Blogging Against Disablism Day 2009

Welcome to Blogging Against Disablism Day 2009!

Thanks very much to everyone who helped to spread the word and to everyone posting about disability discrimination today. About 200 people have contributed some excellent work, making this by far the biggest BADD ever.

I've been collecting reviews of BADD from JackP, Incurable Hippie, Lilwatchgirl, NeverThatEasy, The Mornig Star, Mary, What Sorts of People, Lisy Babe, Wheelie Catholic, Seahorse and Peter Fremlin have written posts about or featuring their favourites BADD posts.

Blogging Against Disablism 2009

Employment (Disability discrimination in the workplace, recruitment issues and unemployment). Dechant: Equal work, sure... JadeLennox: Workplace Gadflies The Perorations of Lady Bracknell: The Unbearable Slowness of Being Undercover Punk: Social Security benefits & women, working whilst disabled, and stigmatizing mental health terminology Yet Another Never Updated Blog: Hooray for the evil side Your subtext is showing: (awkward silence) Education (Attitudes and practical issues effecting disabled people and the discussion of disability in education, from preschool to university and workplace training.) Anthro, Etc: (Dis)ablism in Archaelogy/ Anthropology Avendya: On decisions The Black Telephone: Siobhan, the Soundbeam and Disablism Brimstone & Treacle: BADD Wolf Dirty Socks and Pizza: Navigating the Gray Area Gin & Comment: "Mainstream" schooling and disablism. Maternal Instincts: Action speaks louder than words (HB 119 update) Now, what was I doing?: A secret thing Same Difference: One Look At the Chair Tunnelling: Flexibility Textual Fur: Blogging Against Disablism Theorize me: Invisible Disabilities and University Thinking UDL: Ableism: My thoughts 1 year later Twilight Garden: One Size Does Not Fit All Other Access Issues (Posts about any kind of access issue in the built environment, shops, services and various organisations. By "access issues" I mean anything which enables or disenables a person from doing what everyone else is able to do.) Brilliant Mind, Broken Body: Trapped! A Crippled Carnival: An Open Letter To People On The Bus The Dog''s Blog: Lose the Mouse for BADD 2009 Even Grounds: Sound is Not Always Helpful for People Who Are Blind goldjjadeocean: Why I will not be participating in Blogging Against Disablism Day this year The Iron Chicken: A Convenient Myth Hoyden About Town: Can I have a seat? Naughty or nice..?: Ticketing Policies - B.A.D.D. Riparians at the Gate: When Even the Buildings are In Denial Rolling Round Life: The Perils of Looking for Housing Wallaby: Accessibility, choice, accomodation and equality Definition and Analysis of Disablism/ Ableism 32 Days Remaining: Web Development and Aversive Disablism The Acrimonious One: The harm disablism does Curvature: On Depression Disability Prejudice and Civil Rights Watch: Psychophobia 201 Education on the Plate: Word of the Day: Disablism Fat Fu: Fat, Major Depression, Asperger's: Where the Social Model meets the Medical Model Her Own Self: Blogging Against Disablism Day TODAY! Notes From Greencastle: Us vs. Us A Pretty Simple Blog: Defining "disablism" Urbania To Stoneheads: BADD: expectations and stereotypes Wheelchair Pride: Disablism: What can YOU do about it? The Language of Disablism (Posts about the language which surrounds disability and the way that it may empower or disempower us.) Benefit Scrounging Scum: Words Hurt Biodiverse Resistance: Disability Terminology: too much confusion, so much frustration The Hand Mirror: Lose the language. Now (cross-posted at In a Strange Land) Life at Full Tilt: Reflections on Language Life Decanted: Abled vs. Disabled Lounalune: The d-label Wheelchair Dancer: Piss on Pity Disablism Interacting with Other 'Isms' (Posts about the way in which various discriminations interact; the way that the prejudice experienced as a disabled person may be compounded by race, gender, age, sexuality etc..) Feministe: Disability and Class Memoirs of a Genderqueer Femme Anarchist: BADD and May Day Queers United: Blogging Against Disablism Day Sexual Assault Centre of Edmonton: Which Women Matter? Ableism and Sexual Violence Shakesville: Domestic Work is Real Work Stop Street Harassment: Blogging Against Disablism: Street Harassment Edition whirlwitch: Step it up, wimp! Disablism in Literature, Culture and the Media Butterfly Dreams: Special People, Normal World Ashy's Blog: "Anyone can do it" Growing up with a disability: We all do it. Floating in Space: No, I'm Spasticus Radio Clare: Blogging Against Disablism Day Sweet Perdition: Monkey Shines: An Experiment in Fear (of disability) Trouble is Everywhere: BADD: Bloody Torchwood History Disability Studies, Temple U: BADD: A Week-by-Week Calender of Disability History Birthdays Relationships, Love and Sex Autistic Self Advocacy Network, SW Ohio: Not Children: Tony Atwood Still Doesn't Get It Bleeting in the Fields: Blue and Red have a chat about disablism Dreaming of Butterflies: Blogging Against Disablism Elf: Resist biologically: be erotic! - Tim Leary Never That Easy: BADD Girl Poverty in America: Poverty and Disablism Pure Glucose: Place. My blog for Blog Against Disablism Dad Sexual Ambiguities: Blogging Against Disablism Day Spectrum Siblings: Connecting through disability Walking Wounded: Not here for your entertainment The World According to J. J. in L. A.: BADD: She can do that? Non-English Language Blogs Other Hierman eri mieltä: Making Discrimination Easy Trouble is Everywhere: BADD: How the Non-Disabled Person can Participate (from one non-disabled person to another) (cross-posted at Trouble is a State of Mind)

