By Annaham on 24 June, 2010
Here’s the scoop: Despite the fact that I am sort of a cartoonist and “into” graphic art, I am, sadly, not totally on the up-and-up when it comes to comics and graphic novels! So, I need recommendations from you fine FWD commenters for a project that I will be starting on rather soon. I am [...]
Posted in art, books, creative work, media and pop culture, meta | Tagged art, biography, comics, creative work, reading
By Annaham on 22 June, 2010
Recently, I was on the commuter train home. I happened to be reading Susan Schweik’s book Ugly Laws: Disability in Public for a research paper. Two middle-aged women sat down opposite me, and one inquired as to what book I was reading. Me: It’s a book about 20th-century ugly laws in the U.S. Woman #1: [...]
Posted in activism, bodies, books, history, politics, small stories, social attitudes | Tagged conceptions of disability, reading, social attitudes, things people say, ugly laws
By lauredhel on 4 June, 2010
This post is not spoily for the Dexter TV series to date, except perhaps for the premise. It contains a very minor spoiler for an event that occurs at the start of Dexter By Design. Comments may contain spoilers up to the Chapter Ten of Dexter by Design, but no further please.. At the moment [...]
Posted in books, justice, social attitudes, violence | Tagged assault, book, brutality, dehumanisation, dehumanization, dexter, dexter by design, duct tape, homicide, immobilisation, immobilization, jeff lindsay, lindsay, police, power wheelchair, reading, restraint, thriller, wheelchair
By Annaham on 1 June, 2010
fiction_theory (LJ): The internet IS real life The problem with impeaching someone’s anti-racism based on attendance at a specific march or even public rallies and protests in general is that it assumes that a) attending such events is a more real, valid, and important means of expressing anti-racism than any other means, specifically online and [...]
Posted in bodies, identity, intersectionality, news, politics, recommended reading, social attitudes, technology | Tagged accessibility, activism, anti-racism, barriers to access, chronic pain, communication, community, critique, fandom, fibromyalgia, internet, Internet use, intersectionality, invisible disability, media critique, mental health, race, reading, science, sleep, social networking, trichotillomania
By s.e. smith on 20 March, 2010
Spoiler Notes: This post does contain some spoilerish material about Uglies. If you haven’t read the book yet you might want to wait to read this because it mentions a big reveal which is rather central to the plot! I have isolated it in its own spoilery paragraph for the benefit of those who would [...]
Posted in media and pop culture, normality, social attitudes | Tagged books, cure evangelism, normal, reading
By s.e. smith on 20 December, 2009
Question Time is a series in which we open up the floor to you, commenters. We invite you to share as you feel comfortable. Bookwise, I mean. By which, I mean, what kind of books do you like to read? Do you read different books at different times, depending on your mood and what else [...]
Posted in media and pop culture, Question Time | Tagged books, reading
By Annaham on 10 December, 2009
A word of caution: This review is going to be quite short, as I have been struggling with “getting words out” for the past few days. Regardless, I think this is an important book, and might be of interest to my fellow FWD-ers (bloggers and commenters!). I touched upon the whole positive thinking movement (and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ableism, books, reading, the secret
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