{"id":2781,"date":"2006-09-30T14:25:20","date_gmt":"2006-09-30T21:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/30\/saturday-slumgullion-13\/"},"modified":"2006-09-30T14:25:20","modified_gmt":"2006-09-30T21:25:20","slug":"saturday-slumgullion-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2781","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Slumgullion #13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love doing these slumgullions, but with the first Disability Blog Carnival coming up at <a href=\"http:\/\/disstud.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/is-it-time-for-carnival.html\">Disability Studies, Temple U.<\/a> I may focus here more on non-blog slumgullionish stuff. Or maybe there will be so much disability blogging I can gather the leftovers here. We&#8217;ll see how it goes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nodakwheeler.blogspot.com\/\">Mark Boatman at Nodakwheeler<\/a> had planned to escape the South Dakota nursing home he was stuck in (because of the state&#8217;s lack of funding for in-home care) last May, but it didn&#8217;t go as planned. Happily, he has recently made a successful break and is enjoying his freedom in Montana.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thirdculturekid.blogs.com\/third_culture_kids\/2006\/09\/born_that_way.html\">In &#8220;Born that way,&#8221; Third Culture Kid(s)<\/a> makes a connection between racial outsiderness and being born with a disability.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/neonataldoc.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/reasons.html\">Neonatal Doc writes about the reasons<\/a> prospective parents give (or tell themselves) when they decide to abort a fetus with birth defects. The comments are long and varied, as well. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Via <\/span><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.healthline.com\/blogs\/medical_devices\/2006\/09\/grand-rounds-volume-3-number-1-happy.html\">Grand Rounds 3.1<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/techon.nikkeibp.co.jp\/english\/NEWS_EN\/20060927\/121588\/\">Suzuki unveils prototype fuel cell electric wheelchair<\/a>. Um, I think it looks like a uncomfortable tinker toy, but it is interesting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The online poetry journal Slope presents an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slope.org\/asl\/\">American Sign Language Poetry Special Edition<\/a>. Be sure to watch the video of &#8220;Flying Words.&#8221; The poetry is pretty cool too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twinklelittlestar.typepad.com\/letter\/2006\/09\/why_church_is_g.html\">Lisa Ferris at A Letter to My Children<\/a> tells the long and winding tale of making friends at a church when everyone seems uncomfortable with her disability: <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>People just wouldn&#8217;t talk to me. It is one of those things that is hard to put your finger on. Like there are a thousand little ways that people disregard you. And if you looked at each one, you may not think it is a big deal, and some individuals may have even had a very legitimate excuse that has nothing to do with you, but when you put them all together over time&#8230;you can only conclude that a large number of people really don&#8217;t have any interest in getting to know you. I asked people out for coffee and I got turned down every time. I would go up to people and talk and they would make a hasty exit. Once this woman came up and talked to me and I was fiddling around with my hearing aid from having been using the FM system. I said, &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry, my hearing aid wasn&#8217;t working and I didn&#8217;t get all that you said.&#8221; She said, &#8220;So you just let me go on talking when you couldn&#8217;t hear me?&#8221; I said I got the gist of what she said but I might have missed some things. She made a hasty exit and has never talked to me again. I have even said hi to her by name and she doesn&#8217;t even say hi back. I used to go home from church after this stuff would happen again and again and just feel like crap. Part of it was just asking myself what I was doing wrong or that was so awful? If the Unitarian Universalist can&#8217;t deal with me, who can?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m eager to hear all kinds of opinions on this: <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-4691159568574754667&#038;q=disability\">&#8220;Right-wing disability&#8221;<\/a> video.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pambazuka.org\/en\/category\/features\/34364\">Pambazuka News covers<\/a> the problems of sexual violence for disabled women in Kenya.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Crossposted at <a href=\"http:\/\/thegimpparade.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/saturday-slumgullion-13.html\">The Gimp Parade<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Check there for more comments<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2781\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24,50,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion-reproductive-rights","category-disabled-rights-issues","category-link-farms","category-rape-intimate-violence-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}