General Thoughts on Disablism Angelikitten: Common Sense and Courtesy Autism - Change.org: Just Because I'm Quiet Doesn't Mean I'm Quiet Doesn't Mean I Don't Understand The Beauty Offensive: I Like a Good Fight Blue Girl: Funny Thing Happened After I Read More About Frances Farmer Deaf Girl Speaking: BADD: randomness Driftwood: My Gorilla is Quite Tame Equal Not Special: Blogging Against Disablism Day Fizzyblogic: A mass of dots. FridaWrites: On Wheelchairs and Safety F**k You Megan Fox!: Blog Against Disablism Day The Gonzolog: Blogging Against the Supremacist Attitudes of the Mediocritariat Hatman: Blogging Against Disablism Day Inner Dreams: Not Your World Here's the Kicker: Blogging against disablism How to be an Inspiration: It Should Have Been Me The Life and Times of Emma: Where You Least Expect It A Load of Old Squit: When helping yourself doesn't help LDN journal: The pill that retains my humanity Midden: BADD - 1st May Midlife & Treachery: Don't Assume Morrígan Reborn: Blogging Against Disablism Day The Muffin Blog: The Narrative MyOwnWench: BADD - badass, bad news, bad day My Spelling Sucks: Reading Dyslexia Laughing and CP Nick's Crusade: Ablism: Idiotic Comments From Idiots Normal is Overrated: Assumptions, Assumptions Optistatic: A Kind of Verbal Meander Paul Canning: Life in a Wheelchair The Pickards: Lip-Service Equality Pizza Viola: BADD Radio Clare: Blogging Against Disablism Day Sanabitur Anima Mea: Mild and Severe Disability The Secret Life of a Girl on Wheels: Lucky Smarking_off: Blogging Against Disablism Day SpeEdChange: Suicidal Ideation Sunny Dreamer: Visiting Italy This is you reading about me...or not: BADD Thoughts Through My Eyes: Happy BADD = Let's all be positive about disability Touched By An Alien: Stereotypes of Success Until the dolphin flies and the parrots live at sea: Disablism sure isn't disabled at all Wheelie Catholic: Moments of ableism The View From Room 7609: Is it an annoyance? I don't think so. Parenting Issues (whether disabled parents or the parents of a disabled child.) Baxter Sez: Pride and Joy Beneath the Wings: The Shopping Trip - part 2 Blank Shield Press: My son looks normal Cheaper Than Therapy: Sometimes You Just Gotta Say Disabilities the Invisible Discrimination: Blogging Against Disablism Day Homepaddock: Losing fear and ignorance of disability Let Kids Play!!: What makes disability? Memo To Self: Blogging Against Disablism - A Photo Essay This is My Blog: Well-meaning Insults To The Max: My child has a right to play - dont shut him out because he's disabled Whitterer On Autism: Blogging Against Disablism Day Healthcare Issues (For example, the provision of healthcare, institutionalistaion of disbaled people, reproductive ethics and euthanasia) Astrid's Journal: BADD Behaviour: Disablism in Psychiatry A Comic Life Indeed: Tales From The Clinic: Out With The Old, In With The Eu-Genics Finding My Way: Journey of an Uppity Intellectual Activist Crip: Ableism Where I'd Least Expect It. Incurable Hippy's Musings and Rants: Access to Healthcare Mysteries and Questions surrounding the Ashey X case: The damage the Ashley case has done and the damage it can stil do Nick's Crusade: Government-Sponsored Ablism and Segregation Tears Families Apart The Strangest Alchemy: Blogging Against Disablism Day 2009 What Sorts of People: There's a word for that kind of thing Impairment-Specific Prejudice (Posts about