Blogging Against Disablism Day 2011

Welcome to Blogging Against Disablism Day 2011! Thanks very much to everyone who helped to spread the word and to everyone who posted about disability discrimination today. This year there was a very good turn out (especially considering it was a Sunday) and some truly excellent writing. If you happen to write a "round-up" of your favourite BADD posts, give me a link and I shall include it here. So far I know Lisa has done one at Where's the Benefit? Blogging Against Disablism 2011 Employment (Disability discrimination in the workplace, recruitment issues and unemployment). Cheaper than Therapy: The Road to Hell... Everyone Else Has a Blog: A Definition of Irony Stickman Communications: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly This Ain't Livin': Disability and Work Education (Attitudes and practical issues effecting disabled people and the discussion of disability in education, from preschool to university and workplace training.) 32 Days Remaining: In Memoriam: On the closure of SKILL, the UKs National Bureau for Students with Disabilities Believe in Who You Are: Unsent Thank yous, getting it right Education on the Plate: Opening Minds for More than One Day HelenBowesCatton: Structure, agency, discrimination and privilege Radical Neurodivergence Speaking: The fights we fight SpEdChange: Whose Identity is it? Urbania to Stoneheads: Researching disability in Ancient Greece Technology and Web Accessibility Crippie's Corner: Internet Disability Gilbert and Me: Raising Awareness about an Inaccessible Information Age Ubuntu Accessibility Team Blog: The Invisible Exhibition at UDS Ubuntu Linux Tips & Tricks: ASL (cross-posted at Maco) 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.) Accessible Insights Blog: It’s On Aisle 5 Cripple Extraordinaire: On Being Able Elf: Disability and Jury Duty Footpath-Hogging Menace: A Few Days In My Seat Memo to Self: Accessibility Fail Moose J. Finklestein: Pittsburgh: The Most Liveable City - for the able-bodied or seniors Normal Is Overrated: A Guide For Discouraging Self-Advocacy Savette Gazette: My Daydream To Gyre & Gambol: Desperately Seeking Parking Trabasack: Choosing your battles Working at Perfect: Steps Definition and Analysis of Disablism/ Ableism Crimsoncrip's Blog: Invalids no more, but are we still invalid? Fatfu: (In)(di)visability Me Despite M.E.: Blogging Against Disablism Day 2011 Ruth Madison: Spying on Disablism The Language of Disablism (Posts about the language which surrounds disability and the way that it may empower or disempower us.) Indigo Jo Blogs: No more Yuppie Flu! Marian ilmestyskirja: Päivitä sanavarastosi / Update your vocabulary 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..) Fat Heffalump: Fat and Disablism The Files of Mason Dixon, Autistic: Case #3 Mortal Combat Gilded Cage: Come talk to me Incredible Hippy: Let us in! (Cross posted to The F Word) Huimin Magdala Writes: More Deserving of Annihilation Oi With the Poodles Already: The Body (In)Visable Disablism in Literature, Culture and the Media After Gadget: Please Don’t Send Me This Video Cripz the Comic: A fitting celebration for 1 year on-line Funky Mango's Musings: Gleeless Geoff Holt MBE: Letter to the Press Plato's Nightmare/ Aessop's Dream: The Lame Smith God and Two Sides of "Myth" Urbania to Stoneheads: Demonisation of the disabled Where's Lulu: Ten Disabled People with Regular TV Roles Right Now History Disability Studies, Temple U.: Disability History Relationships, Love and Sex L'Azile: A few thoughts about sex and disability Diary of a Goldfish: The political and the deeply personal Lisybabe: Somebody tell me why I'm on my own, if there's a soulmate for everyone... This is my blog: It is possible Non-English Language Blogs Other Embracing Chaos: A Glimpse of Success Poetry against Disablism Same Difference: Hello, I'm A Wheelchair General Thoughts on Disablism Anglers Rest: Blogging Against Disablism Day Artyeggs: Crafting Against Disablism Believe In Who