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.
I am basically opposed to puzzle narratives/metaphor when it comes to disability. I think it suggests that things are broken or disordered, and that it’s possible to snap everything into shape and make it nice and neurotypical. On the other hand, the new research into Schizophrenia is pretty interesting. Summary here. Original here behind paywall….
See here for primer on these posts. Daily word count: 708 Chapter word count: 4243Chapter goal: 8500Total word count: 14314Total goal: 70000 I lost a week teaching, doing my administrative job, and then writing some other pieces. I will have to figure out better book focus as I go forward. But I’m back writing now.
A relatively new piece by Mother Jones examines the current state of Crisis Intervention Team training for police in Chicago. As regular readers know, I think CIT training is fine but limited in its utility. It gives officers resources to apply to situations involving certain kinds of disability in crisis mode, but does little to prevent…
UPDATE: The Arc of Texas has changed their job requirements to remove “physical and mental requirements” entirely from the list. UPDATE 1/29/16 – Please see Kyle Piccola’s comment from The Arc of Texas in the comment thread. Archived at the bottom of the thread for record-keeping purposes. Original Post Below ———————————————————————- As of January 15,…
It’s my understanding that the head of NARAL – Missouri will read this Testimony at a Senate Hearing for SB 802, a bill that make it illegal to have an abortion after a pre-natal diagnosis. Resources. SB 802 text. An article I wrote for CNN on the Ohio version of this bill. My testimony: I…