By Anna on 13 October, 2010
A few signal-boosting calls to action that people, especially those in the US, may want to participate in. Penny Reeder at Abled Body: Share your Smart Phone Strife with the FCC And one other thing, I don’t want to pay any more for my smartphone than anybody who has a Blackberry, Droid, or iPhone. I [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged assisted living, crazy, mental health, mental illness, pets, stigma, United Kingdom, virgina ironside, wheelchair, wheelchair users
By Chally on 17 September, 2010
Gentle reader, be cautioned: comments sections on mainstream media sites tend to not be safe and we here at FWD/Forward don’t necessarily endorse all the opinions in these pieces. Let’s jump right in, shall we? From BBC’s Ouch, by Charlie Swinbourne, Deaf country life v deaf city life: I’m soon to become a Dad for [...]
Posted in accessibility, life changes, medical practice, recommended reading | Tagged children, Deaf, relocating, social inclusion, wheelchair, wheelchair user, wheelchairs
By Guest on 30 July, 2010
Jesse the K hopes you can take a disabled feminist to tea this month. I’d hoped to have a delicious thinky post about the difference 20 years of the Americans with Disabilities Act has made for the world, the nation, the state, and me. Meditating on those topics proved so depressing I didn’t even leave [...]
Posted in accessibility, activism, guest post, identity, introspective, life changes | Tagged ableism, advocacy, assistive technology, human rights, impairment, legalities, memoir, wheelchair
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 lauredhel on 31 May, 2010
MSNBC is carrying a Reuters article, Insult to injury: More kids hurt by own crutches, about injuries to young people “related to the use of crutches, wheelchairs and walkers”. Apparently, these injuries are “on the rise”, with significant numbers of USAn emergency room attendances related to injuries sustained while using a mobility aid. Note, firstly, [...]
Posted in accessibility, bad advice, medical practice, social attitudes | Tagged accessibility, children, children with disabilities, crutches, design, disabled children, emergency, er, falls, inaccessibility, injuries, injury, kids, medicine, mobility aid, mobility aids, pediatrics, science, stairs, universal design, walker, walkers, wheelchair, wheelchairs
By lauredhel on 3 April, 2010
You saw last week’s Glee promotional poster, posted here by s. e. smith. In that poster, Sue the cheerleading coach sprays spray paint across the Glee club – hitting most of the singers in the chest or abdomen, but spraying Artie, who uses a wheelchair, across the eyes. Here’s the latest: Look at those singers! [...]
Posted in media and pop culture | Tagged artie, disability, disabilityfail, disabled men can't jump, fail, glee, poster, wheelchair
By lauredhel on 1 March, 2010
[WARNING for this post: ableism within and without the medical system, pregnancy/baby losses mentioned] Defiant Birth: Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics, by Melinda Tankard Reist, is a book about women. It is a book about families. It is a book about resistance. It is a book about women who refuse to be told what they [...]
Posted in autonomy, bodies, feminism, medical practice, reproductive justice, resistance, social attitudes | Tagged ableism, ablist, abortion, achondroplasia, asthma, birth, cerebral palsy, defiant birth, disability, disability and pregnancy, disabled, down syndrome, down's syndrome, dwarfism, eugenics, genetic counselling, genetic screening, healthcare, lupus, mctd, medicine, melinda tankard reist, obstetrics, phocomelia, pregnancy, prenatal diagnosis, pro-choice, pulmonary hypertension, reist, reproductive justice, scheurmann's disease, termination of pregnancy, thalidomide, trisomy 21, wheelchair
By Anna on 18 November, 2009
I considered making this entire post “People don’t like being told they’re wheelchair bound. Stop doing it. Try ‘wheelchair user’ instead. Thank you.”
Then I remembered how often that argument is rejected.
Posted in 101, Ableist Word Profile, bodies, language, social attitudes | Tagged ableism, language, wheelchair, wheelchair bound, wheelchair user
By Anna on 6 November, 2009
o me, this is “Yay! snow!”
To Don, this is “Well, I guess I’m not going out anymore until spring.”
We live in a really shite neighbourhood for snow-clearing. Although our landlord is excellent about keeping the snow and ice off the area in front of our building, there are two places on either side of us that aren’t. One is a business, so I’m not sure what’s up there. The other is a private residence, and there’s a variety of reasons that could be happening, including that the person living there may have a disability and/or be a senior and be unable to clear their walks.
Posted in 101, social attitudes | Tagged social inclusion, weather, wheelchair, wheelchair user
By amandaw on 4 November, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged acceptance, activism, advocacy, dignity, disability, disability movement, disabled, identity, images, international symbol of acceptance, life, logo, love, open your mind, pride, promotions, pwd, representation, self-acceptance, value, we're right here, wheelchair, worth
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