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• Clap if you believe in gender!

  
  Shades of Gray — Authority: 404
  This might be a post which will generate some heated debate, maybe make some people start to hate me, but you know what, guys? I fucking hate the word “agender.” I see people calling themselves this fairly often in the asexual community–in fact, roughly 18% of the respondents to my survey on asexuality and ...
  21 hours ago

• In which homework is assigned

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 645
  This post was originally published at Zero at the Bone in August 2009. In it I ask the abled folk among us to think beyond the (very important!) need for systemic inclusion of disabled people, to what they can do as individuals. I’m going to talk about accessibility. I want you to have a think. Then I want you ...
  1 day ago

• Obama deserves praise for signing hate crimes law

  
  JFActivist — Authority: 131
  From the LA Times  (11/3/09): Obama deserves praise for signing hate crimes law By Kathi Wolfe As a legally blind lesbian, I celebrated on Oct. 28 when the president signed the Matthew Shepard and James Boyd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act... ...In 1999, Eric Krochmaluk, a man with intellectual disabilities ...
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• Fly your freak flag baby!

  
  Burning or building bridges in the community? — Authority: 122
  A comment on one of my posts inspired my desire to shout this to the world today. Fly your freak flag baby! How? Well, it’s your lucky day friends! I am going to direct you to a web post that will give you some ideas of how to fly your freak flag high and proud! Here’s some musical inspiration to this end ...
  1 day ago

• "Special Olympics... a Civil Rights Movement"

  
  JFActivist — Authority: 131
  From the New York Times (10/24/09): Work at Eye Level As told by Tim Shriver to Patricia R. Olsen WHEN I was growing up, we lived on a farm in Maryland and had dogs, chickens and cattle. In 1962, my mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, started a summer camp in our backyard for children with intellectual ...
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• OR: Olmstead Victory! Last Institution for Developmentally Disabled Closes

  
  JFActivist — Authority: 131
  Thank you Marsha Katz for Passing along this information. Dear Friends, As of the close of business yesterday, Oregon is the first state in the nation to have NO ICFs/MR ("Intermediate Care Facility for the Mentally Retarded").  This includes public and community facilities, as well as no Oregon citizens residing in ...
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• 1 in 10 People With Disabilities Have been Victims of a Hate Crime

  
  JFActivist — Authority: 131
  From the Guardian (11/4/09): Charity says 9% of disabled people have been victims of hate crime Leonard Cheshire Disability included question on disability-related crime after high-profile incidents in which disabled people had been targeted by Peter Walker Almost one in 10 disabled people in the UK have ...
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• Columnist: ‘Hateful’ language can spur violence against disabled

  
  Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com — Authority: 437
  ‘When did people with disabilities cease to matter in the battle against bigotry?’Writing in the [UK] Independent, columnist Ian Birrell says society widely prohibits the use of “crude stereotyping” and “hateful words” when directed against other minority groups, yet accepts the same behavior when directed ...
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• Darling, Should I Cry Over Spilled Milk?

  
  In the Name of Love — Authority: 103
  "There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?" (Sophocles) "Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned." (W. C. Fields) "It doesnt matter how much milk you spill, just so long as you dont lose the cow." (Mark Guilbeau) Are emotional attitudes such as ...
  2 days ago

• Looking for an Easy Way to Stop Smoking? Take it easy!

  
  Healthy Living Living a Healthy Lifestyle — Authority: 125
  Looking for an Easy Way to Stop Smoking? Take it easy! Social attitudes towards smoking have changed dramatically in the civilized countries for the past few years. All smokers are aware of these and are continuously looking for easy way to stop smoking, just like you! Smokers are thinning out gradually to become a ...
  2 days ago

• Guest Post: Disability and Asexuality

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 645
  Kaz is a German woman in her twenties, currently doing a maths PhD in the UK. She is on the autistic spectrum, stutters, and has been dealing with clinical depression on and off since her teens; she considers all of these disabilities. She is also aromantic -tending-towards- homoromantic asexual and identifies as ...
  2 days ago

• Reclaiming the word “permission”

  
  Burning or building bridges in the community? — Authority: 122
  As a woman who grew up in an extremely conservative merciless home and church environment, the word permission was a “dirty word” for me. I had to ask for permission for everything! I couldn’t go to the bathroom at school without permission. I couldn’t leave the table at home without permission. Even decades ...
  2 days ago

• Thought for today

  
  Burning or building bridges in the community? — Authority: 122
  “I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.” -Sara Teasdale I am going to elucidate on this quote today. Tagged: fail blog, life, loss, love, moods, musings
  3 days ago

• Workplace Flexibility and People with Disabilities

  
  JFActivist — Authority: 131
  From the Huffington Post (10/28/09): Workplace Flexibility and People with Disabilities By Robin Shaffert, Senior Director of Corporate Social Responsibility of the AAPD ...Increasingly, companies are recognizing the benefits of instituting flexible workplace policies that allow employees to work part time, ...
  3 days ago

• And if this keeps up, there won’t be any

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 645
  My pet hate: “Crip Drag”. Crip Drag is when a character has a disability, but the actor playing that character doesn’t have whatever disability they are portraying. Recent examples that come to mind are Kevin McHale, who plays Artie on Glee , any wheelchair-using villain you see in Doctor Who , and whoever ...
  3 days ago

• Social Media and Surveys Webinar

  
  Free Webinar News — Authority: 135
  Catherine Van Zuylen and Brian Koma are having a webinar on ‘Social Media and Surveys: Mining Sentiment and Attitudes to Understand the New Breed of Customer’. According to Catherine and Brian, this webinar will teach the following: -The social media outlets your customers are using today -The types of customer ...
  3 days ago

• ABI Research: 27% of smartphones cost under $200 this year

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 445
  We dig the idea of falling smartphone prices. ABI Research has been following the market and they say that in 2007 only 18% of these devices were priced under 0 retail. This year, however, that percentage went up to 27%, and by 2014 the research company predicts 45% of them [smartphones] will be priced below 0. ...
  3 days ago

• Guest Post: To Whom It May Concern

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 645
  Avendya is a college student with a chronic illness. To Whom It May Concern: My life is not a fucking tragedy. No, really. Yes, I’ve fought with GlaxoSmithKline today, and I’m not sure when I’ll get a medication I badly need. Yes, my knee keeps giving out, and I am barely able to keep up the stairs to my ...
  4 days ago

• Advocacy in Flawed Systems: Using Shackling Language to Help a PWD?

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 645
  In my professional life, I’m an advocate at a non-profit agency that provides free legal services to low-income folks. I work primarily in the area of public benefits, which means I’ve done a lot of work with the program from the Social Security Administration (SSA) to assist low-income folks with permanent ...
  4 days ago

• Harvey County KANSAS: Domestic violence cases up 55 percent

  
  Battered Women, Battered Children, Custody Abuse — Authority: 442
  Note: Cross posted from [wp angelfury] A Human Rights Issue-Custodial Justice . Permalink Domestic violence cases up 55 percent in Harvey County KS: “Some women may want to leave the situation, but all wo.. http://bit.ly/3NWJxc Domestic violence cases up 55 percent in Harvey County By Cristina ...
  4 days ago

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