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• 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 ...
  13 hours ago

• on intersectionalities of oppression

  
  Crossing the Highway — Authority: 120
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• Limits

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 661
  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? ...
  6 days 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* ...
  1 week ago

• Hipster Ableism

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 661
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Ableist Word Profile: Scab

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 661
  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

• Getting It Wrong: Rate Your Students and Ableism

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 661
  [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 ...
  1 week ago

• Ableist Word Profile: Weak

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 661
  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

• Invisible Illness and Disability Bingo 1.0

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 661
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Ableist Word Profile: I Feel Your Pain!

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 661
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Recommended Reading for October 29

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 661
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ableist Word Profile: Mongoloid

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 661
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ableism and the Aussie Battler

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 661
  I want to talk about how Australia’s ideas of the ideal Australian exclude people with disabilities. But first I have to explain a little about the Australian national myth. The ideal Australian figure is known as “the Aussie battler”. Essentially this is an ordinary man working hard to get by and support his ...
  2 weeks ago

• DisRespect interviews with Barb Farlow, Sam Sansalone

  
  What Sorts of People — Authority: 114
  I’m re-posting this May 15th post, since Disrespect has just re-run an interview with Sam Sansalone about his daughter Katya from earlier this year. The directions below will allow you to get to Sam’s interview, which was re-run on 22nd October; the podcast should be up there for the next few weeks. The [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Guest Post: Negotiating Disableism

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 661
  This is a guest from from Renee of Womanist Musings . Disableism is very new to me. My chronic illnesses not only changed my status, but forced me to see just how pervasive ableism is. It has been a huge learning process, as I have sought to reduce the ways in which my language and behaviour support ableism. I ...
  2 weeks ago

• Disability Is …?

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 661
  (Originally posted July 2009 at Feministe , three rivers fog .) We had a really good discussion about non disability. It got derailed, a bit, because it depended on our ability to reasonably define disability . And it’s a subject that has come up in every discussion we’ve had these couple weeks. What is ...
  3 weeks ago

• Depending on narcotics

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 661
  I take six medications. Five of them — the antiepileptic, the antidepressant, the non-narcotic pain killer, the muscle relaxer, and the oral contraceptive — are covered through a mail-order service. I receive a 90-day supply in my mail box every three months. No hassle. If a prescription runs out, my doctor is ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ableist Word Profile: Intelligence

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 661
  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

• Google Wave and Accessibility

  
  Eric Stoller's Blog — Authority: 103
  Google Wave is “totally inaccessible.” According to Web Accessibility in Mind’s (Web AIM) Jared Smith.Smith’s list of Google Wave’s inaccessible aspects is quite... .
  3 weeks ago

• Yes, it DOES make a difference

  
  three rivers fog — Authority: 477
  ( Cross-posted at FWD .) I wrote this yesterday in an extreme fog and do not have the spoons to rework and polish it. Apologies for the brainspill, but these days it’s the only option I have. *** For background, see Ouyang Dan’s post on the problematic aspects of the TV show House . Don’t tell me that ...
  3 weeks ago

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