Disability discrimination in the job market has been making the round lately. It's far from a new issue but something happened which on the face of it seems particularly bad (though isn't that surprising when you think about it) that drew attention to the phenomenon of job ads immediately disqualifying disabled applicants by including job … Continue reading Disability, Discrimination and the Job Search
Category: Disability in Society
Why Don’t You Just Drive?: The Difficulty of Publicly Legitimizing the Needs of an Invisible Disability
When I was in my early and mid teens, I was really excited about learning to drive. When I finally got old enough to start drivers ed at 15, I anxiously waited for my mother to sign the permission form. These were the days before my autism diagnosis. They were hard years for me because … Continue reading Why Don’t You Just Drive?: The Difficulty of Publicly Legitimizing the Needs of an Invisible Disability
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
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
The History of Eugenics isn’t as Historical as it Should Be
This morning the following tweet caught my attention https://twitter.com/GreggBeratan/status/667181053493288960 I can't argue with the premise, eugenics and eugenic ideals are indeed alive and well. However the methods haven't always gotten more sophisticated. Back in the day when countries like Canada and the United States had openly eugenic policies. They were ostensibly meant to stop people, … Continue reading The History of Eugenics isn’t as Historical as it Should Be
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