By Annaham on 25 November, 2010
One thing that has helped me quite a bit as a blogger, writer, grad student and person with chronic pain subject to flare-ups has been speech-to-text software. The basic idea is fairly self-evident: You install the software, plug in the headset that comes with it, open up the word processing program of your choice, and [...]
Posted in accessibility, Accessible Tech, happy posts, technology | Tagged assistive technology, blogging, pain, technology, writing
By Annaham on 29 October, 2010
As s.e. wrote about in a post earlier this week, I am a cartoonist in addition to all the other crap that I do. I’ve been drawing (and writing) for most of my life, and finding the perfect pen has been something of a wild turkey-chase with mixed results. I know that an entire post [...]
Posted in comics, creative work, media and pop culture | Tagged art, artwork, cartooning, creative work, pens, writing
By Annaham on 7 October, 2010
And they say that the truth will set you free/but then/so will a lie – Ani DiFranco, “Promised Land” (2003) Yesterday, I wrote some things down, intending to use them for a post. The half-post or so that I wrote was inspired by, in large part, bullying-related suicides recently making the national news. It was [...]
Posted in mental health, meta | Tagged life, mental health, mental illness, trauma, writing
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 Annaham on 22 June, 2010
Ken Reibel at Huffington Post: Teen With Asperger’s Arrested: Were Callers Racial Profiling? Neli, as his family calls him, is 18 and has Asperger’s, a mild form of autism. Three Mondays ago, he rose early and left home without telling his mother. “When I entered his room at 6:30 am and didn’t see him, I [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged age, aging, asperger syndrome, autonomy, bodies, clothes, community, creative writing, fandom, gender, health police, law enforcement, media and pop culture, race, writing
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