Journalist – Historian – Speaker
It’s primary day in New Hampshire and later I’ll be observing a new tablet-based system for disabled voters. In the meantime, I now know who the best candidate is for disabled Americans. No-one has done more for people with disabilities than me. I have spent many millions of dollars to help out-and am happy to …
See here for primer on these posts. Daily word count: 2371 Chapter word count: 2371Chapter goal: 8000Total word count: 18962Total goal: 70000 Wrote the intro to part III, a large chunk of chapter three, took part of that chunk and moved it to chapter four, then wrote more of chapter three. Tomorrow I travel around …
Yesterday I had a piece published at Al Jazeera that I’m pretty proud of. I found dozens of academic job ads that discriminate against people with disabilities, in many cases illegally, and published on it. It’s as close to straight revealing reporting as I come, taking something boring (boilerplate HR clauses) and demonstrating their social impact. …
This is a small sample of the 60 or so higher education job ads I found that contain clauses at least potentially excluding disabled applicants. Look for words like “occasionally,” “may,” or “frequently” as ways to avoid violating the ADA. However, disabled applicants, like all marginalized peoples, are less likely to apply for jobs when …
The discourse around Zika has included a constant barrage of ableist language in which reproductive rights advocates suggest that a disability like microcephaly naturally means a mother would want to terminate. There clearly is a problem with access to reproductive choice, but I always maintain we can make that argument without implying that disability equals …
See here for primer on these posts. Daily word count: 1565 Chapter word count: 5410Chapter goal: 8500Total word count: 16581Total goal: 70000 That’s a draft, people. I put in DISCUSS BOOK A HERE, and DISCUSS LITERATURE C there. I’ll get to it, but not until I have a full draft. Chapter 3 is on disability …
Shared by many of my friends, this is a sad, but important, articulation of the ways that oppressive forces intersect in individuals who have more than one marginalized identity. While over half of children who identify as LGBT have experienced homophobic, biphobic or transphobic bullying, this drastically increases among disabled LGBT people.A survey found that …
.@JessicaValenti sigh. I hate to say it. But disability rights would be nice to hear. Just once. — David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) February 2, 2016 This tweet came in response to Clinton’s Iowa speech, in which she said: I know we can make college affordable and get student debt off the backs of young people. …
Carolyn Cox at The Mary Sue has a terrific essay about “Dadbod” Ken. Not only is she good on the specific issue, but she handles how to talk about the ways in which patriarchy in fact oppresses men, without losing sight of the more destructive oppression of women. She writes: As Maddy wrote in reference to …
See here for primer on these posts. Daily word count: 702 Chapter word count: 4945Chapter goal: 8500Total word count: 15016Total goal: 70000 Just barely keeping to my 1000 words a writing day goal. It’s good. Onward to finish most of chapter 2 tomorrow, I hope.