In the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, I’m on the Side of Peace and Justice
I’ve been seeing a ton of traffic about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, all of which consists of a series of constant, strident, endless calls to take one side or the other. I keep wanting to...
View ArticleOn the Ethics and Implications of Outing a Child in the Media: The I Am Adam...
I don’t think I’ve ever been as troubled by a piece of online writing as I’ve been by the now infamous I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother piece. After fielding the steady flow of comments from my last article in...
View ArticleAmanda Baggs, the Pressure To Die, and the Case Against Assisted Suicide
Most people in the disability community know Amanda Baggs as a blogger, a disability rights activist, and the creator of the powerful video, In My Language. I first came to know Amanda in all those...
View ArticleMore Ableism from Our Friends on the Left
I just found this graphic on a Facebook page called Moving The Sun To Shine in Dark Places: [The graphic shows an eye chart with the text "The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no...
View ArticleUpdated Post: Just How Far We Are From Equality: The San Diego Museum of...
I’ve updated this post after receiving an email and a comment from Grant Barrett, the Marketing Manager at the San Diego Museum of Man. Apparently, the disability exhibit is on the first floor and is...
View ArticleA Rant to My Fellow Activists Who Do Anti-Oppression Work and Ignore Disability
Dear Activists Who Wax Eloquently About The Importance Of Intersectionality In Anti-Oppression Work: I need to make a request. I’ll try to keep it brief and I’ll do my best to be clear about exactly...
View ArticleHow to Leave Disability Rights Out of Your Political Analysis
[The graphic is a Bingo card with 25 squares. Title: How to Leave Disability Rights Out of Your Political Analysis Top row:To be fully inclusive, feminists need to start dealing with race, class, and...
View ArticleWhy This Disabled Woman No Longer Identifies as a Feminist
I became a feminist in 1972. Back then, it was still called “Women’s Lib,” sometimes by other feminists (cringe), and sometimes by anti-feminists (usually with a dismissive sneer). My father described...
View ArticleGetting Beyond Etc. — A Short Response to Andrea Smith’s The Problem with...
There are many good things to say about Andrea Smith’s piece The Problem with “Privilege.” She is absolutely right that to effect systemic change, we must get past the point of self-reflection on...
View ArticleThe Sins Invalid Film: An Interview with Patty Berne and Leroy Moore
[The graphic consists of the face of a Leroy Moore looking upward and to the left. The left and right borders are drawn to look like the perforations in film negatives. Against a black background, the...
View ArticleWhy So Many Fail to Understand Systemic Oppression
I was recently in a discussion about the ways in which people of color are disproportionately targeted by the police (think: stop-and-frisk, among other rights violations), disproportionately...
View ArticleHomelessness is a Disability Issue
“Nearly all of the long-term homeless have tenuous family ties and some kind of disability, whether it is a drug or alcohol addiction, a mental illness, or a physical handicap.” — Dennis Culhane, 2010...
View ArticleHow Do You Define Activism?
[I originally posted this piece to my old Journeys with Autism blog in April of 2012. The subject of activism and disability came up in a conversation today with several other disabled people, so I'm...
View ArticleSpeaking Love and Anger: A Response to Ngọc Loan Trần’s “Calling IN: A Less...
There are many things I like about Ngọc Loan Trần’s article Calling IN: A Less Disposable Way of Holding Each Other Accountable. I’m particularly struck by the author’s insistence that, within social...
View ArticleIn the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, I’m on the Side of Peace and Justice
I’ve been seeing a ton of traffic about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, all of which consists of a series of constant, strident, endless calls to take one side or the other. I keep wanting to...
View ArticleOn the Ethics and Implications of Outing a Child in the Media: The I Am Adam...
I don’t think I’ve ever been as troubled by a piece of online writing as I’ve been by the now infamous I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother piece. After fielding the steady flow of comments from my last article in...
View ArticleAmanda Baggs, the Pressure To Die, and the Case Against Assisted Suicide
Most people in the disability community know Amanda Baggs as a blogger, a disability rights activist, and the creator of the powerful video, In My Language. I first came to know Amanda in all those...
View ArticleMore Ableism from Our Friends on the Left
I just found this graphic on a Facebook page called Moving The Sun To Shine in Dark Places: [The graphic shows an eye chart with the text "The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no...
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