Category Archives: Disabled Rights & Issues

That's all folks!

My month of Alas blogging seems to have expired already. Many thanks to Amp for the invitation, and to everyone else for welcoming me and engaging in conversation with me. It wasn’t all pretty, but they were all discussions I … Continue reading

Posted in Disabled Rights & Issues, Site and Admin Stuff | 5 Comments

Saturday Slumgullion #13

I love doing these slumgullions, but with the first Disability Blog Carnival coming up at Disability Studies, Temple U. I may focus here more on non-blog slumgullionish stuff. Or maybe there will be so much disability blogging I can gather … Continue reading

Posted in Abortion & reproductive rights, Disabled Rights & Issues, Link farms, Rape, intimate violence, & related issues | 6 Comments

Jury duty

I’ve been called up for jury duty at the county court level. This is the second time in three years that this supposedly random process has chosen me, though my parents have never in their lives been called to serve. … Continue reading

Posted in Disabled Rights & Issues, Supreme Court Issues | 8 Comments

Disability Blog Carnival begins

Penny Richards at Disability Studies, Temple, U., has decided it’s time for the Disability Blog Carnival to begin. She’s been posting monthly crip blog roundups, and the last one was both amazing and impressively long. And remember Goldfish’s Blog Against … Continue reading

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Feminine products denied to disabled women in nursing homes and other institutions; Forced medication to minimize menstruation

From a notice on a disability listserv: I am forwarding this on behalf of Feminist Response in Disability Activism (FRIDA), a newly established feminist disability rights organization based in Chicago, founded by a collective of highly skilled and committed disability … Continue reading

Posted in Abortion & reproductive rights, Class, poverty, labor, & related issues, Disabled Rights & Issues | 12 Comments

"Is your life hard or super-hard?"

My aunt and uncle visited from Wyoming today and I showed them the drawings and pictures their daughter’s third-grade students sent me last Spring. There are two series of letters since I replied once and then they all wrote back, … Continue reading

Posted in Disabled Rights & Issues | 14 Comments

Famous crips and disability rights

Looking back at the disability press and its coverage of the FDR Memorial and Chris Reeve’s post-injury politics, there’s clearly a different perspective of these famous disabled men than the mainstream media presents. The topic of stereotypical representation of disability … Continue reading

Posted in Disabled Rights & Issues, Media criticism, Popular (and unpopular) culture | 6 Comments

Saturday Slumgullion #12

“Pimp my gimp.” Recent Doonesbury strips showing B.D.’s efforts to decorate his prosthetic leg are the latest in good crip giggles. Sage of Persephone’s Box has an announcement about blog color choices and the her ability to read what is … Continue reading

Posted in Class, poverty, labor, & related issues, Disabled Rights & Issues, Environmental issues, Link farms, Media criticism | 6 Comments

Andrea Dworkin on disability

I don’t know what the feminist reaction to this post will be, but it won’t get out of my head, so I had to write it out. I’m interested to hear. I’m not a big personal fan of Andrea Dworkin’s … Continue reading

Posted in Disabled Rights & Issues | 159 Comments

My ventilated life

I’m in a grumpy mood. It’s clearly autumn today, and I love the smell of the air, but it’s dreary outside and my allergies are bad. Inside, I have a meeting this afternoon with the administrator of the home health … Continue reading

Posted in Disabled Rights & Issues | 4 Comments