intersectionality

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• On the Map: Meet a Bunch of White Guys... or Oprah

  
  Bitch Blogs — Authority: 141
  Youve got eight more days to bid in The 6th Annual Chevy Chase Green School Auction , a fundraiser for Jayni Chases beloved MGR Foundation GREEN Community Schools initiative that aims to "transform school buildings into centers for green development" by "spread[ing] environmental literacy and awareness." While the ...
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• 18th Down Under Feminists’ Carnival!

  
  Wallaby — Authority: 519
  Apologies for the lack of DUFC logo – for some reason, I stick in the image and link, hit “update” – and WordPress disappears the whole thing! Welcome to the 18th Down Under Feminists’ Carnival! (And apologies for the delay.) This Carnival has an optional caring theme, thanks to Australian Carers’ ...
  3 days ago

• Guest Post: Disability and Asexuality

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 647
  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 ...
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• Invisible Illness and Disability Bingo 1.0

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 647
  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 ...
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• Read On!: "The First (Black) Lady"

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 480
  States Parties shall take all appropriate measures:a. to modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women, with a view to achieving the elimination of prejudices and customary and all other practices which are based on the idea of the inferiority or the superiority of either of the sexes or on ...
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• Quotations

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 647
  Being discriminated against or exploited because one is female may be painful and dehumanizing, but it may not necessarily be as painful, dehumanizing, or threatening as being without food or shelter, as starvation, as being deathly ill but unable to obtain medical care. - bell hooks, Feminist Theory From Margin to ...
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• Law & Order: “Dignity”, Worth, and the Medical Model of Disability

  
  Hoyden About Town — Authority: 135
  [x-posted from FWD/Forward: Feminists With Disabilities ] As a feminist, I am pro-choice. Abortion should be safe, legal, and accessible. As a feminist, I look at more than whether single, individual women have access to abortion. There is a much broader reproductive justice framework that must be scrutinised, ...
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• Law & Order: “Dignity”, Worth, and the Medical Model of Disability

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 647
  As a feminist, I am pro-choice. Abortion should be safe, legal, and accessible. As a feminist, I look at more than whether single, individual women have access to abortion. There is a much broader reproductive justice framework that must be scrutinised, critiqued and repaired so that all women have access to ...
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• Keeping up appearances: what about you?

  
  Historiann — Authority: 511
  It was interesting to me that nobody in yesterday’s comments talked about how a job candidate’s appearance and/or choice of clothing might affect the ways in which she or he is evaluated from their own experience, either as a candidate or as someone on a search committee or part of the hiring organization.  ...
  2 weeks ago

• Disability Blog Carnival 59 is up!

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 647
  The fabulous and amazing Liz Henry has up a variety of awesome posts for the 59th Disability Blog Carnival ! The theme for the Disability Blog Carnival #59 is Work and Disability. It’s National Disability Employment Awareness Month. Thank you to Penny from the Disability Studies Blog for co-ordinating the ...
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• A Man Whos Not Even in the 20th Century, Never Mind the 21st

  
  Front Page — Authority: 106
  "I came into this landmine of  Anglos  versus Spanish versus Mexicans versus Indians versus everybody up here. Im just doing what Ive always done."  Larry Whitten  This clown, in order to turn around a failing hotel, wanted Latinos to change their names.  But, folks werent having it.  Read the story here ...
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• Disability Is …?

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 647
  (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 ...
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• Recommended Reading for October 23

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 647
  Reminder! The next Disability Blog Carnival is coming up on the weekend. Get your posts in to Liz! Tell your friends! In the blogs: ADAPT in Atlantica, kicking ass and taking names [LONG] [US] Their goals are, free people from being incarcerated in nursing homes, and kept in there against their will. They ...
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• Ableist Word Profile: Intelligence

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 647
  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 ...
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• Shifting the Responsibility for Disability in Uniform

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 647
  Moderatix note: This post will be United States Military centric, as that is the perspective I offer, and the broken system within which I currently exist and attempt to navigate.  Other voices are welcome and experiences appreciated within the context of the conversation, since I can not pretend to know every thing ...
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• Disability, Gender, and Poverty

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 647
  I came across a new study by the Center for Economic and Policy Research , a D.C. think tank, examining the relationship between disability and poverty (pdf). I was very interested to read this because, while its not discussed in this study, poverty in the United States affects women at rates much higher than ...
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• The Negative Side of Positive Thinking

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 647
  “I don’t have time for positive thinking. I spend all of that time thinking negatively.” –Kathy Griffin I might as well come right out and say it: I highly dislike the whole positive thinking movement. I would say “I hate it,” but that might get me accused of being bitter, cynical, negative, and many ...
  3 weeks ago

• Caring and intersectionality: carers can be people with disabilities, too!

  
  Wallaby — Authority: 519
  Just another reminder that it’s Carers Week this week and I’m hosting the Carers’ Week-themed DUFC early next month. Take a look at the information about halfway down the linked page under the heading “Impacts of caring”. The first sentence under the heading is: Carers have been found to have the ...
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• The Chat

  
  random babble... — Authority: 421
  So, I think some of you might have heard about that Open Letter? Some stuff was said, some things were arranged, and long story short (too late) a chat was arranged w/ representatives from Feministing so that we could discuss the differences that we had, and voice our concerns, and hopefully work towards a common ...
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• The Intersectional Feminist: An Introduction

  
  Girl with Pen — Authority: 121
  Hi, everyone! I’m a somewhat familiar face here at GirlwPen.  Deborah Siegel and Kristen Loveland have both very graciously edited some of my guest posts featured at this site over the last year, including interviews with noted feminist authors such as  Leora Tanenbaum , Kyria Abrahams , Susan Campbell , and ...
  4 weeks ago

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