So in my last post, I talked about my friend Navi who successfully challenged the documentation requirements to acquire academic accommodations for Mental Health at York University. She won that fight and has been receiving some media interest as a result. In my last post I did two things. I clarified some of the common … Continue reading Choosing Not to Disclose a Diagnosis is Not Giving in to Shame
Author: crippledscholar
I am a disability and mad studies scholar who is currently working on an autoethnographic PhD looking at the ways in which mad and disabled women are still hidden from public space in various ways.
it is tentatively titled "We Still Hide Mad Women in the Attic"
So You’ve Made Progress in Expanding Rights to Academic Accommodation…But Do You Really Deserve It?
It is the day of my final exam, I have figured out the location for my alternate exam space. I show up early and wait for my invigilator. It is 15 minutes before the exam. 45 minutes later, they have yet to arrive. 5 minutes after that, the invigilator finally shows up, they've forgotten to … Continue reading So You’ve Made Progress in Expanding Rights to Academic Accommodation…But Do You Really Deserve It?
Disability, Gender, Sexuality and Hair
When I moved from my home in Saskatchewan to Toronto to study for my Masters degree, I didn't cut my hair. This was an act of defiance. That may seem like an odd thing to say as a straight cisgender woman and yet it's true. The gendered world in which we live often says that … Continue reading Disability, Gender, Sexuality and Hair
2015 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 17,000 times in 2015. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 6 sold-out performances for that many … Continue reading 2015 in review
Looking Back at #CrippingTheMighty
It has been eleven days since The Mighty post that inspired #CrippingTheMighty. A lot of good has come out of the hashtag. I have been exposed to new activist voices. My post on my initial take on the situation was shared widely on twitter and Facebook. It was even referenced by one of my favourite … Continue reading Looking Back at #CrippingTheMighty
Thoughts on #CrippingTheMighty
I became aware of #CrippingTheMighty yesterday when a friend mentioned me in a tweet. https://twitter.com/GreggBeratan/status/679179889484931072 Now I have been aware of The Mighty for a long time. I have been uncomfortable with it for about the same length of time. The Mighty is ostensibly a site about disability. Their tagline is, Real people. Real stories.: … Continue reading Thoughts on #CrippingTheMighty
In Defense of the Radical Idea of Letting Disabled People Exist in Public Without Comment
Today, I was reading a blog post by Dominick Evans called Don't "Just Say Hi" to Me...Just Fuck Off Instead. He's referencing the Cerebral Palsy Foundation's ill advised campaign to combat people's discomfort around disability by inviting them to engage with disabled people and "Just Say Hi". In my experience people don't have trouble saying … Continue reading In Defense of the Radical Idea of Letting Disabled People Exist in Public Without Comment
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