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"So from my viewpoint this just got a lot more interesting" Well as long as it's interesting to you. We…
Amp: ... the disproportionate number of men being deported, .... How disproportionate is it? What proportion do males make up…
Amp: Due to occupational segregation, for example, over ninety percent of workplace deaths in the U.S. are male. Being against…
So, a little off topic, but not much; as I'm sure you're all aware the Supreme Court has quite unsurprisingly…
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Category Archives: Disabled Rights & Issues
Please, won’t you amputate my foot?
From an article in The Boston Globe, by S. I. Rosenbaum: SOMERVILLE – Here is Bonnie Denis: pierced and tattooed and dreadlocked, balancing on a pair of custom-painted, raspberry-pink crutches. Here is Bonnie Denis’s right foot: small and calloused and … Continue reading
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RIP Harriet McBryde Johnson, 1957-2008
Overwhelmingly sad news today: Harriet McBryde Johnson has died at age 50. Image description: The photo shows Johnson in a flowered-print navy dress looking toward the camera. She sits in her wheelchair, though the image is a close-up focusing on … Continue reading
Posted in Disabled Rights & Issues, In the news, Links
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Move Over: Pregnant Woman Coming Through
(Not yet proofread; please bear with me.) For me, one of the most striking things about pregnancy has been how pregnancy affects embodiment. In particular, I’m referring to how societal interactions and structures make affect social psychology and social interaction. … Continue reading
To Become Skinny Find a Woman to Cook for you
This is an image from the Icarus Project, a radical mental health support network. I saw it when it was reprinted in a local zine (more on that later): You can find a larger version here. [Image description: It’s a … Continue reading
Check out the 37th edition of the Disability Blog Carnival
Did you know that Dorothea Lange, famed Depression-era photographer, had polio and that her experience with disability informed her work? Ms. CripChick presents the latest Disability Blog Carnival on Disability Culture and Identity: “Here They Come!” “I think it was … Continue reading
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On Making Argument: Disability and Language, by Wheelchair Dancer
Wheelchair Dancer wrote an excellent critique of the ableism in my last post on shades of grey in activism. The whole thing is below, but you should also check it and her other works out on her blog, Wheelchair Dancer. … Continue reading
The three candidates on disability (a subject that dares not speak its name)
Michael Bérubé at Crooked Timber has a good and fairly long post comparing the disability policies of Clinton, Obama and McCain. Kathy at The G Spot nutshells for us: — Hillary Clinton’s disability policy? Very, very good. — Barack Obama’s … Continue reading
Mia Mingus Interviewed In Make/Shift
The newest Make/Shift has a great interview with Mia Mingus, a “twenty-seven year old queer, disabled, Korean transracial adoptee” who is the co-director of Reproductive Justice Now!. Mingus’ interview is excellent and covers a lot of ground. The whole interview … Continue reading
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Local political ad
(Watch the ad before reading further if you prefer to avoid “spoilers”).
Planning health care in a disaster
From the Sacramento Bee: Older, sicker patients could be allowed to die in order to save the lives of patients more likely to survive a massive disaster, bioterror attack or influenza pandemic in California. It’s not how nurses and doctors … Continue reading
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Normally I'd be up for a little debate on gender and its implications, but in this case all I can…