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Friday, December 6, 2013

Revisiting Rookie

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I’m a big admirer of Rookie , a website on fashion and pretty much everything else for teenaged girls. I admire it not because I’m intere...

FDR Reconsidered

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Roosevelt's polio wasn't a secret: He used it to his ‘advantage' Fresh Air, National Public Radio - November 25, 2013 — via...
Thursday, December 5, 2013

What Nelson Mandela Means To Us

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I came of age in that period of just a few years when the Cold War ended, and Apartheid in South Africa ended. Mikhail Gorbachev did his pa...

Job Discrimination

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Teen says he was fired because of disability Jennifer Lawson, The Reporter - December 4, 2013 Holy shit. I think it’s time for anothe...
Wednesday, December 4, 2013

What A Coincidence!

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So, I just get done emotionally processing that mannequin video, and decide to click and see what Smart Ass Cripple is up to. And his post ...

About Pop Culture

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Slightly off topic, but related to why we might bother thinking about how disability is depicted in popular culture … this series of Tweets...

Mannequins

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I know that “There’s no crying in baseball!”, but is there crying in Starbucks? I’ve been seeing this video all day, embedded in oth...

Brain Dump: Disability Language

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I read a lot of blog and Tumblr posts about disability language and terminology. You can read a conversation I’ve followed in the last da...
Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Best Protest Idea Ever

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I don’t usually gush in blog posts, but “Oh. My. God! I LOVE this idea!”.  From Apparelyzed , via the LivingwithDisability Tumblr blog.

Music For A Tuesday Evening

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Accessibility Pledge

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Today is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Looking for something meaningful to do? Document the accessibility ... or la...
Monday, December 2, 2013

Guilty Pleasure?

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This holiday weekend, I’ve been binge-watching a semi-legendary British comedy from the early 2000s called, “The IT Crowd”. It’s not the g...

Disability News

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Disabled baby denied heart transplant Elizabeth Cohen, CNN - November 30, 2013 I have several different feelings about this story. ...
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