Blogging Against Disablism Day 2012

Welcome to Blogging Against Disablism Day 2012!

Thanks very much to everyone who helped to spread the word and to everyone who blogged against disablism, ableism and disability discrimination.

If you have a post for Blogging Against Disablism, please leave a comment including the URL (web address) of your post and the catergory your post best belongs to.

We'll be updating this post throughout the day to create an archive of all the posts. We'll also try to post links to every blog using the Twitter stream @BADDtweets

The amazing Stephen has helped me this year, but even with two people, there are bound to be typos, so please be patient and let us know if you notice any mistakes.

If you happen to have a round-up post of your favourite blogs from the day, please let us know.  Claire from OT on Wheels put together Archives of tweets for the hashtags #BADD12 / #BADD / #BADD2012  whilst @spiegelmama created a Storify of the day

Blogging Against Disablism 2012

Employment (Disability discrimination in the workplace, recruitment issues and unemployment).  The 19th Floor: Advocacy Works Anytime Yoga: Scared to Ask ATOS Stories: Work Hurts Benefit Scrounging Scum: Do You Know What You're Asking? College and Disability: Why are so many people with disabilities unemployed? Crip_tic: Disabling farming barriers Honour your Inner Magpie: Yeah, but would you burn? Jennifer Sommerness: Untitled Kate Bennell @ Sightsavers: Untitled Legal Aware: My experience The Ramblings of Me: The Irony of Coping This Ain't Livin': The Exploitation of Home Health Workers This is my Blog: That's not a compliment Education (Attitudes and practical issues effecting disabled people and the discussion of disability in education, from preschool to university and workplace training.) It's my life: Barriers to Education Radical Neurodivergence Speaking: Update on the fights we fight from last year Sunshine, been keeping me up for days: Untitled The Notes which do not fit: Memories of a Special Education Teaching All Students: Blending In Urbania to Stoneheads: Deaf experience of higher education Technology and Web Accessibility Assistive Technology: Fire safety for the deaf Indigo Jo Blogs: Mobile Accessibility King's Learning Institute TEL Blog: The sharp edge of Technology Enhanced Learning: Science and Technology and Disability Studies Pretty Simple: Complicit disablism and the power of reason UK Web Focus: Aversive Disablism, Web Accessibility and the Web Developer 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.) Abailin: On Self-Injury, Autism, and Behavioral Therapy AWTS Blog: Driven Round The Bend By Motability Myths Dannilion.com: Being Accessible Doesn’t Just Mean Ramps Disabled Medic: My Sunday Church Experience  eTenerife: Able-Bodied Assumptions and Tenerife Toilets Fix My Transport Journal: Disability and Me #1 Gimp 'Tude: No Crips Allowed Intractable/Implacable: Segregation and the invisible ones... l’azile: if you build it, they will come: making co-working spaces accessible lounalune: Accessibility of the minds Madison Claire Foundation: Inclusive Playgrounds: Accessibility for All Normal is Overrated: Accessibility: One Size Doesn't Fit All Radically Queer: Rethinking Access Rolling Around In My Head: My BADD Definition and Analysis of Disablism/ Ableism Facial Expression is Overrated: Reaction piece Grace Quantock: Untitled Nordic Network on Disability Research: Blogging Against Disablism Day SpeEdChange: Toppliing Transactionalism The Language of Disablism(Posts about the language which surrounds disability and the way that it may empower or disempower us.) Abailin: A Few Words on Language Accessiblog.fr: Being disabled: a matter of context Adrienne: Why ‘wingnut’ is a poor word choice Bethlehem Blogger: What 'retards' have taught me about peace work (and people) CynthiaParkhill: I edit for people-first language The F-Word: Calling out disablist language I am not a nutter: I am not a nutter Square 8: Connecting Dots 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..) Diceytillerman: FAT CRIP! Random Thoughts Where Fatness and Disability Intersect transabled.org: Objecting to Walking is Discrimination Disablism in Literature, Culture and the Media The Haps: Here’s What We Should Keep Doing  Ramblings of a Fibro Fogged Mind: Holding the Media to Account… Single Lens Reflections: Blogging Against Disablism Day 2012 - Intro Single Lens Reflections: Clippity Cloppity Goat and the Troll Where's the Benefit (Guest Post): Disability benefits and the self-made mouth History Disability Studies, Temple U.: History is still happening Relationships, Love and Sex After Gadget: Service Dogs & Friends: Familiarity Breeds... Confusion? Ballastexistenz: Caregiver abuse takes many forms Crippled, Queer, Anglo-European Ranter: Sexual Eunuchs?  Gin and Lemonade: This is how I Roll Nick's Crusade: The Path of the Disabled Man Pretty Pancreas: Disability Tango Sensible Susan & The Ladylike Punk: Sex & Disability (a.k.a Dissertation Fun Time TGStoneButch: Pain and sadism, and a bit about how they intertwine in my life  Sport AthletesFirst: Blogging Against Disasblism Day 2012 Youth - Fit to Lead: A Viewer’s Guide to the Paralympics Other Ephemeradical: Linkpost for BADD 2012 Poetry against Disablism Same Difference: Listen to the Silence Art and Photography Against Disablism Challenge Ableism: Photo Campaign

