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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “ableism”

• For the Love of Annie

  
  What Sorts of People — Authority: 125
  There’s a recent interview with Barb Farlow up at Bloom–Parenting Kids with Disabilities–by Louise Kinross. It starts with the following background information:When Barb Farlow learned the baby she was carrying had Trisomy 13, her decision to continue the pregnancy “was immediate and innate, and in complete ...
  2 days ago

• On Speculation and Boundaries…

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 611
  Brittany Murphy died today. It took exactly five seconds for the speculation to start up about why she would die of cardiac arrest at the tender age of 32, and not quite double that for the snarky comments to seep out of the woodwork. Because certainly if she had an existing heart condition we all would have known ...
  2 days ago

• I have one question for you.

  
  three rivers fog — Authority: 476
  Feministe . Feministing . Shakesville . Bitch . Kate Harding , Jezebel and Broadsheet . Every big feminist-inclined blogger who has shown such urgency and import about Stupak and abortion-within-healthcare-reform. Every feminist blogger who has used their standing, their wide audience, to urge people to do ...
  3 days ago

• A Weird Moment

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 611
  A cautionary tale, of sorts: Back when I was a young, naive college freshman, I decided to attend one of those campus service/organization ‘fests (meant to introduce many other naive young things to the services available to them at university)–mostly because it was right in my dorm’s common room. Oh, and they ...
  5 days ago

• “I read Playboy for the articles”: Justifying and Rationalizing Unethical Decisions

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 160
  [image is from here] Queen Bee, one of many commenters over at The Experience Project has made what I consider to be a perfectly appropriate statement to introduce this post. It is from here and an excerpt of it reads as follows:Posted on December 14th, 2009 at 7:33 PMI got a man who thinks I am strange i got another ...
  1 week ago

• The Transcontinental Disability Choir: Pride & Prejudice & Ableism

  
  Bitch Blogs — Authority: 137
  Monster mashups of Jane Austen novels appear to be quite the pop phenomenon these days. Adaptations of Austens classic Regency works spiced up with the addition of violence, zombie mayhem, and sea monsters are flying off the bookstore shelves, and appear to be spawning their own miniature literary genre. People have ...
  1 week ago

• Book Review: Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 611
  A word of caution: This review is going to be quite short, as I have been struggling with “getting words out” for the past few days. Regardless, I think this is an important book, and might be of interest to my fellow FWD-ers (bloggers and commenters!). I touched upon the whole positive thinking movement (and ...
  1 week ago

• Heads-up for Feb.

  
  A Femanist View — Authority: 410
  On the Paul OGrady show today, professional dancer Brian Fortuna from the BBCs Strictly Come Dancing (the US version is called Dancing with the Stars ) announced a new show called Dancing on Wheels . This is not a roller-blading or roller skates version of Dancing on Ice . Fortuna explained that someone (I ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Bullying Cycle: Which Abuses Among Children are Some School Systems and Communities Trying to End?

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 160
  [diagram of bullying cycle of abuse and collaboration is from here]Consider the impact of implementing similar programs into all schools requiring a zero tolerance policy on racist, ableist, classist, sexist, and heterosexist abuse and violence, as well as teaching children how to behave differently, and how to ...
  2 weeks ago

• What Sorts course

  
  What Sorts of People — Authority: 125
  I’ll be teaching a fairly large, mixed grad / undergrad seminar this coming semester as an ethics course with the working title that coincides with the blog: what sorts of people should there be?. Below is an initial draft of the core part of the syllabus. Feedback and suggestions welcome. One feature [...]
  2 weeks ago

• New paper from me

  
  Nano and Nano- Bio, Info, Cogno, Neuro, Synbio, Geo, Chem... — Authority: 91
  What next for the human species? Human performance enhancement, ableismand pluralism p. 141-163 in Development Dialogue No 52 August 2009 called What Next Vol II The case for pluralism publisher Dag Hammarskjöld Foundationhttp://www.dhf.uu.se/pdffiler/DD_52/Development_Dialogue_52_art8.pdf Posted in Ableism Tagged: ...
  3 weeks ago

• PETA or People for the Extreme Treatment of Activism

  
  culturekitchen - fresh dissent served daily — Authority: 529
  This link comes courtesy of The Vegan Sistah Project and, I am sad to say that no, I do not think this is a hoax. This is absolutely consistent with the tactics of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals . Just read Jan Frels article from back in 2005 PETA: Whatever It Takes , a revelatory yet tad too ...
  3 weeks ago

• “I only read Playboy for the articles.” – a study on unconscious bias

  
  Restructure! — Authority: 109
  The conceit of deceit (The Economist): YOU are deciding between two magazines to read. The one you choose just happens to feature photos of women in very small swimsuits. But you do not, you claim, pick that particular magazine for the bathing beauties; it happens to have more interesting articles, or better ...
  4 weeks ago

• On Language, Again

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 611
  (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 ...
  4 weeks ago

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