You Are: Selecting my spoons Composite: How I bought a bike The CRPS Girl: What You Say Dismantling Disabilities: Blogging Against Disablism Day Dreamwidth: You're doing it wrong Exploring the World Through the Web: Invisible Illness - Just because you can't see it, doesn't mean it's not there. Fausterella: Being Vincible Genderqueer in Your Closet: Appearances & Functioning Just Stimming…: This is why The Language of Respect: Impairment and Disablism: A World of Difference Life Decanted: Somewhere... Mimi Cummins: There's no shame in identifying yourself with the disabled community Monastic Musings Too: Empathy: the antidote to -ism Nightengale of Samarkand: Independence Riparians at the Gate: The vast middle Some Assembly Required: This divisive world we live in Sunny Dreamer: This and that TAL9000: Belated BADD post Thoughts from the bear's den: Why does disablism exist? Touched with Fire: Taking Up the Flaming Sword The Trick Is To Keep Reading: A wee rant UCP of the Golden Gate: Apathy could be the root of most disablism Warped Woman's Wonderings: Blogging Against Disablism Day Wheelchair Dancer: Closing Fissures Wheelie Catholic: Being Youer Than You Parenting Issues (whether disabled parents or the parents of a disabled child.) All our lives: Adoption, Special Needs & Choice I won't wear gray: Blogging Against Disablism Day Healthcare Issues (For example, the provision of healthcare, institutionalistaion of disabled people, reproductive ethics and euthanasia) Accessibility NZ: The Ultimate Disability Discrimination All our lives: Reproductive Violence and Injustice Against Disabled People RoseRodent: Blogging Against Disablism Day Impairment-Specific Prejudice The Alternate Lexicon: So this is it Chronically Crafted: Mobility Scooters and the Posts I didn't Write Diary of a Benefit Scrounger: Blogging Against Disablism Day enlighten.me.uk: Reopening Old Wounds Life and Times of a Teenager With Disabilities: My name is AZ not az Liguanaut.co.uk: White Stick Pride Multi-faceted Abnormal /blog: Fighting the stigma of Mental Illness A Multitude of Musings: “You Are Fake.”: DID and Ableism from Within Paws for Thought: Independent living A Quaker Witch: Why I'm tired Transabled: Discrimination, Transsexual and BIID Personal Journeys Posts about learning experiences and realisations authors have had about the nature of disability discrimination and the impact on their lives. A Little Something For Me: 15.32 Butterfly Dreams: My little ableist friend Care in the UK: “I’m not disabled – I’m just not able to walk” E. is for Epilepsy: The Bell Life in a So-called Strap of Steel: Enjoying Life's Ride and Disabilities Midlife And Treachery: Resurrection Day/ A Room of One’s Own Painting: The Unexpected Positive Sides of Injury & Disability Discrimination People Aren't Broken: Disability from the Inside Out: Forget Kindness, Try Fairness People with Disabilities: Learners blog against Disablism Perpetually Myself: Figuring out a not-quite-normal childhood Strangely Blogged: Disablism - it's really about any of us, isn't it? Views from the Reading Room: Blogging Against Disablism Day Witticisms: Be aware of My Best Buddy A Writer in a Wheelchair: The Fight Never Ends Disablism and Politics (For example, the political currency of disability, anti-discrimination legislation, etc.) Benefit Scrounging Scum: "The Ministry of Magic has fallen. He is coming. HE is coming" A Blog about a Bloke-living with WHS: Exclusion and Government Funding branchingouttrees: Mental Health and Care in the Community The Crimson Crip: Disablism is no longer random its systemic DWgism: What’s Wrong With Our Society? Fighting Monsters: Disability, Language and Respect The Meanderings of a Politically Incorrect Crip: "They're coming to get you, Barbara!" Psychosis & Soyabeans: Little Brown Envelopes Single Lens Reflections: Oh Boris, Where Art Thou? Where's the benefit?: Integrity, Honesty, Objectivity, Impartiality Where's the benefit?: People like me Where's the benefit?: Vulnerability