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How disproportionate is it? https://www.statista.com/statistics/257783/estimated-number-of-illegal-immigrants-in-the-us-by-age-and-sex/ There are estimated to be slightly more men than women, but not ten times as…
Can we forget about gender for a moment and concentrate on stopping the ongoing genocide? I doubt anyone here has…
Normally I'd be up for a little debate on gender and its implications, but in this case all I can…
"So from my viewpoint this just got a lot more interesting" Well as long as it's interesting to you. We…
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Category Archives: Disabled Rights & Issues
Helplessness, Vulnerability, Disability
Something odd just happened to me. I have anxiety around the phone. From talking to other people I know, it seems like this isn’t rare. Mine’s gotten worse recently, like a lot of my other anxieties. I *can* make phone … Continue reading
Posted in Disabled Rights & Issues
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The "Ransom Notes" Campaign
We have your son.We are destroying his ability for social interaction and driving him into a life of complete isolation. It’s up to you now…Asperger’s Syndrome The NYU Child Study Center has a new public education campaign designed to create … Continue reading
Prison suicides and mental illness
Piggybacking on Amp’s report of recent NYT statistics on prisons and prisoners in the U.S. is the news that prisoner suicides in Massachusetts state prisons are nearly triple the rate in other states. From the first part of a three-part … Continue reading
Posted in Disabled Rights & Issues, In the news
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Robert Latimer denied parole
Yesterday, a Canadian parole board in a prison near Victoria denied day parole to Robert Latimer. Latimer is the Saskatchewan farmer serving a life sentence for the second-degree murder of his 12-year-old disabled daughter back in 1993. Some facts: Tracy … Continue reading
Posted in Disabled Rights & Issues, Whatever
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Disability in China
A Chinese woman by the name of Wang Fang declined a disability pension despite being born with feet that face backwards. This is news in Britain, if only, perhaps, so the intriguing pictures of the 27-year-old waitress and resident of … Continue reading
Posted in Disabled Rights & Issues, Media criticism
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Best of 2007
I wasn’t going to offer a Best of 2007 list of my posts this early because I’m an optimist and I like to think genius may strike me in the next three weeks. But for those who may be reading … Continue reading
Posted in Disabled Rights & Issues, Links
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Back again, but this time here to stay
Hi all. My name is Kay Olson (known in the past and in the archives here as Blue or Blue Lily) and I write over at The Gimp Parade about disability. I blogged here as a guest last year, but … Continue reading
If condescension killed, this poem would mass murder the disabled.
From “My Right Wing Dad .net,” an oddly compelling blog of right-wing email forwards, a poem called “When I Whine.” I think Jerry Lewis would find this poem beautiful. Today, upon a bus, I saw a girl with golden hair … Continue reading
Posted in Disabled Rights & Issues
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New York Court Approves Electroshock On Unwilling Woman
In a 7/2 decision, the New York Court of Appeals has turned down Simone D., who had sued not to be put through electroshock again. (She’s had electroshock done to her over 200 times in her life). According to the … Continue reading
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' Who cares if more of them are male or female? ' I will always call out when the patriarchy…