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  • Catch-22 Policies: Medi-Cal and Transplants
    I ran across a situation recently that required me to figure out how the Medi-Cal program – California’s implementation of the Medicaid program, which provides government-funded health insurance to low-income people – handles people who have received transplants. What was happening was so illogical and ill-conceived that I was astounded to find out that it ...
  • Recommended Reading for 02 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 ...
  • Guest Post From Jesse the K: 20 Years and a Day for the Americans with Disabilities Act
    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 the ...
  • Recommended Reading for 30 July 2010
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  • Book Review: Wicked by Gregory Maguire
    This post is about the book version of Wicked, not the musical (they’re quite dissimilar). There’s one minor spoiler for the musical, and I’ve tried to minimise the spoilers about the book, though this is a book review so watch out! Wicked is concerned with the story of the Wicked Witch ...
  • Question Time: Creativity
    Question Time is a series in which we open the floor up to you, commenters. We invite you to share as you feel comfortable. Do you do any creative things (artwork, web design, creative writing, photography, playing a musical instrument or instruments, crafts, knitting) for fun? If so, what are they, and what do you ...
  • Celebrating Us: Notes for an address at the 7th Annual Simply People Celebration
    It is too often argued by representatives from governments and the obligated sectors that they “would like to do the things we wand and need, but these changes will simply cost too much.” We have countered that the real barriers are not cost, but a lack of political will and a question of priorities.
  • Recommended Reading For 27 July 2010
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  • Quick Press: Action For Access
    Passed along to me via email is this downloadable and printable survey, Action for Access. You go to the website, and follow the instructions for download. The survey can be taken to locations on the map, then matched up (to my understanding) with the online version, to rate local businesses and establishments in the UK on ...
  • Recommended Reading for 26 July 2010
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