Ableism

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• On Language, Again

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 666
  (Textual note: “ou” is used as a neutral third person pronoun in this text, by preference of the author.) Hello everybody! It’s your friendly neighborhood Language Police Officer 1 here, to write about language. Again. The response to the Ableist Word Profile series has been, well, tremendous. Some readers ...
  2 days ago

• Disability 101: What is Able-Bodied or Abled Privilege?

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 666
  What is able-bodied or abled privilege? The term able-bodied/abled privilege refers to the numerous benefits—-some hidden, many not—-that many societies and cultures accord to able-bodied and/or abled people. Despite many folks’ paying lip service to notions of equality for PWDs, the chronically ill, people ...
  5 days ago

• A brief PSA on language

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 666
  So many people have complained that it is asking too much of abled people to stop using words they consider trivial: crazy, insane, lunatic, idiot, moron, dumb, blind, etc. I beg to differ. You know what is really damn easy? Erasing these words from your vocabulary. All you have to do is stop saying them . You ...
  5 days ago

• A brief PSA on language

  
  three rivers fog — Authority: 508
  So many people have complained that it is asking too much of abled people to stop using words they consider trivial: crazy, insane, lunatic, idiot, moron, dumb, blind, etc. I beg to differ. You know what is really damn easy? Erasing these words from your vocabulary. All you have to do is stop saying them . You ...
  6 days ago

• “Bad Cripple”

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 666
  Last month, I went to a non-partisan Campaign School, where women learned the nuts and bolts of running a winning campaign for political office in Canada. We all said a bit about ourselves, and I stood up and introduced myself as a Disability Rights Activist. I spent the rest of the weekend being told how “Bad ...
  1 week ago

• Abliest Word Profile: Wheelchair Bound

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 666
  Welcome to Ableist Word Profile, a (probably intermittent) series in which staffers will profile various ableist words, talk about how they are used, and talk about how to stop using them. Ableism is not feminism, so it’s important to talk about how to eradicate ableist language from our vocabularies. This post is ...
  1 week ago

• Ableist Word Profile: -wit

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 666
  Welcome to Ableist Word Profile, a (probably intermittent) series in which staffers will profile various ableist words, talk about how they are used, and talk about how to stop using them. Ableism is not feminism, so it’s important to talk about how to eradicate ableist language from our vocabularies. This post is ...
  1 week ago

• Glee: “That’s why we call it dismissing legitimate concerns instead of acting”

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 666
  Glee ’s been in the news a lot lately, have you heard? 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 ...
  1 week ago

• FICTION: Cyborg Sleeps part 12

  
  A Femanist View — Authority: 127
  Getting back to the story Ive been writing and posting. Here, Director Gattell figures out how to save his butt after the loss of secrecy in the last couple of episodes. Also, noting the ableism of the agents comment about Asira. Part 12 The telephone by Samuel Gattells bed started to ring. He started ...
  1 week ago

• Sunday News Round-Up – 11/15

  
  Courtney-Jo — Authority: 119
  Lots of good stuff at Our Bodies Our Blog as usual, including a new post from OBOS intern Meg Young on Reebok’s ridiculous new sneaker ad . The FDA is looking into caffeinated alcoholic beverages and considering whether they are safe and/or legal (via NPR ). On Stupak, NPR has a good explanation of the red ...
  1 week ago

• on intersectionalities of oppression

  
  Crossing the Highway — Authority: 119
  i’ve removed feministing.com from my blogroll because the bullshit and privilege that they’ve displayed over the last few months, with regard to disabilities issues has just made me sick. there are way to many blogs to link to right now, but quixotess has a pretty good write up of what happened and why i no longer ...
  1 week ago

• Limits

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 666
  You keep telling me to accept my limitations, so why don’t we talk about yours? Why can you only think of disabled people as substandard, tragic, less than whole? Why can’t you see us as parts of your life, community, family, lovers, friends, world? Why must we be super crips, stoic heroes, silently suffering? ...
  2 weeks ago

• Weekly News Round-Up, 11/8

  
  Women's Health News — Authority: 114
  Christine has a post at Our Bodies Our Blog about the passage of the health reform legislation last night. She notes As I watched Democrats congratulate themselves, it was difficult to feel celebratory. Passage of the Stupak amendment — which bars a government-run insurance plan from offering abortion *and* ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hipster Ableism

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 666
  Note: This post contains spoilers for current episodes of Glee , Pride and Prejudice and Zombies , and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. There’s a particular brand of humour which seems to be extremely popular in the United States right now. It may, of course, be popular in other regions of the world as ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ableist Word Profile: Scab

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 666
  Welcome to Ableist Word Profile, a (probably intermittent) series in which staffers will profile various ableist words, talk about how they are used, and talk about how to stop using them. Ableism is not feminism, so it’s important to talk about how to eradicate ableist language from our vocabularies. This post is ...
  3 weeks ago

• Getting It Wrong: Rate Your Students and Ableism

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 666
  [Possible trigger warning for upsetting and ableist language] As some of you may know, I am a graduate student getting my Master’s Degree in Women and Gender Studies. I currently have vague career aspirations of getting my PhD or at least remaining in academia in some capacity; my academic interests primarily have ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ableist Word Profile: Weak

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 666
  Welcome to Ableist Word Profile, a (probably intermittent) series in which staffers will profile various ableist words, talk about how they are used, and talk about how to stop using them. Ableism is not feminism, so it’s important to talk about how to eradicate ableist language from our vocabularies. This post is ...
  3 weeks ago

• Invisible Illness and Disability Bingo 1.0

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 666
  Author’s note: This is a revised version of a bingo card that I made some time ago. While I don’t feel like I should be required to justify the lowermost right square, there was some confusion and pretty ooky pushback when I posted version 1 on my own blog. I’ll explain that square anyway, for CMA purposes: I ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ableist Word Profile: I Feel Your Pain!

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 666
  Welcome to Ableist Word Profile, a (probably intermittent) series in which staffers will profile various ableist words, talk about how they are used, and talk about how to stop using them. Ableism is not feminism, so it’s important to talk about how to eradicate ableist language from our vocabularies. This post is ...
  3 weeks ago

• Recommended Reading for October 29

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 666
  Sexy with a Disability : It’s not like there are many role models out there in the media. The disabled are rarely portrayed as sexy. Brave, yes. Melancholy, sure. Angry about their lot, check. Objects of concern and pity (stop calling me “special”!). But sexy? No. The hot babe who gets the guy isn’t limping ...
  4 weeks ago

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