- Recommended Reading for November 18
Recommended Reading for November 18, 2009
- Ableist Word Profile: Wheelchair Bound
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.
- Dear Disney & Pixar: Closed Captioning and Audio Descriptions are not “special features”
Codeman38 has been bringing people’s attention to the lack of accessibility features available in the rental version of Up:
However, Disney (the film’s distributor) released a special rental-only version of the DVD to the three above-mentioned rental chains, which lacks the bonus shorts from the retail DVD, the descriptive audio track, and the captions and subtitles ...
- Recommended Reading for November 17
Recommended Reading for November 17, 2009
- Final Carnival Reminder!
Today is the deadline for submissions for the Disability Carnival.
If you emailed something to carnival at disabledfeminists.com and didn’t get some variation of “I got your submission! Thank you!”, then I haven’t received it. The alternate address is anna@annaoverseas.com.
The optional theme is intersectionality. However, any posts you’ve written about disability that you’d like ...
- Jordan’s Principle
Take, for example, the case of Jordan River Anderson, a First Nations boy from Norway House Cree Nation in Manitoba. Jordan was born with “complex health needs” (this is code for Carey Fineman Ziter Syndrome, a rare muscular disorder) and spent the first two years of his life in hospital. At that point, ...
- Question Time: Assistive Devices
Question Time is a series in which we open up the floor to you, commenters. We invite you to share as you feel comfortable.
What are your assistive devices, if any? (‘Assistive device’ defined as broadly as you like.)
- Recommended Reading for November 16
Recommended Reading for November 16, 2009
- Glee: “That’s why we call it dismissing legitimate concerns instead of acting”
Basically, after a three week hiatus, the show came back last week, and wow, was there a lot of press about it. Not because of the show’s performance, or the show’s “diversity” award, but because of the controversy that has been suddenly generated by the show.
- A Few Relevant Posts on “Glee”
I know people are searching for our responses to the Very Special Disability Episode of Glee. I’ve got something going up Monday, but I wanted to highlight a few very good responses from other people to the episode, specifically people who are actually knowledgeable about the disabilities presented on the show. So, obviously ...