those experiences specific to people with a particular condition or type of condition. Diary of a Nobody: Anti-Depressants Glitter, Vinyl and Thread: Things all able-bodied people should read - or even non-abled-bodied who don't have fibro or chronic fatigue HAM. BLOG: Invisible Illness Bingo 2 It's Never That Simple: Autism, Assumptions and Ability Random Babble: I wasn't going to do this... Morphine Breath: Blogging Against Disablism Day One Sick Mother: Invisible Disabilities: Depression The Pursuit of Harpyness: Pain-Free is Privilege Screw Bronze: Disablism within Disability Scríbhneoir páirt-aimseartha: On Being an M.E./ Aspie alien Shauna's Life of Pain and Other Fun Things: A Chance to Educate Others About Pain Slywolf: Mine Are Invisible Womanist Musings: Fibromyalgia: The Invisible Pain The Voice Within: Blogging agaisnt disablism day Personal Journeys Posts about learning experiences and realisations authors have had about the nature of disability discrimination and the impact on their lives. Access for All - Angela M. Hooker: The Best Laid Plans and Blogging Against Disablism Day 2009 Bad Cripple: Ableism and a Water Shed Experience The Bitch Who Roared: This post is dedicated to Lyn, who taught me so much A box full of butterflies: Coming to terms with being out of spoons Butterfly Cauldron: The sharks are here every day Cathie From Canada: BADD Day Desertrosedark: What disablism means to me Diabola in musica: Not a Stereotype Diary of a Goldfish: A Living Learning Experience Diary of a Nobody: Invisible Disabilities Diary of a Wordsmith: BADD08-09 - a snapshot of changes Don't Type Angry: Blogging Against Disablism Day Gordon's D-Zone: A Life Apart Haddayr's Blog: Blog Against Disablism Day I'm Just Not Impressed: The Invisible Human Jem's Lair: I started feeling safe Jenelle's Journey: Blogging Against Disablism Day 2009 Laughing Wild: But I'm NOT disabled! Life, Liberty and Good Coffee: Uncle Ronnie and "the Leg" Linguanaut: A blinkered life The Man Outside: Two legs bad, fewer legs better The Multiple Sclerosis Foudations: Blogging Against Disablism Day 2009 Notes, Nothings, and Common Refrains: "Oh look! It's Peter Pan!" ("That's right! I can't walk. But I can fly!") Primary Decomposition: Blogging against disablism Recessional: Carries the act so convincingly the fact is sometimes she believes it Remember the Tinman: On being a good nutter for BADD Shakesville: BADD: Out of my closet Simul lustus Et Peccator: Blogging Against (Dis)ablism Day 2009 Sophia's Call: Mary Magdalene, My Sister Standing Tall Through Everything: Blogging Against Disablism A Stellarlife: Bloggers Unite Against Disablism May 1 Timmblr: Letters I've written, never meaning to send. Unwritten Memoirs: I'm an idiopath, so what? Zero at the bone: Talking about it Disablism and Politics (For example, the political currency of disability, anti-discrimination legislation, etc.) Autism - Change.org: Direct Action: ADAPT at the White House, Tony Atwood update Bruce Lawson's personal site: Accessibility and what India can teach us Cynical Chatter from The Underworld: Fear and Loathing in the UK Humanitarian Relief -Change.org: "It Is Persons With Disabilities That Are First To Die" Whose Planet is it Anyway?: Community Choice Act Needs High Priority Art Against Disablism Philippa's Photography, Incurable Hippie: Creative Protest RachelCreative: When Disability is Invisible