violence against women, white privilege
By Ouyang Dan on 5 August, 2010
Warning: Offsite links are not safe spaces. Articles and comments in the links may contain ableist, sexist, and other -ist language and ideas of varying intensity. Opinions expressed in the articles may not reflect the opinions held by the compiler of the post and links are provided as topics of interest and exploration only. I [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged ableism, accessibility, Ashely Fiolek, communication, Deaf, disability, disabled parents, mental health, motocross, race, racism, social treatment, sports
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