self-acceptance
The Space Between…
This post originally posted at random babble… on 06 January 2010
The policing of other women’s bodies is never OK from a feminist standpoint. I can’t stress that point enough. It doesn’t serve any productive purpose in feminist discourse.
It is mostly an understood concept among people outside of the mainstream of feminism. Those who are able [...]
Guest Post: Hanging Up the Cane
The first time I held my cane, I cried.
It wasn’t a feeling I expected, to be honest. I’d been fired the week before from a job I enjoyed, for telling my employer I was in too much pain to stand for the entire shift, but things were coming out on my side. I had all my friends and family supporting me, and I’d found enough self-esteem to file a complaint with the provincial Human Rights Commission, alleging discrimination on the basis of disability. It was time, in my mind, to give up beating around the bush.
Guest Post: Learning to Write About Disability
But writing about my own disabilities is scarier for me than any coming out I’ve done before because of the way disability is viewed. I went through 5 drafts in 3 days and kept banging my head against the walls. Which told me that this is what I needed to write first.
The International Symbol of Acceptance
Full disclosure: There is a discount offer at the end of this post (for 3ELove’s merchandise featuring their symbol). However, I have been meaning to write about this design for some time; it has such deep significance for me, and I hope it will gain prominence as more people are introduced to it.
And for more [...]
You don’t have to be normal.
(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 about beauty standards.
i’m [...]
Conceptualizing disability
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 [...]
Why can’t disorder be beautiful?
The mess in my apartment never goes away. We get this room clean, and that room clean, and the other, but rarely all at the same time. Even when we push to get everything in order, there is always something neglected — usually my mess in the second bedroom where I keep all my art [...]
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