General Thoughts on Disablism Accessible Insights Blog: Your Ingenious Life Angelikitten: I'm sure that there's a point to this entry... Anonymous: Shout Out A Room Of My Own: We're All Different and that's OK Are Women Human? (Guest Post): It Gets Inside Our Heads Ask A Wheeler: Assumptions About Disability. Diary of a Goldfish: Recall To Pride F&*£ Yeah Fibromyalgia: Untitled Girl with the Cane: Untitled Happy, smiley and chronically ill: Reality versus Perception Just Stimming: Truth Is Low Visionary: Dismantling Disablism: Three Powerful Tools. Mardahl.dk: Pain and Respect Moiread: Today is Blogging Against Disablism Day 2012 Not Your Teachable Moment: Where HAS the day gone? People Aren't Broken: Disability Has A P.R. Problem Plato's Nightmare / Aesop's Dream: But these things are monsters Ruth Madison: Us v.s. Them Sanabitur Anima Mea: I’ve Never Met Anybody Who Wasn’t Important Before This Brain is Barking: Today is Blogging Against Disablism Day. Thoughts of Nothing: Untitled We Can Do: Why Fight Disablism? A Global Perspective Wordthings Of Jon: I'm sorry, but I do actually have a life Parenting Issues(whether disabled parents or the parents of a disabled child.) Children with Special Needs: Making Inclusion a Two-Way Street Gavin's Gear: Parenting Rights Ruled by paws: The Questions Healthcare Issues(For example, the provision of healthcare, institutionalistaion of disabled people, reproductive ethics and euthanasia) 20 Commandments for MentalHealth workers: Untitled Ballastexistenz: Pulling Back Curtains Nightengale of Samarkand: Double Standards Impairment-Specific Prejudice Bruce Lawson: Untitled Diceytillerman: Can We ReName CFIDS Already? My Proposal for Our New Name Virginia Tremor: I'm not Drunk Words of Wood: I Belong To Myself Personal Journeys Posts about learning experiences and realisations authors have had about the nature of disability discrimination and the impact on their lives. Adventures of a Part-Time Wheeler: Ambivalence Believe in Who You Are: Just get over it  Cats and Chocolate: Role Models The Cat's Lair: Untitled Coffee and Chaos: Open your Eyes Cracked Mirror in Shalott: Something Intractable/Implacable: Segregation and the invisible ones...  Midlife and Treachery: Do you let them know? Never that Easy: My Years of Magical Thinking...  OT on wheels: Untitled Painting: Discrimination 2 May Oneth Pseudo-living: 24 Hours In My Life TAL9000:  Facade-Keeping Thoughts of Nothing: Living with Chronic Back Pain tiintax.com: Untitled Traveling Show: The BADD Post The Wandering Monster: All too Familiar A Writer In A Wheelchair: I don’t wanna fight no more Disablism and Politics (For example, the political currency of disability, anti-discrimination legislation, etc.) From a nest of sticks and yarn: When disableism starts with us Gilded Cage: The Myth of "Survival of the Fittest." A Latent Existence: If you can tweet, you can work Lisybabe's Blog: ♫...I'm going underground, (going underground)...♫  louisebolotin.com: No longer disabled enough: Cameron's brave new world Maijan ilmestykset: On the ownership of bodies Makulatur: Thoughts on the subject (Also posted here) Ramblings of a Fibro Fogged Mind:  How is an Activist Born… Ramblings of a Fibro Fogged Mind (Guest Post): Spartacus and Me Rolling with the Punches: You can type, therefore you can work Short Cuts in Wakefield: Blogging abouts Disabilism and the Cuts Stand Tall Through Everything: Rest Insured Where's the Benefit?: The Price of Hate Bullying, Harassment and Hate Crime Funky Mango's Musings: Dead Happy, Derek, and disablism Tune into Radio Carly: Untitled You dont look sick!: Blue Badge Vigilante's My Dis/Abled Body Belongs to Me, Not You, so Back Off! Honour Your Inner Magpie: dis/abilism and the suddenly huggy lady

List of Participating Blogs
Outside the bubble in an eggshell, SpeEdChange, Ramblings of a Fibro Fogged Mind, The F-Word, Kimberley Tew, Children with Special Needs,Happy, smiley and chronically ill, Pseudo-Living, Gavin's Gear, Stand Tall Through Everything, Disability Studies,  Temple U, Tune into Radio Carly, Unusual Suspects, Ask a Wheeler, Tiintax, A Room of my Own, Indigo Jo Blogs, Makulatur, There's a Botticelli Angel Inside, Snapping Beans, Welcome Spoken Here, Butterfly Dreams, Low Visionary, You dont look sick!, Social Welfare Union, Kate's blog, Crippled, Queer, Anglo-European Ranter, Librarian on Wheeeeels, Disabled Medic, Plato's Nightmare / Aesop's Dream, ATOS Stories, It's My Life, Anytime Yoga, Madison Claire Foundation, Angelkitten, Rolling Around In My Head, Intractable/Implacable,  Lounalune, Against It, Stories and Research from an Epilepsy Sufferer, Crip_tic, Slewth Press, Gilbert and Me, UK Web Focus, Accessiblog.fr, This Ain't Living, People Aren't Broken, Accessible Insights Blog, Never that Easy, Gimp 'Tude, Painting, College and Disability, Ruth Madison, Urbania to Stoneheads, A Pretty Simple Blog, Benefit Scrounging Scum, Disabled and Employed, Sunny Dreamer, AWTS blog, Funky Mango's Musings, Single Lens Reflections